Harper Xxi imprint: 35 books

One-time film extra-turned farmer-turned politico, Jagubhai, has become a state MLA thanks to his stars and caste-based politics. The chief minister remembered his hotel mate at the right time and pulled a few strings. Now Jagubhai aspires to land the Industries portfolio, for a cabinet reshuffle is in the offing.

Sunil Gangopadhyay was the foremost of Bengal's angry but romantic young poets in the second half of the twentieth century. Throughout his writing life, he wrote a continuous sequence of love poems addressed to a mythical woman named Neera. These poems became the mantra of two generations of young...

Tales of horror that will draw out your darkest fears and send shivers down your spine.

Operation Cactus was a unique mission for the Indian Army. Within hours of receiving an appeal for assistance from the Government of Maldives, Indian troops rescued President Abdul Gayoom and foiled a coup detat attempt by rebel forces led by Abdullah Luthufi and assisted by the Tamil secessionist...

A new baby gives a fifty-three-year-old father a new lease of life. It also sharpens his ears to the unmeaning cruelty of friends and strangers. One story among the millions of aches and hopes that make up the teeming metropolis.

An employee's roving eye leads to an exotic offsite gender-sensitivity workshop that throbs with lust in this dystopian tale about the corporate world.

Dr Rudi V. Webster draws up a fail-safe recipe for on-the-ground performance enhancement in this remarkable book. He ropes in some of the world's finest sportsmen, including Mahendra Singh Dhoni, to explain their own success techniques. Performance is built on the four interconnected pillars of sport: fitness, technique, strategy and mental skill, but the last one is the most important.