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'... takes the reader on a journey across a fascinating land peopled with unforgettable characters .'  Read more about the book... 

'...  brings to vivid life the journeys and adventures of  [scholars, spies and invaders in Tibet]...  a sparkling, unprecedented work of non-fiction.' 

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' ... effortlessly merges travel, history, literature, memory, politics and the pleasures of ennui into an unforgettable portrait of a place and its people.'

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'  Many years after Baudelaire's aborted voyage to Calcutta, a child was born in a bylane of the city's suburb.'

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' A concern for environment leads Parimal Bhattacharya to broader themes of uprooting, memories, civilization and man’s place on earth.'

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'[The] autobiography of the Bengalis....  the author has set out on a fascinating trip, listening to the tales of grit blood love and dreams ... the life story of a young deltaic land.'

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' From an antique bookshop at Shimla to the forests of Shingalila, from the old graveyard in Kolkata’s Park Street to a remote Arunachal village, the author has pieced together an incredible narrative.'

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' Fashioned out of diverse materials that include memoirs, gazetteers, a journal and vintage photographs, this book inhabits the unclassifiable and provocative space between history and fiction, autobiography and narrative non-fiction.'

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' Deep in western Odisha, upon a magic mountain named Niyamgiri, a colourful ‘primitive’ tribe is locked in a fairytale battle against a giant mining company – to save their god, their homeland and its unique biodiversity.'

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'Like the snaky hill paths of this charming, 125 year-old town, the narrative twists and turns through history, memories, politics and society.'

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' from the heart of Sundarbans to Shantiniketan, from the floodplains of dying rivers to the ochre plains of Jangalmahal. .. a tapestry of sights, sounds and smells that often speak more than cold statistics.'

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' War, Genocide, Holocaust, Riots … 20th century has seen some of the unspeakable forms of violence... Words and memories have been used, like weapons, by artists and poets as diverse as Pablo Neruda, Francis Bacon, Lorca, Sartre, Paul Eluard, Luis Bunuel, Urvashi Butalia, Tarkovsky …A selection from their writings.'

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'A quest for home in Andrei Tarkovsky’s art. Selected writings and interviews of the great master.'

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'‘I always view myself as a workman, an exceptionally skilled workman – one who makes chairs and tables that people can put to use.’ Ingmar Bergman loved to say this about himself. But what has the great master of cinema left behind that we can truly put to use? What is his legacy? To look for an answer, one has to trawl through his writings and interviews.'

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  A splendid selection from two hundred years of nonfiction on hills and hill stations put together by put together by Ruskin Bond and Bulbul Sharma. Parimal Bhattacharya included in the list of august writers including Rumer Godden, Rabindranath and Abanindranath Tagore, Emily Eden, Francis Younghusband, Jim Corbett, Jawaharlal Nehru, Khushwant Singh, Keki Daruwalla, and of course the two editors themselves.  

   Edited and Introduction by Parimal Bhattacharya. Read more about the book... 

'Gandhian social activist Himanshu Kumar talks about the plight of tribals in Bastar region and the brutal state repression. Also, essays by Justice Rajinder Sachar, journalist Javed Iqbal and others.'