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  • Seasons of Sweetness

    A debut poetry collection from the author of "Parikrama" and "Mangoes for Monkeys", "Seasons of Sweetness" is Radhika Sharma's homage to beauty and all delights beautiful. These poems explore the innumerable facets of beauty and celebrate natural beauty, divine beauty and everyday surprises. An offering to bridge the depths of interior life, the power of memory, the lyricism of song, the adventure ... Read more

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  • Policy Analysis in India

    Series series International Library of Policy Analysis
    What drives policy choices in the world’s largest democracy, and how do analysts shape decisions that affect more than a billion people?Bringing together leading scholars and seasoned practitioners, Policy Analysis in India maps the evolution of policy analysis since the country became independent and reveals how analysis is conducted across ministries, sectors and levels of government. Through ... Read more

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  • Earthly Playing Field

    A Novel

    by Radhika Singh ...
    Series series Nonaligned
    Love and revolution in a crumbling world order.Roma has a steady job, a mortgage, and a surrogate family in Queens. But as she moves through her daily routines, the powerful Empire that rules her world bares its teeth elsewhere—crushing freedom movements across the planet, including the Punjabi farmers’ uprising where her younger brother struggles on the frontlines.Roma’s life is upended when her ... Read more

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  • Why are you here?

    Short Stories

    by Radhika Iyer ...
    Introducing Radhika Iyer’s debut collection, Why are you here? Twelve explosive short stories present twelve provoking female narratives.Iyer’s unique style is quirky yet powerful, as she illustrates a sense of otherness, as an immigrant and as a woman of colour.Iyer explores the struggle of being a woman in different cultures, as the stories take us from the harrowing results of a family scandal ... Read more

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  • Geopolitical Economy

    After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire

    by Radhika Desai ...
    Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis.Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of US hegemony, globalisation and empire which dominate academic international political economy and international relations, revealing their ideological origins in ... Read more

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  • Gautama's Curse

    The Sage, His Wife, and a Terrible Judgement

    Series Book 2949 - The Ramayana Character Library
    Sage Gautama's curse transformed his wife Ahalya into stone—or did it? This book explores one of the Ramayana's most haunting episodes: the deception of Indra, the terrible judgment, and a woman's long waiting. Across traditions, the story shifts: in Valmiki, Ahalya is turned invisible and later liberated by Rama's touch; in Tulsidas, she is a stone that Rama breaks; in Jain tellings, the whole ... Read more

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  • Shambuka

    The Episode Many Traditions Reject, and Why

    Series Book 2983 - The Ramayana Character Library
    The beheading of the Shudra ascetic Shambuka by Rama is one of the most troubling episodes in the entire Ramayana tradition. Found only in the oldest surviving version by Valmiki, it is deliberately omitted, altered, or rejected outright by dozens of later tellings across India and Southeast Asia. Why would a story that appears in the foundational text be so widely set aside? This book explores ... Read more

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  • Ahalya's Stone

    Curse, Release, and Centuries of Reinterpretation

    Series Book 2960 - The Ramayana Character Library
    Ahalya, the wife of sage Gautama, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the Ramayana—cursed to become a stone for centuries, then released by the touch of Rama's foot. But her story is far from uniform. In Valmiki's ancient Sanskrit epic, she is a penitent ascetic; in the Tamil Kamban, a victim of divine conspiracy; in Jain traditions, a different narrative altogether. Ahalya's Stone traces this ... Read more

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  • Vali's Accusation

    The Dying Speech That Indicts Rama

    Series Book 2926 - The Ramayana Character Library
    Few moments in the Ramayana cut as sharply as Vali’s dying words. As he lies on the forest floor, struck by an arrow Rama fired from concealment, the monkey king does not beg for mercy. He speaks—and his speech becomes an accusation that has echoed through the centuries. This book takes that speech as its centrepiece, examining Vali’s charge that Rama violated every code of honour a kshatriya ... Read more

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  • Who Were the Vanaras? Monkeys, Forest Peoples, and Interpretation

    Unlocking the Many Identities of Rama's Fierce and Faithful Companions

    Series Book 2935 - The Ramayana Character Library
    Who were the vanaras? Were they talking monkeys, a lost forest people, or divine beings in animal form? This book takes you on a journey across the Ramayana's many traditions to explore the true nature of Rama's most loyal allies. Drawing on Valmiki's ancient epic, the Jain Paumachariya, the Thai Ramakien, and living devotional practices, it untangles the complex layers of vanara identity. ... Read more

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  • Kaikeyi Before the Boons

    The Warrior Queen Who Saved a King

    Series Book 2876 - The Ramayana Character Library
    She was a warrior before she was a queen. Long before the fateful day in Ayodhya, Kaikeyi was the daughter of Kekeya, a princess trained in the arts of war. In Valmiki's Ramayana, she saved King Dasaratha's life on the battlefield and was granted two boons—boons that would later tear her family apart. But who was Kaikeyi before those boons? This book explores the woman behind the myth, drawing ... Read more

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  • Three Hundred Ramayanas

    Why the Story Has No Single Version

    Series Book 2999 - The Ramayana Character Library
    Most of us think we know the Ramayana: the prince, the exile, the demon king, the war, the reunion. But which Ramayana? The story told in Valmiki's ancient Sanskrit epic is not the same one sung in Tulsidas's Hindi masterpiece, nor the one performed in Thailand's Ramakien. In Java, Sita is the hero. In Jain traditions, Ravana is a noble figure killed by Lakshmana, not Rama. This book is a guide to ... Read more

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