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Vijaydan Detha is undoubtedly the most important writer of Rajasthani prose in the twentieth century. He draws the reader into the complex and quirky world of the common folk of Rajasthan, while bringing alive the magic of folklore and fable. Read an excerpt from one of the most beloved Detha
No Indian spymaster has, until now, written a memoir. A.S. Dulat is the first to do so, and in A Life in the Shadows he does it with considerable elan. Read an excerpt from Dulat’s riveting memoir.
SUBIMAL MISRA (b. 1943) has been called the only anti-establishment writer in Bengali. Influenced by the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein and Jean-Luc Godard, Misra experimented with the use of film language in Bengali writing even as he made William Burroughs’s cut method his own. With his very first collection of stories, Haran
The Book of Bihari Literature, edited and translated by Abhay K., is a vibrant collection of writings-poems, essays, stories-that have flowed from the pens of the great poets, thinkers and writers across millennia, who were born or lived in what is modern-day Bihar. This book makes accessible to English-speaking readers the
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.