Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai, Nikita Lalwani, Vikram Seth, Nalini Jones, Aman Sethi, Shobaa De, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Amit Chaudhuri, Jaspreet Singh, William Dalrymple, Sonia Faleiro, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, CS Lakshmi, And Mukul Kesavan Listings

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	1 AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India Salman Rushdie, Siddhartha Deb, Kiran Desai, Nikita Lalwani, Vikram Seth, Nalini Jones, Aman Sethi, Shobaa De, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Amit Chaudhuri, Jaspreet Singh, William Dalrymple, Sonia Faleiro, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, CS Lakshmi, and Mukul Kesavan Random House India, New Delhi, India, 2008, 8184000391 / 9788184000399, First Edition, Hardcover, New, New, Negar Akhavi  India is home to almost three million HIV cases. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatized and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that prevents people from openly discussing the facts around HIV, and keeps them from getting treatment. Stigma leads to discrimination against HIV positive people in hospitals, schools and even among families. In this ground-breaking anthology, sixteen of India’s well-known writers go on the road to tell the human story behind the epidemic. William Dalrymple meets the devadasis (‘temple women?, many of whom have become victims of HIV; Kiran Desai travels to the coast of Andhra where the sex workers are considered the most desirable and Salman Rushdie spends a day with Mumbai's transgenders. These writers travel the country to talk to housewives, vigilantes, homosexuals, police and sex-workers and together they create a complex and gripping picture of AIDS in India: who it is affecting, how and why. Eye-opening, hard-hitting and moving, AIDS Sutra will show you a side to India rarely seen before. Printed Pages: 344 with numerous b/w illustrations. 023760 Price: 9.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 Memory's Gold: Writings on Calcutta Amit Chaudhuri (ed.) Penguin/Viking, New Delhi, India, 2008, 067008252X / 9780670082520, First Edition, Hardcover, New, New,  "Kipling’s ‘city of dreadful night? the ‘nightmare experience?of Jawaharlal Nehru, ‘heroine of a hundred thousand loves? a ‘pestilential behemoth?Calcutta provokes extreme reactions in almost everyone who has encountered the city. Despite having ‘probably the filthiest climate on earth? described by Mark Twain as ‘enough to make a doorknob mushy? despite the doomsday predictions about it being a ‘dying city? Calcutta throbs with a life and a vitality all its own, drawing people from all walks of life to engage with it. This anthology brings together essays, stories, poems and memoirs of people who have shared an ardent relationship with Calcutta. From Henry Meredith Parker’s early nineteenth-century vignettes of life in the city to Ulrike Draesner’s overwrought images at the turn of the new millennium, from Tagore’s elegiac reminiscences of his childhood home to Sandipan Chattopadhyay’s hallucinogenic depictions of nights spent on the footpath, Memory’s Gold celebrates the coexistence of the sacrosanct and the blasphemous, so characteristic of Calcutta itself. This sumptuous collection, edited and meticulously put together by Amit Chaudhuri, one of India’s foremost novelists and writers, addresses almost all aspects of life in the metropolis. While Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s letter talks about the city’s extraordinary literary acumen—a shopkeeper who reads the Meghnadvad Kabya and engages the poet in a discussion on blank verse—Nirad Chaudhuri’s account introduces us to the ‘natives?and mansions of Calcutta. Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s realistic ‘Canvasser Krishnalal? dealing with an occupation typical to Calcutta, offers a striking contrast to Utpalkumar Basu’s surreal take on office culture in the magical city. Buddhadeva Bose’s classic treatise on that quintessential Calcuttan contribution to high culture, the adda, the essays on Durga Puja—when the city resembles an unreal pageant—and Moti Nandi’s piece on football, provide glimpses of the many passions that rule the city. Essays by Günter Grass and V.S. Naipaul, the chronicles of the Krittibas generation of poets and writers—Sunil Gangopadhyay and Shakti Chattopadhyay, among others—Sasthi Brata’s loving ode to College Street and the Coffee House and Jug Suraiya’s equally nostalgic take on Park Street, bring to the fore various perspectives on the city—the visitor’s, the inhabitant’s and the exile’s—all of which celebrate Calcutta with as much gusto as the fervour with which they often despair of it. Printed Pages: 560. 033849 Price: 17.25 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	3 Small Orange Flags During a 'State of Emergency' Amit Chaudhuri Seagull Books, Kolkata, India, 81-7046-246-0 / 9788170462460, First Edition, Paperback, New,  Printed Pages: 88. 012399 Price: 3.50 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	4 St Cyril Road and Other Poems Amit Chaudhuri Viking, New Delhi, India, 2005, 0670-058211 / 9780670058211, First Edition, Hard Cover, New, New,  In St Cyril Road and Other Poems, his first collection of verse, Amit Chaudhuri brings together many of the poems he has written over the last two decades. The early poems are permeated with a sense of place and an understated but powerful belief in the capacity of language to renovate our perceptions of the everyday—qualities we have now come to associate with Chaudhuri’s fiction. The later poems might be said to be about the heterogeneity and unpredictability of inspiration—a walk to the local medical store, a whiff of Old Spice aftershave, war in Iraq, voices overheard in a multi-storeyed building, a seasonal downpour, a Kashmiri apple ? Luminous and redolent, these poems magnify our sense of the many worlds that form our past and present. Printed Pages: 88. 010430 Price: 4.90 USD Add to Shopping Cart