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Come, travel with Kushi, from the bed in the morgue where she lies as an unidentified corpse - a rape-and-murder victim. To her childhood and teenage in Kolkata and Rajpur, early marriage days in East Delhi beyond the Yamuna, to a few lovely years in Bangkok, then to the most tortuous decades in a Delhi prison. Travel with her then on the National Highway, going towards Neemrana Fort in Alwar but flowing out in the end in the waters of Garh Ga...

This book introduces children to the rich treasury of Indian wisdom and cultural heritage through the 365 handpicked tales, one for each day of the year, from the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas. The collection is faithful to the ancient texts available and presents them in a simple and concise form suited to the young reader. The beautiful illustrations bring to life the gods and demons, the benign and cruel kings, the sky-spirits and a...

The novel Rishika by Dipavali Sen describes a journey that Ila, a working woman in the NCR, takes in her lonely flat by reading ancient Indian texts through the night. She reads about the lives of Rishikas or women sages mentioned in the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranas. She re-lives as well as re-creates those stories with her own contemporary approach. Based on original material in Sanskrit, this book provides - through Ila - a fresh lo...

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A ghost that giggles and tells stories on a moonless night, a king whose intelligence is as sharp as his curved sword, ... meet them in this innovated yet authentic retelling of the Sanskrit classic Vetala-panchavimshati which goes back beyond the 11th century CE. Vetala Pacchisi (Twenty-five Vetala Tales) in Hindi is a household name. In Bengali, retold by educationist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, it pre-dates India's Firs...