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    Hymns of Tukaram

    Behold! The Word is God contains a selection of 51 abhangas (devotional poems)

    from celebrated Bhakti poet Tukaram's vast oeuvre, each Marathi abhanga

    followed by two English interpretations-Shanta Gokhale's and…

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    Thinking Aloud

    Jerry Pinto

    Compelling and personal essays that underscore the importance of inclusive storytelling in understanding our world.

    In Thinking Aloud, Jerry Pinto examines the notion of Bollywood as a national cinema in…

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    The Engaged Observer: The Selected Writings of Shanta Gokhale

    Shanta Gokhale

    A collection of writings by an incandescent and gloriously eclectic intellectual of contemporary India.

    For over four decades, Shanta Gokhale has entertained, informed and challenged us with her insightful, witty…

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    Boy, Unloved (Edition1)

    Damodar Mauzo

    In a sleepy village in Goa, a child grows up in a house whose windows are

    never opened. The door is often locked as well, and no visitors ever come

    …

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    Asylum and Other Poems

    Jerry Pinto

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    Bound by the need for breath

    We lie on beds of foaming rubber.

    But the room is filled with

    The rhythm of blood and need and the story.

    We…

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    I Want a Poem and Other Poems

    Jerry Pinto

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    I want a poem like thick tropical rain.

    Dense green spatter of syllables,

    Drumbeat consonants, fertile with meaning.

    Sudden. Short. Unforgettable.

    Afterwards, jungle silence.

    I want a poem like…

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    Em and the Big Hoom: A Novel

    Jerry Pinto

    In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the ‘Big Hoom’…

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    Citizen Gallery the Gandhys of Chemould and the Birth of Modern Art in Bombay

    Jerry Pinto

    Now a byword in the art world, the story of Gallery Chemould begins in

    the 1940s when Kekoo Gandhy decided to set up a picture-framing store on

    Princess Street. To…

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    What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

    Jerry Pinto

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    What do you want to be when you grow up?

    Will you drive a taxi? Dance the ballet? Cure a disease? Or become an

    Olympic archer?

    Jerry Pinto answers…

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    THE STORY OF MY LIFE Dosebai Cowasjee Jessawalla

    The granddaughter of Seth Cursetjee Manekjee Shroff, the noted philanthropist

    whose statue in Byculla Mumbaikers fondly call 'Khada Parsi', Dosebai Cowasjee

    Jessawalla (1832-1911) was one of the first Indian girls…

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    A Book of Light: When a Loved One Has a Different Mind

    In 2012, Jerry Pinto published his debut novel, ‘Em and the Big Hoom’, which drew upon his experience of living with a mother who was bipolar. It touched thousands of…

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    Helen: The Silverscreen Lives of an H-Bomb

    Jerry Pinto

    It is now well over three decades since the Hindi-film heroine drove the vamp

    into extinction, and even longer since the silver screen was ignited by the

    true Bollywood version…

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    Em and the Big Hoom

    Jerry Pinto

    In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the ‘Big Hoom’…

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    Em and the Big Hoom

    Jerry Pinto

    In a tiny flat in Bombay Imelda Mendes - Em to her family - is by turns flamboyant, maniacally affectionate and cruelly candid. Her husband - Augustine, the ‘Big Hoom’…

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    A Very Indian Christmas

    Salman Rushdie, Rabindranath Tagore, Jhumpa Lahiri, Aravind Adiga, Jerry Pinto, Damodar Mauzo

    "Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination, and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural nation is Christmas. The Christian…

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    Tickle Me, Don’t Tickle Me: And Other Poems for Magnificent, Turbo-Loaded, Triple-Charged Children

    Jerry Pinto

    A superb first book of poetry for children by award-winning author Jerry Pinto.

    Why is the hamster such a scamster?

    What’s it with mothers and coconut oil?

    What happens to…

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    I Have Not Seen Mandu a Fractured Soul-Memoir

    Swadesh Deepak

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    When Swadesh Deepak-celebrated Hindi playwright and short-story writer-

    arrives at PGI, Chandigarh, after having tried to set himself on fire, the doctors

    don’t know if he belongs in the…

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    Strike a Blow to Change the World

    Eknath Awad

    ‘This is an inspiring book by an inspiring man and deserves to be widely read…A must-read for all those interested in Dalit politics and caste change.’–Hugo Gorringe, author of Untouchable…

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    Baluta

    Daya Pawar

    The first Dalit autobiography to be published, Baluta caused a sensation when it first appeared, in Marathi, in 1978. It quickly acquired the status of a classic of modern Indian…

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    I, the Salt Doll: A Memoir

    Vandana Mishra

    ‘A richly detailed and intimate history of an extraordinary life and an extraordinary city, full of warmth, humour, empathy and wisdom.’ Sushila Lotlikar was barely in her teens when tragedy…

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    Half-Open Windows

    Ganesh Matkari

    ‘On one side, the sea. On the other, the city. A city that seemed to believe that the Queen’s Necklace was enough past for it, a city sacrificing its beauty…

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    Cobalt Blue

    Sachin Kundalkar, Jerry Pinto, Sachin Kundalkar

    A paying guest seems like a win-win proposition to the Joshi family. He's ready with the rent, he's willing to lend a hand when he can and he's happy to…

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    Bombay-Mumbai: A City in Stories

    'You cannot catch a city in words. You cannot catch a city at all, ' write the editors

    of this anthology. So how do you get the spirit of India's…

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    In that Mill, I too was Forged: Poems of Narayan Surve (Edition1)

    Narayan Surve

    Abandoned soon after birth, Narayan Gangaram Surve (1926-2010) was

    brought up by mill workers, but left to fend for himself once again at the age

    of twelve in the chawls…

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    Bombay: Meri Jaan

    Jerry Pinto,Naresh Farnandes

    When King Charles II of England married Princess Catherine de Braganza of Portugal in 1661, he received as part of his dowry the isles of Bom Bahia, the Good Bay…

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    Cobalt Blue: A Novel

    Sachin Kundalkar

    This translation first published: New Delhi, India: Hamish Hamilton, 2013.

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    Beyond the Boundaries of Bollywood: The Many Forms of Hindi Cinema

    This book looks at films produced since the mid-1990s to address ideas, themes, and issues which lie outside accepted definitions of what is ‘Bollywood’. It includes essays by established scholars…

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    When I Hid My Caste: Stories

    Baburao Bagul

    ‘Jevha Mi Jaat Chorli Hoti (When I Hid My Caste) was hailed as the epic of Dalits . These brilliant stories gave Dalits the strength to face the painful and…

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    Indian Christmas an Anthology

    DeScriPtion

    Few countries celebrate religious and cultural festivals with greater passion, imagination

    and joy than India. And among the many festivals of this gloriously diverse, multicultural

    nation is Christmas-the night…

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    The Ant Who Swallowed the Sun

    Jerry Pinto

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    I Want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir

    Malika Amar Shaikh

    Malika Amar Shaikh was born to Communist-activist parents–her father, Shahir Amar Shaikh, was a trade-union leader and legendary Marathi folk singer. Brought up amidst the hurly-burly of Maharashtrian politics of…

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    The Greatest Indian Fairy Tales

    Enter the magical, timeless world of classic fairy tales from India.

    A prince sets out on an adventure and is joined by a talking parrot and the ‘Ant-Raja’. Together, can…

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    Prankenstein: The Book of Crazy Mischief

    Watch out as mischiefs and mischief-makers of all shapes and sizes come tumbling out in this hilarious collection of stories.

    Is your school a hotspot for jokes? Do your family…

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