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Biography

Shikha Malaviya writes a poetic biography of India’s first female physician in Anandibai Joshee: A Life in Poems

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HarperCollins is delighted to announce the upcoming release of ANANDIBAI JOSHEE: A Life in Poems by  Shikha Malaviya   Paperback | 136 pp | Rs 399 Available wherever books are sold | Releasing 16 July 2023 *** About the Book Anandibai Joshee (1865-87) was not only India’s first female physician, but

The Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett

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is proud to announce the publication of   The Hero of Kumaon The Life of Jim Corbett  by Duff Hart-Davis   ABOUT THE BOOK Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, man-eating tigers and leopards ravaged the population of Kumaon, killing villagers in large numbers. For example, the Champawat man-eater had killed

The Life and Times of Baby Patankar | Excerpt from ‘Meow Meow’

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On 9 March 2015, a constable in the Mumbai Police force, Dharmaraj Kalokhe, was arrested by the local police for possession of a white powder believed to be the synthetic drug Mephedrone. His partner, Shashikala ‘Baby’ Patankar, was the informant. Later she was arrested by the police, too. Unearthing new

JUST ASPIRE: Notes on Technology, Entrepreneurship and the Future

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HarperCollins presents JUST ASPIRE Notes on Technology, Entrepreneurship and the Future by Ajai Chowdhry  ‘When I left Jabalpur, the small town where I grew up, to pursue a career, I could not have dreamt that I would find myself at the vanguard of pathbreaking revolutions that would transform India.’  One

How Swami Vivekananda Learned from the Women in His Life | Excerpt

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Guru to the World by Ruth Harris traces Vivekananda’s transformation from son of a Calcutta-based attorney into saffron-robed ascetic. Read an excerpt from the book about how he was inspired by the women in his life.