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Namita Gokhale’s exciting new retelling of the great Indian epic is a treat for young readers. Older readers will enjoy it, too. She shows why the Mahabharata is timeless and always relevant’ —Ruskin Bond ‘Without sacrificing the complexities of either the narrative or the characters...

A saga of love, loss and seasons of hope, Signs of Life is a vivid and evocative record of life in the times of pandemic. With uncertainty and unrest gripping the world, Kunti finds solace in translating the Mahabharata, cobbling together bits and pieces. As time and space stand suspended, she finds that stories repeat and renew themselves.

I am the rakshasa Ghatotkacha, born of the Lord Bhimasena and the lady Hidimba. I rule over hill and vale, wood and stream, protecting the spirit of the forest and all who live in it.' Young Chintamani Dev Gupta, on holiday in a bird camp near Lake Sattal, is transported via a wormhole to the...

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824--1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali poetry in the nineteenth century, especially with his free-verse epic, 'Meghnadhbadh Kabya', was a genius who never got his due. Throughout his life, Madhusudan was caught in an identity crisis: he wrote in the...

शिव कौन हैं? इस सवाल के कई ज़वाब मिलेंगे मगर लेखिका नमिता गोखले ने इस प्रश्न को अपने नज़रिए से समझा है. लेखिका ने इस...

ये पुस्तक बहुत अच्छी तरह से लिखी गई है और आपको भारत के पूर्व-मुगल समय में ले जाती है। यह एक युवा महिला की दुखद कहानी...

राग पहाड़ी' का देशकाल, उन्नीसवीं सदी के मध्य से लेकर बीसवीं सदी से पहले का कुमाऊँ है। कहानी शुरू होती है लाल-काले...

काशीतील घाटांवर एक आंधळा पुजारी एका तरुण स्त्रीला मृत्यू आणि पुनर्जन्माच्या अनंत चक्रात तिला जखडून ठेवणाऱ्या...

Treasures of Lakshmi is the culmination of the much-loved goddess series, brilliantly curated and edited by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal. This trilogy, which began with In Search of Sita and continued with Finding Radha, examines the mystical realms of Hindu thought and practice, celebrating the essence of the sacred feminine.

The Himalayas, the tallest and the youngest mountains in the world, spread from Afghanistan and Pakistan through India, Bhutan, Nepal and Myanmar, with their northern extrusions, the Ximalaya Shanmai, across the Tibetan plateau in China. Despite border restrictions, the inhabitants of this region continue to share a trans-Himalayan identity, fragile yet enduring. The Himalayan Arc focuses on a crucial, enthralling, politically turbulent, yet often underreported part of this Himalayan belt the East of South-east.

Sita is one of the defining figures of Indian womanhood, yet there is no single version of her story. Different accounts coexist in myth, literature and folktale. Canonical texts deify Sita while regional variations humanize her. Folk songs and ballads connect her timeless predicament to the...

Who was Radha, and why has she captured the imagination of so many writers across centuries? No other goddess combines the elements of bhakti and shringara quite as exquisitely as the divine milkmaid. She spans a vivid rainbow of imagery-from the playfulness of the Ras Lila to the soulfulness of...

लेखिका नमिता गोखले की ये किताब पहले इंग्लिश भाषा में 'Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions' के नाम से आयी थी. इसे लोगों ने इतना सराहा...

शिव कौन हैं? इस सवाल के कई ज़वाब मिलेंगे मगर लेखिका नमिता गोखले ने इस प्रश्न को अपने नज़रिए से समझा है. लेखिका ने इस...

राग पहाड़ी' का देशकाल, उन्नीसवीं सदी के मध्य से लेकर बीसवीं सदी से पहले का कुमाऊँ है। कहानी शुरू होती है लाल-काले...

शंकर म्हंटलं की नीळकंठ, अर्धनारीनटेश्वर, तांडव करणारा, राख फासून विहार करणारा, पार्वतीचा पती, लिंगपूजा अशा अनेक...