03/06/2026
Best Sellers from the month of May
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Trading comfort for adventure, Shivya Nath chronicles her journey across the planet’s remotest corners—from the Kaluts desert in Iran, to the Cocodrilo coral reefs of Cuba—ROOTLESS AND RESTLESS, is an endearing account of a slow travel-hunt, for stories, traditions and meaning in the age of social media and climate change.
Shape-shifting construction workers, a nurse stitching together bodies fallen from unfinished skyscrapers and other nightmarishly Kafkaesquean settings populate Deepak Unnikrishnan’s stunning debut, TEMPORARY PEOPLE. Narrated across 27 chapters, this novel of ideas foretells the surreal reality of Malayali guest-workers in the UAE like no other.
THE GOOD REPORTER: A MEMOIR OF JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY complicates the boundary between the objective journalist and the deeply human observer. Written by Disha Mullick and the collective team behind Khabar Lahariya, this striking anti-memoir turns the camera inward on the reporters who brave India’s most volatile rural beats. Navigating the harrowing aftermath of a stone quarry tragedy, a reporter’s professional presence fractures, unearthing buried personal trauma and profound grief. Moving beyond traditional narratives of journalistic triumph over hardship, this book is a literary exploration of what happens when the pursuit of truth demands exposing your own hidden scars.
DHOOP ISSUE 4 explores hyper-locality through food—its local commons, cultures, and discourse. Blending photo essays, micro-histories, and personal narratives, this issue offers an intimate look at the mini-eateries, plating aesthetics, and the laborious ingredient lifecycles that define the registers of local cuisines, recipes and taste across Manipur, Kerala, Karnataka and several other places.
Sarnath Banerjee’s sixth graphic novel ABSOLUTE JAFAR set across Delhi, Karachi and Berlin follows Brigu Sen and his family through immigration, bureaucracy and the anxieties of everyday life. Blending memoir, reportage and fiction, the book draws on folk mytholog
