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ISBN: 978-93-82536-19-2

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Expected Publishing Date:Mar. 2013

Unhappy because her career isn’t taking off, Agnirekha turns vicious, without getting to the root of her problems. The exquisitely beautiful Agnishikha, a girl from Bisrampur comes to Calcutta as the bride of a low ranking government servant. Brought up to be a good and dutiful wife, Agnishikha wants to lead a happy domestic life, but all that changes when she is brutalized by political goons and becomes a pawn in Agnirekha’s reportage. Agnishikha struggles to keep her sanity as her life crumbles away. Ten years later, Agnirekha, as a PHD student
in Boston, finds a right partner, who helps Agnirekha come to terms with her reality and sexuality. But Agnirekha can never forget the ones she destroyed.

Author : RK Biswas

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-27-7

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: April 2013

Tears of the Nymphs is a folk-based fantasy story (folk-fantasy) that symbolises the struggle of Nature to survive the onslaught of humans. It is a poignant tale on the theme of man’s destruction of the environment. Through wiles and deceits, the villain drives a wedge into the relationship between the lovers and emerges as a much more dangerous threat to the existence of the nymphs. This is a fast-paced narrative of interwoven events and sequences that cruises through intrigues, dealing with sacrifice, death and redemption.

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-28-4

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:May 2013

This is a romantic thriller story involving a simple boy with simple dreams who falls in love and also into the notorious world of crime. His quest to seek revenge for the killing of his father takes him deep into the criminal world. He meets new people and learns about their life. But he soon realizes that this dark world has its own rules: it is easy to get into but almost impossible to break out of. He plans everything and waits for the right
moment to escape. So what does he do now? Can he break free from all the pain for good?

Author : Adwitiya Borah

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-31-4

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Jun.2013

Anything for Friends is a story of six friends who meet each other in an engineering college during the golden years of their life and, after that, things are not the same again. They form their own group with its own set of rules for girls, CGPA or anything. They have done the best and the worst things of things together. But life is not always the same. Bitterness and hatred slowly roll into their friendship. Would these very good friends who had had the best life once, come together again? Or would they lead their own individual lives?

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-34-5

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Jul 2013

Till My Last Breath is a true, yet unusual and emotional, love saga. It is the story of happy-go-lucky Sameer who meets an angel, Prachi, one day, under unusual circumstances. But, they were destined to fall in love, and so they do, forging a beautiful bond of togetherness. But will their love be able to stand against the objection raised by their families? Will their true love reach its ultimate destination? Find out on this amazing journey of love.

Author : Om Shukla

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-37-6

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Jul 2013

This is an intriguing novel concerned with human relations and emotions as the characters traverse through the
labyrinth of time. Sumit is the heir to a huge inheritance, but has been in disgrace since his youth. He has to apprehend his father’s killer, if only to survive and enjoy his inheritance. His first suspicion falls on his father’s mistress and her son. But the catch is, she means more to him than his own mother, and her son is his best
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ISBN: 978-93-82536-38-3

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Sept.2013

This is a highly riveting story about love and betrayal and the struggle to be sane while caught in the blitz of such emotions.

A man wakes up from a very disturbing nightmare only to find that his reality is the one that is really disturbed. The death of a woman weighs heavily on his conscience. Why had he really done it? But more importantly, why had she? He is the ferociously vindictive hunter as her ex-lover. The fiery woman was supposed to be the ‘prey’. Her three friends were supposed to be her ‘protectors’. But what else can you expect from a man who was loved passionately by two remarkable women, both of whom he managed to betray!

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-33-8

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Oct. 2013

Teenage is a very special and sensitive time in one’s life. The novel is the story of teenage love, a love that longs

to survive the onslaught of time and emerge triumphant through all the pain and tears. But will it? But is love so easy? Is it in fact love or just an infatuation? Would teenage romance last forever? There is a pain along with love. Would the love survive it and go on to triumph?

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-10-9

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Jun.2013

In an urban landscape of fluctuating relationships, man and woman come together, they love and hate; some sleep is lost, much memory retained; the body keeps a tab of all war, all battles of the heart and mind, in the movement of togetherness. The characters in the tales dance in tune to each other. They track life through the lives around. Broken marriages, secret pain, abandoned desire, remembered childhood set the plots for the stories.

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-15-4

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Expected Publishing Date:May.2013

Novelists have always described a woman’s beauty from a man’s point of view. Here, for the first time, the beauty of a woman has been described from a woman’s angle. It is about the female beauty that is ever so delicate as it has a heart touching feel... it is soft, sweet and so fascinating… full of a deadly charm which when attains its peak can vibrantly glow like a fire... The novel depicts emancipated womanhood through figures like Sunita Williams, Kalpana Chawla and Ujjwalas - women who are very daring and with dashing ideals for the world at large.

Author : Dr S.K. Sood

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-18-5

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Jul.2013

It is a story of three women who mean so much to each other that they live inside each other’s lives,  dangerously. It is the story of a family that plays many lives out under many roofs yet remains bonded. The narrative appears to begin when the elder daughter is about to enter into an arranged marriage. Events break out in unanticipated patterns. There is a marriage; a daughter is banished from the sanctuary of her home while another attempts to build her own. Someone dies, caught in the vindictive shadow-play of life. But the story never ends.

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-16-1

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Oct. 2013

The tribal people, the original inhabitants of India, were displaced from their well developed settlements for various socioeconomic reasons. Epics and scriptures from the Vedic Period depict the tribal people as savages, slaves and cannibals.

The story revolves around two young men in the south of Bengal, the hot bed of extremist movement. The men were witness to the violent Food Movement of  1964, the uprising of the landless in 1967 and finally the large-scale violence with the advent of Naxals.

The novel traces the history of the tribal people, their love-hate relationship, the manner in which they were treated as savages and how they got assimilated into the mainstream.

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-36-9

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date:Oct. 2013

Author : Minal Sarosh

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-08-6

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Expected Publishing Date: Jun.2013

This is a story of a young medic: how he struggles through life as a student and emerges triumphant as a fully qualified doctor. The story reflects the joy and frustrations of campus life, love gained and lost, and rigours and sacrifices of the profession. Aesculapius had handed over his Staff to Hippocrates, together with its healing power, its knowledge and its immense responsibilities. This Staff has been carried through generations of medics. Now a young generation is ready to take charge of this Staff.

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-20-8

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Apr 2013

The stories in the volume seek to examine the grave face of life, mainly its tragic side from a socially-oriented perspective. While seeking to conceive reality in terms of the individual life of the people, the treatment has aimed at contextualizing individual life in the socio-political ethos of India, and more specifically of Kerala, the area from which the author hails. They explore some of the commonly-represented aspects of that ethos such as consumerism, social evils such as corruption and communalism, and the rapid changes that have been ushered in by the digitalized and globalized age in human relations. Human rights violations and issues of women too make their thematic presence felt in this collection.

Author : Dr. Prathap Kamath

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ISBN:978-93-82536-26-0

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: May 2013

This collection of short stories revolves around the lives of Indian men caught up in their own little webs. Sometimes the web is illusory, sometimes it binds with the strength of steel; sometimes the web casts a spell, sometimes the web breaks dreams. The stories of these men may seem small and insignificant histories, and yet they carry thorns or roses, and even make the world go round.

Author : RK Biswas

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-17-8

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Jun. 2013

The short stories collected in this volume offer a kaleidoscopic view of life in all its charms, vagaries, humour and pain. These are not strictly autobiographical pieces but the emotions and feelings that go into the making of a story by blowing up a small situation or a chance remark are real. These stories mirror social changes and the process of social evolution. They are the reflection of our times, our individual and social problems, the psyche of the community vacillating between its inherent values and the anger generated by oppressive power structures.

Author : Dr. Usha Bande

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-14-7

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Jul. 2013

The stories in the volume are an attempt to capture life in action through the prism of human emotions and complexities. The soulful, sensitive, evocative and pulsating stories cover the entire spectrum of human emotions right from love, romance, anger, animosity, frustration to the indifference, neglect and pathos of youth and old age. Written against the milieu of rural and urban India, these stories focus on the underprivileged, the  nfortunate and the oppressed.

Author : Archna Pant

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-29-1

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Aug. 2013

This is a collection of short stories that mainly express the unseen, the unheard and the unsaid in everything. The
stories magnify the little details of life and living, and the thoughts that circle around them. Death is often depicted as the true beginning and life as a process, an engineer of combinations that makes spiritual freedom possible. Some of the stories are dark, even sinister, while some others are surreal, not bound by the language of human experience. They are about simple people, the common people, who are seen and heard in the street every day.

Author : Hisham M Nazer

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-12-3

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Sept 2013

These stories, which were originally written in Marathi, comment on the social and familial values, concerns and commitments; interpersonal relationships; and the spaces of experience. They have a definite local flavour and a relish of the soil. They have played a crucial role in sensitizing the reader about the various cultural issues

specific to the region and yet, they exude universal appeal.

Author : Shubhangi Bhadbhade

Shubhangi Bhadbhade is an award winning writer from Nagpur. She is a novelist and short story writer, playwright and a columnist for Marathi newspapers. As a novelist she has authored more than two dozen novels, her works having been translated into Hindi, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Bengali and Telugu. Her plays Idam N’ Mam and Swami Vivekanand have been staged all over India, including far flung places like Andaman-Nikobar Islands and Leh-Ladakh. They have received several prestigious state and national awards. A large body of research work at M.Phil and Ph.D levels is being done on her oeuvre at universities like Nagpur and Jabalpur.

 

Translator – Dr. Usha Bande

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-35-2

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Sep. 2013

A young boy awaits his uncle who has promised to take him to the book fair. Several of the stories are set against the backdrop of France. They articulate strong diasporic voices, particularly of women and children: their longing for love and acceptance, their emotions and psychological sensitivities located around issues of multiculturalism and exile; and, ultimately, their resilience.

Author : Jinia Mukerjee Nath

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-22-2

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Aug. 2013

The book has been written to demolish the scientific community’s disdain for Serendipity. It is neither simply luck or chance; in fact, it has branched out into multiple directions and to the profoundly perceptive non-sceptics, it seems parallel to what the Sufi thinker Idries Shah said about a directorate of angels (or forces) that intervene in human affairs. It emphasises on the important role of providence or destiny in human life, for life is akin to a treasure hunt wherein Serendipity strews enough clues. But these would elude anyone who does not have a ‘prepared mind’ and a fire in the belly to understand Serendipity. The keyword therefore is sagacity.

Author : Max Babi

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ISBN: 978-93-82536-23-9

Binding: Paperback

Expected Publishing Date: Jun. 2013

This is an English translation of the great Bangla epic Meghnaad Badh Kabya authored by one of the greatest of Bengali poets, Michael Madhusudan Dutt. It is based on the epic Ramayana by Valmiki. The story revolves round the cowardly slaying of unarmed Meghnaad by Lakshman, the brother of Rama, whose wife, Sita had been abducted by Ravana, the king of Lanka and the father of Meghnaad.

The epic is in nine Cantos.

Unlike the popular versions of the Ramayana, Meghnaad is depicted here as a patriot, a loving husband and a dutiful son. The protagonist is Ravana, painted as a villain in the Ramayana, but shown to be a responsible, valiant king by Michael. The influence of Western, especially Greek classical epics is evident in this epic poem by Michael Madhusudan Dutt.

Author : Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824–1873), a 19th-century Bengali poet and dramatist, is considered a pioneer of Bengali drama. He is hailed as the father of the Bengali sonnet. He introduced the blank versein Bengali literature. His works indicate a high level of intellectual sophistication and an ability to fuse the technique and style of the West with thematic elements of the East. The richness of Bengali literature initially became evident to the whole world through his writings.
 

Co-Translators – Dr. Bina Biswas ; Dr. Sayantan Gupta

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