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An independent publisher bringing fiction, non-fiction, translations, poetry, and children’s books from South Asia and the rest of the world.

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a month ago

We cannot recommend Jaishree Misra’s work enough and these two warm, witty memoirs will tell you why!

‘A Home for Mrs M’ along with its companion volume ‘A House for Mr M’ is available nationwide.
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#Memoir #JaishreeMisra @bahrisons_booksellers @faqirchandbookstore @midlandbooksofficial @midlandbookshopsouthex_1 @kunzum @ombookshop @fullcircleandcafeturtle @thebookshopinc @quill_and_canvasbooksart @rajatbookcorner @bookworlddehradun @kitabkhanabooks @crosswordbookstores @fictionarybooks @granthbookstore @titlewavesbookstores @literatigoa @the_dogears_bookshop @blossombookhouse @champacabooks @attagalatta @higginbothamsbookstore @walkingbookfairs @oxfordbookstores @starmarkindia @rachnabooks @pupiliobooks @thebookcafeaizawl @ukiyo_bookstore @sushome by @speakingtiger

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Everyone’s favourite writer turns his humorous and keenly observant eye to the wonderful world of insects.

Watch as he tells you more about them!
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#RuskinBond #NonFictionBook #RuskinBondOnNature #Insects #Butterflies @eurekachildrensbooks @storytellerkol @travelling_bookshop @lightroombookstore @koolskool_bookstore @kahanitree @pagdandi @storytellerkol @thebookshopincjunior @bahrisons_booksellers @faqirchandbookstore @midlandbooksofficial @midlandbookshopsouthex_1 @kunzum @ombookshop @bondoverbindings @fullcircleandcafeturtle @thebookshopinc @quill_and_canvasbooksart @rajatbookcorner @bookworlddehradun @kitabkhanabooks @crosswordbookstores @granthbookstore @titlewavesbookstores @literatigoa @the_dogears_bookshop @blossombookhouse @champacabooks @attagalatta @pupiliobooks @higginbothamsbookstore @walkingbookfairs @oxfordbookstores @starmarkindia @rachnabooks @thebookcafeaizawl @ukiyo_bookstore @sushome by @speakingtiger

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19 hours ago

Eleven women. One sacred journey. Eleven deeply personal ways of experiencing Hajj.

This beautiful new book brings together the insightful Hajj memoirs of 11 women from Assam, India, offering a deeply personal and varied account of their pilgrimage. Across its pages are reflections, emotions, practical wisdom, and real-life experiences that illuminate the many dimensions of the Hajj journey. 🤍

@teresarehman’s Her Hajj Story, published by @speakingtiger, brings together the voices of 11 women from Assam who inhabit many worlds ~ as mothers, daughters, sisters, grandmothers, professionals, service providers, and often, unofficial community spokespersons.

Their narratives, popularly known as “Hajj yatras” or “Hajj kathas”, were largely meant for private circulation among family and friends. Yet, as Rehman writes, these stories may never find their way into history books, even though they are raw, powerful accounts of courage, kindness, healing, passion and agency ~ stories waiting to be told and heard.

Perhaps that is what makes this collection so special: it gives these everyday women, and their extraordinary journeys, a place in the wider story of Hajj.

A beautiful book to read, share, and pass on. 🤍

Get your copy from your nearby bookstore.

#bookrecommendations #herhajjstory #hajjmubarak #booksbywomen #assam by @speakingtiger

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20 hours ago

It is perfectly possible to pervert the Constitution, without changing its form, by merely changing the form of the administration.’—B.R. Ambedkar

Dalits and the Indian Constitution asks a stark question: what has the Constitution actually done for the community most closely identified with its emancipatory promise—and where has it failed? In the lucid, argument-led cadence of this series, @anandteltumbde Anand Teltumbde moves from nationalist politics and the making of the Constitution to its most consequential provisions—abolition of untouchability; reservations in representation, education, and public employment; secularism and the everyday realities of impunity. He shows how constitutional ideals met entrenched social power, and why formal safeguards, without structural change, could not deliver substantive equality.

Refusing fatalism and nostalgia alike, Teltumbde insists that ‘constitutional morality’ must be cultivated through institutions that check arbitrary power and transform social habits, not merely recite pieties. Drawing on historical debate and contemporary evidence of discrimination, this compact monograph sets out first principles and practicable directions to turn rights into realities.

Clear-eyed, rigorous, and deeply committed to the Preamble’s promise, Dalits and the Indian Constitution is essential reading for citizens, students, and policymakers who want to recover the moral centre of India’s democratic project.

#dalit #constitutionofindia #reservation #reservationhataomovement #ambedkar by @speakingtiger

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21 hours ago

Thinkers Collective, in collaboration with @speakingtiger , invites you to an afternoon of books, memory and conversation around- 'For Whose Dear Sake Our Fathers Died' by @priya.hajela.
@kaveri_bedi (PhD), will be in conversation with @priya.hajela, exploring the book, its histories, and the personal stories that sit within them.
Join us on Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 4 pm at the @idc.india, Sector 38A, Chandigarh.
Open for all. We would love to have you with us.
#ThinkersCollective #PriyaHajela #KaveriBedi #SpeakingTigerBooks #BookLaunch #AuthorConversation #Chandigarh #BooksAndIdeas taken in Institute for Development and Communication - IDC, Chandigarh. India by @speakingtiger

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a day ago

What happens when we stop treating privacy as the natural place for sexuality?

Author & scholar Madhavi Menon questions the idea that some aspects of our lives must remain behind closed doors. And asks what it would mean to reverse one of our most familiar arrangements: religion in public, intimacy in private.

Not a prescription. A thought experiment.

Full conversation on YouTube. Link in bio.

#QueerTheory #Sexuality #Privacy #PoliticalTheory by @speakingtiger

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At the Bombay Gymkhana discussing my book 'The Other Side of the Mountain ' with Sanjiv Mehta
#leadership #wisdom #spirituality #grace by @speakingtiger

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She held my book! I felt quite surreal. Because, in my eyes, she is a courageous writer. Fearless, undaunted and never gave up her voice.
Am not courageous and I am not brave. My lips are always sealed. I am always fearful. Not so much for myself. But for those I love fearlessly.
So, the first thing I asked was: “in those moments, did you fear ever.” Were you scared.”
“Never,” she said.
@taslima_nasreen1 -salute you!!! May that undaunted spirit continue to inspire many…@speaking by @speakingtiger

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2 days ago

Happy publication day to our suitable author, Kersi Khambatta, for the release of his thrilling new book ‘Bombay Tabloid’, a fast, filthy and ferociously alive crime saga set in 1990’s Bombay.

About the book:
Bombay / Mumbai: Two brothers, Cyrus Kerman and Rumi Dubash, bound by blood spilled, not shared, will carry their deep-rooted grudges from the old city to the new, until only one of them—or neither—will be left standing.

A stowaway jumps ship and enters the city with new hopes and impossible dreams, but cruel fate will grind him down and bring him face-to-face with the very demons he escaped from.

A Bollywood ‘item girl’, with a righteous agenda and an axe to grind, flaunts her innocent yet deadly aura that will make men kill—and ultimately die for her.

‘Bombay Tabloid’ is a sprawling literary novel of obsessive love, dysfunctional families and revenge, blood-soaked rioters and brainwashed terrorists, all of whom will tumble and tangle in a classic clash of good versus evil in this City of Two Names, as that tenuous line between the bright lights of respectability and the dark menace of the underworld gets blurred.

The book is now available online and across bookstores. Grab your copy now.

#BombayTabloid #Mumbai #Fiction #Thriller by @speakingtiger

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2 days ago

We may or may not have cornered our author to make an elevator pitch about his new book... but when the book is a masterpiece, why not! ✨💅

‘Bombay Tabloid’ is officially out now. Go go go, grab your copy today.
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#BombayTabloid #IndianFiction #CrimeAndHistory #BombayBook @bahrisons_booksellers @faqirchandbookstore @midlandbooksofficial @midlandbookshopsouthex_1 @kunzum @ombookshop @fullcircleandcafeturtle @thebookshopinc @quill_and_canvasbooksart @rajatbookcorner @bookworlddehradun @kitabkhanabooks @crosswordbookstores @fictionarybooks @granthbookstore @titlewavesbookstores @literatigoa @the_dogears_bookshop @blossombookhouse @champacabooks @attagalatta @higginbothamsbookstore @walkingbookfairs @oxfordbookstores @starmarkindia @rachnabooks @pupiliobooks @thebookcafeaizawl @ukiyo_bookstore @sushome by @speakingtiger

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2 days ago

Meet author Sanjana Kapur this Wednesday to uncover the recipe of her latest chapter book,The Perfect Langar Dal(Illustrated by : @kavitasinghkale ; Published by #talkingcub ,@speakingtiger )
#authorinterview
Link in the bio . Or you can DM @kahanitakbak for it. by @speakingtiger

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