Sanjay Gupta

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks amongst the most famous works in the history of literary fiction. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading...

He ran from a life of drugs and bullets. Now, he runs to shatter records. Rahul Jadhav took the name Bhiku after a character from the 1998 cult classic Satya a gangster who was everything Rahul once wanted to be. He captured his dons attention after gaining notoriety as a tech-literate criminal, running his extortion ring over Skype. Soon, he found...

‘Elegant, lucid and funny, this book will appeal to as many readers as there are desires.’—Shohini Ghosh‘The history of desire in India,’ writes Madhavi Menon in this splendid book, ‘reveals not purity but impurity as a way of life. Not one answer, but many. Not a single history, but multiple tales cutting across laws and boundaries.’ In Bhakti poe...

This powerful work about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender.The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu--born a boy, but a eunuch by choice--who has spent most of her life in a close-kn...

About the Book: Moving to Goa Many people dream of escaping the stresses and strains of urban life and moving to Goa. Katharina Kakar and her husband, the psychoanalyst and writer Sudhir Kakar, followed their dream and boldly took that plunge-buying a charming old house in a tranquil south Goa village, where they hoped to find a whole new way of li...