The Inheritance of Words: Writings from Arunachal Pradesh
₹ 260 – ₹ 495Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India
₹ 220 – ₹ 300'There were no longer any signs of the house we stayed in, no doorway with its low entrance, no weeping willow or cryptomeria tree from which the caterpillars fell. The ramshackle cottage that housed my earliest friends and shaped my memories lay bare and forgotten. Only the flying termites remained, fluttering below the street lights outside the property.'In this novella, Daribha Lyndem gently lifts the curtain on the coming of age of a young Khasi woman and the politically charged city of Shillong in which she lives. Like the beloved school game from which it takes its name, the book meanders through ages, lives and places. The interconnected stories build on each other to cover the breadth of a childhood, and move into the precarious awareness of adulthood. A shining debut, Name Place Animal Thing is an elegant examination of the porous boundaries between the adult world and that of a child’s.
Crafting the Word: Writings from Manipur
₹ 300 – ₹ 495The Many That I Am: Writings from Nagaland
₹ 300 – ₹ 495Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
₹ 350Freedom Fables: Satires and Political Writings
₹ 210 – ₹ 395“It was perhaps in the rancorous tumult of the breaking and making of nations that Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s word and vision was lost.” — Rafia Zakaria, Dawn
“You can feel Hossain’s anger... and her scathing criticism of a system that allows what she saw as lazy, violent men to dominate while their gentler, wiser female counterparts are marginalized.” — Tahmima Anam, NPR
"“Hossain slyly pointed out back in 1905 what is often discussed now, particularly in the subcontinent—why should women be taught to stay safe, when men are not taught to not threaten or abuse or rape or be a danger to women?” — Mahvesh Murad, Tor.com
Waiting: A Collection of Stories
₹ 255 – ₹ 425“A clear-eyed view of life’s innate contradictions” —Mita Ghose, The Hindu
“Allahabad may just have found her Chekov” — Irwin Allan Sealy
“Touches of poetry” — Anjana Basu, Outlook
"Eloquent" — Sudipta Dutta, The Financial Times
"A poetic imagination" — Tim Parks, translator and author
"Ambitious and inventive" — George Szirtes, translator and poet
"Lyrically written" — Rashmi Vasudeva, Deccan Herald
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
₹ 300 – ₹ 495“A delicate touch and passionately humanist sensibilities sweep through this magnificent collection, which ranges from the near future of our world to eras far away in space and time.” — Publishers Weekly
“Singh is laying the groundwork attempt to re-write the plots of Chosen Ones, dystopian governments, and self-actualizing hero tropes common to Western literature, where the quest for “the meaning of life” is often seeking a single endpoint, an origin. Singh’s characters wish only to know for the sake of knowing. Life isn’t defined by linear time, it is the richness of experience.” — Aerogram
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