LATEST TITLES
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Ismat first rebelled at age five, when she threatened to “run away from home and become a Christian” if her mother didn’t let her go to school. She survived childhood “by writing about my f [...]
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India on Their Minds: 8 Women, 8 Ideas of India
Anniversaries are markers, and a country’s 75th anniversary commemorating its independence from colonial rule, is certainly special. But an anniversary can also offer an opportunity for reflection, [...]INR 399.00 -
Ways of Beings: Creative Non-Fiction by Pakistani Women
Fifteen of the most articulate and creative non-fiction writers from Pakistan eloquently demonstrate that, as Sabyn Javeri says, “Who you are is more accurately represented by what you stand for, [...]
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The Long Arc of South Asian Art: Essays in Honour of Vidya Dehejia
The long arc of art historical enquiry in the Indian subcontinent spans several centuries, and virtually all the arts, from temple architecture and sculpture to the striking of coins.
The 2 [...]
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ACADEMIC & NON-FICTION
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Why I Am Not A Hindu Woman: a personal story
In a reasoned critique of Hindutva and Hinduism, feminist scholar and activist, Wandana Sonalkar, outlines why she, born female and upper caste in Maharashtra, has repudiated her religious identity [...]
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Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? Narratives of Resistance and Resilience
Kashmir is hypervisible and enormously powerful in the contemporary Indian imaginary, and can be made to carry different political meanings and messages. The terms Kashmiri Pandit, Kashmiri Muslim, Ka [...]INR 0.00 -
Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
In Oneness vs. the 1%, Vandana Shiva takes on the Billionaires Club of Gates, Buffett, Zuckerberg and other modern Mughals, whose blindness to the rights of people, and to the destructive [...]
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Gaining Ground: The Changing Contours of Feminist Organising in Post-1990s India
The 1990s were a turning point for the Indian Women’s Movement (IWM). New challenges complicated old issues, affecting the analyses and strategies for mobilising. Feminists were pushed into quest [...]
INR 650.00
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES, MEMOIRS, REMINISCENCES
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A Revolutionary Life: Memoirs of a Political Activist
In 1940, Lakshmi Sahgal left for Singapore to work as a doctor, and came into contact with a group of expatriate Indians who would form the core of the future Indian National Army. In July 1943, Ne [...]
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Side Effects of Living: An Anthology of Voices on Mental Health
There are different sizes of bodies. There are different shades of the mind. There are different states of mind in distress. Side Effects of Living presents the words and verses of survivo [...]
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Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women!
Marriage is near universal in India. For women, like it or not, marriage and motherhood become their career ‘choices’. Families, society, peer groups, young girls, themselves, are so conditione [...]
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Fallen Standing: My Life As A Schizophrenist
Reshma was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was 22. As she says, she didn’t ‘even know what the darn word meant’. In this extraordinary, first-of-its-kind account she writes about her exper [...]INR 325.00
FICTION
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Street Singers of Lucknow and Other Stories
This fascinating collection of short stories highlights the innovative genius of this iconoclastic writer as she moves from realism to the fabular, and from history to time-travel. In the title story, [...]INR 395.00 -
The Collectors' Chughtai: Her Choicest Stories
In this selection of stories from one of Urdu’s best and boldest feminist writers we move through the chawls, havelis, mosques and villages of India, meeting characters from all classes of society. [...]INR 675.00 -
Qurratulain Hyder, Saleem Kidwai
At the heart of Ship of Sorrows is a group of young friends, men and women, Hindu and Muslim, living in Lucknow on the cusp of Indian Independence. Like the rest of the country, their live [...]
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Eleven eccentric aunts, eleven delicious stories of waywardness, obduracy, adventure and rebellion by those from whom it’s least expected–women who’ve been trained to conform. Bulbul Sharma’s [...]INR 350.00
ARABESQUE
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Menopausal Palestine Women at the Edge: Women at the Edge
Palestine, menopausal? Can a women’s condition called ‘change of life’ afflict a nation-in-the-making? Suad Amiry’s wacky, irreverent, unmistakably political account links the state of Pale [...]
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Writer and architect Suad Amiry, who was born in an old neighbourhood of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, takes her reader by the hand through not only the narrow alleys [...]INR 350.00 -
Gaza Mama: Politics and Parenting in Palestine
How does a mother explain the complex reality of Gaza to her own young children, rightly perplexed at the attitude of visa authorities, the threats of Israeli soldiers and the pain and unbelonging [...]
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In the 1970s, a group of activists, united by the dream of a better Iraq, organised in opposition to the Baath Party and its charismatic leader, Saddam Hussein. Haifa Zangana was among the resister [...]
INR 375.00
PAMPHLETS
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Feminism and its Relevance in South Asia
Kamla Bhasin, Nighat Said Khan
Feminism is charged with being an ‘imported western’ idea and considered irrelevant for women in South Asia. Why are feminists considered to be rebels? Who are feminists, to begin with? This class [...]INR 55.00Out of stock -
This lucid discussion of the concept of 'gender' in feminist discourse deals with questions like the relationship between 'gender' and 'woman'; the difference between 'women and development' and 'gend [...]INR 85.00 -
This pamphlet looks at the introduction of patriarchy by feminists, as an analytical category in theorising women’s subordination–at how it is constituted; at its origin; and how it has evolved hi [...]INR 55.00Out of stock -
Why is everyone talking about masculinity these days? What exactly do we mean by it? Is there only one kind of masculinity or do we have to deal with many masculinities? This lucidly written pamphlet [...]INR 85.00
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Ismat first rebelled at age five, when she threatened to “run away from home and become a Christian” if her mother didn’t let her go to school. She survived childhood “by writing about my f [...]
INR 625.00 -
India on Their Minds: 8 Women, 8 Ideas of India
Anniversaries are markers, and a country’s 75th anniversary commemorating its independence from colonial rule, is certainly special. But an anniversary can also offer an opportunity for reflection, [...]INR 399.00
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Why I Am Not A Hindu Woman: a personal story
In a reasoned critique of Hindutva and Hinduism, feminist scholar and activist, Wandana Sonalkar, outlines why she, born female and upper caste in Maharashtra, has repudiated her religious identity [...]
INR 350.00 -
Can You Hear Kashmiri Women Speak? Narratives of Resistance and Resilience
Kashmir is hypervisible and enormously powerful in the contemporary Indian imaginary, and can be made to carry different political meanings and messages. The terms Kashmiri Pandit, Kashmiri Muslim, Ka [...]INR 0.00
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A Revolutionary Life: Memoirs of a Political Activist
In 1940, Lakshmi Sahgal left for Singapore to work as a doctor, and came into contact with a group of expatriate Indians who would form the core of the future Indian National Army. In July 1943, Ne [...]
INR 250.00 -
Side Effects of Living: An Anthology of Voices on Mental Health
There are different sizes of bodies. There are different shades of the mind. There are different states of mind in distress. Side Effects of Living presents the words and verses of survivo [...]
INR 299.00
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Street Singers of Lucknow and Other Stories
This fascinating collection of short stories highlights the innovative genius of this iconoclastic writer as she moves from realism to the fabular, and from history to time-travel. In the title story, [...]INR 395.00 -
The Collectors' Chughtai: Her Choicest Stories
In this selection of stories from one of Urdu’s best and boldest feminist writers we move through the chawls, havelis, mosques and villages of India, meeting characters from all classes of society. [...]INR 675.00
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Menopausal Palestine Women at the Edge: Women at the Edge
Palestine, menopausal? Can a women’s condition called ‘change of life’ afflict a nation-in-the-making? Suad Amiry’s wacky, irreverent, unmistakably political account links the state of Pale [...]
INR 250.00Out of stock -
Writer and architect Suad Amiry, who was born in an old neighbourhood of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, takes her reader by the hand through not only the narrow alleys [...]INR 350.00
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Feminism and its Relevance in South Asia
Kamla Bhasin, Nighat Said Khan
Feminism is charged with being an ‘imported western’ idea and considered irrelevant for women in South Asia. Why are feminists considered to be rebels? Who are feminists, to begin with? This class [...]INR 55.00Out of stock -
This lucid discussion of the concept of 'gender' in feminist discourse deals with questions like the relationship between 'gender' and 'woman'; the difference between 'women and development' and 'gend [...]INR 85.00