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• Body Maps - Stories of South Asian Women
The body as social and cultural text provides a rich site for creative experimentation in this collection of short stories by contemporary women writers of South Asia. In a world that tends to equate the body with biology, and femininity with the reproductive function.

• Inner Line
Each story in this anthology testifies to women's many concerns, whether with a way of life, or with being caught inside the four walls of the home, or in a relationship with someone other than the husband, or being caught at the intersection of many forces within a situation of political violence and armed conflict.

• Solitude
In solitude, many things are unlearned and many things are learned… your time in solitude… prepares you to be an adventurer into the unknown.

• State of the Indian Farmer - A Millennium Study in 27 Volumes
State of the Indian Farmer: A Millennium Study is the first of its kind-Comprehensive and synchronized attempt to document the past, the present and the future of India’s agricultural sector, It involves rich inputs from numerous top scholars and specialists to cover almost all important aspects concerning this key sector of India’s economy.

• Beesween Sadi Ke Shoara - E - Dehli URDU (2 Vol Set)
This anthology features selected poetic renderings of 213 Urdu poets of Delhi of the 20th century. Biographical sketches of each of these poets included in the book has further enriched this collection.

• Towards an Asian Economic Community - Vision of a New Asia
The analysis presented in the book shows that regional economic integration could act as a new engine of growth and generate hundreds of billions of additional output and assist Asia regain its place in the world economy that it had until the eighteenth century.

• A Letter from India - Contemporary Short Stories from Pakistan
This collection brings together the best short fiction by some of the most important voices of Pakistani literature. Refreshing in their style and diverse in their themes they reflect a move away from nationalism and parochialism. An eclectic selection of contemporary short stories from Pakistan.

• 20 Stories From South Asia
This collection brings to you twenty fascinating stories, in award-winning translations, by master storytellers in different languages. And it is an outcome of the first Katha South Asian Translation Contest, a major bridge-building initiative towards culture linking.

• The Best of Wadali Brothers (2 CD Pack)
This Music CD features 11 popular renderings of Wadali Brothers.

• Feminism in India
This volume is second in the series 'Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism' has been initiated to provide a broad overview of the conceptual history of the idea of feminism in India. This collection is invaluable as a succinct overview of Indian feminism.

• South Asian Masculinities - Context of Change, Sites of Continuity
Masculinity no longer remains a muted field in gender studies. However, much of what we have learnt from gender theory, including studies of masculinities, has been concentrated on Europe, the USA and Australia. This volume puts together papers expressing a range of South Asian experiences and a wide set of methodological and theoretical orientations.

• From Gender to Nation
The gender/sex difference, as the oldest known difference inscribed into language, is seen as basic, unquestionable and unproblematic - a condition of life. Gender and nation are social and historic constructions which intimately participate in the formation of one another. This volume examines the significance of nation and gender.

• Present Tense - Living on the Edge
This volume is an anthology of essays, musings, fictional speculation, and visual art that attempts to discuss and sometimes define, the difficult times we inhabit. The pieces in this collection lack any apparent unity, except perhaps in theme and provocation. They are of varying lengths, styles and points of view.

• Negotiating India’s Past
The essays collected in the book weave together issues and concerns of different scholars from the world of Indian history. The themes they examine reflect a common desire to understand historical processes over time and from the perspective of different regions, without losing sight of the broader historical context.

• Chile - The Other September 11
This book reclaims that other September 11, when the Chilean armed forces, under Pinochet, ousted the democratically-elected government of President Allende in a coup.

• Gleanings of Indian Archaeology History and Culture (Set of 2 Vol.)
Originally intended as a felicitation volume in honour of Prof. R N Mehta, his admirers, students and his distinguished colleagues had to convert it into a commemoration volume due to sudden passing away of Prof. Mehta. The volume is in two parts comprising of eighty nine contributions on different subjects.

• Zauq Dehlavi - A Critical Appreciation (URDU)
This book if a critical narrative of life and works of famous Urdu poet Zauq Dehlavi.

• Islam in India - The Impact of Civilizations
India is home to the world's second largest Muslim community. In the last five decades since independence, Indian Muslims have contributed immensely to the growth of the modern, secular civilizational state that is India.This book contains erudite essays by noted scholars in Islam from various countries. Islam in India has richly contributed to its culture and civilization.

• Contemporary Relevance of Sufism
Contributions to this volume cover all aspects of Sufism from the deeply philosophical to the essentials of Sufi practice. Presentations include articles on the genesis of Sufism in India, the movement as it spread from coast to coast and the practice of Sufism in other parts of the world.

• Glimpses of Sanskrit Literature
While the great sacred and philosophical works are well known, other aspects of Sanskrit literature have had comparatively less public exposure. This volume seeks to fill this gap for general readers, both in India and abroad. Focused mainly on classical literature, it is based on scholarship of the first rank and attuned to a broader interest.

• Co-Existence in Pluralistic Society
The present struggle of sub-nationalities in various parts of India is assuming alarming proportions and is threatening the very existence of the Indian Democratic State. This book argues that visible minorities and other designated social groups should be better represented in the vast majority of the occupational categories and the decision making power at the government level.

• Talking of Power
A path-breaking collection that draws the reader into the antecedents of the empowerment of women and to issues that remain alive today. These writings, translated for the first time from the Bengali, are by women who were amongst the earliest to receive a modern education and become members of the reading and writing public.

• The Divine Peacock - Understanding Contemporary India
A book with contributory articles from eminent scholars on different subjects on India. The picture of India which emerged is that of a mosaic with colour as beautiful as those in a peaccock’s feather, as those in a peaccock’s feather, where each colour exquisitely weaves itself like magic into the other. India’s pluralistic culture is like the colours in a peacock’s feather. Each individual part is important and is intrinsically contained in the whole.

• Women's Studies in India - Contours of Change
Articulating one theme in many voices, this anthology is the first of its kind to encourage systematic reading and research in Women’s Studies in India. The spectrum is broad.

• Indian Movements: Some Aspects of Dissent Protest and Reform
Does Indian civilization have the capacity to change or has it been static? The impression of this civilization as an unchanging one has been revised today. It is in this context that protest, dissent and reform movements have also played a critical role. This volume reflects some aspects of these movements.

• Sikh Art & Literature
This scholarly, and very readable, book brings to the attention of the reading public, in India as well as in the West, new insights into the artistic and literary achievements of Sikhism, a dynamic religious community. Sikh Art and Literature provides a captivating introduction to this heroic and revolutionary faith.

• The Cultural Heritage of India (6 Volume Set)
Now available in paperback edition also,this 6-volume Encyclopedia of Indian Culture, is a combined intelligence of all India giving a complete and connected story of her culture and civilization. It is a monument of Indian co-operative research in history, philosophy, religion, fine arts, exact sciences, economics, politics, literature and sociology.

• Understanding Contemporary India
India is both a marvel and a paradox. Understanding Contemporary India is a good place to begin to appreciate this exceedingly fascinating, complex country. This book represents efforts by a dozen scholars to share their expertise on India.

• Transforming India - Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy
In this volume, leading scholars take stock of India’s experience of democratic functioning for over fifty years and analyse the profound transformations brought about by the democratic forms of governance.The book sheds valuable insights on the trials and tribulations of Indian democracy.

• The Second Krishnamurti Reader
In this radical text, which brings together two of his most popular and influential works, The Only Revolution and The Urgency of Change, the spiritual teacher who rebelled against religion points to a new order arising.

• Policy Making in Government - Selected Readings
This volume comprises thirty seven original contributions on the subject of application of different management concepts and techniques to the problems of public administration.

• Bhartrhari - Philosopher and Grammarian
Bhartrhari, being both a grammarian and a philosopher, his influence on subsequent grammatical and philosophical thought in India has been enormous. This volume contains some of the papers presented at an International Conference and includes an up-to-date bibliography on Bhartrhari.

• Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory
This volume of twenty-two essays is prepared to honour Professor Prafulla C Kar. The essays appear in five clusters. The volume also constructs changing perspective on European cultural history, providing literary scholars a fresh way of examining culture and society in relation to their close imbrications with literature and the values that literature embodies.

• India’s Literary History - Essays on the Nineteenth Century
This book, the first major reassessment of literary history in nineteenth-century India for a generation, opens up an emerging field of literary history. Its essays emphasise the making of literary history, the process of canonization, the reinvention of literary tradition, and the writing of literary history itself..

• Teachings of Sufism
Sufism has been defined in different ways by scholars and religionists: some call it the mystical tradition of Islam, others the universal heart of all spirituality.The readings in this book, ranging from the tenth to the twentieth century and mostly deriving from the Middle East and India, offer a glimpse into the living world of the Sufis.

• Teachings of Yoga
Millions of Americans have taken up the practice of Yoga as a way of reducing stress, increasing flexibility, and improving overall health. But Yoga is more than a physical discipline; it is a four thousand-year-old tradition with a rich philosophical and spiritual literature. The readings in this book offer an inspirational introduction to this vast treasury of texts

• City Improbable
Now available in paperback edition, this anthology brings together writings on Delhi by residents, refugees, travelers and invaders who have engaged with the city at various moments in its long history. City Improbable is a collection as varied and lively-sometimes serious, sometimes richly humorous-as Delhi itself.

• Cricketing Ties - Neighbours Pride
From 1952, behind the scenes, beyond the headlines, with the best of the crossborder cricket writers, this book is the first ringside account of the 2004 India - Pakistan series. Relive the drama, the euphoria, the hits and misses of Indo-Pak cricket from 1952 right up till 2004 through the eyes of some of the best writers across the borders.

• A Celebration of Love - The Romantic Heroine in the Indian Arts
This art volume has gathered a galaxy of scholars from around the world to take the reader on a journey that celebrates the romantic heroine in the Indian arts. It’s a visually rich journey in which she comes alive in all her splendour and radiance, she captures our attention through her sheer sensuality as she looks into the mirror and prepares for that special moment.

• Contemporary Indian Art Series - Part 1: Set of 12 Books
First in the series, this collection of 12 picture albums featuring renowned artistes honored for their contribution to fine arts of India.

• Contemporary Indian Art Series - Part 2 : Set of 12 Books
The second in the series, this collection of 12 picture albums profiles eminent artistes renowned for their contribution to fine arts of India.

• Modern Bodo Short Stories
This book, a compilation of Bodo short stories by eleven renowned Bodo fiction writers, represents the trends in modern Bodo fiction, particularly during the last few decades. The stories anthologized here are widely acclaimed by Bodo readers and critics alike.

• Twist in the Folktale
Each of the playwrights in this collection takes a folktale and turns it into a contemporary experimental play, intervening in the traditional material and reshaping conventions from an urban perspective

• Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism and Security in the Indian Ocean
The volume seeks to emphasize the complexity and historical and contemporary geopolitical significance of the Indian Ocean Religion (IOR). It also aims to propagate the necessity for increased intra-regional cooperation, especially in terms of economic and environmental security, and initiates an agenda for future social science policy-oriented research..

• Life and Letters of Sir Jadunath Sarkar ( 2 Volumes)
A rare and classical work with peculiar features of interest. First volume includes a personal memoir with aan excellent biographical sketch and a critical appreciation. The second volume consists exclusively of research papers and articles by pupils, friendsd and admirers both in India and abroad.

• Bhai Vir Singh - Life, Times and Works
Bhai Vir Singh was a great mystic poet who enriched the Panjabi language and transformed it into a powerful medium of subtle and refined expression. The volume is perhaps the first major attempt at an objective study of the literary and scholarly achievements of Bhai Vir Singh.

• Basic Food Preparation - A Complete Manual
The third edition of this comprehensive book contains almost 600 standardized recipes. Organized in logical, easy-to-follow steps, with the ingredients for each listed in the order of use, every recipe has been tried and tested for successful results.

• Rulers and Great Leaders of India
In a history that spans several millennia, the Indian subcontinent has seen countless heroes and kings who have transformed their nations with their valour and pragmatic leadership. This book tells the story of these great men.who have left their indelible stamp on the country that we know today as India.

• Che Guevara Reader
More than a guerrilla strategist, Che Guevara made a profound and lasting contribution to revolutionary theory, as is demonstrated in this new, expanded edition of the Che Guevara Reader. This volume is the most authoritative collection to date of the work of primary material on Cuba and Latin America in the 1950s and 1960s.

• The Value of Nature - Ecological Politics in India
Despite widening awareness about the adverse effects of human activity on our natural environment, there are multiple perceptions of what needs to be urgently attended to and by whom.This book explores the different approaches to the environment as well as examines the emerging international framework of coming to terms with the environmental crisis.

• Political Economy of WTO Regime
It has been about seven years since the final agreement was signed and WTO came into existence. This book will contribute towards an understanding of the Political Economy of the WTO Regime and some aspects of globalization and governance, especially the issue of policy autonomy, as seen by the Third World Countries.

• The Unheard Scream
This revelatory collection of essays by journalists explores a range of issues-from the quinacrine sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is the assisted reproduction industry, to the declining age of marriage among Muslim girls in Malabar. Winners of the Panos Reproductive Health Media Fellowship, these journalists reveal how issues in women’s health are deeply imbricated in the lives of Indian women.

• The Shifting Worlds of Kiran Nagarkar's Fiction
It is the intention of this book to unravel Nagarkar's craft and vision and thus enhance the reader's enjoyment through essays by some of the leading scholars and writers in India and abroad, thus providing a perspective both from India and the West.

• No Woman's Land
An unusual mix of memoirs, interviews, reminiscences and reflective essays, this anthology is the first attempt to present women's perspective on the Partition of India, based on the experience of three countries.

• The Taittiriya - Pratisakhya (SANSKRIT)
The Pratisakhyas constitute studies on phonetics which prevailed in ancient India indifferent Schools of the Vedas. This Pratisakhya deals with the phonetic system as applicable to the Taittiriya Samhita of the Black Yajurveda. This edition contains the original Sanskrit Text of the Taittiriya Pratisakhya, the two old commentaries-Tribhasyaratna and the Vaidikabharana.

• The Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India
Issues of culture and identity and the predominance of coalition politics, as exemplified by the rise of Hindu nationalism and its presence as a feature of the National Democratic Alliance, have been the two most salient features of Indian politics in the last two decades. This book examines these two phenomena, the linkages between them, and the impact they have had on India's polity and society.

• Sikhism and History
This collection of representative essays covers a wide range of issues that define the contours of contemporary Sikh studies and is a major contribution to the field. Each essay explores a dimension of what constitutes modern Sikhism-the central concerns of a Sikh identity as well as the realities of the Sikh diaspora.

• The Structure of Indian Industry
This comprehensive set of industry studies in post-reforms India intensively reviews the performance of Indian industry in the 1990s. It traces the policy history and technological conditions faced by individual industries, and outlines the performance parameters in a freer market economy.

• IT Experience in India - Bridging the Digital Divide
This book explores whether modern ICTs can deliver on their promises of democracy, prosperity, and well-Bering for the people of developing nations who comprise 80 percent of the world's population.

• Sacred Treasure (A Set of 4 Music CDs)
This album of 4 Music CDs features renderings for Vaastu Shuddhi & Shanti; Griha Raksha Mantras; Arogyam Ananganam and Mangal Kaamna..

• Calcutta Conversations
Calcutta has been declining for the past 100 years!-so the received wisdom goes. In the time-honored Bengali tradition of adda they discussed many of the apparent contradictions.The result is Calcutta Conversations, a book containing voices and images which are at once internal and external, illuminating one of the most vibrant and exasperating cities in the world.

• 41st National Exhibition of Art 1998
This Art album featuring the National Exhibition of Art conducted by Lalit Kala Akademi annually gives a panoramic view of varied Indian art practices. Artists from all parts of the country take part in the exhibition and works in all styles and mediums are evaluavted

• Sociology of Religion in India
Theorists of modernity had written off religion and predicted that it would become unimportant as a marker of identity. However, the very reverse has happened. .Focused on the theme of the sociology of religion, this volume brings together essays by well-known scholars which examine the resurgence of religious identities in the Indian context

• Urbanization in India
Even though India currently has the second largest urban population in the world, it is still one of the least urbanized countries. This volume brings together papers by well-known scholars that look at various aspects of the urbanization phenomenon in India.

• Bangla Galpa Sankalan Volume III (Short Stories in BENGALI)
This anthology in Bengali language is a collection of selected Bangla short stories.

• Azadi Ke Bad Urdu Afsana - An Anthology: Volume 1 (URDU with Hindi Transliteration)
Celebrating hundred years of Urdu fiction, this anthology carries twenty six short stories of eminent writers representing different phases of literature.

• Badan Bazar (URDU)
Red Light Area is the backdrop of this collection of fourteen short stories by eminent Urdu writers.

• Will Secular India Survive ?
In the past decade, militant Hindu nationalism has emerged as a dominant political force in India, and it looks set to stay in the absence of a credible challenge from centrist and Left parties. Examining the causes behind the use of Hindutva, this volume studies the role of secular parties and the Muslim leadership in precipitating what some believe is a Hindu backlash against a certain brand of secularism.

• Yuvakatha - A set of 8 Books of short Fiction
An unforgettable collection of short fiction from some of India's master story tellers. A rare and hard to find collector's item.

• Indian Literature - Vol 187 : Accent on Sindhi Literature
Before independence, especially during the forties, the romantic and progressive trends were dominant in Sindhi literature. After migration to India as a result of the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the Sindhi writers carried forward these trends in literature. This special issue of Indian Literature celebrates this literature with essays and a selection from Sindhi poetry, short fiction, and plays.

• The Heart of the Matter - Handpicked Fictions
The twenty one short stories in this volume takes you on a tour of five of the eight 'North East' states of India, tracing not only their rich culture and colourful history, but also the bleak, darker present. It is perhaps for the first time that Asomiya, Khasi, Meiteilon, Mizo and Naga stories have been compiled together in an anthology. Most of them have been translated into English for the first time.

• Bombay - Mosaic of Modern Culture
This book focuses on Bombay's cultural life, the essence of which is constituted by its openness to ideas from all directions. The essays in this volume deal with such varied aspects as Indian-English writers of and around Bombay, imperial and cosmopolitan architecture, and the creation of an all-India film industry.

• Bombay - Metaphor for Modern India
The unprecedented bouts of violence that ravaged Bombay in December 1992 and January 1993 raised agonizing questions about how such a disaster could have occurred in India’s modern metropolis. This book identifies the key characteristics of the city and explores the processes that have led to its conspicuous successes and hidden conflicts.

• India Vision 2020 and Vision Documents
Every country needs a vision statement which stirs the imagination and motivates all segments of society to greater effort. A Committee on Vision 2020 brought together 30 experts from different fields, and this book is the output of their deliberations.

• Indian Contemporary Art - Post Independence
This book attempts to capture vignettes of contemporary heritage of Indian painting and profile the artists' personal journey in independent India. The Indian contemporary artist lives in such a milieu, continually exposed to its contradictions and celebrations. His art takes birth in a playground of emotions-in pain, predilection, desire and hope; in the joys of simple living and tenacity and passion of life’s rhythm tempered by intellectual resonations of a once glorious civilization.

• Ants, Ghosts and Whispering Trees - An Anthology of Oriya Short Stories
An anthology of twenty-two of the best Oriya short stories written over the last hundred years. Some of the stories are formal experiments in storytelling while others are rooted in real-life situations and events.

• Aath Assamiya Ekankee aur Piyali Phukan (HINDI)
This collection of nine plays translated from Assamese original portrays the multi-faceted grandeur of its literature. It captures its range of humour and satire as also its seriousness.

• In Search of India’s Renaissance ( Vol I & II )
This 2-volume set records the transactions of a National Seminar on Nation Building, Development Process and Communication in Search of India’s Renaissance and provides a comprehensive insight into the problems facing India today and highlights some of the possible ways of working towards solutions.

• Pakistani Kahaniyan - 50 Years of Story-telling (HINDI)
This anthology of short fiction from Pakistan includes 32 stories drawn from Urdu, Sindhi, Punjabi, Saraiki, Pushto and Baluchi. Authored by prominent writers of the language, the stories have been selected as representative of Pakistani fiction of the past 5 decades by well-known literary personalities.

• Pleasure and the Nation - The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India
This volume of ten essays, by a number of eminent South Asian scholars , breaks new ground by exploring the relationship between pleasure, and the construction of the nation in India. The subjects covered range from nineteenth-century popular mythological tracts, to Hindi and Tamil films, and the fan clubs and gossip magazines that sustain this hugely important aspect of Indian life.

• The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories - Illustrated
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 Septous, 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.

• Humanities and Pedagogy - Teaching of Humanities Today
In the wake of competing knowledge systems and paradigm shifts in their pedagogy, the essays in this volume variously address the problems afflicting the teaching of Humanities today.

• Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories
In this anthology you will read stories by many writers well-known in their regional languages as well as those who made names for themselves in English literary circles. Between them they represent every part of the country from north to the deep south, from its eastern borders along Bangladesh to its western frontier with Pakistan. Almost every regional language is represented.

• Kama Sutra - Amorous Man & Sensuous Woman
Tastefully produced and beautifully illustrated, this gift edition treats the subject of male and female sexuality in separate volumes, suggestively entitled "The Amorous Man" and "The Sensuous Woman".

• Facets of Vivekananda
A collection of articles contributed by an array of scholars and thinkers on the various facets of Swamiji's challenging personality on the occasion of his 125th Birthday.

• Hinduism
An attempt is made in this book by well-known Hindu scholars to bring into focus certain basic themes, affirmations and practices.

• Jainism
This volume containing six articles on Jainism by well-known scholars celebrates the Twenty-five hundredth anniversary of the Mahaparinirvana of Bhagavan Mahavira.

• Paroksa - Coomaraswamy Centenary Seminar Papers
This volume is based on the papers of the Coomaraswamy Centenary Seminar with contributions of distinguished scholars and artistes from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and USA. Covering studies in traditional Indian and South Asian to contemporary Art, the papers discuss new areas of art historical research and archaeological findings as well as problems of aesthetic assessment in an ideational and social context. Paroksa also offers fresh appraisal of the work and views of Anand Kentish Coomaraswamy in the light of contemporary research and ideas.

• India and the World
The Hindustan Times Leadership Initiative is an important intellectual landmark in the capital.Every year,this event gathers together key figures from India and the world to discuss pressing concerns.This volume is a collection that brings together reflections of some of the finest minds of our times.

• Cultural Leaders of India - Devotional Poets and Mystics - Part I & II
This work introduces Cultural Leaders of India to the general reader , who is keen to learn more about the past but who has no knowledge of details.

• Hauntings - Stories from Bangla's Master Story tellers
These evocative stories feature female protagonists who speak of women's experiences universally - of rape, love, loneliness, betrayal and social marginality.

• Aspects of Vedanta
Presents the knowledge of Vedanta which according to Swami Vivekananda, 'alone . . can become the universal religion of man'. This volume is a collection of articles by well-known scholars on various aspects of Vedanta ranging from philosophy to essentials, its various schools and their spiritual significance.

• How God Came Into My Life
This book attempts to give glimpses of the way that God confronted saintly personages. These are accounts as told by these Saints and Seers. They describe how God transformed their entire being and oriented it to Himself.

Through the ages, great souls have appeared who have seen God

• India - Studies in the History of an Idea
What India means may elicit different answers from people today. The answers that might have been given a thousand, two thousand or three thousand years ago would have been possibly quite different. This volume explores how notions of India have grown: even as a geographical expression. Political factors and cultural diffusion both helped in the formation.

• What Life has Taught me
Leaders of thought and action speak in this book about the lessons they have learnt from their eventful lives.

Each one of them, who has attained success and celebrity in a particular field, looks back reflectively on the course of his life, on his failures and achievements. It will be seen

• Days of Innocence - Stories for Ruskin Bond
This collection of short stories was conceived as a festschrift in honor of Ruskin Bond, whose popular and enduring tales of childhood display so much simplicity, understanding, and compassion.

• Archaeological Remains - Monuments and Museums : A Set of 2 Books
This 2-volume handbook gives somewhat comprehensive treatment of the varied and vast material that would satisfy even a casually-interested tourist.

• Time Out - Stories from Punjab
This collection of 18 translated stories from Punjabi allow the reader to get a sense of the layers of time and events which went into the makeup of the modern Punjabi, roots of which are not easy to escape.

• Sikh Gurus and the Indian Spiritual Thought
‘Sikh Gurus and the Indian Spiritual Thought’ is a collection of the Guru Nanak Commemorative Lectures, delivered annually under the auspices of the Department of Sri Guru Granth Sahib Studies, Punjabi University, Patiala. The present volume covers the lectures delivered between 1973-1979.

• Balika Badhu - Anthology of Bengali Short Stories
This volume includes stories by ten of the most well-known practitioners of Bengali short stories.

• The Ayodhya Reference - Supreme Court Judgment and Commentaries
This collection encompasses court judgments and commentaries by eminent contributors on the subject of Ram Janma Bhoomi-Babri Masjid structure at Ayodhya, and its reference to the Supreme Court by the President of India.

• Modern Hindi Stories
A hamper of Hindi Short Stories with authors ranging from Premchand to Mrinal Pande. These stories reveal as through a prism, varied facets - attitudinal, moral, cultural and economic.

• A Storehouse of Tales - Contemporary Indian Women Writers
India's writers, from Rushdie to Roy, spanned the diversity of a nation which refuses to be defined by any consistent image. A taste of this diversity is contained in this anthology of short stories.

• Bombay, Meri Jaan - Writings on Mumbai
When King Charles II of England married Princess Catherine de Braganza of Portugal in 1661, he received as part of his dowry the isles of Bom Bahia, which became the modern city of Bombay. Bombay, Meri Jaan, comprising poems and prose pieces by some of the biggest names in literature, in addition to cartoons, photographs, a song and a Bombay duck recipe, tries to capture the spirit of this great metropolis.

• The Oxford India Anthology of Modern Urdu Literature - Poetry and Prose Miscellany
This anthology spans a period of almost one and a half century and includes the writings of some of the most representative figures in modern Urdu literature. Apart from offering a judicious selection of a vast number of writers, the anthology encompasses various genres like poetry and drama, as well as essays and sketches, autobiography, letters, anecdotes, humour, and satire.

• The Banyan Tree - 2 Volumes: Essays on Early Literature in N ew Indo-Aryan Languages: 2 Volume Set.
This work contains most of the papers presented at the Seventh International Conference on Early Literature in New Indo-Aryan Languages, held at Venice in 1997.

• D. School - Reflections on the Delhi School of Economics
Since it was founded in 1948, the Delhi School of Economics has produced among the finest economists and sociologists in India, several of whom have also achieved international acclaim for their work in those disciplines. This book comprises thirty-one essays by former teachers and students of what is affectionately called the D School.

• Islam
Each major religion has gathered a huge mass of expository material which helps project its true image. The primary aim of this volume is to give the reader an idea of the fundamentals of the religion - Islam.

• Ali Sardar Jafri - Commemorative Number (URDU)
A Commemorative volume as a mark of tribute to one of India's greatest Urdu poet and patriot, who passed away on August 1, 2000. The volume includes contributions from eminent personalities from various walks of life discussing the multi-faceted personality of Ali Sardar Jafri

• India- Art and Architecture
This book drawn from the famous title "The Gazetter of India: Indian Union" deals with Art and Architecture in Ancient and Medieval Periods in India. This volume seeks to present authentic and objective information on this subject by well-known writers who are experts in their respective fields.

The contributors to

• Spiritual Talks
This volume contains rare spiritual counsels given by the first disciples of Sri Ramakrishna to spiritual aspirants and as such invaluable for all those who sincerely search after God.

These records derive their value from the simplicity and directness with which they touch upon and illuminate many aspects of

• Ikkees Bangla Kahaniyan (URDU)
This book is Urdu translation of 21 short fiction from Bangla original titled Ekushti Bangla Gup. It includes short stories from almost all prominent story-tellers of Bengal.

• Words of My Perfect Teacher
A favourite of Tibetans and recommended by the Dalai Lama and other senior Buddhist teachers, this practical guide to inner transformation introduces the fundamental spiritual practices common to all Tibetan Buddhist tradition. This book is the classical commentary on the preliminary practices of the Longchen Nyingtin.

• Wind Flowers
A classic collection of stories showcasing some of India’s best-known writers.

• Against Communalisation of Education
This monograph is a reasoned critique of BJP-led government's activities in the sphere of education.

• Cross-cultural Perspectives in Human Development - Theory, Research and Applications
Written by some of the best known cross-cultural psychologists from around the world, the original essays gathered here deal variously with theoretical aspects, methodological alternatives, issues of social concern, and practical applications in contemporary psychology.

• The Arabian Nights of Kolkata & Other Stories
In this present context of an anthology of translations from Bengali short stories, this makes the selection of a finite number of stories an exceedingly difficult task. As is apparent, the number of such indispensable authors is even larger for the short story than for the novel.

• National Seminar on Culture and Development
This book comprises papers presented by eminent scholars during the National Seminar on Culture and Development to motivate Member Countries of Asia and Pacific Region to evolve measures for the integration of aesthetic and cultural values in the planning of policies in all areas of development.

• The Arabian Nights of Kolkata & Other Stories
It is commonly said, and this is a widely held, though not uncontested view, that it is in the realm of the short story that modern Bengali prose fiction has had its richest flowering. This volume is an anthology of translations from Bengali short stories.

• Gender and Caste - Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism
By selecting important texts, published for the most part in the last decade, that elaborate and advance our understanding of the relationship between caste and gender, this seminal volume provides a succinct account of the caste and gender debate/discourse and a perspective on the theoretical tendencies that determine its frames of reference.

• Religious Conversion in India
This volume brings together important and highly original essays by leading scholars of religion, history, and society reflecting upon the idea and practice of conversion in India. As an engagement of sociology, theology, and history in the lively and sometimes vitriolic discourse on religious conversion in India, this volume will be an important and significant resource for students, teachers, and researchers in these diverse fields.

• Charisma & Canon - Essays on the Religious History of the Indian Subcontinent
Now available in a paper back edition, the essays in this volume investigate the plurality of traditions that have existed and proliferated on the Indian subcontinent, and explore how contradictory trends and pulls have coexisted and interacted with each other through the ages.

• Culture and Economy in the Indian Diaspora
This volume examines the Indian Diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada, and the UK and addresses the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development.

• Famous Ghost Stories
A phantom coach, a haunted house, visitors from the other world…stories packed with enough chills and thrills to keep you awake all night. Read it at your own risk!

• Great Tales of Suspense
Unputdownable, spine-chilling suspense Sherlock Holmes stories by the world’s most famous suspense story writers.

• Relativism, Suffering and Beyond
This collection of essays by a distinguished body of scholars is in memory of the late Bimal K Matilal, renowned authority in the field of Indian philosophy. Three main philosophical systems, Buddhism, Vedanta and Nyaya, are investigated in the book.

• Selected Hindi Short Stories
Hindi is the national language of India spoken by a majority of its population and understood by many more. Hence it is imperative that important and popular fiction written in Hindi is made available to the non-Hindi speaking people at home and abroad. This anthology is the first step towards that direction.

• Pakistan at the Crossroads
This study of Pakistan aims to assess its future options in the context of its relations with India. It evaluates its road map in the areas of foreign relations, domestic situation, terrorism, economy, nuclear power and the Armed Forces.

• Food for All (ENGLISH+HINDI)
For almost two hundred years, average availability of food grains in India has remained below 200 kg per capita per year, which is considered to be the base minimum for maintaining a low level of physical activity. India was not always like this. This volume focuses attention on this problem.

• Fighting Hunger & Malnutrition
Food Security is a right and not an aspiration. Food is a human right. A compendium to an earlier report entitled 'Food For All', this volume records the deliberations of Experts' Round Table on Food Security.

• The Partition Omnibus
‘The Partition Omnibus’ brings together, for the first time, four authoritative reading on the genesis and development of the idea of Partition, its inevitability, the upheaval that followed the creation of Pakistan, and the attendant problems of nationalism and decolonization.

• Human Rights - Theory and Practice
This book is for those interested in understanding human rights questions in the contemporary world. The approach is basically inter-disciplinary and the thrust of articles range from the national to the international.

• India's Economic Reforms and Development
This collection of essays in honor of Manmohan Singh analyses the course of economic development in India and the status of the economic reforms initiated in 1991 and presents what needs to be done if the benefits are to be fully realized.

• Gender and Politics in India
This volume presents a comprehensive overview of feminist movement, theory and politics in India in the form of debates that emerged within the movement on key issues.

• Nuclearisation of India: Myths, Beliefs and Facts
The book analyses the various futile arguments put forth by different classical schools for nuclearisation, exposes the designs of the super powers and pleads for sanity in the interest of the people of India.

• National Symbols - A Set of 8 Books
This collection of eight books in a box focuses on National Symbols of India – the Emblem, Flag, Anthem, Song, Calendar, Animal, Bird and Flower. These bring out the beauty and sensitivity represented in India’s ancient philosophy and culture.

• Interpreting Islam
This book documents the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society, and offers a lucid guide to understanding Islam.. To help readers make sense of Islam this work examines the range of disciplinary approaches involved in its study.

• Cultural Leaders of India: Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata Writers
This book carries 12 life-sketches of great figures in several languages since the earliest times who have contributed in large measures to the culture and thought of India and influenced the mind and life of its people.

• Faith in the Age of Uncertainty
Strange is our situation here upon the earth. Each us of comes for a short visit, not knowing why. Yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. This volume contains some of the best essays on faith which explore the many reverberations of the concept of Faith.

• Antaral : End - Century Meditations
This book brings ten lectures on various topics delivered under the Antaral series at the Sahitya Akademi. They look back at the passing century / millennium and also ponder over the coming one. The explorations cut across diverse disciplines like history, philosophy, literature, science, religion and social and political thought.

• Most Wanted - Profiles of Terror
Terrorism is often referred to as India's threat number one. It has spread its tentacles far and wide through the groups operating in Kashmir and others. This book profiles leaders of six important militant organizations to provide rich, often frightening details of their modus operandi.

• India Education Report - A Profile of Basic Education
It is a unique volume presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the status of basic education in India that goes beyond the usual statistics. It is the outcome of a detailed and reflective review of all aspects of the Indian education system undertaken on the occasion of the world forum on ‘Education for All’.

• The Supreme Court of India - Sentinel of Freedom
This collector’s item traces the history of the court, its working, and the evolution of its policies over the years. The book contains many rare photographs from the Supreme Court achieves, including photographs of nearly all the Chief Justices and Judges of the Court and the Court Building itself.

• The Cultural Heritage of India - A Set of 6 Volumes
The First historic work, this 6-volume Encyclopedia of Indian Culture, is a combined intelligence of all India giving a complete and connected story of her culture and civilization. It is a monument of Indian co-operative research in history, philosophy, religion, fine arts, exact sciences, economics, politics, literature and sociology.

• Spectrum - A Selection of English Poems
This book contains a selection of English poems is an anthology designed for lovers of poetry. The selection, which begins with the seventeenth century, includes British, Indian and American poets who are fairly representative of their age and genre.

• Her Stories - 20th Century Bengali Women Writers
Her stories is a collection of short stories by contemporary women writers of Bengal. They essentially reflect the juxtapositions of class and gender in the decolonized space of independent India.

• The Purananuru - Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom
The Purananuru, an anthology of poems from Classical Tamil, is one of the oldest Tamil anthologies extant, and was compiled almost two thousand years ago, between the first and third centuries CE. One of the eight Sangam anthologies, it consists of four hundred poems, of more than 150 poets.

• The Scientist in Society
Essays and addresses collected in this volume offers a rare insight into the social concerns of six first generation of modern Indian scientists and provide a rich set of readings opening up a fresh view.

• Contemporary Australian Short Stories
A unique collection of stories of varied narrative techniques, diction and themes, these stories reflect the literary and cultural tradition of Australia. Sensitive, touching and delightful, these stories, written by prominent Australian writers, are our little windows to an island-continent.

• India's Energy - Essays on Sustainable Development
Through a series of cogent articles on one specific energy sector, hydrocarbons, energy and area experts analyze the economic, infrastructural, environmental and security stakes of India's energy supply and provide some elements of solution.

• Azadi ke Bad Urdu Shairi (URDU)
This book is collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Post-Independence Urdu poetry and the discussions thereon.

• India at 50 - Bliss of Hope and Burden of Reality
This volume contains essays from eminent Indians who reflect on the dreams and aspirations of the pre-Independence era and realities of the post-Independence phase. Some foreigners who have lived in India for over 25-30 years recount their experiences and voice their opinion about this land of adoption.

• India in a Turbulent World - Perspectives in Foreign and Security Policies
At the dawn of the new millennium, the makers of India's foreign and security policies are confronting serious challenges arising out of the turbulence in world politics. These developments call for suitable response. This book has been designed to carry out this exercise.

• Politics India
This volume attempts to present a comprehensive view of India's politics during the last fifty years. Each of its seventeen chapters deals with a major theme of post-Independence politics in India.

• Caste and Democratic Politics in India
This volume offers important essays on the subject of caste and politics in contemporary India. It covers all the important ground to get to grip with the idea, ideology, and ground realities of India's caste system.

• Rio, Johannesburg and Beyond - India's Progress in Sustainable Development
Placed in the context of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, this volume analyses India's environmental problems, with suggestions for practical innovative solutions by a team of experts.

• Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
This volume contains proceedings and three papers presented at the third international conference and attended by luminaries from all over the world. to deliberate on causes and ideas dear to Indira Gandhi.

• Guru Nanak and Indian Religious Thought
This volume is a collection of series of lectures delivered by 4 eminent scholars . The lectures supplement one another, and put together they present a fairly comprehensive view of Sikhism and of the Sikh society.

• Katha Prize Stories - Volume 12
The best among those published during the last two years, this collection of two novella and six other outstanding stories - all award winners from eight languages -has been picked by scholars, critics and writers respected in their own languages.

• People Unlike Us - The India That is Invisible
Told with rare sensitivity, these stories bring out the alienation and the silent rage of people on the margins. These are stories about an India where little has changed, and where the playing fields are not, and can never be, level.

• Naya Urdu Afsana - Ek Intekhab (URDU)
A collection of 27 contemporary short fiction in Urdu, selected for their representative character. The volumes also carries biographical sketches of contributors.

• 50 Glorious Classical Years : A Set of 5 Music CDs
This 5 CD collection features renderings of prominent vetarans of classical music. Truly, a Collectors' delight.

• Sexuality in the Time of AIDS - Contemporary Perspectives from Communities in India
India is firmly in the grip of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and it is believed that the numbers of those infected far outstrip available estimates. Presenting case studies from around the country, the original essays in this book identify the contextual, cultural and social factors that contribute to the risk of infection.

• Storytellers At Work
This book brings together some of the speeches and essays delivered or written by the participants of the Katha Utsav, Linking Diversities and Forging Identities, a festival celebrating diversity and cultural differences. It contains twenty one stimulating talks and essays that invite the reader to dip where they choose, to take the book's challenge where they please.

• Storylines - Conversations with Women Writers
The interviews in this volume are the outcome of a series of workshops held with women writers during 1999-2001, on the question of gender-based censorship and related issues.. The 17 writers in this anthology are among the best-known and best loved, writing in India today.

• Fundamentals of Tibetan Medicine
Tibetan medicine is far more advanced in the understanding of the nature of mind than Western medicine. The first edition of the Fundamentals of Tibetan Medicine, published in 1981, has remained one of the most popular and widely used publications on Tibetan Medicine available in English.

• Understanding the Dalai Lama
In Understanding the Dalai Lama, Rajiv Mehrotra, personal student of His Holiness, brings together a range of contributors who offer insights into different facets of this remarkable individual.

• Indian in the Antarctic - Scientific and Geopolitical Perspectives
The pursuit of science in the harsh polar environment continues to be the currency of Antarctic geopolitics in the 21st century. The central argument in this volume is that India not only needs to keep itself at par with international expectations and advances in Antarctic science, but also ensure that her geopolitical presence and performance in the Antarctic Treaty System are both visible and effective.

• The New Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories
This volume contains thirty-six stories in celebration both of the diversity and commonality of gay experience. The writers represented here are gay and straight, English and American: among them. Read together, these stories constitute a map of the gay experience, exciting and heartfelt.

• The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys
This anthology, now offered in paperback edition, provides an absorbing, lively and always interesting portrait of life in contemporary India and brings together travel pieces by some of the best contemporary writers in the English language

• 50 Glorious Years of Punjabi Film Songs (5-CD Music Album)
This 5-CD Music Album features 47 popular Punjabi songs from Hindi films of the past 5 decades.

• The Savarkar Controversy
The BJP-led NDA Government pushed through a decision to unveil the portrait of V D Savarkar as a freedom fighter in Parliament. This led to a political debate, and this book is a collection of articles appearing in the Indian press on this controversial decision.

• Euope and Asia - Perspectives on the Emerging International Order
Historically, Europe and Asia have had a close relationship based on shared values, objectives and respect for each other. This has enabled them to make a substantive contribution to the international system. This edited volume is based on a selection of papers presented at the International Conference organized by the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi in association with The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin.

• Contested Transformations - Changing Economies and Identities in Contemporary India
Such are the constraints of disciplinary boundaries that even when scholars come together in a collective effort to analyse recent processes, their focus narrows down to specific themes, invariably privileging one kind of methodological or conceptual framework over others. The present volume of essaysrepresents an attempt to overcome some of the limitations of this trend.

• Thrilling Tales - A Selection of Hair-raising Adventures
The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to catch a young reader’s attention from page one, preferably paragraph one, and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test, and with flying colours.Filled with conflict, suspense and adventure this book is a page-turner from beginning to end.

• The World's Best Short Stories
An anthology of forty best stories, selected through a rigorous examination from amongst one thousand stories, considered by the Editorial Board of this compilation..

• The Unhurried City - Writings on Chennai
The Unhurried City, peppered with photographs and illustrations, puts together stories, articles and poems which celebrate the amalgam that is Chennai. Absorbing, thought-provoking and rich in detail, this anthology is evocative of the spirit of an exceptional city.

• Peace Processes and Peace Accords
This book in a continuing series looks at the political question of peace from three perspectives: the process of peace; the contentious issues involved in the peace process; and the ideologies that come in conflict in this process

• Paradigms of Learning - The Total Literacy Campaign in India
This important volume takes stock of the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC), assessing both its successes and failures in order to draw lessons for the future. Based on detailed first-hand evaluations of the TLC in six districts located in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Jharkhand and Rajasthan, it adopts a fresh approach using in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions.

• Religion, Violence and Political Mobilization in South Asia
An oft-neglected theme in studies on communal violence is the role of the state, particularly of its institutions of law enforcement and policing. The seven essays in this anthology—written by eminent authors from diverse traditions of anthropology, history, politics and sociology—critically re-examine the symbolism, scale and nature of communal violence in South Asia in view of the state’s changing image.

• India and Emerging Asia
In recent years, Asia`s economic and strategic environment has been transformed in a fundamental sense. Because of its strategic position, India is destined to play a significant role in shaping the emerging profile of Asia. With its focus on Asia's geopolitical and geo-strategical flux and the emerging challenges and opportunities for this region, this book will of interet to students and scholars of international relations, security studies and political science.

• Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity
This volume, the first in the series entitled Women and Migration in Asia, focuses on Asian women's experience of immigration and the impact this has on their identity in the context of transnational migration.

• Earth Songs - Stories from Northeast India
The sixteen stories included in this volume represent different aspects that characterize the life in Northeast India such as innocence, violence, corruption, romantic love, humour and the supernatural. Variously , these stories bring in the human concerns, and relationships and their fragility to focus.

• City of Sin and Splendour - Writings on Lahore
This anthology brings together verse and prose: essays, stories, chronicles and profiles by people who have shared a relationship with Lahore. Including fiction old and new, City of Sin and Splendour is a sumptuous collection that reflects the city it celebrates.

• Administrative Reforms
The ten essays in this volume dwell on three distinct areas - urban governance, energy and environmental governance, and service delivery systems - which have been subjected to a blizzard of reforms in recent years. Providing numerous new insights into a subject of vital importance to contemporary India, this book will be very useful to both practitioners and scholars of public administration..

• Micro-Credit, Poverty and Empowerment - Linking the Triad
Two persistent problems that affect a significant portion of Indian women are poverty and violation of their human rights. In recent years, micro-credit has come to be viewed as a vital tool to ameliorate both conditions. This important and thought provoking volume brings together revealing case studies of micro-credit interventions made by six non-governmental and quasi-governmental bodies in five states of peninsular India.

• The Community We Seek - Perspectives on Mission
A common thread running through these papers is the affirmation that our commitment to evolve an alternative community is at the core of our discussions on the relevance of the Gospel in the Indian context

• Gender & Censorship
The debate on censorship in India has hinged primarily on two issues-the depiction of sex in the various media, and the representation of events that could, potentially, lead to violent communal clashes. This volume traces the trajectory of debates by Indian feminists over the last 25 years around the issue of gender and censorship.

• Ancient Indian Surgery: 10-Volume Set (ENGLISH+SANSKRIT)
Susruta, the Father of Surgery, wrote his Samhita (treatise) about 25000 years ago in Sanskrit and classified it into six cantos. All its 186 chapters have now been brought out as Ancient Indian Surgery in 10 volumes in a very authoritative, scientific, literal, research oriented, syntax interpretation using modern medical terminology along with original Sanskrit

• Fundamental & Plastic Surgery Considerations in Ancient Indian Surgery - Vol 1
Susruta, the Father of Surgery, wrote his treatise about 2500 years ago in Sanskrit and classified it into six cantos. All its 186 chapters have been brought out in a series of 10 volumes as Ancient Indian Surgery, using modern medical terminology along with original Sanskrit text by a team of 20 practitioners of Ayurveda. This volume, the 1st in the series, is based on the first 27 chapters of the first canto Sutra-sthana of Susruta Samhita.

• Pharmaceutical Considerations in Ancient Indian Surgery - Vol 2
Susruta, the Father of Surgery, wrote his treatise about 2500 years ago in Sanskrit and classified it into six cantos. All its 186 chapters have been brought out in a series of 10 volumes as Ancient Indian Surgery, using modern medical terminology along with original Sanskrit text by a team of 20 practitioners of Ayurveda.

• Anatomical & Obstetric Considerations in Ancient Indian Surgery - Vol 4
Susruta, the Father of Surgery, wrote his treatise about 2500 years ago in Sanskrit and classified it into six cantos. All its 186 chapters have been brought out in a series of 10 volumes as Ancient Indian Surgery, using modern medical terminology along with original Sanskrit text by a team of 20 practitioners of Ayurveda. This volume, 4th in a 10-volume series, deals with Sarira-sthana of susruta Samhita, the classical surgical treatise.

• An Epitome of English Literature - A Festschrift
R K Sinha was eminent and outstanding English Professor of Patna University.This commemorative volume will help understand Dr R K Sinha better through tributes, reminiscences and essays, contributed by eminent scholars of the world, including the President of India, four Governors of different states, Vice-Chancellors of Oxford, Cambridge, London Universities, Professor C D Narsimhaiah, Professor Damodar Thakur and Dr Bindeshwar Pathak.

• Tharkala Indiya Angilachirukathaikal - Volume I (TAMIL)
Contemporary short stories in various Indian languages have been compiled in a trilogy. This book is Tamil translation of the first part of this 3-volume series.

• Tharkala Indiya Angilachirukathaikal Volume II (TAMIL)
Contemporary short stories in various Indian languages have been compiled in a trilogy. This book is Tamil translation of the second part of this 3-volume series.

• Tharkala Indiya Angilachirukathaikal Volume III (TAMIL)
Contemporary short stories in various Indian languages have been compiled in a trilogy. This book is Tamil translation of the concluding part of this 3-volume series.

• India's Economy - A journey in time and space
This volume includes contributions by some of the most distinguished economists/experts and provides rare insights into India's development journey through time and space—the successes and failures, and the new challenges emerging from integration with the world economy.

• Samakalika Bharatiya Cherukathakal - Part II (MALAYALAM)
This book carries Malayalam translation of Contemporary Indian Short Stories -Volume II in English by various translators.

• Samakalika Bharatiya Cherukathakal - Part III (MALAYALAM)
This book carries Malayalam translation of Contemporary Indian Short Stories -Volume III in English by various translators. Fourteen of them are translations - one each from fourteen modern languages of India and each one is a specimen of Indian creative writing.

• Pancha - Natak (ORIYA)
This book carries Five plays of Rabindranath Tagore. These are Oriya translations from original Bengali of Chitrangada by Prabhat Mukhopadhyay, Raja by Basanta Kumar Satpathy, Dakghar by Sunanda Kar, Muktadhara by Baikunthanath Patnaik and Chirakumar Sabha by Jatin Das.

• Advaita Bodha Deepika - The Lamp of Non-Dual Knowledge
Adi Sankara and other great Sages wrote several works like the commentary on the Vedanta Sutras and thus furnished the methods for those engaged in Self-enquiry to accomplish their purpose. From these, Sri Karapatra Swami later condensed the salient points into Sanskrit verse in a work of twelve chapters, called Sri Advaita Bodha Deepika.

• Gems from India
These reflections are grouped under three sections: the first refers to the goal of our human and spiritual journey , the second to various Means offered to us to reach the goal, and the last to the Traveller on the road .

• The Penguin India Reference Yearbook 2007
As always, The Penguin India Reference Yearbook prides itself on the authenticity, currency and comprehensiveness of the information that it contains.

• Masks of Empire
This volume assembles a series of important critiques of the new US imperialism by some of the finest minds working in contemporary political and social theory. It exposes the various ways through which the United States seeks to extend its hegemony.

• Sexualities
While sexual violence is an area that is well mapped by feminist scholarship, this volume focuses on transgressive and marginalized Sexualities. It brings together writings on India that highlight the transgression of norms that declare ungoverned desire to be illegitimate. Sexualities also includes a selection of campaign documents from diverse sexuality movements in the country..

• Early Historic Andhra Pradesh 500 BC - AD 624
The essays in this volume present the findings of research studies undertaken since 1960 - when the notable volume, The Early History of Deccan appeared - on the political, social and cultural history of the region. There are essays on the various ruling dynasties that reigned over Andhradesa in the Early Historic period,

• Ancient India
Ancient Indian history is a window to a vast gamut of social, cultural, economic and political institutions which gave Indian civilization a distinct identity of its own. This volume is a compilation of articles by eminent scholars on various phases and facets of ancient India.

• The Fiction Collection - Volume One
These commemorative volumes of the finest writing published in a series of 2 volumes are dedicated to the finest Indian authors and authors of Indian origin anywhere in the world. Showcased here are authors who have topped best-seller charts in India and abroad, and won virtually every major literary prize.

• The Non-Fiction Collection - Volume Two
These commemorative volumes of the finest writing published in a triology are dedicated to the finest Indian authors and authors of Indian origin anywhere in the world. Showcased here are authors who have topped best-seller charts in India and abroad, and won virtually every major literary prize.

• The Indian Mind
Here, in selected essays from the proceedings of the east-west philosophers' conferences, is an examination by world authorities of one of the oldest, richest, most complicated, and most profound philosophical traditions of all time.

• Modern English Short Stories - Second Series
This volume is a sequel to the collection of Modern English Short Stories selected by Phyllis M. Jones and published in The World’s Classics in 1939.This collection demonstrates on page after page the new awareness of the lights and shadows within the human mind which has been generated by modern psychology and by the nervous intensity of contemporary life.

• Dalits in Modern India - Vision and Values
This volume explores the social, economic, political and cultural content of the Dalit articulation and its relevance for the nation, both today and in the future. This incisive and timely collection studies the aspirations of the marginalized masses for a new humanity based on the principles of equality, social justice and human dignity.

• The Eighteenth Century in India - Debates in Indian History and Society
The eighteenth century in Indian history has long been subject to debate among historians. As part of the prestigious series, this volume presents key arguments of this debate through a selection of important readings.

• Reflections and Variations on The Mahabharata
This volume is a collection of essays that attempts to exemplify the protean nature of Vyasa’s Mahabharata.The essays presented here explore many a vexing question, the ethical and the epistemic concerns, issues of gender, ‘caste’ and metaphysical ‘evil’ that the epic raises. The volume also addresses the question of how each regional language looks upon the epic as a contested site and works out its own form of appropriation.

• Sadabahar Mazahiya Tahrerain (Urdu)
This volume carries a collection of fifty-eight pieces of humor and satire in Urdu original from the pen of eminent Urdu writers.

• Katha Sanskriti - Civilizational Study Through Short Stories (HINDI)
Through the medium of shot fiction across the globe, this monumental work brings together. Short stories of eminent writers written on variety of civilizational aspects. Kamleshwar has enriched Hindi literature with this creative and unique volume.

• Understanding Consciousness : Recent Advances
This volume consists of fifteen papers and the discussions thereon at the fourth biennial International Seminar on Consciousness held at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, in January 2008. The participants included not only philosophers and scientists but also mystics.

• Deshbhakti ki Kavitayen (HINDI)
This book is an anthology of patriotic lyrics. It collects one hundred and sixteen outstanding creations of prominent Hindi poets, including Bhartendu Harish Chandra, Jaishnakar Prasad, Balkishan Sharma Naveen, Sumitra Nandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma , Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, and several other notables..

• Eternally Talented India - 108 Facts
This book is about Ancient & Modern India's greatness in Science & Technology, Astronomy, Medicine, Commerce, Arts & Political Science, Global Influence of Indian Culture and Spiritual Excellence. This compilation of 108 facts seeks to reach the youth of India, by exposing them to ancient India's achievements and eternally talented India.

• Stri, Parampara aur Aadhunikta (HINDI)
Raj Kishore is a Senior Editor with India's largest selling Hindi Daily Navbharat Times. As a political journalist, he has published several articles in learned magazines, and authored several books on India's social and political issues. This volume organized and edited by him - the 14th in the series of contemporary issues - carries sixteen essays by political commentators reflecting on women,modernity and traditions.

• Harijan se Dalit (HINDI)
Raj Kishore is a Senior Editor with India's largest selling Hindi Daily Navbharat Times. As a political journalist, he has published several articles in learned magazines, and authored several books on India's social and political issues. This volume organized and edited by him - the 6th in the series of contemporary issues - carries fourteen essays by political commentators reflecting on Disadvantaged - Dalits - in Indian Society.

• Doosari Parampara Ki Khoj (HINDI)
As a homage to the famous Hindi writer Hazari Prasad Dewvedi, the eight chapters in this book, penned by well known literary critic Namwar Sing explore his revolutionary yet very humane approach to life, literature and society.

• Management by Consciousness - A Spiritual -Technical Approach
Charity begins at home. Likewise, management begins from man. With a view to unfolding this aspect of management, this anthology has been prepared by jotting down articles by reputed authors on the subject.

• Dance : Transcending Borders
As globalization forces us to revisit the 'local' in dance, an examination of the processes of identity formation, generation and affirmation becomes very necessary. This edited volume brings together renowned scholars from the Asia-Pacific region, the Americas and Europe, to discuss issues of global and local importance that are at the centre of contemporary research.

• Firaq Gorakhpuri : Shair, Naqqad, Danishwar (URDU)
This volume seeks to portray a comprehensive review of poetry and philosophy of famous Urdu poet Firaq Gorakhpuri. The account is based on the papers presented at an International Seminar and discussions thereon by eminent participants. .

• 2000 : Reflections On The Arts In India
Besides presenting an overview of the current situation in different areas of Indian art, the essays in this richly illustrated turn-of-the-millennium volume offer ideas for future possibilities and view directions for the 21st century.

• New Insights into Sikh Art
Sikh Art is usually identified with the glittering court of Ranjit Singh at Lahore. This book looks further afield, at other courts and other non-country settings for art, seeking out fascinating and important aspects of Sikh art and cultural heritage. Presenting original research on fresh areas, this volume offers new perspectives on the subject.

• Do you Suppose it's the East Wind? Stories from Pakistan
This book is a collection of short stories by thirteen of Pakistan’s finest writers.

• The perennial Values of Indian Culture
There has been a deep underlying conviction in the Indian mind since time immemorial that beneath the ground of human life there lies a mine of gold, which with proper digging and tilling, is to be brought upward if we want to remove all our wants. But unfortunately most of us are unaware of our richest heritage and spend our lives in utter penury.This volume is a collection of Seventeen Annual Lectures delivered by eminent personalities at Ramakrishna Mission of Culture covering diverse aspects of Indian life and culture.

• Social Philosophers - Cultural Leaders of India
The great Indian social philosophers made an exhaustive and scientific study of different aspects of human life and propounded treatises which left an indelible mark on Indian thought and culture. This volume covers five of these personalities, namly Manu, Yajnavalkya, Kautilya, Vatsyayana and the doyen of Tamil Literary figures, Tiruvalluvar.

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