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Towards Ananda

Shakti Maira, Rs. 395.00

A book that engages the reader both intellectually and emotionally, this is a seamless chain of ideas about the production and consumption of art in modern times. As an insider's view of the art world, it offers valuable insights into how artists see, think and work.

A New Earth

Eckhart Tolle, Rs. 289.90

Tolle provides the spiritual framework for people to move beyond themselves in order to make this world a better, more spiritually evolved place to live in. Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines a light leading to happiness and health that every reader can follow.

A Sense of the Mysterious

Alan Lightman, Rs. 512.35

A lyrical and insightful collection of science writing that delves into the mysteries of the scientific process and exposes its beauty and intrigue. In these essays the author explores the emotional life of science, the power of imagination, the creative moment, and the alternate ways in which scientists and humanists think about the world.

Street Fighting Years

Tariq Ali, Rs. 525.00


In this new edition of his sixties' memoirs the author revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that moves between London, Paris and Berlin, as well as Vietnam and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Henry Kissinger and Mick Jagger.

War Diaries

Jean-Paul Sartre,

Rs. 600.00

During the phoney war that preceded the invasion of France, between late 1939 and the summer of 1940, the young Sartre was stationed in his native Alsace as part of a meteorological unit. This work forms a portrait of Sartre in his most intense and brilliant phase.

A Short History of Myth

Karen Armstrong,

Rs. 225.00

Myths are universal stories that reflect and shape our lives, they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human. The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary way.

Ecological Solutions

to Flush Toilet Failures

Paul Calvert, Rs. 150.00


The author's experience of building and managing a community toilet wastewater treatment system focussed his attention on the shortcomings of water-based sanitation. It inspired him to seek an alternative that would be appropriate to the crowded habitation and high water tables in South India. This publication is born out of the responses to the author's Ecological Sanitation awareness raising.

Gandhi's Tiger and

Sita's Smile

Ruth Vanita, Rs. 350.00


This work presents a collection of essays, which interrogate a variety of Indian texts and contexts along intersecting axes of gender, nation and desire. The theme that weaves these essays together is intertexuality.

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