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.
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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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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Philippa Emery, “Part Three” (2024), edition of 10
Philippa Emery, “Part Six” (2024), edition of 10
INDIAIndependent, curious, and radical publishing
The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told:
Fifty Masterpieces from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
EDITED BY ARUNAVA SINHA
$ 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.
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.
Selected and edited by Mitra Phukan
Selected and translated by Arunava Sinha
Selected and edited by Rita Kothari
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Selected and translated by Poonam Saxena
Selected and translated by Neerja Mattoo
The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by A. J. Thomas
Selected and translated by A. J. Thomas
The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told
Selected and edited by Ashutosh Potdar
Selected and edited by Ashutosh Potdar
Selected and translated by Leelawati Mohapatra, Paul St-Pierre and K. K. Mohapatra
Selected and edited by Renuka Singh and Balbir Madhopuri
Selected and edited by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan and Mini Krishnan
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Selected and translated by Dasu Krishnamoorty and Tamraparni Dasu
The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told
Selected and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon
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Selected and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Premchand, translated from Hindi by Pranav Kumar Singh, illustrated by Vandana Singh
Edited by Pallavi Aiyar
Translated and introduced by Ralph Russell
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Kavery Nambisan
Translated and introduced by Wendy Doniger
Brinda Karat
Sujatha Gidla
Jerry Pinto
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Daya Pawar, translated by Jerry Pinto
Rejina Marandi
Behold! The Word is God: Hymns of Tukaram
Tukaram, translated by Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto
Tukaram, translated by Shanta Gokhale and Jerry Pinto
Bhairavi: The Runaway
Shivani, translated from Hindi by Priyanka Sarkar
Shivani, translated from Hindi by Priyanka Sarkar
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience
Edited by Perumal Murugan, translated by C. S. Lakshmi
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Edited by Perumal Murugan, translated by C. S. Lakshmi
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Brahma Prakash
Building Alternatives: The Story of India’s Oldest Construction Workers’ Cooperative
T. M. Thomas Isaac and Michelle Williams
T. M. Thomas Isaac and Michelle Williams
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Calcutta Nights
Hemendra Kumar Roy, translated by Rajat Chaudhuri
Hemendra Kumar Roy, translated by Rajat Chaudhuri
Caste Matters
Suraj Yengde
Suraj Yengde
Edited by Parismita Singh
Chandrabati, translated from Bengali by Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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Chotti Munda and His Arrow
Mahasweta Devi, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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Mahasweta Devi, translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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City of Incident: A Novel in Twelve Parts
Annie Zaidi
Annie Zaidi
Clone
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Priya Sarukkai Chabria
Desire and Its Discontents: Queer Politics in Contemporary India
Edited by Dipika Jain and Oishik Sircar
Edited by Dipika Jain and Oishik Sircar
Dust on the Road
Mahasweta Devi, translated by Maitreya Ghatak
Mahasweta Devi, translated by Maitreya Ghatak
East Wind: Stories from Kalinga-Andhra
Sudhakar Unudurti
Sudhakar Unudurti
Ila Arab Mehta, translated by Rita Kothari
Bhoopal, translated by P. A. Kumar
Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Edited by Githa Hariharan, introduced by Raja Shehadeh
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Allama Prabhu, translated by Manu V. Devadevan
Keki N. Daruwalla
Annie Zaidi
Gopinath Mohanty, translated from Odia by Bikram Das
Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi
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Nabarun Bhattacharya, translated by Sunandini Banerjee
Achin Vanaik
Homeward: Towards a Poetics of Space
Edited by Soibam Haripriya
Edited by Soibam Haripriya
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Bhanwar Meghwanshi
Malika Amar Shaikh, translated by Jerry Pinto
In Praise of Laziness and Other Essays
Indrajit Hazra
Indrajit Hazra
Narayan Surve, translated by Jerry Pinto
India and Communism
B. R. Ambedkar, introduced by Anand Teltumbde
B. R. Ambedkar, introduced by Anand Teltumbde
Romila Thapar
Devapriya Roy and Priya Kuriyan
Kuzhali Manickavel
Manjima Bhattacharjya
Invocations and Prayers of Khwaja Abdullah Ansari of Herat
Translated by Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh and Arthur John Arberry
Translated by Sardar Sir Jogendra Singh and Arthur John Arberry
Invisible: New Zealand’s History of Excluding Kiwi-Indians
Jacqueline Leckie
Jacqueline Leckie
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Gita Ramaswamy
Prabir Purkayastha
T. M. Thomas Isaac
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Prabir Purkayastha
Land, Guns, Caste, Woman
Gita Ramaswamy
Gita Ramaswamy
K. Balagopal
Devulapalli Krishnamurthy, translated from Telugu by Gita Ramaswamy
Edited by Farah Ghuznavi
Venkatesh Athreya and others
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Sadaf Hussain
R. B. More, translated by Wandana Sonalkar, edited and introduced by Anupama Rao
Yamini Narayanan
Edited by Sonja Eismann, Maya, Ingo Schöningh
Jerry Pinto
Daribha Lyndem
Edited by Rakshanda Jalil
Anjali Deshpande
Aijaz Ahmad and Vijay Prashad
Edited by Jaishree Misra
Romila Thapar, A. G. Noorani and Sadanand Menon
Mahasweta Devi, translated from Bengali by Radha Chakravarty
P. R. Venkatswamy
Sumana Roy
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Matampu Kunhukuttan, translated from Malayalam by Vasanthi Sankaranarayanan
Naisargi Dave
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Perumal Murugan, translated from Tamil by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Perumal Murugan, translated from Tamil by V. Geetha
Edited by G. P. Deshpande
Syed Mujtaba Ali, translated by Nazes Afroz
Devdutt Pattanaik
Chandrasekhar Kambar, translated from Kannada by Krishna Manavalli
Edited by Jhilmil Breckenridge and Namarita Kathait
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Yendluri Sudhakar, translated by K. Purushotham
Eknath Awad, translated by Jerry Pinto
Amaru, translated from Sanksrit by Lee Siegal
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Translated by Neela Bhagwat and Jerry Pinto
Salma, translated from Tamil by N. Kalyan Raman
Vijay Prashad
Jerry Pinto
Edited by Daanika Kamal
Romila Thapar
Mir Taqi Mir, translated from Urdu by Ranjit Hoskote
Bama, translated by N. Ravi Shankar
Rahul Bhatia
Retold by Onaiza Drabu
Neha Dixit
Meena Kandasamy
Romila Thapar
Edited by Jeet Thayil
Edited and introduced by Chaman Lal and Michael D. Yates
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Vijay Prashad
Romila Thapar et. al.
A. G. Noorani
Selected and translated by Nirmal Gill
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Sundar Sarukkai
Edited by Bama, translated from Tamil by Ahana Lakshmi
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Devdutt Pattanaik
Zehra Nigah, translated by Rakhshanda Jalil
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Tho Paramasivan, translated by V. Ramnarayan
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Bhaskar Chakrabarti, translated by Arunava Sinha
Edited by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma
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K. Balagopal, curated and introduced by V. Geetha
Gayatri Gopinath
Romila Thapar
Vijay Prashad
Rambharos Jha
Baburao Bagul, translated by Jerry Pinto
Govind Pansare
G. N. Saibaba
Edited by Vijay Prashad
Usha Priyamvada, translated by Daisy Rockwell
Baba Padmanji, translated by Deepra Dandekar