Books by Rupa & Co

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Kishore Babu, born in 1925, wanders back to his school days, sustaining a head injury due to negligence during his heart bypass surgery in 1997 and starts roaming the streets of Calcutta on foot. This jaywalking transcends all the divisions of time and takes him to the times of his Great Grandfather Ramvilas Babu, to the shared story of a community and a city: The community ... ...Read More »

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The uncoventional storyteller's charming collection of short stories, selected from his first collection in English - Raavi Paar & Other Stories. Crisp narratives with a universal theme, which include anecdotes, biographical references and everyday incidents, narrated in a conversational style.

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In his long and celebrated career, Gulzar has worked with the... ...Read More »

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A quiz book with a difference! Explore the world of medicine through probing questions and answers, supplemented by explanatory notes. Anatomy, History of Medicine, Diseases, Infections, Treatment, Nutrition - Mediquiz covers a wide range of topics. For those interested in medicine, it's a treat. For students of science it is a bonus!

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Dr VK Kapoor, MBBS (... ...Read More »

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Poems from Puravi is a collection of seven poems. The translator is Kshitis Roy, former curator of the Tagore Museum at Santiniketan and editor of Viswa-Bharati Quarterly for many years.

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One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gitanjali was awarded the Nobel Pri... ...Read More »

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Fruit Gathering was first published in 1916. Three varying styles of thought and writing merge in Fruit Gathering and one is presented with a mystic Tagore with only one voice. The poems collected are from Gitimala, Gitali, Naivedya, Kheya etc.

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One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the liter... ...Read More »

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The Centre of Indian Culture was a lecture delivered in Madras on 9 February 1919. It is supposed to be the first lecture delivered by Tagore in English in India. It deals with what should be the ideal of education in India.

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One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when h... ...Read More »

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The Dancing Girl's Worship is Tagore's own translation of his Bengali drama Natir Puja. It is one of his simplest and most moving plays. It is comparatively free from symbolic complexities and intellectual abstractions.

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One of India's most cherished renaissance figures, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) put India on the literary map of the world when his Gi... ...Read More »

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A wonderful account of Ranjit Singh-the regal aura of the king himself, his grand military generals and ministers, the magnificence of his palace, his state and above all his strikingly disciplined and splendidly dressed army. ...Read More »

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The stories in this collection are about ordinary women overcoming, coping with, or triumphing over extra-ordinary circumstances. What the women in these stories have in common is the intense desire to dream on to make the ordinary business of living more enriching and extra-ordinary.

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Shoma A. Chatterji has been writing on gender studies, cinema, televisi... ...Read More »

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Autobiography of Charles Darwin contains the life and experiences of the man, not only in his own words, but also in the words of his son, Sir Francis Darwin.

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The natural historian and evolutionary theorist, Charles Darwin, initially studied medicine. However, he set sail on board the H.M.S. Beagle as a naturalist. When he returned to England in 18... ...Read More »