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Three Chinese Poets
By Vikram Seth , Bai , Wang Wei [Hardcover 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days The poets translated hereWang Wei, Li Bai and Du Fuare among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, these three poets of a single generation crystallize the immense variety of China and t... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2000 Hardbound 2005 Paperback 1993
Arion And The Dolphin
By Vikram Seth [Hardcover 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Arion and the Dolphin is an opera in nine scenes for professionals and community performers. The libretto is by Vikram Seth and the music is composed by Alec Roth. Recounted with Seth's inimitable charm, it is the story of Arion, a young musician... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 1994 Paperback 2000 Hardbound 2005
The Humble Administrators Garden
By Vikram Seth [Hardcover]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days In this second collection of poems, Vikram Seth reflects on three cultures he knows well: India, California and China. The poet Donald Davie writes: 'Vikram Seth's poems should have an impact far beyond much noisier pieces; for when did we last see a volu In this second collection of poems... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2005 Hardbound 1994 Hardcover 2000
Beastly Tales From Here& There
By Vikram Seth [Hardcover 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days Of the ten fables told here, two come from India, two from China, two from Greece, two from the Ukraine, and two, as the author puts it, came directly to me from the land of Gup. This is a book that displays the astonishing versatility of the poet who gav... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2005 Paperback 2000
All You Who Sleep Tonight
By Vikram Seth [Paperback 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days In this collection of poems, his first book since The Golden Gate, the best-selling novel in verse, Vikram Seth's marvellous facility with language is once again displayed to full effect. But beyond this, he demonstrates a new range, perhaps best exemplif... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2000 Hardbound 2005
Mappings
By Vikram Seth [Hardcover 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days In this new edition of Mappings , Vikram Seth's first book of poems and one that has long been out of print, the reader is introduced to work written in the author's twenties, when he was a student in England and later, California. More immediate if less... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2000 Hardbound 1994
Bookless In Baghdad
By Shashi Tharoor [Hardcover 2005]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days Shashi Tharoor began reading booksEnid Blytons Noddy serieswhen he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when h... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2005
The Tiger Claw
By Shauna Singh Baldwin [Paperback]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days An extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khancode name Madeleinewho worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. When her father, the S An extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement inspired by the... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2004 Paperback 2004
Book Of Hanuman (PB)
By Parvez Dewan [Paperback]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days Hanuman is an outstanding scholar, a fearless warrior, and the ideal lieutenant: intelligent, totally committed to his master, selfless and humble. Born into the Vanar tribe, a clan of the upa-devatas (demi-deities), he represents the four best-known divi... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2004
One Day
By Ardashir Vakil [Paperback]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days One Day is a twenty-four-hour journey into the lives and minds of Ben Tennyson, a middle-class English teacher; Priya Patnaik, his enigmatic, thirty-something Indian Londoner wife of eight years; and their small boy, Whacka. In the course of the daywhi One Day is a twenty-four-hour journey into the lives and... more
Other Editions: Hardcover Paperback 2004 Hardcover 2003 Paperback 2004
Twenty-Two Yards to Freedom: A Social History of Indian Cricket
By Boria Majumdar [Hardcover]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days Over three centuries (1780-2003), Indias engagement with cricket has made for a riveting drama. Paradoxical as it may seem, idealism and intrigue, social mobility and strict stratification are all part of Indias cricket story. It is this story that Bor... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2004
The Book of Durga
By Nilima Chitgopekar [Hardcover]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days Durga is unattainable, unfathomable, the Invincible One. Myths associated with her origin tell us that she is Shaktithe female manifestation of cosmic energycreated by the fusion of the fierce energies of all the male gods and stronger than their combined Durga is unattainable, unfathomable, the Invincible One. Myths associated with... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2003 Paperback
Hymns of the Gurus
By Khushwant Singh [Hardcover]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days 'There is one God. He is the Supreme Truth.' This is the central belief, the mool mantra, of the Sikh religion, founded in Punjab by Guru Nanak (1469-1539), who drew upon the teachings of Muslim Sufis and Hindu Bhaktas. The common basi There is one God. He is the Supreme... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2003 Hardbound 2003
Ram Jethmalani: The Authorized Biography
By Nalini Gera [Hardcover 2003]
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Out Of Stock Brilliant, flamboyant and controversiallawyer-politician Ram Jethmalani is all this and much more. In the past few decades, he has been consistently in the limelight for various reasons, both personal and professional. His defence of the smuggler Haji Mas... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2002
Beyond the Courtyard: A Sequel to Unveiling India
By Anees Jung [Hardcover]
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Out Of Stock Nineteen years ago, Anees Jung embarked on a journey that resulted in the best-selling book Unveiling India, a poignant and revealing look at the women of India. In this sequel, she returns to investigate what, if anything, has altered for their daught... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2003
In The Name Of Democracy
By Bipan Chandra [Unknown]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days About the Book: The Emergency of 1975-77 was a dark chapter of India's democracy. Leading up to it was the JP movement, named after its leader Jayaprakash Narayan, which paralysed much of northern India and directly challenged Prime M... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2003
Raj Kapoor Speaks
By Ritu Nanda [Hardcover 2002]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days Raj Kapoor is many things to many people: producer, director, actor, editor, musician, story-teller, a man of many moods, an acknowledged patriarch of Indias film-making industry. He is also known to the world as an extraordinary showman, lover, idealist,... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2002
Reasons For Belonging
By Ranjit Hoskote [Hardbound 2002]
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Out Of Stock Reasons for Belonging brings together some of the most striking voices in contemporary Indian poetry in English. These poets are at home in the world. Most of them operate from Indias metropolitan centres, and their poetry reflects the formal assurance an... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2002
Great Goan Cooking: 100 Easy Recipes
By Maria Teresa Menezes [Hardcover]
Rs. 395 316 Buy Now! In Your Wish List Add to Wish List
In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days An artful combination of vegetarian Konkani food, redolent with spices and coconut, and a unique array of Portuguese-influenced meat and seafood menus, Goan cuisine is undoubtedly one of the most evolved cuisines of India. Yet there are few resta... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2002
Hanuman Chalisa Of Goswami Tulasi Das
By Parvez Dewan [Hardbound 2001]
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Out Of Stock jai hanumn gyn gun sgar, jai kaps tihu lok ujgar. Hail, Hanumn, sea of virtue and insight, Hail, Kapis, who makes the Three Worlds bright. One of the best-loved deities of the Hindu pantheon, Hanumn is... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2001