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Dangerous Outcast | The Prostitute In Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Buy This Book Dangerous Outcast traces how, from the peripheries of precolonial Bengali rural society,...

02 August 2022

Camille in October

Buy This Book My father is dead, I just killed him. Camille struggles to figure out who she is and where...

02 August 2022

Letters of Blood | A Novel

Buy This Book Bengali writer Riza Rahman’s numerous novels and short stories bring to life the difficult,...

02 August 2022

Breast Stories

Buy This Book As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak points out in her introduction, the breast is far more than...

02 August 2022

It All Tastes of Farewell | Diaries, 1964–1970

Buy This Book It All Tastes of Farewell is a frank account of one woman’s life and loves in 1960s East...

02 August 2022

Manon's World | A Hauntology of a Daughter in the Triangle of Alma Mahler, Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel

Buy This Book Manon Gropius (1916–1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler,...

07 June 2022

Blue Jewellery

Buy This Book ‘Blue jewellery’ is private property. Not to be seen. Not to be talked about. It is worn...

07 June 2022

Maryam | Keeper of Stories

Buy This Book This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of...

07 June 2022

All the Roads Are Open | An Afghan Journey

Buy This Book In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva...

07 June 2022

Passage to the Plaza

Buy This Book [Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award 2020] In Bab Al-Saha, a quarter of Nablus, Palestine,...

07 June 2022

Yoda Press Room

Our Lives Our Words: Telling Aravani Lifestories

Buy This Book Aravanis or hijras have long been the invisible yet hyper-visible subjects of a...

05 August 2022

Because I Have a Voice

Buy This Book Because I have a Voice lends voice to 27 writers, as they articulate their thoughts,...

05 August 2022

A Little Book on Men

Buy This Book As the varied discourses within gender studies grow increasingly complex, the study...

05 August 2022

Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles

Buy This Book Muslim women have mostly been discussed and studied as passive victims who have...

05 August 2022

Footprints of a Queer History: Life Stories from Gujarat

Buy This Book Footprints of a Queer History is a simple narrative of queer stories marked by personal...

05 August 2022

Loving Women

The narratives in this volume constitute immense challenges and small but profoundly significant triumphs....

05 August 2022

Go Talk to the River

Buy This Book Anjali Purohit’s lovingly crafted translations of Bahinabai Choudhari’s poetry bring...

05 August 2022

In the Shadow of a Sword: The Memoir of a Woman Leader in the LTTE

Buy This Book Thamizhini joined the liberation tigers of Tamil Eelam (late) at the age of nineteen...

05 August 2022

Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection

Buy This Book Shaheen Bagh: A Graphic Recollection is a graphic account of the most famous political...

05 August 2022

Chellammal's Journal: A Woman's Memoir of a Joint Family in Early Twentieth-Century India

Buy This Book Chellammal’s Journal records the journey of a woman in an upper-caste joint family...

05 August 2022

Readomania Room

TRIHAYANI | The untold story of Draupadi

Buy This Book Could a woman married to the greatest warriors of all time just be an ordinary queen? Who...

06 September 2022

Stars from the Borderless Sea | Stories of Love, Longing and Togetherness

Buy This Book What is true love? Who are soulmates? Can love be defined by the constructs of society...

06 September 2022

Better Than Sex

Buy This Book ‘Turns out some climaxes are better than sex! This book takes you on a quirky ride that...

06 September 2022

A Paradox of Dreams

Buy This Book Dreams are mystical wonderlands that can be traumatic and yet shine a light on the...

08 August 2022

A Killer Among Us

Buy This Book What can strip away the polite veneer of an apartment complex and lay bare a world...

08 August 2022

Unloved in Love

Buy This Book Is it possible to have it all—friends, family, work, a loved one and still feel...

08 August 2022

Padmavati

Buy This Book Journalist Mrinalini Rao is on an investigative trail to discover whether Padmavati,...

08 August 2022

The Doodler of Dimashq

Buy This Book What would you do if your world comes crashing down around you? Caught in the cross-hairs...

08 June 2022

Neem Tree Press Room

Code Name: Butterfly

12 September 2022

War of the Wind | Seven Seas Collection – Children's / Middle Grade

Buy This Book: Amazon UK | Waterstones Out 23rd of September 2022 Victoria Williamson is an award-winning...

12 September 2022

Trees for the Absentees

12 September 2022

The Book of Perilous Dishes

12 September 2022

Can I Stray

Buy This Book: Amazon UK | Waterstones Out 11th of October 2022 A captivating coming-of-age story...

12 September 2022

Modesty: A Fashion Paradox

12 September 2022

Her Allies: A Practical Toolkit to Help Men Lead Through Advocacy

15 August 2022

Belly Woman | Birth, Blood & Ebola: The Untold Story

A must-read for our times…riveting, illuminating and humbling.’ Aminatta Forna, author of The Memory...

05 August 2022

Head Above Water

‘Shahd’s sensuous prose [invites us] to reconsider the intricacies of love, the body, motherhood,...

05 August 2022

The Gender Security Project Room

Women of the World: The Rise Of The Female Diplomat

Buy This Book Women of the World tells this story of personal and professional struggle against...

15 August 2022

Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict

Buy This Book This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes, consequences and responses...

15 August 2022

Indigenous Women and Violence Feminist Activist Research in Heightened States of Injustice

Buy This Book This book offers an intimate view of how settler colonialism and other structural...

15 August 2022

Women in War Examples from Norway and Beyond

Buy This Book This book examines what happens to women and gender relations in times of upheaval.

15 August 2022

The Orders Were to Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam Struggle

Buy This Book This book is about the violence, particularly sexual violence, faced by the female...

15 August 2022

Mornings in Jenin

Buy This Book Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, and...

15 August 2022

The Power of Women

Buy This Book The Power of Women is a rallying cry to rid our societies of violence against women,...

15 August 2022

Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures

Buy This Book This book at once provides a glimpse into where women are in war, and gives readers...

15 August 2022

The Unwomanly Face of War

Buy This Book The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich’s collection of stories from...

09 August 2022

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield

Buy This Book This book gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how in today’s warfare,...

09 August 2022

Mehr F Husain On Creating A Cycle Of Sustainability

Lakshana Palat chats with author and founder of Zuka Books & Zuka Accessories, Mehr F Husain about publishing and the challenges of being a female, independent publisher. 1) You're an author and entrepreneur, two inspiring professions.

Rated 4/5

Usman T Malik On Idea Of A Lost Past, Knowledge Of A Broken Present

Celebrated author chats with Lakshana Palat about the festival and wonders about South Asian literature standing at the threshold of many midnight doorways.

Rated 4/5

Kehkashan Khalid On Finding A Hint Of The Fantastical In Speculative Fiction

Illustrator, writer Kehkashan Khalid speaks with Lakshana Palat about overcoming challenges in the publishing landscape, especially in the market for speculative fiction..

Rated 4/5

Usman T Malik On Idea Of A Lost Past, Knowledge Of A Broken Present

Celebrated author chats with Lakshana Palat about the festival and wonders about South Asian literature standing at the threshold of many midnight doorways.

Rated 4/5

Wolfie | Ensconced in the Magical World of Friendship and Hope | Review by Sabin Muzaffar

Buy this Book Price: PKR 1000 + shipping Published by Zuka Books Recently published book Wolfie by Pakistani...

09 February 2023

Her Allies: Asking Difficult Questions To Forge Allyship Rather Than Walking on Eggshells | A Review by Lakshana Palat

It’s a world that’s lived mostly on Twitter—-a world where women become easy targets, offensive terms...

25 January 2023

Knotted Grief: An Intimate Rendition of Loss And Longing | Review By Sabin Muzaffar

Meditative pauses, abrupt halts, soulful variations and metaphoric juxtapositions weave the lilting fabric...

13 September 2022

The Night in Her Hair | Book Review by Sabin Muzaffar

Buy This Book Ethereal stories of longing, belonging, of love, yearning and loss, The Night in Her Hair...

24 August 2022

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