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MULK RAJ ANAND was born in 1905 in Peshawar, now in Pakistan, and educated at the Universities of Punjab and London. He began his career by writing for T S Eliot's Criterion and went on to win international fame with his heart-warming portraits of the Indian landscape and its working class. Author of more than a dozen novels, of countless short stories and literary essays, he was honored with Sahitya Akademi Award, the coveted Indian award for literary writing , in 1972.

• Across the Black Waters
Now in paperback edition, this work if probably Anand's best novel since Untouchable. Across the Black Waters is probably Anand's best novel since Untouchable, for it exactly communicates the claustrophobic tension of men in the front line, the imminence of death,

• The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus - Untouchable / Coolie / Private Life of an Indian Prince
The Mulk Raj Anand Omnibus is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of the Indian novel in English. Mulk Raj Anand is best known for the fiery social critique contained in his writings. This special commemorative edition published on the eve of his hundredth birth anniversary brings together three of Anand’s finest novels which capture the ambivalence of a nation caught between tradition and modernity: .

• Death of a Hero - Epitaph for Maqbool Sherwani
This is a harrowing true story of a poet who was crucified by wild Pathan terrorists sent to capture Kashmir, a few days after the Maharaja's accession to free India in 1947.

• Tales Told By An Idiot - Selected Short Stories
This compilation is a group of Mulk Raj Anand's short stories selected with the co-operation of the writer himself from a collection of his writings over the last forty years.

• Coolie
Coolie portrays the picturesque adventures of Munno, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. Munno is a universal kind of figure. He is the passion not only of India but of mankind. Together with untouchables, coolie has placed

• Across the Black Waters
Widely regarded as outstanding among the earlier novels of Mulk Raj Anand, this work has been translated into eleven European languages.

• Lajwanti & Other Stories
In this collection of 12 stories led by Lajwanti, the author focuses on a woman's predicament and struggle to find an identity for herself.

Frustrated by a rigid pattern of social relationships, gender bias, religious bigotry and her own petty human foibles, her abject condition serves as a metaphor

• A Pair of Mustachios and other Stories
This volume of 9 short fiction is remarkable for the variety of its inspiration. The virtues of a humorous appreciation of life's little ironies and a sympathetic understanding of its tragedies is conveyed with a truly poetic intensity.

• Madhubani Painting
The art of Madhubani is purposive mythology. Not art in the sense of 'significant form' of the West. The paintings are legends to which the folk turn to pray in the daily ritual. The sources of folk art of Madhubani lie in the dim areas of silence,

• Things have a way of working out and other Stories
This anthology of 12 stories by a famous Indian author impresses with his profound knowledge of Indian religion and culture. Anand is not a mere storyteller, he is a poet as well. There runs a fine poetic streak through his stories.

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• Splendour of Himachal Heritage
The wealth of images and paintings which were created by the monks for the worship of Buddha has seldom been exposed to the art loving public of our country. In this monumental book, Dr Mulk Raj Anand got collaboration from enlightened Himachal scholars, to reveal glories of the past which are part of our culture.

• Indian Folk Tales
This book for children consists of eight delectable stories. Forming part of Indian folk tales and journeying through many a generation, these have been handed down to us by our imaginative Indian story tellers

• Shaheed (URDU)
A novel by internationally known writer of India. The story is set in the backdrop of invasion of Kashmir immediately after partition.

• The Lost Child and Other Stories
This book collects thirteen absorbing stories of a famous literary figure of India.

• Untouchable
With a preface by E M Forster this novel is Mulkh Raj's finest and the most controversial novel about the 'Other' India - the India of Untouchables and outcastes.

• Chitralakshana - Story of Indian Paintings
Our prehistoric paintings are similar to those found in Matopos in Zimbabwe, Altamira in Spain, and Lascaux in France. It is likely, then, that the people of the Stone Age belonged to the same stock all over the world. The simplicity, directness and vitality of primitive paintings has inspired some of the greatest modern artists of the world.

• Conversations in Bloomsbury
This is a book that will delight anyone interested in the literary culture of pre-war Britain.

• Poet - Painter - Paintings By Rabindranath Tagore
Ananda Coomaraswamy once said - Everyman is an artist but an Artist is a special kind of man. Dr Mulk Raj Anand interprets the paintings of Rabindra Nath Tagore in the light of this aphorism. His pen became a brush: The brush followed the rhythm of his hand: and what was once written in words became a picture.Certainly his paintings echo the collective unconscious of his time.

• Seven Summers : A Memoir
First of the seven volumes of autobiographical fiction that Anand conceptualized but never completed, this book is full of memorable scenes and people observed through the eyes of a child. This edition of Seven Summers is a special reissue of the classic autobiography to commemorate Anand's birth centenary.

• Man Whose Name Did Not Appear in the Census and other Stories
This book features a selection of 10 short fictions from the mighty pen of India's famous literary personality.

• Panorama - An Anthology of Modern Indian Short Stories
This Anthology of Modern Indian Short Stories, significantly called Panorama, aims at giving a glimpse of he Indian genius in the field of short fiction today. It consists of a story each from 21 writers in major Indian languages all of whom are actively writing and belong to the mainstream in their languages. The Anthology also fills a long-felt gap, for there has not been another of its kind for along time now,

• Achhoot (URDU)
This novel is an Urdu translation of Mulk Raj's finest and the most controversial novel about the 'Other' India - the India of Untouchables and outcastes.

• Surajmukhi (PUNJABI)
This book is Punjabi translation of Mulk Raj Anand's Akademi Award-winning novel - Morning Face in English. It has been translated by Rajinder Kaur Bhasin.

• Selected Short Stories
This volume brings together some of the best and most memorable stories from Anand's published collections, each of them illustrating a different mood and tone

• Prabhatha Vadhanam (TELUGU)
This book carries Telugu translation of Sahitya Akademi award winning English Novel - Morning Face by noted English novelist Mulk Raj Anand. It has been translated by R A Padmanabha Rao.

• Lament On The Death Of A Master Of Arts and Other Stories
With uniquely tender sensitivity and an imaginative fervour which is contagious, Mulk Raj Anand explores some odd corners of the Indian soul and shows the technical virtuosity of a master of the short story form.

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