Author: Emminent Contributors
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 450
ISBN/UPC (if available): 014310358X
Description
For some years now, it’s been happy season for books and publishing in India. But the most enduring success story in English-language trade publishing in the country—indeed in all of Asia—began long before this.
These commemorative volumes of the finest writing published by Penguin are dedicated to the finest Indian authors and authors of Indian origin anywhere in the world. Showcased here are authors who have topped best-seller charts in India and abroad, and won virtually every major literary prize including the Nobel Prize, the Jnanpith Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
It is unlikely you will find a richer, more representative collection of writing from or about South Asia. This series of Fiction and Non-Fiction in 5volumes bring the best in contemporary Indian and international literature to readers everywhere.
Contents
Publisher's Note
Myth = Mithya
DEVDUTT PATTANAIK
The Comic Comes Courting
JERRY PINTO
The Old Fox
GITA PIRAMAL
Island of Blood
ANITA PRATAP
A Light Still Burns
SHOBITA PUNJA
Kashmir
HUMRA QURAISHI
Games Indian Play
V RAGHUNATHAN
Face to Face
SUNAAD RAGHURAM
Folktales from India
A K RAMANUJAN
Ayodhya: What Happened and Why
P V NARASIMHA RAO
Project Tiger
SATYAJIT RAY
The Ladies Have Feelings, So
ARUNDHATI ROY
Prelude: Countdown to Independence
GOPA SABHARWAL
Ramdas Korwa's Road to Nowhere
P SAINATH
The Universal Charm of Omelet's
VIR SINGHVI
Chasing the Monk's Shadow
MISHI SARAN
Death by Fire
MALA SEN
On Balance
LEILA SETH
From Heaven Lake
VIKRAM SETH
Launching into Space
AMRITA SHAH
Hindutva
JYOTIRMAYA SHARMA
Sacred Spaces
YOGINDER SIKAND
Jammu and Kashmir 1948 - 64
KARAN SINGH
Village in the Desert
KHUSHWANT SINGH
The Guru
RENUKA SINGH
The View from Pakistan
TAVLEEN SINGH
A Chance Encounter
YASHWANT SINHA
Tibet : Land of an Eloquent Absence
JUG SURAIYA
Near Mrs
SUNIL SURI
Extras
ROOPA SWAMINATHAN
The Mountain Turns White
STROBE TALBOTT
Forget Kathmandu
MANJUSHREE THAPA
Early India
ROMILA THAPAR
India
SHASHI THAROOR
Jaipur Nama
GILES YILLOSTONE
No Full Stops in India
MARK TULLY
Birthday Bash
VAASANTHI
Love Rites
RITH VANITA
I Salute You, Geetaben, from the Bottom of My Heart
SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN
Being Indian
PAVAN K VARMA
My Own Country
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
Home as Hell
PINKI VIRANI
Treasures of the Thuinder Dragon
ASHI DORJI WANGMO WANGCHUCK
We Don't Like Cricket, We Love it
JOHN WRIGHT
The Beginnings
S HUSSAIN ZAIDI
The Future of Freedom
FAREED ZAKARIA
V R