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S. Hareesh, translated by Jayasree Kalathil

Harper Perennial India

Rs.599

This “novel of power and rebellion” reimagines Kerala’s history as an alternative world where the lines between fact and fiction, faith and power, sanity and madness blur.

Slow Burn

Amal Singh

Penguin

Rs.399

The failed actor Rishi Tripathi lands up in an alternative Mumbai where he is a superstar. When he gets to know the price to be paid for this, he wants to go back. But is he ready to be a failure again?

Register Me as Kulbhushan

Alka Saraogi, translated by John Vater

Penguin

Rs. 599

The protagonist knows a mantra that can induce instant amnesia. An East Bengali scarred by Partition, he needs it the most. A novel of history, disillusionment, trauma, exile, myth, and memory spanning four decades.

Queer India Now

Edited by Dhrubo Jyoti & Dhamini Ratnam

Queer Directions

Rs.599

What does it mean to live, work, and love as LGBTQIA+ in India today? Queer lawyers, trans doctors, and artists reveal how identity, caste, and dignity play out daily in a society that remains legally restrictive and socially unaccommodating.

The Constitution Is My Home

Indira Jaising, in conversation with Ritu Menon

HarperCollins India

Rs.699

The senior advocate Indira Jaising reflects on five decades of landmark legal battles—from triple talaq to the Bhopal gas tragedy to Sabarimala—in this memoir, at once a record of resistance and a call to hold fast to the republic’s founding promises.

India Out of Work: Rethinking India’s Growth Story

Santosh Mehrotra & Jajati Parida

Bloomsbury

Rs. 699

India may be the last major economy with a demographic dividend, and it is squandering it. Two economists make a data-driven case for why the next 15 years will determine whether India grows rich or merely grows old.