Memoirs

presents a heart-rending yet life-affirming memoir of growing up as a Muslim in Aligarh HarperCollins India is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of Zeyad Masroor Khan’s memoir, City on Fire, which is a story of our times, one that needed to be written and is calling out to be

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.

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

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.

HarperCollins presents As Good as My Word by K.M. Chandrasekhar In an illustrious career spanning over forty years in public service and culminating in the highest office in Indian bureaucracy—Union Cabinet Secretary—K.M. Chandrasekhar has seen, and done, it all. In this autobiography, he paints an intimate picture of the UPA