Past the Tower, Under the Tree: Twelve Stories of Learning in Community
Edited by Balamohan Shingade and Erena Shingade (GLORIA Books)


Past the Tower, Under the Tree offers a portrait of twelve artists and activists crafting a life in community. From street theatre to rap, from the tattoo hut to the meditation hall, each contributor offers a window into unexpected contexts and rich forms of practice. In these contributions that span love letters to tributes to appeals, we’re invited to reimagine what it means to learn, and to recover a promise in that process: the possibility of a fuller education, where craft and companionship go together.
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Slender Volumes
Poems by Richard von Stumer


Slender Volumes
locates the cypress trees of Buddhist folklore in Onehunga and the teachings of the Zen tradition along its foreshore. Elaborating on kōans collected by poet-philosopher Eihei Dōgen, each poem fastens centuries and distances together to find insight in everyday things: seagulls on a handrail, insects drinking from a pan of water, sump oil glistening in a white bucket.
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Two Buffaloes and the Moon
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Limited Edition of 100
Our limited edition tote bag features Two Buffaloes and the Moon, an illustration by Balamohan Shingade in response to Richard von Sturmer’s poem “Nanquan’s ‘Water Buffalo.’”

“When asked where he will go after his last breath, Nanquan replies that he will become a water buffalo at the foot of a mountain. I nod in agreement, my head heavy but well-balanced with two large horns...” (16).


Philippa Emery, “Part One” (2024), edition of 10
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Thom Hinton, “Poem 8” (2024), edition of 10

Thom Hinton, “Poem 12” (2024), edition of 10
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Thom Hinton, “Poem 43” (2024), edition of 10


Philippa Emery, “Part Three” (2024), edition of 10
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Philippa Emery, “Part Six” (2024), edition of 10
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The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told: Fifty Masterpieces from the Nineteenth Century to the Present


EDITED BY ARUNAVA SINHA
PUBLISHED BY ALEPH BOOK COMPANY, 2023


$ 55.00 NZD



A selection of some of the finest literary short fiction written by Indian writers since the genre came into being in the country in the late nineteenth century.



The Greatest Assamese Stories Ever Told
Selected and edited by Mitra Phukan


The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Arunava Sinha

The Greatest Gujarati Stories Ever Told
Selected and edited by Rita Kothari

The Greatest Hindi Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Poonam Saxena

The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Neerja Mattoo

The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by A. J. Thomas


The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told
Selected and edited by Ashutosh Potdar

The Greatest Odia Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre and K. K. Mohapatra

The Greatest Punjabi Stories Ever Told
Selected and edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri

The Greatest Tamil Stories Ever Told
Selected and edited by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan and Mini Krishnan

The Greatest Telugu Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Dasu Krishnamoorty and Tamraparni Dasu


The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon

Crafting the World: Writings from Manipur, edited by Thingnam Anjulika Samom


Women’s writing forms a vibrant part of Manipuri literature. Crafting the Word captures a region steeped in conservative patriarchy and armed conflict, and also a place where women’s activism has been at the forefront of peace-making.

Tags: anthology, Northeast India, Zubaan Books


Riverside Stories: Writings from Assam, edited by Banamallika



Stories abound in Assam’s fields, ponds, rivers, forests, hills and cities. Most of its people wear each other’s clothes, eat each other’s food, speak each other’s languages. Women and transpeople bring stories of multiple experiences from Assam to the world.

Tags: anthology, Northeast India, Zubaan Books  
The Keepers of Knowledge: Writings from Mizoram, edited by Hmingthanzuali and Mary Vanlalthanpuii


An old Mizo proverb holds that a woman’s wisdom takes her only as far as the village stream. And yet, when the editors sought writings by women, they were delighted to find a wealth of stories, narratives, personal accounts, poems, art and more.

Tags: anthology, Northeast India, Zubaan Books
The Many That I Am: Writings from Nagaland, edited by Anungla Zoe Longkumer


A grandmother’s tattoos, the advent of Christianity, stories woven into fabrics, a tradition of orality, the imposition of a “new” language, a history of war and conflict: All this and much more informs the writers and artists in this book.

Tags: anthology, Northeast India, Zubaan Books
We Come From Mist: Writings from Meghalaya, edited by Janice Pariat


Many of these works capture the quiet unease of civil unrest—in homes and kitchens, in marketplaces and taxis. Yet this anthology is also a celebration of wisdom and joy, of queerness and sisterhood, of mothers and feminine bodies, of home and hearths.

Tags: anthology, Northeast India, Zubaan Books


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‘A Dog’s Tale’ and ‘Jungle Stories’
Premchand, translated from Hindi by Pranav Kumar Singh, illustrated by Vandana Singh (Niyogi Books)




A Thousand Cranes for India: Reclaiming Plurality Amid hHatred
Edited by Pallavi Aiyar (Seagull Books)


A Thousand Yearnings: A Book of Urdu Poetry and Prose
Translated and introduced by Ralph Russell (Speaking Tiger Books)



A Town Like Ours
Kavery Nambisan (Aleph)


After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata 
Translated and introduced by Wendy Doniger (Speaking Tiger Books)




Against the Madness of Manu: B. R. Ambedkar’s Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy, selected and introduced by Sharmila Rege


A Brahman “mega convention” in contemporary Pune reasserts faith in endogamy for “national interest”, and imposes new codes on Brahman women. A Brahman Congress leader suggests that a Dalit chief minister be raped and paid compensation. In his 1916 paper “Castes in India”, the 25-year-old Ambedkar offered the insight that the caste system thrives by its control of women, and that caste is a product of sustained endogamy. Since then, till the time he piloted the Hindu Code Bill, seeking to radicalise women’s rights in the 1950s, Ambedkar deployed a range of arguments to make his case against Brahmanism and its twin, patriarchy.

While Ambedkar’s original insights have been neglected by sociologists, political theorists and even feminists, they have been kept alive, celebrated and memorialised by Dalit musical troupes and booklets in Maharashtra. Sharmila Rege, in this compelling selection of Ambedkar’s writings on the theme of Brahmanical patriarchy, illuminates for us his unprecedented sociological observations. Rege demonstrates how and why Ambedkar laid the base for what was, properly speaking, a feminist take on caste.

Sharmila Rege (1954–2013) was a sociologist who headed the Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule Women’s Studies Centre, University of Pune. She is the author of Writing Caste/Writing Gender: Narrating Dalit Women’s Testimonios.

Tags: non-fiction, caste, Ambedkar, Dalit, Navayana Publishing

All Passion Spent by Zaheda Hina, translated by Neelam Hussain


In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago, a history from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had once earlier fled, back to her home in partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously gave her succour, the home that became her own, the people who gave her unquestioning love? Or, will all these certainties have fled with the march of history? A deeply moving narrative of love and loss, All Passion Spent focuses on the unresolved question of the 1947 Partition of India and the emergence of India and Pakistan as two separate countries.

Zaheda Hina’s richly layered narrative brought alive in this lyrical and poetic translation by Neelam Hussain, touches on the many unanswered questions that surround this painful history: the profound sense of grief and displacement, the lives sundered midstream, the lost friendships and the quest for new roots and lands under different skies.

Tags: fiction, novella, translations, India, Pakistan, Zubaan Books

Ambedkar: The Attendant Details, edited by Salim Yusufji, introduced by Bama


This book is an attempt at intimacy with B. R. Ambedkar in his hours away from history and headlines. The aim here is to recover the ephemera that attended Ambedkar’s life and died with him—his pleasure in his library and book-collecting, his vein of gruff humour, the sensation of seeing him in the flesh for the first time, or of stepping out of a summer storm into his house and hearing him at practice on his violin. Here, we have his attendants, admirers and companions speak of Ambedkar’s love of the sherwani, kurta, lungi, dhoti, and even his sudden paean to elasticated underpants. We meet Ambedkar the lover of dogs and outsize fountain pens, proponent of sex education and contraception, anti-prohibitionist teetotaler and occasional cook.

The fragments that make up this volume enable the recovery of his many facets—a rewarding biographical quest.

Tags: non-fiction, Ambedkar, Dalit, Navayana Publishing
Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories by Vandana Singh


After the success of her collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh returns to the short story in Ambiguity Machines. Her deep humanism interplays with her scientific background in stories that consider and celebrate this world and others, with characters who try to make sense of the people they meet, what they see, and the challenges they face. An eleventh century poet wakes to find he is an artificially intelligent companion on a starship. A woman of no account has the ability to look into the past. And in “Requiem,” a major new novella, a woman goes to Alaska to try and make sense of her aunt’s disappearance.

Examining the revolutionary potential of speculative fiction, Singh dives deep into the vast strangeness of the universe without and within to explore the ways in which we move through space and time: together, yet always apart.

Tags: fiction, speculative fiction, short stories, novella, Zubaan Books
An Education for Rita: A Memoir 1975–1985
Brinda Karat (LeftWord Books)



Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Sujatha Gidla (HarperCollins)

Asylum and Other Poems
Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)

Baluta
Daya Pawar, translated by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)

Becoming Me
Rejina Marandi (Adivaani)


Behold! The Word is God: Hymns of Tukaram
Tukaram, translated by Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)


Bhairavi: The Runaway
Shivani, translated from Hindi by Priyanka Sarkar (Yoda Press)

Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience
Edited by Perumal Murugan, translated by C. S. Lakshmi

Body on the Barricades: Life, Art and Resistance in Contemporary India
Brahma Prakash (LeftWord Books)

Building Alternatives: The Story of India’s Oldest Construction Workers’ Cooperative
T. M. Thomas Isaac and Michelle Williams (LeftWord Books)

Calcutta Nights
Hemendra Kumar Roy, translated by Rajat Chaudhuri (Niyogi Books)



Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde (Penguin)


Centrepiece: New Writing and Art from Northeast India
Edited by Parismita Singh (Zubaan Books)




Chandrabati’s Ramayan
Chandrabati, translated from Bengali by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Zubaan Books)

Chotti Munda and His Arrow
Mahasweta Devi, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Seagull Books)



City of Incident: A Novel in Twelve Parts
Annie Zaidi (Aleph)

Clone
Priya Sarukkai Chabria (Zubaan Books)


Desire and Its Discontents: Queer Politics in Contemporary India
Edited by Dipika Jain and Oishik Sircar (Zubaan Books)


Dust on the Road
Mahasweta Devi, translated by Maitreya Ghatak (Seagull Books)

East Wind: Stories from Kalinga-Andhra
Sudhakar Unudurti (SouthSide Books)


Fence
Ila Arab Mehta, translated by Rita Kothari (Zubaan Books)


Forests, Blood & Survival: Life and Times of Komuram Bheem
Bhoopal, translated by P. A. Kumar (SouthSide Books)


From a Shepherd Boy to an Intellectual: My Memoirs
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd (Samya Books)

From India to Palestine: Essays in Solidarity
Edited by Githa Hariharan, introduced by Raja Shehadeh (LeftWord Books)


God is Dead, There is No God: The Vachanas of Allama Prabhu
Allama Prabhu, translated by Manu V. Devadevan

Gulab
Annie Zaidi  (HarperCollins)


Harijan: A Novel
Gopinath Mohanty, translated from Odia by Bikram Das (Aleph)

Herbert
Nabarun Bhattacharya, translated by Sunandini Banerjee (Seagull Books)

Hindutva Rising: Secular Claims, Communal Realities
Achin Vanaik (Tulika Books)

Homeward: Towards a Poetics of Space
Edited by Soibam Haripriya (Zubaan Books)


I Could Not Be Hindu: The Story of a Dalit in the RSS
Bhanwar Meghwanshi (Navayana Publishing)

I Want to Destroy Myself: A Memoir
Malika Amar Shaikh, translated by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)

In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays
Indrajit Hazra (Yoda Press)

In That Mill I Too Was Forged
Narayan Surve, translated by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)

India and Communism
B. R. Ambedkar, introduced by Anand Teltumbde (LeftWord Books)


Indira
Devapriya Roy and Priya Kuriyan (Westland Books)

Insects Are Just Like You And Me Except Some Of them Have Wings
Kuzhali Manickavel (Blaft Publications)

Intimate City
Manjima Bhattacharjya (Zubaan Books)

Invocations and Prayers of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari of Herat
Translated by Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh and Arthur John Arberry (Speaking Tiger Books)

Invisible: New Zealand’s History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians
Jacqueline Leckie (Massey University Press)


Jeena Hai To Marna Seekho: The Life and Times of George Reddy
Gita Ramaswamy (Hyderabad Book Trust)

Keeping Up the Good Fight
Prabir Purkayastha (LeftWord Books)

Kerala: Another Possible World
T. M. Thomas Isaac (LeftWord Books)

Knowledge as Commons: Towards Inclusive Science and Technology
Prabir Purkayastha (LeftWord Books)

Land, Guns, Caste, Woman
Gita Ramaswamy (Navayana Publishing)



Leaders Beyond Media Images
K. Balagopal (Perspectives, Hyderabad)


Life in Anantharam
Devulapalli Krishnamurthy, translated from Telugu by Gita Ramaswamy

Lifelines: New Writing from Bangladesh
Edited by Farah Ghuznavi (Zubaan Books)

Marx’s Capital: An Introductory Reader
Venkatesh Athreya and others (LeftWord Books)



Memoirs of a Dalit Communist: The Many Worlds of R. B. More
R. B. More (LeftWord Books)



Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India
Yamini Narayanan (Navayana Publishing)



Murder in Mahim
Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger)


Name Place Animal Thing
Daribha Lyndem (Zubaan Books)

Neither Night Nor Day: 13 Stories by Women Writers from Pakistan
Edited by Rakshanda Jalil (HarperCollins)

Nobody Lights a Candle
Anjali Deshpande (Speaking Tiger Books)


Nothing Human is Alien to Me
Aijaz Ahmad and Vijay Prashad (LeftWord Books)


Of Mothers and Others: Stories, Essays, Poems
Edited by Jaishree Misra (Zubaan Books)

Orienting India: European knowledge formation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries
Vasudha Dalmia (Three Essays Collective)

Our Santiniketan
Mahasweta Devi, translated from Bengali by Radha Chakravarty (Seagull Books)

Our Struggle for Emancipation: Dalit Movement in Hyderabad State
P. R. Venkatswamy (Hyderabad Book Trust)


Out of Syllabus: Poems
Sumana Roy (Speaking Tiger Books)

Outcaste: A Novel
Matampu Kunhukuttan, translated from Malayalam by Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan

Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Naisargi Dave (Zubaan Books)

Remapping Knowledge: The Making of South Asian Studies in India, Europe and America (19th–20th centuries)
Edited by Jackie Assayag and Véronique Bénéï (Three Essays Collective)


Selected Writings of Jotirao Phule
Edited, annotated and introducted by G. P. Deshpande (LeftWord Books)


Shabnam
Syed Mujtaba Ali, translated by Nazes Afroz (Speaking Tiger Books)



Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You
Devdutt Pattanaik (Zubaan Books)

Shiva’s Drum
Chandrasekhar Kambar, translated from Kannada by Krishna Manavalli (Speaking Tiger Books)

Side Effects of Living: An Anthology of Voices on Mental Health
Edited by Jhilmil Breckenridge and Namarita Kathait (Speaking Tiger Books)

Speaking Sandals: Narratives from the Madigawadas of Ongole
Yendluri Sudhakar, translated by K. Purushotham (SouthSide Books)

Strike a Blow to Change the World
Eknath Awad, translated by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)


Sweet Nothings: The Love Poems of Amaru
Amaru, translated from Sanksrit by Lee Siegal (Speaking Tiger Books)

The Adivasi Will Not Dance: Stories
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar (Speaking Tiger Books)


The Ant Who Swallowed the Sun: The Abhangs of the Marathi Women Saints
Translated by Neela Bhagwat and Jerry Pinto

The Curse
Salma, translated from Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman (Speaking Tiger Books)



The Darker Nations: A Biography of the Short-Lived Third World
Vijay Prashad (LeftWord Books)



The Education of Yuri
Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)


The Feminisms of Our Mothers
Edited by Daanika Kamal (Zubaan Books)


The Homeland’s an Ocean
Mir Taqi Mir, translated from Urdu by Ranjit Hoskote (Penguin)

The Ichi Tree Monkey: New and Selected Stories
Bama, translated by N. Ravi Shankar (Speaking Tiger Books)

The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy
Rahul Bhatia (Context)


The Legend of Himal and Nagrai: Greatest Kashmiri Folk Tales
Retold by Onaiza Drabu (Speaking Tiger Books)

The Long March
Namita Waikar (Speaking Tiger Books)

The Many Lives of Syeda X
Neha Dixit (Juggernaut)

The Orders Were to Rape You: Tigress in the Tamil Eelam Struggle
Meena Kandasamy (Navayana Publishing)

The Political Writings of Bhagat Singh
Edited and introduced by Chaman Lal and Michael D. Yates (LeftWord Books)

The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
Vijay Prashad (LeftWord Books)


The RSS: A Menace to India
A. G. Noorani (LeftWord Books)

The Sacred Hymns of Guru Nanak
Selected and translated by Nirmal Gill (Speaking Tiger Books)

The Social Life of Democracy
Sundar Sarukkai (Seagull Books)

The Stomach that Chewed Hunger and Other Stories
Edited by Bama, translated from Tamil by Ahana Lakshmi (Zubaan Books)


The Stories We Tell: Mythology to Make Sense of Modern Lives
Devdutt Pattanaik (Aleph)

The Story of Eve: Selected Poems
Zehra Nigah, translated by Rakhshanda Jalil

The Sweet Salt of Tamil: Things We Do Not Know About Tamil Country
Tho Paramasivan, translated by V. Ramnarayan (Navayana Publishing)

Things That Happen and Other Poems
Bhaskar Chakrabarti, translated by Arunava Sinha (Seagull Books)


Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
Edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma (Zubaan Books)

Understanding Fascism: Writings on Caste, Class and the State
K. Balagopal, curated and introduced by V. Geetha (SouthSide Books)

Unruly Visions: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora
Gayatri Gopinath (Zubaan Books)

Voices of Dissent: An Essay
Romila Thapar (Seagull Books)

Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations
Vijay Prashad (LeftWord Books)


When I Hid My Caste: Stories
Baburao Bagul, translated by Jerry Pinto (Speaking Tiger Books)


Who Was Shivaji?
Govind Pansare (LeftWord Books)



Why Do You Fear My Ways So Much? Poems and Letters from Prison
G. N. Saibaba (Speaking Tiger Books)

Will the Flower Slip Through the Asphalt: Writers Respond to Capitalist Climate Change
Edited by Vijay Prashad (LeftWord Books)

Won’t You Stay, Radhika?
Usha Priyamvada, translated by Daisy Rockwell (Speaking Tiger Books)



Yamuna’s Journey
Baba Padmanji, translated by Deepra Dandekar (Speaking Tiger Books)