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Memory’s Gold

Ed. By Amit Chaudhuri,

Rs. 699.00

Calcutta throbs with life and a vitality all its own, drawing people from all walks of life to engage with it. This sumptuous collection brings together essays, stories, poems and memoirs of people who have started an ardent relationship with Calcutta.

The Oxford India Elwin

Rs. 795.00

Verrier Elwin’s essential humanism, theological training and Gandhian outlook make his work truly distinct. This collection draws from a wide range of Elwin’s writings.

Beyond Degrees

Ed. By Ira Pande, Rs. 395.00

There is no doubt that despite being among the issues most passionately debated in this country, there is an alarming decline in the quality of education and research offered by our universities. Some of India’s most eminent educationists and thinkers identify and resolve these problems.

Meeting Lives

Tulsi Badrinath, Rs. 395.00


This work throws up questions largely considered taboo in traditional societies, and compels the reader to address them honestly.

Hot, Flat and Crowded

Thomas L. Friedman,

Rs. 595.00

This is classic Friedman: fearless, incisive, forward-looking, and rich in surprising common sense about the challenge, and the promise, of the future.

Striped Zebra: The Immi

grant Psyche

Uday C. Naval & Soofia K.

Hussain, Rs. 595.00

This is a study that provides an integrated theory of the psychological processes involved in migration. It also encapsulates the experiences most migrants encounter in their life abroad.

Ghalib

Azra Raza & Sara Suleri

Goodyear, Rs. 325.00

The writers have selected 21 ghazals that illustrate the astonishing range of Ghalib’s many voices and the ideas that populate his poetry. Every ghazal is accompanied by an introduction, a literal translation and a detailed commentary that elucidate the complexities of the individual sher and the ghazal as a whole.

Rebels, Wives, Saints

Tanika Sarkar, Rs. 695.00


The author’s writings on women, religion and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking. In this book, she gives new direction to the same themes, this time by focussing on some of the key historical texts within which these identities were given shape.

Phantoms In The Brain

Sandra Blakeslee & V. S. Ra

machandran, Rs. 295.00

Combing gripping stories an cutting-edge science the V. S. Ramachandran, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, pushes back medicine’s last great frontier, the human mind, to address some of the big questions: what is the self? How do we perceive the world outside us? Why do we laugh?

26/11 Mumbai Attacked

Ed. By Harinder Baweja,

Rs. 295.00


Bringing together careful research and critical commentaries of renowned journalists and police officials this book explicates the reality behind the brazen attack on India’s sovereignty on November 2008 in Mumbai.

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