Jagmandir on Lake Pichola (The City within a City, Volume I)

Literature & Fiction

Topsfield, Andrew

Khera, Dipti

Mansukhani, Raju

Contemporary

Viking India

R.K. Laxman, cartoonist par excellence, is also one of the country's most entertaining writers. The Distorted Mirror brings together some of his best short stories, essays and travelogues. The collection begins with 'An Accident', a most unusual mystery story where the murder weapon is a newspaper. In other stories, we are introduced to Gopal, a schoolboy in an ordinary small town that is transformed one day when the Viceroy visits; Shantha, a little girl who makes an interesting discovery in the midst of a wedding; and Bhasker, a writer who is suddenly confronted by his past. Each story is marked by Laxman's ability to delineate a character or a moment with a few deft strokes and imbued with his trademark wit. No less fascinating are the travelogues-about the United States, Australia, the Andamans, Darjeeling, Mauritius and Kathmandu-which are brought to life by Laxman's vivid descriptions and his inimitable way of looking at the world around him. The collection is rounded off with a few rare and delightful anecdotes about Laxman's cartooning career, a subject on which he is usually reticent. Accompanied by Laxman's illustrations, the pieces in The Distorted Mirror will amuse and entertain every fan of R.K. Laxman's.

The Distorted Mirror

R.K., Laxman

Short Stories & Anthologies

Tales of Fabled Beasts, Gods and Demons

BULBUL SHARMA

The puffin treasury of modern indian stories is a unique collection of stories and excerpts written by master storytellers it represents for the first time the richness and range of writing for children in india during the twentieth century from ruskin bond's humorous 'snake trouble' and vikram seth's animal fable in verse the elephant and the tragopan', to salman rushdie's fantasy haroun and the sea of stories' and satyajit ray's gripping tale the hungry septopus', this anthology has a vibrant mix of styles and forms with spectacular illustrations by a host of the most talented artists working today, this anthology will delight both children and adults contributors include: paro anand margaret bhatty pankaj bisht ruskin bond anita desai shashi deshpande shama futehally mala marwah arvind krishan mehrotra dhan gopal mukerji meenakshi mukherjee rk narayan premchand sara rai shanta rameshwar rao hemangini ranade satyajit ray salman rushdie bhisham sahni poile sengupta subhadra sen gupta vikram seth khushwant singh kalpana swaminathan

Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories

Teen & Young Adult

Going to School in India

Lisa Heydlauff

How Did They Manage?: Leadership Secret of History

Politics & Social Sciences

Mark Donnelly

Daniel Diehl

Social Sciences

Sun After Dark

PICO IYER

Travel

The Book of Hanuman

Parvez Dewwan

Religion & Spirituality

On Gandhi and Madeline Slade, renamed Mira. on their relationshi, events surrounding them. a bold, fictionalized exploration of a complex and tumultuous relationship. Based on history and documents, but Kakar also bridges gaps in the story with the emotions and interactions that he feels were occurring.

Mira and the Mahatma

Kakar, Sudhir

Born to a poor family in the village of Puttaparthi in southern Andhra Pradesh, Sathyanarayan Raju was a bright, talented and confident boy whose charitable nature and religiosity belied his tender age. Deeply suspicious of his spiritual precociousness, his father made him go through a traumatic exorcism. But the boy already had a devoted band of followers and, when he was thirteen, announced that he was the Shirdi Sai Baba reborn. Today, Sri Sathya Sai Baba has an estimated thirty million followers worldwide. Acclaimed travel writer and self-described `spiritual nomad' Bill Aitken tells us why so many royalty, wealthy industrialists, influential politicians, as well as the poor flock to Puttaparthi. Sai Baba's message, he reveals, can be summed up in one word: love. It is as simple as it is profound, not unlike how his devotees see the Sai himself the embodiment of deep spirituality wedded to simplicity, elegance and grace. Yet, the Sai phenomenon is less about producing vibhuti from thin air and more about modern-day miracles. Miracles like free schools and universities, super-speciality hospitals which provide free treatment to all and revolutionary projects like the one which has brought drinking water to a million villagers in drought-prone Rayalseema. Aitken's study is neither a hagiographic exercise in myth-making nor a dry, objective account of the Sai's life. While never shy of expressing his deep love and reverence for Sai Baba, he squarely confronts the controversies and criticisms which inevitably dog those who claim acquaintance with the holy.

Sri Satya Sai Baba

Biographies & Memoirs

Aitken, Bill

Memoirs

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