Sinha: 219 books

My mom had died after suffering a great pain. The sorrow of her separation was mitigated by loss of suffering by death.I reached the village, the car stopped at the gate of my brother. All the children of the neighbourhood came rushing, “Madhu phua has come.” My nephew and bhabhi also came out of...

This book is an English translation of the Sanskrit classic Play Abhijnan Shakuntalam by the great poet and Playwright Mahakavi Kalidas, written around 220 CE. The play is about the strange fate of Shakuntala, a simple, beautiful ascetic lady. King Dushyant meets her and falls in love with her. They...

Khadija is 18 is a story from the frontline of multicultural Britain, and explores the lives of two teenage refugee girls in London’s East End. Liza needs Khadija and Khadija needs Liza. When Khadija links up with Ade, things begin to unravel. Does Khadija care about Liza anymore? And what is Ade...

India's recent economic transformation has fascinated scholars, global leaders, and interested observers alike. In 1990, India was a closed economy and a hesitant and isolated economic power. By 2016, India has rapidly risen on the global economic stage; foreign trade now drives more than half of...

Dear Suzannah is the second book of poems by Pankhuri Sinha. It talks about a kind of infiltration, and racial control, which is damaging to the souls of people, to the notions of equality, and liberty. The poems also explore the truth of love, marriage, fidelity and adultery, their politics and circumstances. They raise the larger question of honesty in any and all relationships.

This book draws on the work of one of the sharpest minds of the 20th century, Piero Sraffa. Ludwig Wittgenstein credited him for 'the most consequential ideas' of the Philosophical Investigations (1953) and put him high on his short list of geniuses. Sraffa's revolutionary contribution to economics...

In an Indian household, the cleaning up of the house is the first step towards the celebration of an approaching festival. Not only it is hygienic but the symbolic significance of the festival is enhanced many times by this act of cleaning. It symbolizes purity of mind and clarity of thoughts before...

India is the world's third largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. For a country that had become mired in a mindset of being an almost-ran, it is quite an achievement. Alongside, however, are some startling statistics. It has, for instance, the largest number of poor people in a single...

“My mind is the sky, outerspace,My mind is the oceans, the sea.Dying stars and darkest depths haveFound their home in me.”All We Could Have Drowned is a collection of poems by Akanksha Sinha. Written during those angst-ridden teenage years, these poems will awaken feelings in everyone, irrespective...

First published in 2014 by Cresco Books. The places beyond the Rushlands are stark and desert-like; no-one who has ever been there will say that it has ever been hospitable. There are dying carcasses of animals that unfortunately strayed there, and flies feast on their entrails. Of course, these are...

In this Booker-shortlisted novel, Indra Sinha’s profane, furious, and scathingly funny narrator delivers an unflinching look at what it means to be human. I used to be human once. So I’m told. I don’t remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet,...

Set during the years of the British Raj, Umi Sinha's unforgettable debut novel is a compelling and finely wrought epic of love and loss, race and ethnicity, homeland - and belonging. Lila Langdon is twelve years old when she witnesses a family tragedy after her mother unveils her father's surprise...

SHADOWS is a tale of mysticism, fantasy and life. There are moments when we do not pay attention to certain aspects of life. Yet, they turn out to be a major factor on our journey. SHADOWS travels the path of awareness, shock and fear, and justifies the key element of its existence.

This is the first comprehensive volume on nearly periodic structures and mistuned blade vibration. Alok Sinha presents fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art techniques in the analysis of free and forced response of a nearly periodic structure, weaving together his own work (covering thirty-five...