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- A Delicate Truth by John le Carre` Sudeep Paul
- Mofussil Junction: Indian Encounters 1977-2012 by Ian Jack Swapan Dasgupta
- Che in Paona Bazaar – Tales of Exile and Belonging From India’s North East by Kishalay Bhattacharjee Sudeep Chakravarti
- Calcutta – Two Years in the City by Amit Chaudhuri Devalina Mookerjee
- New Market Tales by Jayant Kripalani Anasua Mukherjee
- Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan Amita Baviskar
- Dirty Love by Sampurna Chattarji Anshumani Ruddra
- Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation by Laurent Gayer and Christophe Jaffrelot Tanweer Fazal
- “I Had Come Too Far” – an extract from Nobody Can Love You More – Life in Delhi’s Red Light District Mayank Austen Soofi
- New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Possibilities edited by Srila Roy Jenny Rowena
- Vagina – A New Biography by Naomi Wolf Proteeti Banerjee
- In the Body of the World – A Memoir by Eve Ensler Raeesa Vakil
- Seeing Like a Feminist by Nivedita Menon Harleen Singh
- Those Who Did Not Die: Impact of the Agrarian Question on Women in Punjab by Ranjana Padhi V. Geetha
- Haunted by Fire: Essays on Caste, Class, Exploitation and Emancipation by Mythily Sivaraman Uma Chakravarti
- A Life Apart: An Autobiography by Prabha Khaitan; translated by Ira Pande Kanika Datta
- Of Mothers and Others: Stories, Essays, Poems edited by Jaishree Mishra Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta
- Not Only the Things that Have Happened by Mridula Koshy Manasi Subramaniam
- Unclaimed Terrain by Ajay Navaria Daisy Rockwell
- Songs of Kabir translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Bhisham Bherwani
- Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell by Rabisankar Bal; translated by Arunava Sinha Tabish Khair
- “The Grinch of Magic Realism” — an essay Peggy Mohan
- Distant Traveller - New & Selected Fiction by Attia Hosain; selected and edited by Aamer Hussein and Shama Habibullah Shashi Deshpande
- Victoria Cross: A Love Story by Ashali Varma Kunal Verma
- A Glimpse of Empire by Jessica Douglas-Home Malavika Karlekar
PROTEETI BANERJEE is a Delhi School of Economics alumni. She has previously worked with Sage Publications and currently holds a senior editorial position in a leading publishing house. Her writings have been extensively published in tehelka.com, The National Review, and the ABP Group.

AMITA BAVISKAR is a sociologist who works on issues of environment and development. Her last book, co-edited with Raka Ray, was Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (Routledge India, 2011).
 
BHISHAM BHERWANI'S anthology of poetry in English (including translations) from India was published by Atlanta Review (2012).
 
SUDEEP CHAKRAVARTI has authored several books, including the non-fiction works Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country (HarperCollins India, 2008) and Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land (HarperCollins India, 2012). He is also a widely published columnist and essayist, and editorial mentor.
 
UMA CHAKRAVARTI is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, Delhi University and is now an independent scholar based in Delhi.
 
SWAPAN DASGUPTA is a political commentator and columnist.
 
KANIKA DATTA is Senior Associate Editor with Business Standard.
 
SHASHI DESHPANDE is the author of eight novels, three crime novels, a number of short story collections, as well as a collection of essays. Her new novel is to come out this year.
 
TANWEER FAZAL is Associate Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia. He was earlier a consultant with the Prime Minister's High Level Committee to study the Socio- Economic and Educational Status of Muslims, also popularly called the Sachar Committee.
 
V. GEETHA is a feminist writer and translator, interested in caste, labour, history and education. Currently, she is Editorial Director, Tara Books, Chennai.
 
MALAVIKA KARLEKAR is Co-editor of Indian Journal of Gender Studies with an interest in archival photographs. Her Visual Histories ~ Photography in the Popular Imagination (OUP) is just out.
 
TABISH KHAIR ’s most recent novels are The Thing About Thugs (2010) and How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2012).
 
UMA MAHADEVAN-DASGUPTA is currently based in Mumbai where she is on a child care break from her work in the Indian Administrative Services.
 
PEGGY MOHAN was born in Trinidad, West Indies. After completing her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Michigan in 1978 she relocated to India, where she has taught linguistics, mass communications and now teaches music at Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. She is the author of two works of fiction: Jahajin, and The Youngest Suspect, both by HarperCollins India.
 
DEVALINA MOOKERJEE is a consultant in a variety of areas around the field of Communication.
 
ANUSUA MUKHERJEE studied English in Jadavpur University. She is currently Assistant Editor with The Telegraph, Calcutta.
 
SUDEEP PAUL is Assistant Editor with the Opinion Pages of The Indian Express, New Delhi.  

DAISY ROCKWELL is a writer, translator, Hindi scholar and painter living in the US.

JENNY ROWENA teaches at Miranda House, University of Delhi.
 
ANSHUMANI RUDDRA is an author and game designer based in Bangalore. He predominantly writes speculative fiction.
 
HARLEEN SINGH is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Brandeis University, USA.  

MAYANK AUSTEN SOOFI is the author of four alternate guidebooks to Delhi. Once a hotel steward, he is best known for his website and blog The Delhi Walla, in which he details Delhi’s lives and loves.

MANASI SUBRAMANIAM is a writer based in Chennai. She works in publishing and blogs at manasis.blogspot.com.  

RAEESA VAKIL is an advocate practicing in Delhi.

KUNAL VERMA is a writer and filmmaker who has done several projects for the Indian Armed Forces. His books include Ocean to Sky, The Long Road to Siachen and The Northeast Trilogy. His films include The Standard Bearers (NDA), Making of a Warrior (IMA) and Aakash Yodha (IAF). He also directed and shot the television series Project Tiger in the 1980s.

 
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