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tranquebar PressC u r r e n tJanuary-June 2011

‘It is no longer important if I become the prime minister for the third time. What is important is that my country is in danger. So I had to return even if it meant risking my life...’—Benazir Bhutto, hours before she was assassinated in Rawalpindi.

Drawing on personal anecdotes, meetings, off-the-record conversations with Benazir Bhutto, and the emails that he exchanged with her just before her death, Amir Mir, one of Pakistan’s leading investigative journalists, brings us a carefully documented reconstruction of the assassination that rocked the world, the events leading to it, and its aftermath. His meticulously researched book is also a chilling expose of the symbiotic relationship between Pakistan’s formidable military and intelligence agencies, and the radical Islamic terrorist groups entrenched there.

From the murky details of the ‘election rigging cells’ that Bhutto was on the brink of exposing, inside information about her ‘designated killers’, the dubious security cover, the wanton destruction of evidence at the crime scene, the cover-up that began soon after the murder, the scapegoats, the arbitrary arrests and the compromised investigations, to the outright deceptions of various military top brass and even members of her own party, the book reveals it all.

Other highlights include excerpts from the reports of high-level investigations carried out by different organisations, rare pictures related to the suicide attack on Bhutto’s convoy, her last speech delivered minutes before she was killed, and her hand-written ‘political will’ which her party released after her death. The richly textured narrative is supported by exclusive information that sheds fresh light on various conspiracy theories, and will almost certainly evoke controversy and debate.

the bhutto murder trail: From Waziristan to ghq

amir mir

isbn: 978-93-80658-61-2 territory: World Price: rs. 495 binding: hardback imprint: tranquebar Press extent: 284 pp + 24 pp photo insert Genre: Non-fiction/Politics Pub date: January 2011

Shehryar Fazli is the South Asia Regional Editor and Senior Analyst for the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based research and advocacy organisation focused on resolving deadly conflict. He is a graduate of McGill University and the creative writing program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He lives in Islamabad, Pakistan. Invitation is his first novel.

Praise‘A book worth the city of Karachi. Invitation is a brilliant tale of the seductions of power and its costs. It shows us a Pakistan we haven’t seen before.’

-Basharat Peer Author of Curfewed Nights

‘Invitation is a debut of great promise - and achievement. ‘’Karachi Noir’ has long been a genre waiting to happen to the Anglophone novel and Shehryar Fazli has kicked it off in high style. This story of sex, politics, aspiration and intrigue brings to life one of the darkest chapters in Pakistan’s history, in the days leading up to the creation of Bangladesh. It can be read as an allegory of the moment Pakistan decisively took the wrongest of wrong turns, but it is also and equally the story of one’s man willing seduction by power and glamour. The central location - the Agra Hotel - is Rick’s Cafe before Hollywood softened its edges.’

-Kamila Shamsie

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shehryar Fazli

Set in 1970s Pakistan this is a fast-paced story of politics and its power-brokers; a story of exile, and of belonging to a nation which is itself on the brink of cataclysmic events that will forever change the lives of its people.

The novel’s narrator, Shahbaz, is a young Pakistani from Paris who returns out of a 19-year exile to his home city in West Pakistan, to settle a family property dispute. He arrives in a 1970s Karachi preparing for democracy, seething with political machination, corruption and class tensions – and, above all, facing the prospect of a changing power balance between the dominant West Pakistani establishment and the Bengalis of East Pakistan. The property dispute pits Shahbaz against his father’s older sister, Mona Phuppi, a strong-willed woman with deep knowledge of Karachi and, unlike Shahbaz, certain of her place in it. More than defeating his aunt, Shahbaz wants to reclaim the place in a Karachi aristocracy he was once entitled to. He soon accepts the help of an old friend of his father’s, a retired brigadier who runs a popular cabaret and is a close associate of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, slowly rising to political power. Shahbaz’s new prestige ensures him access to a world of cabaret dancers and general good living that he never had as an immigrant in Paris, and to powerbrokers who can deliver the family property to him. But the costs of the brigadier’s continued patronage – and Shahbaz’s fear of losing that patronage – escalate the more time Shahbaz spends in the city, particularly after he becomes acquainted with two members of the Jamaat-i-Islami, a religious party willing to go to extremes to keep a young country intact. When he is finally asked to betray his one true friend in Karachi, a charismatic Bengali taxi driver, Shahbaz faces something worse than not belonging to a nation: being complicit in its crimes.

isbn: 978-93-80658-65-0 territory: indian sub-continent Price: rs 495 binding: hardback imprint: tranquebar Press extent: 387 pp genre: Fiction Pub date: January 2011

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Tranquebar ||| February ||| Anthology

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Thirteen of the most widely-read writers in contemporary India write about films and filmmaking.

A sparkling collection studded with wit, passion and insight, the essays are personal reflections on genres of cinema: Hollywood blockbusters, Hindi noir, horror – and any other kind you may have sat through wide-eyed in a million small-town halls or metro multiplexes – and the effect they had on individual lives. Ranging from the sparse, undemonstrative work of Finland’s Kaurismäki brothers to a boisterous Punjabi masala movie that may or may not be about a foot fetish; from a writer’s first – and hilarious – experience of watching a film in a theatre, to one who performs a Helen dance in drag at a Brooklyn square… each of these essays reveals to readers a completely different side of their authors. Edited by film and book critic, Jai Arjun Singh, these recollections are what every movie-goer and book-lover should read.

Includes essays by: Rajorshi Chakraborti, Musharraf Ali Farooqi, Namita Gokhale, Anjum Hasan, Amitava Kumar, Madhulika Liddle, Jaishree Misra, Manjula Padmanabhan, Kamila Shamsie, Jai Arjun Singh, Manil Suri, Sumana Roy, Sidin Vadukut.

Jai Arjun Singh is a freelance writer and journalist based in Delhi. He has worked on the literary beat for years but cinema is his first love, and his popular blog Jabberwock (http://jaiarjun.blogspot.com) is a storehouse of his writings about movies, books, evil water tanks and many other things. His book about the making of the cult film Jaane bhi do Yaaro was published in 2010. He can be contacted at jaiarjun@gmail.com.

PoPCorn essayists:What movies do to Writers

edited by Jai arjun singh

isbn: 978-93-80658-353 territory: World Price: rs 395 binding: hardback imprint: tranquebar Press extent: 242 pp genre: anthology Pub date: February 2011

Tranquebar ||| March ||| Non-fiction

maFia queens oF mumbai: stories of Women from the ganglands

s. hussain Zaidi with Jane borges

From victims to victors, this collection of stories contains intricate details of thirteen women who went on to leave their permanent mark on the face of the Mumbai Mafiosi.

Smuggling, gun-running, drugs, terrorism — for many decades, Mumbai has lived under the shadow of the Underworld. Dawood Ibrahim, Karim Lala, Varadarajan Mudaliar: these are names that any Indian would recognise. Analysed in print, immortalised on film, their lives, their gangs, their ‘businesses’ are out there for anyone who wants the information. But there have been women, too, who have been part of this murky side of the city, walking alongside, sometimes leading and manipulating men in the Underworld to run their own illegal businesses. Here, for the first time, crime journalists S. Hussain Zaidi and Jane Borges explore the lives of some of these women, and how, in cold blood, they were able to make their way up in what was certainly a man’s world.

From Kamathipura to Dongri, from assassins to molls, this is a collection that tells the stories of women who have become legend in Mumbai’s streets, lanes and back-alleys. Absorbingly told, impeccably researched, Mafia Queens of Mumbai reveals a side of Mumbai’s Underworld that has never been seen before.

S. Hussain Zaidi is considered one of the leading crime journalists in the country. He is the author of the bestselling Black Friday: The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts and is currently resident editor of the Asian Age, Mumbai.

Jane Borges is a journalist with the Asian Age, Mumbai.

Praise‘Mafia Queens is vivid, engaging, and always surprising. Read it.’

–Vikram Chandra

isbn: 978-93-80283-77-7 territory: World Price: rs 250 binding: Paperback imprint: tranquebar extent: 384 pp genre: Non-fiction/Crime Pub date: march 2011

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IBNE SAFI, one of the quirkiest and most prolific Urdu writers of the 20th century, Ibne Safi was born Asrar Ahmed in Allahabad District, Uttar Pradesh, India, in 1928. He migrated to Karachi, Pakistan shortly after the publication of the first Jasusi Dunya novel, and lived there until his death in 1980.

Poisoned arroWIn an unnamed city somewhere in Hindustan, a man is killed by a poisoned arrow outside a popular nightclub. The subsequent investigation, led by the intrepid Colonel Faridi and his assistant, Captain Hameed, opens up a shadowy underworld network of pimps, drug dealers, and foreign spies. But who is behind it all? The diminutive Goan

named Finch? The beautiful yet mysterious Tara Nayadu? Or the enigmatic American arch-criminal, Doctor Dread?

ISBN: 978-93-80283-94-4 / Extent: 124 / Price: 200 / Territory: Indian subcontinent / Genre: Crime/Mystery / Pub Date: April 2011 / Imprint: Blaft/tranquebar

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Welcome to Ibne Safi’s Jasusi Dunya—an intricately demented world of larger-than-life villains, mad genius detectives, and beautiful femmes fatales. With a huge cult following among readers in both India and Pakistan, this series spans 125 novels published between 1952 and 1979. They remain some of the bestselling books in Urdu even today.

smokeWaterProminent industrialist Sir Fayyaz Ahmad disappears en route to his vacation home, and returns several days later in a strange delusional state. His granddaughter, the young and beautiful Shakila, approaches Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed for help. The investigation leads the two detectives through the corrupt, twisted world of the

super-rich—their stately mansions, white yachts, and platinum mines—and smack into the middle of a deadly game being played by the notorious American criminal Doctor Dread.

ISBN: 978-81-89975-69-2 / Extent: 128 / Price: 200 Territory: Indian subcontinent / Genre: Crime/Mystery Pub Date: April 2011 / Imprint: Blaft/tranquebar

the laughing CorPseThe beautiful Saeeda Rahman, a typist at the firm of James & Bartley, learns that her long-lost uncle has died in Jamaica and named her as the sole inheritor of his huge estate. Suddenly all the city’s richest young men are competing for her attention. But when she’s kidnapped during a scuffle at a popular restaurant, it’s up to Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed to find out who’s responsible. Meanwhile, the American arch-criminal Doctor Dread is still at large in the city... and so is his nemesis, the mysterious monkey-faced killer named Finch.

ISBN: 978-93-80658-89-6 / Extent: 128 / Price: 200 / Territory: Indian subcontinent / Genre: Crime/Mystery / Pub Date: April 2011 / Imprint: Blaft/Tranquebar

doCtor dreadThe wealthy widow Begum Irshad is being blackmailed by a mysterious foreigner. Crime reporter and freelance investigator Anwar is hired to go undercover and find out who he is. Meanwhile, Captain Hameed and Colonel Faridi are trying to figure out why a mentally deranged man who thinks he’s an angel is being kept imprisoned in a five-story building. As bullets fly and the bodycount rises, it begins to look as though both cases may be related to the ongoing feud between the tiny, monkey-faced killer named Finch and the American arch-criminal Doctor Dread....

ISBN: 978-93-80658-41-4 / Extent: 200 / Price: 250 / Territory: Indian subcontinent / Genre: Crime/Mystery / Pub Date: April 2011 / Imprint: Blaft/Tranquebar

ISBN: 978-93-80283-91-3 / Extent: 446 / Price: 295 / Territory: Indian subcontinent / Genre: Anthology / Pub Date: April 2011 / Imprint: Blaft/Tranquebar

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Tranquebar ||| May ||| Fiction

isbn: 978-93-80032-75-7 territory: World Price: rs 200 binding: Paperback imprint: tranquebar extent: 248 pp Genre: Fiction/Humour Pub date: may 2011

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kenny deori basumatary

Is true love destined?

Chocolate_Guitar_Momos kicks off with young aspiring musician Joseph getting kicked out of a relationship, yet again, by his third girlfriend. Believing that relationships won’t work out unless they’re destined to be, he decides to track down a girl he believes might have been his soulmate – a girl who had smiled at him from a bus stop across the street eight years ago. The minor obstacle: he knows nothing of her – no name, no address, nothing. The major obstacle: he doesn’t even remember her face! The only thing he does remember is that she was wearing a grey skirt. Harnessing the reach of radio and the internet, and dragging along his skeptical but loyal buddy Utpal, Joseph embarks on a search for his soulmate. Laugh-out-loud moments and incidents ensue.

Kenny Deori Basumatary grew up with comics and books and practically never grew up beyond that. After performing well in academics throughout school in Guwahati, Tezpur and Lakhimpur in Assam, he did his best to undo all that damage by setting new records in low grade point averages during his four years at IIT Delhi. He outwitted the authorities there by getting out before they could kick him out. Three years as a news anchor at a regional satellite channel in Guwahati followed. Kenny finally made the move to Mumbai to work in the film industry as an actor and writer. With his brother Tony, he has composed songs for and released Brahmaputra, an album of soft rock Assamese and Hindi songs which can be heard at http://soundclick.com/brahmaputra. Armed with a Canon 550D and his brother’s audio studio, Kenny is presently working on his zero-budget action comedy feature, Local Kung Fu, where he fills all the minor crew positions of producer, director, writer, actor, composer, fight choreographer and the major crew positions of occasional make-up man, electrician, cook and driver.

Chocolate_Guitar_Momos is his first novel. Only one-and-a-half chapters are true. The rest are all a pack of lies.

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don’t go aWay. We’ll be right baCk: the oops and downs of advertising

indu balachandran

A book on advertising for all those who think programmes interrupt commercials.

Get valuable insights into the world of advertising! Such as:>> A copywriter’s most dreaded word is ‘typo’. Like this one that crept into a hotel’s hoarding design: ‘Our restaurant has a bra attached’.>> Servicing people usually get married in the morning. That way, if the marriage doesn’t work out, they still have the rest of the day to catch up with their work.>> Pitches happen when the client realises it’s a long time since he went to the circus, so sends word around town that he’s looking for a new agency.

Indu (nee Venkataraman) was raised in Bangalore, on an unhealthy diet of Mad magazines. A gold medal in journalism landed a job at Deccan Herald, but the chief reporter politely suggested she join an ad agency, seeing her excessive use of exaggeration. Indu joined JWT, moving from Copy Trainee to VP & Executive Creative Director, over twenty-nine years. She’s won several advertising awards.

Paul Fernandes lives in his drawing room (or draws in his living room), and pretends to have an easy, laid-back life in Bangalore. He’ll do anything for old friends, including dramatically saving their first books from near-death situations.

PraiseWitty and unputdownable, Indu’s book ... It took me on a trip down memory lane, reminding me that advertising once used to be spontaneous, outrageous and above all, fun.

-Alex Kuruvilla, Managing Director, Conde Nast Traveller.

Indubee is one of the funniest, yet most sensible people I know. Her observations are always witty, wise and very very true. Read this book to know the advertising world at its silliest, and at its most sublime.

-Anuja Chauhan, advertising consultant & novelist

isbn: 978-93-80658-69-8 territory: World Price: rs 250 binding: Paperback imprint: tranquebar extent: 192 pp genre: humour Pub date: may 2011

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Tranquebar ||| June ||| Erotica

Some of the most lyrical renderings of man’s most primal compulsion.

The couplings described here – some beautifully tender, some violent and sorrowful – between man and woman, man and boy, woman and woman, spirit and living being are described with incredible literary grace. This is Urmilla Deshpande’s fourth book with Westland/Tranquebar in as many years. Her writings deal with love and its many contradictions, confused lovers and people caught in a constant journey of self-discovery, trying to come to terms with their sexuality.

Praise for A Pack of Lies‘The best thing about the book is that you will reach the last page and still feel like you haven’t completely figured out most of the characters. They are not as fraught with cliché as most fiction archetypes. There are no glowing lights at the end of the tunnel. In this, lies Urmilla Deshpande’s skill as a storyteller…’

– Deccan Herald

‘… is likely to acquire either of the two tags – a“sex novel” or a coming-of-age chintzy attempt at bolstering “female independence” in a male fiefdom. Thankfully, it’s much more than that.’

– Hindustan Times

‘Ginny is the female counterpart of Holden Caulfield… This makes her infuriatingly random and self-destructive, but also endearing in her naive and carefree manner.’

– Femina

slither: Carnal Prose

urmilla deshpande

isbn: 978-93-80658-84-2 territory: World Price: rs 250 binding: Paperback imprint: tranquebar extent: 264 pp genre: erotica Pub date: June 2011

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isbn: 978-93-80283-906 territory: indian sub-continent Price: rs 495 binding: hardback imprint: tranquebar Press extent: 350 pp genre: Fiction Pub date: June 2011

An enchanting literary mystery, from the author of The Gabriel Club

Each year, the storyteller Hassan gathers listeners to Marrakesh’s city square to share their recollections of a young, foreign couple who mysteriously disappeared years earlier. As various witnesses describe their encounters with the couple – their tales overlapping, confirming and contradicting each other – Hassan hopes to uncover details that will explain what happened to them and, in the process, maybe absolve his own brother, who is in prison for their disappearance. As testimonies circle an elusive truth, the couple takes on an air as enigmatic as their fate. But is this annual storytelling ritual a genuine attempt to uncover the truth, or is it intended instead to weave an ambiguous mythology around a sinister crime?

This enchanting literary mystery is the first in a planned trilogy set in the Islamic world and The Storyteller of Marrakesh is an elegant exploration of the nature of reality and our shifting perceptions of the truth.

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was born in Jamshedpur and lives in New York. He was educated in philosophy and politics at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Pennsylvania. His first novel, The Gabriel Club, was published in sixteen countries and J.M. Coetzee called it ‘an impressive debut, serious and passionate’.

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>> THEIR ‘URBAN AGENDA’ FOR CITIES LIKE DELHI, MUMBAI, CHENNAI

>> THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH PEOPLE AND PEOPLES’ MOVEMENTS

>> MAOIST SUPREMO GANAPATHI AND OTHER TOP LEADERS

With an Afterword by jailed Maoist Ideologue Kobad Ghandy

Rahul Pandita is a senior Special Correspondent with the Open magazine. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book on insurgency, The Absent State. He has extensively reported from conflict zones ranging from Bastar to Baghdad.

Praise‘Rahul Pandita had done something unusual: he had studied the Maoist movement at ground level for more than a decade, growing ever more interested in the way it functioned, travelling through the remoter jungles of central India for weeks on end and spending time with the tribal people...’

From India: A Portrait by Patrick French

hello, bastar: the untold story of india’s maoist movement

rahul Pandita

Hello, Bastar is the inside story of the current Maoist movement in India.

With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms as India’s biggest internal security threat.

Hello, Bastar traces the circumstances due to which the Maoist movement entrenched itself in about 10 states of India, carrying out deadly attacks against the Indian establishment in the name of the poor and the marginalised. It offers rare insight into the lives of Maoist guerillas and also of the Adivasi tribals living in the Red zone. Based on extensive on-ground reportage and exhaustive interviews with Maoist leaders including their supreme commander Ganapathi, Kobad Ghandy and others who are jailed or have been killed in police encounters, this book is a combination of firsthand storytelling and intrepid analysis.

Hello, Bastar is the story of:

>> HOW THE IDEA OF CREATING A GUERILLA BASE IN BASTAR CAME UP

>> WHAT THE REBELS WHO ENTERED DANDAKARANYA HAD TO DEAL WITH

>> THE JAGTIAL MOVEMENT THAT CREATED THE GROUND FOR THE MAOIST MOVEMENT

>> THE FIRST SqUAD MEMBER WHO DIED FOR REVOLUTION

>> HOW MAOISTS AND THEIR GUERILLA SqUADS FUNCTION

>> THEIR GOALS, RECRUITMENT, PARTY STRUCTURE AND FUNDING

isbn: 978-93-80658-34-6 territory: World Price: rs 250 binding: Paperback imprint: tranquebar Press extent: 200 pp + 16 colour pix Genre: Non-fiction/Politics Pub date: June 2011

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Jug Suraiya is perhaps best known for his free-wheeling column, ‘Jugular Vein’, which appears every Friday on the editorial page of The Times of India. He also writes a weekly contrarian column on topical issues, called ‘Second Opinion’, which appears every Wednesday, also on the editorial page of The Times of India, in which he deals with social, literary and political themes.

Among his many avatars, he is – together with artist Neelabh Banerjee – the co-creator of the comic strip ‘Duniya Ke Neta,’ which appears daily in The Times of India. A separate collaboration with cartoonist Ajit Ninan has seen the creation of ‘Like That Only,’ a twice-weekly cartoon commenting on our life and times, also featured in The Times of India.

He is the author of several books and his previous titles include Mind Matters, a collection of editorial page articles; Juggling Act, an anthology of humorous writings; Calcutta: A City Remembered; and A Tika for Jung Bahadur, a collection of short stories.

An inveterate traveller, Jug Suraiya is the first Asian to have won the Grand Prize for Travel Writing awarded by the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA).

He lives in Gurgaon with his wife, Bunny. PraiseDescribed by Khushwant Singh as India’s Art Buchwald.

Js & the times oF my liFe: a Worm’s-eye View of Journalism

Jug suraiya

The most popularly read journalist in our times wandered only accidentally into his profession.

‘I never wanted to be a journalist,’ says Jug Suraiya at the beginning of this book. However, by accident rather than design, for the past 40-odd years – and they’ve been very odd indeed – he’s found himself on the fringes of that profession.

Set against the backdrop of two iconic publications – the JS, ‘The magazine that thinks young,’ and The Times of India – the author recounts his tale of many misadventures: being shot at by a medley of Bengali holiday-makers in Ranchi whose Rabindrasangeet soiree he disrupted; encountering a bikini-clad Female Eunuch in Calcutta’s Grand Hotel; meeting Mother Teresa in her Home for Dying Destitutes and trying to guess how much she weighed; pretending to be the Maharajah of Malabar to gain entry into a tycoon’s stronghold; covering the filming of Dev Anand’s Hare Rama, Hare Krishna in Kathmandu; watching in fascinated horror as the resident bull of LPN II tried to roger his newly-bought Maruti 800; travelling incognito through Tibet with a fruitcake; journeying across the world with the Tennis Elbow Club International; and, as he puts it, generally making a ‘career of pissing off ’ everyone from Amitabh Bachchan to Jayalalithaa, Shobhaa De and the many fans of Vikram Seth.

Funny, whimsical, nostalgic, sometimes hair-raising, always irreverent, Jug Suraiya tells his story with verve, self-deprecating wit and a refreshing candour that readers of his column in The Times of India and his other writings have come to know and love.

The subtitle of the book says it’s A Worm’s-Eye View of Journalism. If that is so, it’s a worm that’s turned. Turned up trumps, that is. A class act, by a writer who’s in a class of his own.

isbn: 978-93-80658-75-9 territory: World Price: rs 495 binding: hardback imprint: tranquebar extent: 360 pp genre: memoir Pub date: June 2011

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The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father.

Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, the Brahmin youth becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire. History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya.

Satisfied—and a little bored—by his success as a kingmaker through the simple summoning of his gifted mind he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the ‘science of wealth’. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in small-town India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals—including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman.

Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar’s feasting ground. Can this wily pandit—who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance—bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya’s chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.

An entrepreneur by profession, Ashwin Sanghi writes extensively on history, religion and politics in his spare time, but historical fiction in the thriller genre is his passion and hobby. Sanghi holds a master’s degree from Yale. He lives in India with his wife Anushika and son Raghubir.

isbn: 978-93-80658-67-4 territory: World Price: rs 195 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 468 pp Genre: Fiction/Thriller Pub date: dec 2010

Chanakya’s Chant

ashwin sanghi

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Rujuta Diwekar works out of Mumbai, practises yoga in Rishikesh, ideates in Uttarkashi and treks in the rest of the Indian Himalayas. Winner of the Nutrition Award 2010 from Asian Institute of Gastroenterology, she is amongst the most qualified and sought-after practitioners in India today and the only nutritionist to have accreditation from Sports Dietitians, Australia. Her first book sold more than two lakh copies in four languages and is still in national best-seller lists, more than a hundred weeks after its debut.

In the plethora of diet fads and fears, Rujuta’s voice rings loud and clear, urging us to use our common sense and un-complicate the act of eating. With over a decade of experience working with people from all walks of life, including Kareena Kapoor, Anil Ambani, Preity Zinta, Karishma Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Konkona Sen Sharma, she has fine-tuned her methods to the real issues facing urban Indians.

isbn: 978-93-80658-33-9 territory: World Price: rs 200 binding:Pb imprint: Westland extent: 420 pp genre: health Pub date: January 2011

Bring back the tone in your body, the glow on your face and the sense in your head. Let’s end the Weight Loss Tamasha!

A guide to women’s health and nutrition from bestselling author and well-known dietician Rujuta Diwekar. Includes a personal note by Kareena Kapoor. The nutritionist who taught us that simply eating (pun intended) is the key to a fab body is back with a comprehensive book on women, food and everything in between. From puberty to marriage, from pregnancy to menopause, Rujuta explains in detail the changes women go through (and God knows as Indian women we go through way beyond those just hormonal — husband, in-laws, children, career, etc.) and how what we do (or don’t) during these phases affects our overall well-being. Building on her four principles of eating right from Don’t Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight, she goes on to share her four strategies (Nutrition, Exercise, Sleep and Relationships) for each of these phases and especially the lifestyle disorders of PCOD, hypothyroid and diabetes. Rujuta, in her usual indomitable style, debunks (rubbishes rather) myths related to food, hormones and workouts, forces us to rethink our belief that pregnancy, menopause, hypothyroid, etc come in the way of losing weight and reveals just how easy it is to remain healthy, strong and fit through one’s life.

Women & the Weight loss tamasha

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Westland ||| January ||| Spirituality

Osho offers a revolutionary approach to the eternal quest that mankind carries within.

As he says: ‘Life has intrinsic value, there is no goal outside it. Hence my whole effort is to change everything into playfulness. To me that is real spirituality.’

The Hasidic way is a life of color, music, and inner transformative experience.

Storytelling has always been part of Hasidism; this tradition has been popularized by writers such as Martin Buber, Isaac Bashevis Singer and Elie Wiesel. Drawing on Hasidic tales, Osho brings these stories to the contemporary world in a fresh and relevant way. His commentaries enrich our understanding of what it means to live, and ultimately die.

the art oF dying; talks on hasidism

osho

isbn: 978-93-80658-72-8 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 350 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 297 pp genre: spirituality Pub date: January 2011

Chettinad kitChen: Food and Flavours from south india

alamelu VairaVan

Authentic recipes from one of the most popular cuisines in India, in an easy, step-by-step format ideal for modern-day cooks Chettinad is a region in Tamil Nadu in South India. Chettinad cooking has always been distinctive, characterized by thick delicious sauces called kulambu and irresistible vegetarian and non-vegetarian stir-fried dishes called poriyal. Chettinad Kitchen: Food and Flavours from South India is a book that presents tempting and simple recipes for a broad range of delicious Chettinad foods, in a step-by-step format that is easy to follow.

The recipes in this book include vegetarian Chettinad favorites such as Vellai Paniyaram, Kuzhi Paniyaram, Adai, Idiappam, Aappam, Kosamalli, Vellai Poondu Kulambu, Kaikari Kuruma, Beans Poriyal, Broccoli Podimas and Pala Payasam. The book also includes recipes for many authentic non-vegetarian Chettinad foods including Chettinad Chicken Soup, Chicken Chops and Meen Vaurval (Fish Fry). Over 100 recipes, 24 color photographs, a glossary of Chettinad foods as well as spices, and a shopping list of spices make this book an excellent and valuable guide to Chettinad cooking.

Alamelu Vairavan, a native of Karaikudi, Chettinad, lives in Wisconsin. She has co-authored three cookbooks with Dr. Patricia Marquardt: Art of South Indian Cooking (1997), Healthy South Indian Cooking (2001) and Healthy South Indian Cooking-Expanded Edition (2008). She has also contributed recipes to the American Dietetic Association Cookbook: Cooking Healthy Across America (2005).

As a featured presenter at the famous Annual Kohler Food and Wine Event in Wisconsin, Alamelu has introduced Chettinad cuisine to the American public. In 2009, Alamelu presented a sold-out workshop on Chettinad cooking at The James Beard Foundation, a prestigious culinary institution in New York.

She has also been featured in TV programs, including a ppearances on the Discovery Channel and PBS. In 2010, she hosted her own cooking series, “Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu” on Milwaukee Public Television.

isbn: 978-93-80283-88-3 territory: World Price: rs 395 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 196 pp + 24 colour photographs genre: Cookery Pub date: January 2011

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Heartwarming stories about brides, weddings and marriages

Chicken Soup for the Indian Bride’s Soul is for all you women, whether you’re newly engaged, recently married, or reflecting on years of married bliss. Stories of elopement, big fat Indian weddings, groom-hunting in arranged marriages, dealing with in-laws, wanting that jaw-dropping lehenga and having that perfect wedding day — this collection will tug at your heartstrings, make you laugh, cry and perhaps see your family in a totally different light. Most importantly, this book will remind you of how strong the bond between couples in love can and must be if they are to share their lives together.

Raksha Bharadia is the editor of bestselling titles in the series including Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul, Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul and Chicken Soup for the Indian Golden Soul. She lives in Ahmedabad.

Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, #1 New York Times bestselling co-authors, are professional speakers who have dedicated their lives to enhancing the personal and professional development of others. They are co-authors of several New York Times bestsellers, including Chicken Soup for the Soul, Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul and Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul.

ChiCken souP For the soul: indian brides

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen, raksha bharadia

isbn: 978-93-80658-16-2 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 295 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 384 pp Genre: Self-help/Inspiration Pub date: march 2011

saChin: genius unplugged

edited by suresh menon

A collection of essays by some of the finest writers on cricket.

Sachin Tendulkar has made poets of prose writers even if his strokeplay has demonstrated the futility of conveying in words the brilliance of his batsmanship.

As R.C. Robertson-Glasgow said in another context, he was “easy to watch, difficult to bowl to and impossible to write about.” In this collection of essays by some of the finest writers on cricket, the attempt is not so much to pin Sachin down as to let him roam free: beyond statistics, above nationality, and above the need to explain. From the sublime to the ridiculous it is all here. As Peter Roebuck once said, “Whenever I feel low I only need to remind myself how privileged I am to be writing on the game in the Tendulkar era.”

Suresh Menon, one of the youngest newspaper editors in India, is widely regarded as the most literary of India’s cricket writers. A Bangalore University topper in economics and political science, Menon began his career with Deccan Herald before moving to Indian Express, Chennai for whom he reported cricket series in Pakistan and New Zealand in the 1980s, and wrote the first of many weekly columns. In 2000, responding to a call from the New Indian Express in Chennai he took over as Editor, and launched the New Sunday Express. He quit in 2002, to honour book-writing commitments, but the temptation of daily journalism proved too strong.

He launched a newspaper in Bangalore which became the state’s highest-selling, and was bought over by the Times of India group. Through it all, he continued to write columns on a range of subjects – politics, cricket, literature, humour and sport – for a range of publications in India and abroad. He lives in Bangalore with his wife Dimpy Menon, a well-known sculptor, and son.

isbn: 978-93-80658-1-79 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 599 binding: Paperback imprint: krabmedia and Westland extent: 160 pp genre: sports Pub date: February 2011

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isbn: 978-93-80283-53-1 territory: World Price: rs 395 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 220 pp genre: beverages Pub date: april 2011

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The people behind hundreds of cocktail workshops involving over 10,000 Indians and a one-of-a-kind drinks website, tulleeho.com have put together all the advice you need to turn a corner of your home into what you’ve seen only in starry hotels.

The first cocktail book of its kind with a uniquely Indian focus, The Tulleeho! Book of Cocktails provides you with information about the techniques and different styles of mixing drinks, including easy-to-follow cocktail recipes with accessible desi ingredients. Peppering the recipes are delightful trivia, anecdotes and facts, making the reading priceless for the home bartending enthusiast or even the most serious social drinker.

Tulleeho Inc.On an August evening in Delhi, as the Bushmill’s Irish whiskey flowed, one said tullee and the other Tulleeho, scarcely realising what had been set into motion. One thing led to another—the registration of a URL, the hiring of Babul to design a site, the hectic bar reviews, the ‘can we acquire you’ conversations, the back-ofnapkin angel investments, the busting of a business model and the birth of a new one. And so here they are today, pioneers of an array of beverage-tasting formats for consumer audiences, the foremost providers of beverage training and wine education in India, and advisors to some of the world’s top beverage companies.

Founders: Venky (P Venkatesh), Chanty (Vikram Achanta) and Krishna Nagaraj.

the tulleeho! book oF CoCktailsanarkali, instant karma, and othermouthwatering mixes

Vikram achanta

Humorous and inspiring stories about the wonder years of college

The college years are a time of excitement, exuberance and triumph — all the freedom of adulthood without the attendant responsibilities. And yet, this is also the time for self-doubt: Will I make it in the world opening before me? Will I get good grades? Will I be handsome, will I be rich? It’s easy to forget that there are others dealing with the same fears, but this book gives you a chance to find humour, hope and encouragement in facing life head on. From leaving home for the first time to finding new friends; from coping with studies to dating and fun, the stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Indian College Students encapsulate the thrills and uncertainties of those very special years of college. A must-read — whether you are about to enter college, standing at the brink of adulthood, or have graduated from college many years ago but love to reminiscence about those magic days.

Arti Jain is a filmmaker, teacher, writer and media consultant. She runs the online bookstore and library Friends of Books.

Rajat Poddar enjoys working with writers on developing and shaping their story ideas. He writes flashfiction and prose poetry.

ChiCken souP For the soul: indian College students

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen, arti Jain & rajat Poddar

isbn: 978-93-80658-13-1 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 195 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 420 pp genre: Self-help/Inspiration Pub date: april 2011

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Dark secrets emerge as ten contestants play a

ruthless game of nerves and wits in a reality show.

By the first decade of this century, even trend-resistant Calcutta has given into the lure of reality shows. The first, named ‘Sikander’, has ten contestants locked in a house called ‘Jatugriha’ as they engage in a game of ruthless nerves and wit. The person who exits the house last will be declared the Sikandar of Bengal.

This is a story of a narcissistic actor, a crooked industrialist, a teacher, a hermit, a prostitute and several other characters whose paths cross at this emotionally charged moment of their lives. Each contestant takes turns to lead the reader through the search for the champion of champions.

Dark secrets tumble out as the contestants make confessions, people ruthlessly try to pin others down and illicit love affairs become the order of the day, even as some secrets are buried forever. A chain reaction alters the lives of the participants forever. In the end, although there is only one true Sikander, each of the contestants finds an individual and personal victory.

One of the most promising young poets of India, Binayak Banerjee is now regarded as the changing face of Bengali fiction. His debut novel Sohaginir Sange Ek Bachhar (A Year with Sohaginir) was published in 2008. Sikandar was published in 2009 to popular and critical acclaim. He combines a career in teaching and writing.

Born and raised in Kolkata, Soma is a journalist by training but a writer at heart. She writes a weekly blog for the Times of India and a personal blog, ‘Rose Tinted Glasses’. She contributes to various publications and is currently working on a novel. This is her first translation.

PraiseSikandar is a novel of remarkable insight into the depths human existence where passing personalities engage in a life and death existential struggle to attain one’s true human destiny.

–Sunil Gangopadhyay

sikandar

binayak banerjeetranslated by soma ghosh

isbn: 978-93-80658-73-5 territory: World Price: rs 250 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 240 pp genre: Fiction Pub date: may 2011

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east indian kitChen: the enduring Flavours of maharashtrian-Portuguese Fusion Cuisine

michael swamy

‘Some of the most interesting cookery books are those which tell you as much about the people as the cuisine which has evolved alongside them.’

The chef as historian? While the notion may seem incongruous at first, East Indian Kitchen shows quickly how the search for a particular recipe and authentic flavours can lead to, or result from, wondrous journeys down the ages. In this exploration of a fascinating cuisine and culture, Cordon Bleu chef Michael Swamy describes aspects of the traditions and culinary practices followed by the East Indians of Mumbai, who feast off a melange of Portuguese and Maharashtrian customs. Swamy presents a variety of recipes from that rich and flavourful cuisine: from the essentials that are a must-have in an East Indian’s culinary range, to modified, experimental recipes inspired by that eclectic tradition.

Enriched with sketches by artists Eustace Fernandes and Philip Victor D’Mello, this cookbook not only captures the lifestyle of a people but also chronicles, in detail, recipes from this excellent fusion cuisine that have till now been largely passed down orally through the generations. Michael Swamy is a Cordon Bleu chef and culinary professional trained in London at leading food establishments and under Michelin-starred chefs. He is a corporate chef for an international food company in India, and writes on food for newspapers and magazines.Chef Swamy has featured in several magazines, and on TV, for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He has just completed heading the food team for Masterchef India Season I, and is one of India’s leading food stylists. isbn: 978-93-80283-38-8

territory: World Price: rs 395 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 228 pp genre: Cookery Pub date: may 2011

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immortals oF meluha

amish triparthi

1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha – a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived.

This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis. To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills.

The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: ‘When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.’

Is the rough-hewn Tibetan immigrant Shiva, really that hero? And does he want to be that hero at all? Drawn suddenly to his destiny, by duty as well as by love, will Shiva lead the Suryavanshi vengeance and destroy evil?

This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast him as our Mahadev, the Godof Gods.

Amish Triparthi, IIM-Kolkata educated financial services professional, fascinated by history, philosophy and the future of human civilisation. The inspiration for this story came from years of reading mythological stories, historical books and invigorating discussions with his family about the destiny of the human body, mind and soul. Amish lives in Mumbai with his wife Preeti. He is presently writing book two of this trilogy.isbn: 978-93-80658-54-4

territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 295 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland Page extent: 456 pp genre: Fiction Pub date: august 2010

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Stories to celebrate friends who cheer us up, cheer us on and make our lives complete.

Friendship is chosen, not inherited like family. Which is why friends are so important to our sense of self from childhood to our riper years. They offer acceptance, support, laughter and love that make our lives complete. And they are there to pick us up when we stumble. Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul: On Friendship celebrates these relationships with heartwarming stories that will inspire, trigger fond memories, and make you appreciate those people who are your bridge over calm — or troubled — waters. Touching on all aspects of this special relationship — the difficult times, the hilarious moments; whether it is a newfound friend, or someone who’s stood by you for years — this title will knit tighter bonds between friends close and far. Baisali Chatterjee Dutt is many things: chocoholic, chick-flick lover, daydreamer, bathroom singer and mommy to two little boys. She dispenses her parenting wisdom every now and then in magazines such as Mother & Baby and Parent & Child. She also writes intense poetry and learns Odissi. She believes she was a gypsy in her last birth.

ChiCken souP For the indian soul: on Friendship

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen, baisali Chatterjee dutt

isbn: 978-93-80658-63-6 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 195 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 420 pp Genre: Self-help/Inspiration Pub date: may 2011

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Is it possible to achieve excellence in the corporate world and still be happy?

The Happiness Quotient tells you how. Dr. Rekha Shetty, Ph.D, is the founder of the Mindspower brand and managing director of Farstar Distribution Network Ltd, a twenty-year old consulting company working exclusively on innovation initiatives and work-life balance. Her thoughts come from a deep study of many disciplines: Management, Sociology, Psychology, Economics, History and Spirituality. Her ideas are practiced in over 30 countries.

The Indian tradition shows us that positive, radiant happiness is our birthright, and the programme outlined in this book illustrates how to achieve it for ourselves. The Happiness quotient (Hq) is a concept that measures approximately, the measure of happiness each person has achieved in his life. This book provides a blueprint to increase one’s Hq. It starts by describing the creation of a positive mindspace, one that nurtures the positive emotions that increase happiness. It also discusses the impact of negative fields and how to avoid them.

Anti-happiness traps, too, find a special place in this book. They require special identification as they can be very misleading, like a comfortable golden cage full of fruit, must seem to a free-flying parrot. Whatever the external circumstances may be, the individual is responsible for his inner state. Events are not under our control, but our perceptions and reactions to them are. This book is an investment in Life’s greatest prize – Happiness.

the haPPiness quotient

rekha shetty

isbn: 978-93-80658-83-4 territory: World Price: rs 195 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 180pp genre: self-help Pub date: may 2011

i haVe a dream

rashmi bansal

isbn: 978-93-80658-21-6 territory: World Price: rs 150 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 386 pp Genre: Inspiration/Reference Pub date June 2011

The inspiring stories of Indian social entrepreneurs.

I Have a Dream is the story of 20 idealists who think and act like entrepreneurs. They are committed to different causes, but they have one thing in common: a belief that principles of management can and must be used to achieve a greater common good. These stories say one thing loud and clear. Change starts with one person, and that person could be someone next door. Someone like you.

Some of the entrepreneurs featured include:- Bindeshwar Pathak - Sulabh Sauchalaya- Shaheen Mistri - Akanksha- Madhav Chavan - Pratham- Anand Kumar - Super30- Vineet Rai - Aavishkar social venture fund

Rashmi Bansal is a writer, entrepreneur and youth expert. Rashmi is co-founder and editor of JAM (Just Another Magazine), India’s leading youth magazine in print and online. She writes extensively on youth, careers, entrepreneurship and hosts the blog, Youth Curry.

She is also the Consulting Editor for ‘Cracking Careers’, the careers show on business news channel UTVi. She mentors students and young entrepreneurs in colleges across India. An economics graduate from Sophia College, Mumbai and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, she lives in Mumbai and can be reached at rashmi@jammag.com

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the Winning Way: learnings from sport for managers

harsha and anita bhogle

What do sporting champions do, what makes winning teams, who is a good leader, why do only some teams keep winning while others win only for a while and then lose… Two IIMA alumni, Sports commentator and writer Harsha Bhogle and advertising and communication consultant Anita Bhogle dig into examples from sport to see how they can benefit managers.

Contrary to popular perception ability is not a major distinguishing factor in success, especially as the level of competition increases. But if you combine your ability with the right attitude and the passion to excel, you too can become the best that you can be. That is the universal formula for winning that The Winning Way explores. For Anita and Harsha Bhogle, this book marks the completion of 300 successful corporate workshops of The Winning Way that they run.

isbn: 978-93-80283-40-1 territory: World Price: 150 binding: paperback imprint: Westland extent: 212 Genre: Management/Reference Pub date June 2011

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The Secret of the Nagas (Book 2 of the Shiva Trilogy) is the much awaited sequel to the smash hit of 2010, The Immortals of Meluha. Scheduled to be released by mid 2011, The Secret of the Nagas will begin from the exact same moment that The Immortals of Meluha ended.

Will Sati be killed or kidnapped by the mysterious Naga? Or will she be saved by Shiva? Who is the Naga that strikes such fear in the heart of his enemies? How far does the enmity of the Suryavanshis and the Chandravanshis go? And most importantly, will Shiva understand his mission more deeply?

The Secret of the Nagas will reveal these secrets and many more. The story will move at the same exciting pace that readers loved in The Immortals of Meluha, with a delightful mix of religion, history, romance, philosophies and grand battles.

From June-July 2011, the Shiva Trilogy will continue on its journey of defining a new genre in Indian publishing. It will be an epic ride. Be sure to stock up!

Amish, IIM-Kolkata educated financial services professional, fascinated by history, philosophy and the future of human civilisation.

the seCret oF the nagas

amish tripathi

isbn: 978-93-80658-55-1 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs. 295 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 450 pp genre: Fiction Pub date: June 2011

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isbn: 978-93-80032-48-1 Price: rs 495 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 510 pp Genre: Non-Fiction/Self-help territory: indian subcontinent Pub date: June 2011

isbn: 978-93-80658-63-6 territory: indian subcontinent Price: rs 295 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland extent: 352 pp genre: Self-help/Inspiration Pub date: June 2011

Filled with puzzles, exercises and information on the brain, by the time you finish the book, you will become a Certified Learning FUN-atic! This means that you and your brain will have:

>> BECOME INCREDIBLY MORE CREATIVE

>> A POWERFUL MEMORY

>> A TOP-CLASS CAPABILITY TO READ FAST AND TO REMEMBER MORE

>> HAD FUN WITH THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL LEARNING SYSTEMS!

Dilip Mukerjea is owner and managing director of the Buzan Centre Singapore Pte Ltd, an organization dedicated to the advancement of Mental Literacy.

unleashing genius:a book on learning miracles for Children of all ages

dilip mukerjea

ChiCken souP For the indian soul: teens talk relationships

Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen, raksha bharadia

Inspiring stories about family, friends and love

Being a teenager is hard. Old friends drift away; new friends come with new issues, teens fall in and out of love, and relationships with family members change. This book supports and inspires teenagers, reminding them they are not alone as they read stories written by other teens just like themselves, about the problems and issues they face every day. This book contains the 101 stories for teens written by teens about friends, family, love, loss, and many lessons learned.

Raksha Bharadia is the editor of bestselling titles in the series including Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul, Chicken Soup for the Indian Teenage Soul and Chicken Soup for the Indian Golden Soul. She lives in Ahmedabad.

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building brainPoWer: turning grey matter into gold

dilip mukerjea

This book addresses the need to build brainpower as our path towards the pinnacles of human accomplishment. It explains the rudiments and intricacies of Mind Mapping®, brainchild of Tony Buzan, protagonist extraordinaire in generating global cortical enlightenment.

The book delves into the diverse applications of Mind Mapping®, Communication Skills, and Mental Gymnastics. The author’s aim is to provoke your neurons into participating actively and interactively with one other… a dance of the intellect where learning becomes fun.

Dilip Mukerjea is owner and managing director of the Buzan Centre Singapore Pte Ltd, an organization dedicated to the advancement of Mental Literacy.

isbn: 978-93-80032-49-8 Price: rs 395 binding: Paperback imprint: Westland Genre: Non-Fiction/Self-help territory: indian subcontinent Pub date: June 2011

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the making oF rahul gandhi

aarthi ramachandran

tamarind City: Where modern india began

bishwanath ghosh

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herbert

nabarun bhattacharya translated from bengali by arunava sinha

Bishwanath Ghosh, writer of the bestselling Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off, is a journalist. He delves once again into archives to bring you a city biography, coming up with a wealth of astonishing facts about the Madras that was and the Chennai that is.

Herbert Sarkar, sole proprietor of a business that brings messages from the dead to their near and dear ones left behind on earth, is found dead in his room after a night of drinking with the local young men. He has killed himself. Why?

Herbert used to be a failure in the joint family in which he lived, virtually on the charity of his cousin. He had no job, no prospects of getting one, and no future. An encounter with a relative who had come to stay with the family changed his life. This young man was a Naxal revolutionary who had revealed a secret about the whereabouts of his diary to Herbert as he lay dying in hospital after a violent encounter with the police. Herbert later revealed the secret as one told to him by the young man’s spirit after his death.

That was the beginning of Herbert’s business venture, which brought him money, respect, a standing in the family, more clients, and fame. The fame, however, proved his undoing, as it attracted the attention of the rationalist society, who threatened to expose him unless he stopped hoodwinking people immediately.

When he’s taken to the electric crematorium and placed in the furnace, lying on the same cot that he used to sleep on – a hand-me-down from the young revolutionary who had died – the furnace explodes as through struck by dynamite. The revolutionary had actually stashed away dynamite in that cot, and it had lain there, unused but still potent, all these years. As in his life, Herbert remains a mystery in death. An intriguing novella by renowned Bengali writer Nabarun Bhattacharya, translated by Arunava Sinha, whose other translations include Sankar’s Chowringhee which won the 2007 Vodafone Crossword Award, and Buddhadev Bose’s My Kind of Girl.

Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family’s political dynasty, is an unknown quantity in Indian politics. This is an attempt to decode his politics and go behind the scenes to provide insights about the real person behind the packaging.

The book will use the setting of Gandhi’s project of rebuilding the 125-year old Congress to deconstruct the public image he is crafting. By looking at his work over the last six years, it will provide a key to understanding the man who could be India’s next prime minister. It will tell readers about his personality, assess his political acumen, and his leadership skills. It will shed light on his “vision” for a new India.

Aarthi Ramachandran is a political journalist who has covered the Congress and Rahul Gandhi for the last six years, so has good insight as well as access to him and his key aides

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Shubhra Krishan is a seasoned journalist, the author of two titles published in the US, and writes mainly with lifestyle-enhancing advice. Thinner Dinner is a cookbook, but also lots more. Lavishly illustrated and enriched by never-heard before tips, it tells with humour and empathy how a cook can come up with elegant dishes that won’t compromise anybody’s waistline.

thinner dinner

shubhra krishan

the muddy riVer

P.a. krishnan

the tiger ClaW tree

P.a. krishnan

The Muddy River tells and re-tells the story of Ramesh Chandran, a bureaucrat caught up in the machinations of Assamese politics and public sector corruption during his quest to rescue a hapless engineer kidnapped by Assamese separatists. An aspiring writer, he weaves the events of this time into a novel, while coming to terms with his own marriage in the wake of the death of his daughter. But how much does Ramesh know of other people’s truths and motivations? How much of his novel is the truth? The Muddy River is an engaging and intricate story, which keeps the reader guessing till the very end.

The Tiger Claw Tree follows the fluctuating fortunes of four generations of a Tenkalai Iyengar family, as each confronts the legacy of an old family curse. First published in 1998, this attractive new edition brings to life again a novel that became a cult in its time.

P.A. Krishnan has been a teacher, worked for the Government of India, and as the CEO of a research foundation. He is presently Sr. Director of Intellectual Ventures, a multinational company, and has established himself as an accomplished writer both in English and Tamil. He lives in Delhi with his wife Revathi, a teacher.

Following the critical and popular success of Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories, Tranquebar now presents a new, exciting collection of stories from contemporary Indian writers.

the tranquebar book oF erotiC stories ii

amit Varma

barnabas: a Case For mr mehta

sangeeta nambiar

Set in 1930’s Bombay, in pre-Independence times, this is a murder mystery peopled by a rich mix of characters from the Raj. Nambiar is a writer and theatre director currently based in Singapore.

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my laWFully Wedded husband and other stories

madhulika liddle

blue: the tranquebar of erotic stories From sri lanka

edited by ameena hussein

Sri Lanka’s first collection of 16 scorching stories that evoke a world of heady sensuality and offer a veritable smorgasboard of spicy fantasies. These irresistibly hot stories deliver a delicious array of situations where it seems anything can happen – and often does! A fresh focus on writing from Sri Lanka.

A baker’s dozen of stories laced with black humour and a touch of the macabre, from the author of the Mughal detective novel, An Englishman’s Cameo.

tamasha in bandargaon

navneet Jagannathan

silent sPaCes: literary Journeys

salil tripathi

A hilarious collection of interlinked stories set in Bandargaon, an imaginary suburb in Mumbai. Replete with colourful characters, plenty of local atmosphere and a series of episodes that enrich and entertain in equal measure, this is a debut by a young writer that is reminiscent of R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Days.

Many of us dream of getting off the beaten track to make a detour through uncharted territory with an unplanned itinerary. In Silent Spaces: Literary Journeys, Salil Tripathi takes his readers on roads not taken on all five continents: late one night on the magical streets of Bogota young women dressed as bunnies seek his vote for a rabbit running for President; at 4:20 on a Sunday afternoon a spaced-out man explains to him the meaning of life at the corner of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco; the empty shelves at the monument of burned books in Berlin remind him of the frenzy of stormtroopers; in the small window at Goree Island near Dakar, he sees the birth of slavery; at the hedge of Cape Town’s Botanical Garden, he ruefully witnesses the birth of the ideas that created apartheid; in the mountain of skulls outside Phnom Penh, he sees the death of hope.

Combining literature, history, and geography, the book resonates with the locations that inspired Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Paul Scott, Ivo Andric, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Aleksandar Solzhenitsyn, Italo Calvino, and Wole Soyinka. Suffused with literary allusions, historical vignettes, and exceptionally honest responses to the world around us, Tripathi’s prose takes travel writing to an elevated plane.

Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay, as the city was then known, and lives in London. He has been a foreign correspondent in Singapore and Hong Kong and has written extensively from all parts of the world for major international newspapers and magazines. In India, he is a columnist at Mint and a writer-at-large for Tehelka. He is the author of Taking Offence: The Hindu Case.

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seVen seCrets oF Vishnu

seVen seCrets oF shiVadevdutt Pattanaik

bombay duCk is a Fish

kanika dhillon

Neki, a small-town girl trying to make it as an assistant director in Bollywood, has a knack of being in the wrong place at the right time and in the middle of every disaster that happens on the sets. Neki’s undoing, however, is not these incidents — her undoing is her love. She falls in love with the second lead actor in the movie, Ranvir Khanna, a self-absorbed, charming man who is slotted to be the next big thing in the film industry. He has a clandestine affair with Neki, who is totally in love with him, but can’t get how Ranvir truly feels about her.

The stakes are high, the dreams are big, and the pressure is tremendous — so much so that Neki ends up being on the verge of killing herself, and also ends up being on the cover page of a national magazine.

For Hindus, Vishnu is God who inspires man to discover humanity by engaging with the world. Poets say that when he is awake, the world takes shape; when he is asleep, the world ceases to be. Locked in the stories, symbols and rituals of Vishnu is the wisdom of the ancestors, transmitted over hundreds of years. This book attempts to unlock seven secrets that are relevant even in modern times.

This book complements Seven Secrets of Shiva, which looks at another form of God who inspires man to withdraw from the world and discover humanity.

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my mumbai Cookbook

rushina munshaw ghildiyal

the kay Woman

kiran manral

Kay aka Kanan Mehra is a thirty-five-year-old suburban housewife, mother of a five year old with a penchant for sticking her nose into things she definitely, absolutely and certainly shouldn’t. When a couple of corpses turn up in quick succession in her neighbourhood, she teams up with her detective friend, Runa, in a half hearted attempt to find the murderers, only to realise that perhaps the detective business doesn’t quite become her. A hilarious account of how not to get involved in other people’s murders, The Kay Woman is every school gate mom, searching for a purpose to her life beyond kitty party lunches and fish pedicures.

Wednesday’s soul

sorabh Pant

Nyra Dubey is dead. Run over by a bus, she lies on a grey road, fuming inside,

like the noxious fumes outside. The infamous vigilante – The Delhi Belle – reduced to an accident statistic? Surely, this was not her fate.

A fortnight ago she would have not only settled for, but embraced a violent death. Today death is a colossal inconvenience, holding her back from enjoying her newly acquired fridge-sized boyfriend.

Death hath no fury like a woman dead, she thinks, plotting an explosive vengeance upon death’s ethereal masters for her love loss.

But, before she can even sigh, the rapidity of death squashes her grapes of wrath and makes an inedible wine of regret. With chaotic briskness, she’s labelled a Wednesday Soul, carried off by a monstrous Eledactyl (an Elephant-Pterodactyl), and then kidnapped by the biggest, ugliest eagle she has ever seen to the mysterious Big Ball.

Unanswered questions race through her head as Nyra quickly learns that souls are made of light, that she is in the midst of a destructive plot to destroy the life after life and that the quickest way to escape from an Eledactyl is by rubbing its bum from the inside.

Compared to death, she thinks, life is a breeze. Author Sorabh Pant has never yet physically died. However, his numerous deaths on stage as a comedian qualify him as an expert in the field of death, the after life.

My Mumbai Cookbook is the celebration of food writer Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal’s coming of age in a Mumbai kitchen and the many culinary influences that have moulded her into the cook she is. Offering a smorgasbord of Mumbai’s favourite foods, it begins with a memoir of her growing years and the early influences on her palate, and goes on to wander through Mumbai’s by lanes giving insights into home-style regional cuisines of Mumbai’s many communities; explore the many avatars of chai, the magic elixir that drives Mumbai; sample legendary street foods, offering glimpses of dishes that were born of the need for cheap food high on flavour, and experiment with international cuisines on Mumbai’s plate.

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guJarati kitChen: Family recipes For the global Palate

bhanu hajratwala

Gujarati Kitchen consists of over 100 authentic recipes. Some of these recipes have never been written down before and are generations old, yet they are new – newly adapted for ingredients and tools available now. They are family recipes from Gujarat, which is well known for its delicious food. Some of the recipes are from the district of Surat, whose cuisine is famously described by a popular saying, “Surat nu Jaman ane Kashi nu Maran” (To eat Surti food is as heavenly as dying in the holy city of Kashi, that is, Varanasi). Having lived herself in various cities across five continents, Bhanu Hajratwala shows you how to make authentic Gujarati food not just on home ground, but anywhere in the world – from delicious snacks like khandvi, dhokla and kachoris, to main dishes like Bombay Duck and Potato Curry and Marghanu Shaak (Chicken Curry).

3 is a CroWd: how to survive affairs, not have them

Vijay nagaswami

So you goofed up – or your partner did – now pick up the pieces of your relationship. This is the third of Dr Vijay Nagaswami’s practical guides to the New Indian Marriage, in which, in the customary and hugely accessible style which has won him thousands of readers, he talks about the increasing temptations that assail modern couples, and how to overcome them.

Dr Vijay Nagaswami is a psychiatrist who has provided relationship counselling to couples everywhere, and sent many relationships that threatened to falter on an upward spiral. Vijay Nagaswami’s previous books, The 24 X 7 Marriage and The Fifty-50 Marriage are both national bestsellers and have gone into numerous reprints.

tWo Fates: the story of my divorce

Judy balan

It’s the classic tale of boy-meets-girl, they fall in love, the families oppose it, but love conquers all and they get married to live happily ever after. Or do they? There’s a twist in this hilarious tale by Judy Balan when, four years down the line, Rishab and Deepika fall out of love. But if getting married was hard, getting divorced is much, much harder – because by now their families have fallen in love – with each other. And will leave no stone unturned to make sure that what the Fates have joined together, no couple will put asunder. Judy Balan lives in Chennai. This is her first novel.

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the haPPy assoCiateurja

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lie: a traditional tale of modern indiagautam bhatia ISBN: 978-93-80283-73-9 / Tranquebar / Graphic Novel / Paperback / 181 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 395 / World

iF i Could tell yousoumya bhattacharya

ISBN: 978-93-80283-26-5 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Hardback / 224 pp / Dec 2009 / Rs 395 / Indian Subcontinent

the beast syed muhammed ashraf trans. from the original in urdu by musharraf ali Farooqi

ISBN: 978-93-80283-75-3 / Tranquebar / Short Fiction / Paperback / 112 pp / Nov 2009 / Rs 150 / World

balloonistsrajorshi Chakraborti

isbn: 978-93-80658-05-6 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 198 pp / June 2010 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

the Wind From the hillssethutranslated from malyalam by Prema Jayaram

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dara shukohgopal gandhi

isbn: 978-93-80658-52-0 / Tranquebar / Drama / Paperback / 204 pp / Sept 2010 / Rs 250 / World

kashmir bluesurmilla deshpande

isbn: 978-93-80283-32-6 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 360 pp / June 2010 / Rs 325 / World

a PaCk oF liesurmilla deshpande

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legends oF the lePChasyishey doma

isbn: 978-93-80283-79-1 / Tranquebar / Folk Tales / Paperback / 145 pp / June 2010 / Rs 200 / World

my Friend the FanatiCsadanand dhume

ISBN: 978-93-80283-48-7 / Tranquebar / Non-fiction/Travelogue / Hardback / 288 pp / Nov 2009 / Rs 395 / Indian subcontinent

ghalib at dusk and other storiesnighat m gandhi

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leaVing indiaminal hajratwala

ISBN: 978-93-80032-90-0 / Tranquebar / Non-Fiction/Memoir / Hardback / 448 pp / Oct 2009 / Rs 595 / Indian Subcontinent

Chai Chai bishwanath ghosh

ISBN: 978-93-80032-86-3 / Tranquebar / Travel / Paperback / 216 pp / Sept 2009 / Rs 250 / World

ayn rand and the World she madeanne C. heller

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india shining, india Changingedited by gioia guerzoni

ISBN: 978-93-80032-52-8 / Tranquebar / Anthology / Paperback / 208 pp / Sept 2009 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

the neW anthemedited by ahmede hussain

ISBN: 978-93-80032-45-0 / Tranquebar / Anthology/fiction / Paperback / 338 pp / Oct 2009 / Price Rs 350 / Indian subcontinent

57/8samira gupta

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eleCtriC Featheredited by ruchir Joshi

ISBN: 978-81-89975-96-8 / Tranquebar / Anthology/Fiction / Hardback / 216 pp / Sept 2009 / Rs 395 / Indian Subcontinent

iF it is sWeetmridula koshy

ISBN: 978-93-80032-12-2 / Tranquebar / Fiction/Short Stories / Paperback / 296 pp / May 2009 / Rs 295 / World

un(settled)kamini karlekar

ISBN: 978-81-89975-46-3 / Tranquebar / Memoir / Paperback / 184 pp / Dec 2008 / Price Rs 295 / World

Falloutusha ananda krishna

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etudesaseem kaul

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the loudest FireCraCkerarun krishnan

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broken nest and other stories rabindranath tagoretranslated from bengali by sharmistha mohanty

ISBN: 978-81-89975-63-0 / Tranquebar / Fiction/Translation / Paperback / 144 pp / Sept 2009 / Rs 200 / World

PerFeCt eight reema moudgil

ISBN: 978-93-80032-87-0 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 224 pp / April 2010 / Rs 200 / World

the PeaCoCk in the ChiCken rundawood ali mcCallum

ISBN: 978-93-80032-55-9 / Tranquebar / Short Fiction / Paperback / 12 pp / Nov

2009 / Rs 150 / World

bollyWood beComes her meredith mcguire

ISBN: 978-93-80032-56-6 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 315 pp / Sept 2009 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

ammi: letter to a demoCratiC mothersaeed mirza

ISBN: 978-81-89975-36-4 / Tranquebar / Non-fiction/Memoir / Hardback / Extent 308 pp / Apr 2008 / Rs 395 / Indian subcontinent

ChurChill’s seCret Warmadhusree mukerjee

ISBN: 978-93-80658-47-6 / Tranquebar / Non-fiction/Political History / Paperback / 352 pp / Aug 2010 / Rs 495 / Indian subcontinent

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look We haVe Coming to doVer!daljit nagra

ISBN: 978-81-89975-48-7 / Tranquebar / Poetry / Paperback / 55 pp / May 2008 / Rs 150 / Indian Subcontinent

dharmaraJaC.V. raman Pillaitranslated by g.s. iyer

ISBN: 978-81-89975-50-0 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 392 pp / May 2009 / Rs 350 / World

nalanda ChroniCleskalpish ratna

ISBN: 978-93-80032-54-2 / Tranquebar / Short Fiction / Paperback / 112 pp / Nov 2009 / Price Rs 150 / World

red deVilkatherine russell rich

ISBN: 978-93-80658-51-3 / Tranquebar / Non-fiction / Paperback / 270 pp / Sept 2010 / Rs 275 / Indian Subcontinent

dreaming in hindikatherine russell rich

isbn: 978-93-80283 72-2 / Tranquebar / Non-Fiction/Memoir / Paperback / 415 pp / May 2010 / Rs 395 / Indian subcontinent

the Films oF akira kurosaWa donald richie

isbn: 9789380032474 / Tranquebar / Cinema / Paperback / 273 pp / Jan 2010 / Rs 995 / Indian Subcontinent

WelCome to adVertising! noW, get lost omkar sane

ISBN: 978-93-80032-50-4 / Tranquebar / Humour / Paperback / 240 pp / June 2009 / Rs 395 / World

Coming soon. the end omkar sane

isbn: 978-93-80283-78-4 / Tranquebar / Humour / Paperback / 260 pp / June 2010 / Rs 295 / World

slum Childbina shah

ISBN: 978-93-80658-31-5 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 290 pp / Oct 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

east oF the sunsiddhartha sarma

isbn: 978-93-80658-36-0 / Tranquebar / Travel / Paperback / 256 pp / Oct 2010 / Rs 295 / World

sirigannada: Contemporary kannada Writingsedited by Vivek shanbhag

isbn: 978-93-80032-51-1 / Tranquebar / Anthology / Paperback / 200 pp / Dec 2010 / Rs 295 / World

these errors are CorreCtJeet thayil

ISBN: 978-81-89975-42-5 / Tranquebar / Poetry / Paperback / 124 pp / Mar 2008 / rs 250 / Indian Subcontinent

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broken neWsamrita tripathi

ISBN: 978-93-80032-67-2 / Tranquebar /Fiction / Paperback / 144 pp / April 2010 / Rs 200 / World

the toss oF a lemonPadma Viswanathan

ISBN: 978-93-80032-43-6 / Tranquebar / Fiction / Paperback / 640 pp / Jun 2009 / Rs 695 / Indian Subcontinent

First draFtbg Verghese

isbn: 978-93-80283-76-0 / Tranquebar / Non-fiction/Memoir / Hardback / 586 pp / Sept 2010 / Rs 695 / World

knoWn turF annie Zaidi

isbn: 978-93-80032-44-3 / Tranquebar / Non-fiction / Paperback / 294 pp / April 2010 / Rs 250 / World

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the simPle Cooking serieskaren anand

Westland / Cookery / Paperback / 112 pp / Apr 2009 / Rs 99 / World

The Simple Cooking series is designed to meet contemporary needs and choices in the kitchen. This series will take you through various aspects of food, using clear, easy to understand, tried and tested recipes, to meet today’s needs for efficiency, style and quality cooking.

PassPort to a healthy PregnanCydr gita arjun

ISBN: 978-81-89975-68-5 / Westland / Self-Help/Health / Paperback / 300 pp / Aug 2009 / Rs 499 / World

isbn: 978-93-80032-88-7 isbn: 978-93-80032-18-4 isbn: 978-93-80032-19-1

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managing diFFiCult ConVersations at Worksue Clark & mel myers

ISBN: 978-93-80032-72-6 / Westland / Business / Paperback / 258 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

the Walled Cityesther david

ISBN: 978-93-80032-46-7 / Westland / Fiction / Paperback / 224 pp / July 2009 / Rs 250 / World

rosy is my relatiVegerald durrell

ISBN: 978-93-80283-19-7 / Westland / Humour / Paperback / 293 pp / Jan 2010 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

the PiCniC and suChlike Pandemoniumgerald durrell

ISBN: 978-93-80283-22-7/ Westland / Humour / Paperback / 236 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

three singles toadVenturegerald durrell

ISBN: 978-93-80283-21-0 / Westland / Humour / Paperback / 204 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

the WhisPering landgerald durrell

ISBN: 978-93-80283-20-3 / Westland / Humour / Paperback / 239 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

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madhouse: true stories oF the inmates oF hostel 4urmilla deshpande

ISBN: 978-93-80658-64-3 / Westland / Anthology / Paperback / 320 pp / 2010 / FC / World

the rePort rePortalasdair drysdale

ISBN: 978-93-80032-73-3 / Westland / Business/Reference / Paperback / 307 pp / Nov 2009 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

intelligenCe inFormation thinkingedward de bono

ISBN: 978-93-80032-01-6 / Westland / Self-help/Reference / Paperback / 42 pp / Feb 2009 / Rs 95 / Indian Subcontinent

intelligenCe is not enoughedward de bono

ISBN: 978-93-80032-02-3 / Westland / Self-help/Reference / Paperback / 62 pp / Feb 2009 / Rs 95 / Indian Subcontinent

the imPortanCe oF Possibiliedward de bono

ISBN: 978-93-80032-00-9 / Westland / Self-help/Reference / Paperback / 62 pp / Feb 2009 / Rs 95 / Indian Subcontinent

First among equals: Presidents oF india 1950–2009scharada dubey

isbn: 978-81-89975-53-1 / Westland / Biography / Paperback / 144 pp / May 2009 / Rs 150 / World

moVers and shakers: Prime ministers oF india 1950–2009 scharada dubey

ISBN: 978-81-89975-54-8 / Westland / Biography / Paperback / 144 pp / May 2009 / Rs 150 / World

CaPtain Coolgulu ezekiel

ISBN: 978-81-89975-80-7 / Westland / Biography / Paperback / 128 pp / Aug 2008 / Rs 150 / World

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dare to be diFFerentalessandro Forte

ISBN: 978-93-80032-71-9 / Westland / Business/Self-Help / Paperback / 166 pp / Jan 2010 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

the suriani kitChenlathika george

ISBN: 978-93-80032-91-7 / Westland / Cookery / Paperback / 264 pp / Jan 2010 / Rs 495 / Indian Subcontinent

autobiograPhy oF a sex Workernalini Jameela

ISBN: 978-81-89975-11-1 / Westland / Biography / Paperback / 143 pp / Oct 2007 / Rs 150 / Indian Subcontinent

kkrishnaa’s konFessionssmita Jain

ISBN: 978-81-89975-47-0 / Westland / Fiction / Paperback / 374 pp / May 2008 / Rs 250 / World

Piggies on the railWaysmita Jain

ISBN: 978-93-80283-74-6 / Westland / Fiction / Paperback / 400 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 295 / World

PriVate-eye anonymousthe art gallery Casetejas modak

ISBN: 978-81-89975-65-4 / Westland / Graphic Novel / Paperback / 77 pp / Sept 2008 / Rs 250 / World

haJra’s reCiPes oF liFe, For liFe: delectable muslim Cookinghajra mohammed

ISBN: 978-93-80283-37-1 / Westland / Cookery / 120 pp / Jun 2010 / Rs 350 /

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the 24 x 7 marriage: smart strategies for good beginningsVijay nagaswami

ISBN: 978-81-89975-79-1 / Westland / Self-Help / Paperback / 274 pp / Nov 2008 /

Rs 250 / World

earthboundnavdanya Cookbook

ISBN: 978-93-80032-89-4 / Westland / Cookery / Paperback / 304 pp / Oct 2010 / Rs 350 / World

small WonderChristabelle noronoha

ISBN: 978-93-80658-59-9 / Westland / Non-fiction/Business / Hardback / 168 pp / Sept 2010 / Rs 295 / World

Code oF honour: nurturing PeoPle, enriChing liFeedited by Christabelle noronha

ISBN: 978-93-80283-81-4 / Westland / Business / Paperback / 240 pp / Apr 2010 / Rs 795 / CSR / India India

the big book oF business adViCegerd de ley and david Potter

ISBN: 978-93-80032-70-2 / Westland / Business/Reference / Paperback / 189 pp / Dec 2009 / Rs 200 / Indian Subcontinent

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ChiCken souP For the indian soulJack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and raksha bharadia

ISBN: 978-81-89975-43-2 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 302 pp / Apr 2008 / Rs 275 / World

ChiCken souP For the indian teenage soulEdited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and raksha bharadia

ISBN: 978-93-80032-63-4 / Westland / Self-Help / Paperback / 320 pp / Sept 2009 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the indian armed ForCes soulEdited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and raksha bharadia

ISBN: 978-93-80283-18-0 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 320 pp / sept 2009 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the indian romantiC soulEdited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and raksha bharadia

ISBN: 978-93-80283-39-5 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 362 pp / Feb 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

a 2nd helPing oF ChiCken souP For the indian soulEdited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and raksha bharadia

ISBN: 978-93-80283-40-1 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 320 pp / Mar 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the soul: indian mothers Edited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and raksha bharadia

ISBN: 978-93-80658-09-4 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 320 pp / Jun 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the soul: indian Fathers

ISBN: 978-93-80658-24-7 / Westland / Self-Help / Inspiration/Parenting /Paperback / 300 pp / Oct 2010 / Rs 295 /indian subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the soul: indian teachers

ISBN: 978-93-80658-14-8 / Westland / Self-Help / Inspiration / Paperback / 366 pp / Aug 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the indian golden soul

ISBN: 978-93-80658-22-3 / Westland / Self-Help / Inspiration / Paperback / 384 pp / Dec 2010 / Rs 295 / Indian subcontinent

ChiCken souP For indian sPiritual soulEdited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and Veena seshadri

ISBN: 978-93-80283-27-2 Westland / Self-help/Inspiration / Paperback / 330 pp / March 2009 / Rs 295 / Indian Subcontinent

ChiCken souP For the soul: indian WomenEdited by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor hansen and reema moudgil

ISBN: 978-93-80032-80-1 / Rs 295 / Paperback / Westland / 250 pp / Inspirational / Indian Subcontinent

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you ...unlimitedColin mcCrudden, adrianbourne and Christopher lyons

ISBN: 978-93-80032-74-0 / Westland / Business/Self-help / Paperback / 274 pp / Nov 2009 / Rs 295 / World

simPly southChandra Padmanabhan

ISBN: 978-81-89975-74-6 / Westland / Cookery / Paperback / 174 pp / Aug 2008 / Rs 295 / World

Flash in the Pan a guide to What to Cook, and hoWtushita Patel

ISBN: 978-93-80032-64-1 / Westland / Cookery / Paperback / 200 pp / Nov 2009 / Rs 250 / World

7 seCrets oF hindu Calendar artdevdutt Pattanaik

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the Wild geese and the Waterosho

isbn: 978-93-80658-025 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 357 pp / May 2010 / Rs 395 / Indian Subcontinent

i Will surViVe: Comeback stories of a Corporate Warriorsunil robert

ISBN: 978-81-89975-98-2 / Westland / Memoir/Inspiration / Paperback / 190 pp / Jun 2009 / Rs 200 / World

From me to yousathya saran

ISBN: 978-93-80032-80-1 / Westland / Inspiration / Paperback / 250 pp / May 2010 / Rs 295 / World

bringing uP Vasu: that First yearParul sharma

ISBN: 978-93-80032-42-9 / Westland / Fiction / Paperback / 271 pp / May 2009 / Rs 250 / World

by the Water CoolerParul sharma

ISBN: 978-93-80658-37-7 / Westland / Fiction / Paperback / 275 pp / Nov 2010 / Rs 250 / World

a niCe quiet holidayaditya sudarshan

ISBN: 978-81-89975-99-9 / Westland / Fiction / Paperback / 224 pp / Jan 2009 /

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killer diFFerentiatorsJacky tai and Wilson Chew

ISBN: 978-93-80032-14-6 / Westland / Business / Hardback / 344 pp / Feb 2009 / Rs 595 / Indian Subcontinent

mansuri maCabresuhir thapliyal

ISBN: 978-93-80-658-53-7 / Westland / Fiction/Thriller / Paperback / 236 pp / Nov 2010 / Rs 295 / World

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54 tools and teChniques For business exCellenCemichael Wash

ISBN: 978-93-80032-82-5 / Rs 250 / Westland / Business/Reference / Paperback / 268 pp / Dec 2009 / Rs 250 / indian subcontinent

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From the creators of Monsters, Inc and Finding Nemo, comes Up, the story of Carl Fredriksen, the kid who always dreamed of a big adventure…he just never expected it would take him 78 years. A wild ride to the ends of the earth, our hero battles beasts, villains and proves age is nothing but a number. Up takes us on a hilarious, life-changing journey where the sky’s no longer the limit.

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