PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICAL POWER : AN ESSAY ON INFLECTIONAL THEORY

Dear Customers,
A very happy new year to you. I hope this year brings with it a lot of healthy action and good tidings for all of us in the
publishing industry.
In our fiction list, we are delighted to present two titles by Kiran Nagarkar. And what better way to begin the new year than
to bring back Mr Nagarkar's well-loved characters, Ravan and Eddie, who feature in our new offering, The Extras, an
exuberant and touching tale about the big and small tragedies that shape our lives. Written in a very different vein, the
second title by him now out in paperback, God's Little Soldier, examines the world views of the extremist and the liberal.
Opening Night by Diksha Basu is a potboiler in prose that captures the hopes and aspirations, struggles and ambitions that
make up Bollywood.
Saeed Akhtar Mirza's The Monk, the Moor and Moses Ben Jalloun is a fictionalized history that unravels the deliberately
forgotten contribution of the Islamic world to the making of the modern world. We are pleased to reissue two books on
the women of the Mughal Empire The Twentieth Wife and The Feast of Roses by the master of the genre of historical
fiction, Indu Sundaresan. A modern-day retelling of one of the most enigmatic epics, The Mahabharata by Shiv K. Kumar
explores not the characters but the people who populate the great epic.
In poetry, we have Everything Begins Elsewhere, a collection of poems by award-winning poet Tishani Doshi that meditate
upon loss and reclamation, life and death.
Originally written by controversial Bangladeshi writer Mahmudul Haq and wonderfully translated into English by Mahmud
Rahman, Black Ice (Kalo Barof) is a cult classic about the partition of Bengal.
In our non-fiction titles, Karma Sutra by Rajendar Menen is a sensitive exploration of the lives of prostitutes and others on
the margins of society.
A one-of-its-kind book, Moda Goa by Wendell Rodricks, our coffee-table offering for the new year, is a fascinating study of
the history of Goan costume and fashion which delves into the little-known fact that many fashion trends began in Goa.
The titles we are hoping would do wonderfully and bring cheer to us at HarperCollins India this new year are the
meticulously researched and smartly written Anna: 13 Days That Shook India by well-known journalist Ashutosh and Didi:
A Political Biography – the first mainstream biography of Mamata Banerjee – by Monobina Gupta.
Containing easy-to-follow and simple precepts by which to lead life, Beyond Religion by His Holiness The Dalai Lama is
another title that we hope would help us begin the new year on a positive note.
Infinite Vision is the awe-inspiring story of how Dr V, a man with a vision, revolutionized eye care and surgery in India and
all over the world. It is a great human interest story of surviving and thriving against all odds.
In business/self-help, Shital Kakkar Mehra's Business Etiquette for the Busy Professional is sure to interest corporate and
business professionals.
We are also releasing the paperback edition of Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by
Raghuram Rajan, which won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2010.
Under our UK banner, we are proud to present the return of the Sunday Times number 1 bestselling authors, Sam Bourne
with the darkest secrets of World War II in Pantheon and Josephine Cox with the powerful story of love and shocking
secrets, Midnight.
This January we bring to you Ash Mistry, a teenage geeky boy who battles rakshasas in the ancient city of Varanasi. Set
along the lines of Meluha and Ashok Banker, this book is a scintillating read for all ages. Book 1 in the Ash Mistry
Chronicles, Ash Mistry and the Savage Fortress is the perfect story to be read with your friends and family this holiday
season!
With The Istanbul Puzzle, Pear Shaped and Jezebel, we are adding three titles to the flourishing Avon list.
Nikki Gemmel questions whether it is possible to know another person entirely in the stunningly jacketed re-issue of her
internationally bestselling novel, The Bride Stripped Bare.
Dr John Briffa, a nutritionist and a practising doctor for 20 years reveals why taking a calorie-based approach to weight loss
essentially dooms us to failure in Escape the Diet Trap.
We also present 9 additions to our ever-growing Collins Classics list with Heidi, The Canterbury Tales and Three Men in a
Boat swelling the ranks of our existing titles.
Adding to our children's list, we bring you an exclusive range of early reading material which will introduce children to
reading through colourful illustrations at just INR 99.
Happy selling,
Best wishes,
N.S. Krishna
Director – Sales & OperationsKiran Nagarkar
The Extras
ISBN: 9789350292044
Cover Price: `599
Format: Demy/Hardback Extent: 488 pp
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Ravan and Eddie are back!
And they’re bigger, better and guaranteed to have you
laughing out loud.
Having grown up in the city of movie stars who drip glamour,
the two mortal enemies, Ravan and Eddie dream of strutting
down the road to super-stardom. But can Ravan, a lowly taxi
driver, and Eddie, a bouncer-cum-bartender at an illegal bar,
rise from their dusty CWD chawl to the glittering heights of
international fame?
To complicate matters further, their love lives hang by a thread. Eddie, secure in having got
Belle, the Anglo-Indian girl of his dreams, must now figure out how to overcome prejudice
from both their families and his own apathy, in order to keep her. And Eddie’s sister Pieta,
the object of Ravan’s adoration, is completely oblivious to his existence – until he saves her
life.
Complete with a cast of soul-searching drunks, a nemesis called Three Point One, and
nymph-like damsels in distress, The Extras is much more than a book about Bollywood or
Bombay. It is the engrossing tale of a near-epic struggle against obscurity and towards
self-realization; and is outrageously exuberant in the telling, and touching in its depiction of
the large and small tragedies that shape our lives.
Ravan and Eddie
Ravan and Eddie are back!
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Kiran Nagarkar
God’s Little Soldier
Now in paperback
ISBN: 9789350292181
Cover Price: `499
Format: Demy/Paperback Extent: 650pp
Imprint: HarperCollins
‘[F]ascinating, complex, rewarding … [the] work of a
writer at the height of his talent … [God’s Little Soldier] is
insistently readable.’ – Shashi Tharoor, Outlook
From the backstreets of Bombay to the hallowed halls of
Cambridge, from the mountains of Afghanistan to a
monastery in California, the story of Zia Khan is an
extraordinary rollercoaster ride; a compelling cliffhanger
of a spiritual quest, about a good man gone bad and the
brutalization of his soul.
Growing up in a well-to-do, cultured Muslim family in Bombay, Zia, a gifted young
mathematician, is torn between the unquestioning certainties of his aunt’s faith and the
tolerant, easy-going views of his parents.
At Cambridge University, his beliefs crystallize into a fervent orthodoxy, which ultimately
leads him to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. The burden of endemic violence and
killings, however, takes its toll on Zia. Tormented by his need for forgiveness, he is then
drawn reluctantly to Christ. But peace continues to elude him, and Zia is once again driven
to seek out causes to defend and fight for, whatever be the sacrifices involved.
Posited against Zia is his brother, Amanat, a writer whose life is severely constrained by
sickness, even as his mind is liberated by doubt. Theirs is a relationship that is as much a
blood bond as it is an opaque wall of incomprehension. Weaving together the narratives of
the extremist and the liberal, God’s Little Soldier underscores the incoherent ambiguities
of good and evil, and the tragic conflicts that have riven people and nations.
Backlist Available
Cuckold
ISBN: 9788172232573
499 `
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Sales and Marketing Highlights:
Ÿ Sequel to the popular and critically acclaimed cult classic Ravan and Eddie
Ÿ A well-written and thought-provoking novel; the author has been highly praised for such
works as Cuckold and God’s Little Soldier
Ÿ The book would appeal to a wide audience – from fans of Ravan and Eddie to younger
people in their 20s
God’s Little Soldier
Sales and Marketing Highlights:
Ÿ The book, when first released, was highly praised and critically acclaimed
Ÿ Author of Ravan and Eddie and Cuckold; has a strong following
Ÿ The reprint is timed along with the release of his new book, The Extras
About the Author:
Kiran Nagarkar was born in Mumbai. He wrote his first book in a language in which
he had never written before – Marathi. The book was called Saat Sakkam Trechalis,
recently translated as Seven Sixes are Forty-Three, and is considered a landmark in
post-independence Indian literature. His novel in English, Ravan and Eddie, acclaimed
as a literary bestseller, has been translated into Marathi.
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Opening Night
Diksha Basu
ISBN: 9789350290859
Cover Price: 250
Format: A/Paperback
Extent: 288p