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Tara Publishing - Widely regarded as one of India's finest independent publishing houses, Tara is run by a collective of writers based in Chennai, India. We work with a range of adventurous writers and artists from around the world, as well as create books in house.

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Catching the Departed

The dead don't speak. But sometimes they leave a trail. Andy Karan, an investigative journalist, is tasked to probe one such the death of a local lawyer. As he begins to unravel the past, within...
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by Kulpreet Yadav

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The Slant Book
Fiction
When little Bobby?s stroller is suddenly set adrift, he goes streaking down a hill, gleefully wreaking havoc on the town?s people he hurtles past?even bringing some along for the ride! Meet the...
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by Peter Newell

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Apon Katha - My Story
Fiction
Apon Katha is the autobiography of Abanindranath Tagore. Born to one of colonial Bengal's most famous families, Tagore is considered a pioneering modern painter in India. He grew up in an...
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by Abanindranath Tagore

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Spectacular Spectacle Man
Fiction
Chashmuddin, the street spectacle seller has a bizzare wit and an equally bizarre array of spectacles. In this fold-out book, zany art and merry verse transform Chashmuddin's innovative sales pitch...
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by Vishakha Chanchani
Vishakha Chanchani

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Catch That Crocodile
Fiction
This is a book of comic verse with a subtle environmental message.

by Pulak Biswas
Anushka Ravi Shankar

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Real Men Don?t Pick Primroses
Fiction
Young mountaineer Vikram sets off on an expedition to the HImalaya with a sherpa, two yuppies, an income-tax officer and an assortment of other odd characters. This novel grapples with the meanings...
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by Sirish Rao

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Elephants Never Forget
Fiction
A baby elephant is lost and alone in the forest when a herd of buffaloes comes along and takes him into their field. So what is he now- elephant or buffalo?

by Christiane Pieper
Anushka Ravi Shankar

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Wild Elephant at Camp
Fiction
An abandoned baby elephant is brought to a forest reserve and finds a friend in a tribal mahout child . . .

by Emanuele Scanziani
Anupama Moharkar

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Old Animals Forest Band
Fiction
A dog, a cow, a donkey and a rooster become friends after their masters turn them out for being old and useless. This charming band of characters also share a love for singing- which they do very...
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by Durga Bai
Sirish Rao

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Five Tongued Firefanged
Fiction
One ordianry, boring morning at school, Arun sees a strange creature in the playground. No one- not even Arun himself- is sure of what the creature actually is, but that doesnt stop them from making...
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by Anushka Ravishankar
Indrapramit Roy

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Four Heroes And Green Beard
Fiction
y, Habul the Hungry, Kyabla the Clever... On a visit to Darjeeling for the summer holidays, strange things begin to happen to the four reluctant heroes, when they meet Sevenpenny Santra, who wants...
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by Narayan Gangopadhyay

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Hen Sparrow Turns Purple
Fiction
This folktale tells the story of Hen-sparrow, who falls into a vat of dye, turns quite purple- and turns the entire kingdom upside down...

by Pulok Biswas
Gita Wolf

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I Like Cats
Fiction
Fat cats, brat cats, grinning cats, wigged cats, cats with scowls, and cats with jowls . . . This is a book that will delight cat lovers, art lovers, and artsy cat lovers.

by Anushka Ravishankar
Gita Wolf

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Mangoes and Bananas
Fiction
Monyet the monkey and his friend, Kanchil the mouse deer, plant some trees and look forward to eating the fruit. When they are finally ripe, Monyet climbs up the trees to pick them. But once he gets...
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by T. Balaji
Nathan Kumar Scott

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The London Jungle Book
Non-Fiction
With radical innocence and great sophistication, Bhajju Shyam of the Gond tribe of central India records his observations of London, transforming the city's streets, pubs and monuments into strange...
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by Bhajju Shyam

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Night Life Of Trees
Non-Fiction
Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai and Ram Singh Urveti Intricately drawn visions of trees fill the pages of this sumptuous book of art and folklore from the Gond tribe in central India. In Gond belief, trees...
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Tsunami
Non-Fiction
In the traditional manner of Patua art, this innovative scroll-book transforms the dramatic news into a moving and artfully rendered fable. Dirge-like in tone and translated from the original Bengali...
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by Joydeb And Moyna Chitrakar

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Babu the Waiter
Non-Fiction
Babu is a waiter in a busy resturaunt. This book spends the day with him, following him as he serves a variety of food to the hungry people who come to eat in his resturaunt.

by Sirish Rao

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In The Land Of Punctuation
Basic Concepts
This fun romp populated by punctuation marks as characters nonetheless suggests systems of control that go beyond language...

by Rathna Ramanathan
Christian Morgenstern

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One, Two, Three
Basic Concepts
This read-aloud book invites young children to count the improbable number of animals that clamber up an ever-expanding tree.

by Durga Bai

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Abc3D
Basic Concepts
A spectacular pop-up alphabet book. Watch as the alphabet comes to life on paper in ornate and ingenious fashion

by Marion Bataille

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The Mahabharatha: A Childs View
Mythology & Folk Tales
Samhita Arni wrote and illustrated this version of The Mahabharatha when she was 12 years old. Her Mahabharatha is bold and unorthodox in its depiction of character and in the critical tone it adopts...
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by Samhita Arni

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Today Is My Day
Early Readers
Tala is sick and tired of people always ordering her around- parents, relatives, teachers, sisters. Normally she listens to them. Normally. But not today. Today, anyone who tries to boss Tala around...
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by Anushka Ravishankar

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To Market, To Market
Early Readers
A little girl sets off to the market with some money in her pocket- and no idea what to buy.

by Anushka Ravishankar
Emanuele Scanziani

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Tiger On A Tree
Early Readers
An award-winning combination of black, orange and whimsical poetry, this is the tale of a wild tiger cub that wanders into an indian village.

by Anushka Ravishankar
Pulak Biswas

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Anything But A Grabooberry
Early Readers
This zany and original book uses typography in a radical way- as illustrations. Letters and words take the form of objects and images they describe, guiding the reader through a fluid visual space...
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by Rathna Ramanathan
Anushka Ravi Shankar

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That'S How I See Things
Early Readers
Siena Baba is a happy artist with an extremely weird and wonderful way of seeing the world- and an even weirder and more wonderful way of painting. People say his pictures don't look like anything...
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by Sirish Rao

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Wish You Were Here
Holidays & Festivals
This is a book of nonsense verse about a bizarre family that travels all over the world. From the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China, wherever they go, they send postcards to their stay -at-home...
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by Anushka Ravishankar
Trotsky Marudu

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Waterlife
Picture Books
In this hand silkscreen printed book, artist Rambharos Jha adapts the traditional Mithila style of folk painting from Bihar to his own vision.

by Rambharos Jha
Rambharos Jha

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I saw a peacock with a fiery tail
Picture Books
n this pioneering visual exploration of I Saw a Peacock, Gond tribal artist Ramsingh Urveti and book designer Jonathan Yamakami use art and design in the service of language. Working together,...
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by Ramsingh Urveti
Ramsingh Urveti

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The Flight Of Mermaid
Fairy Tales
Retaining the fabular quality of the original Andersen story, this poetic version of the mermaid?s tale takes place in a tribal cosmos, where the human is never isolated from the rest of nature. The...
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by Bhajju Shyam

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Ponni The Flower Seller
Social Issues
Ponni is a flower seller. This book follows her as she buys flowers, strings together her garlands, and sells them to a variety of characters.

by Sirish Rao

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We Are All Born Free
Social Issues
This illustrated picture book brings alive a rich and complex theme in a deceptively simple way. The text turns difficult concepts into comprehensible ideas. Particularly as the Indian education...
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by Various Author

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Excuse Me, Is This India?
Social Issues
Excuse Me, Is This India? is a roving travelogue through a child's imagination. Drifting off to sleep beneath a picture-quilt made by a globetrotting aunt, the book's young narrator becomes a bright...
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by Anita Leutwiler
Anushka Ravi Shankar

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The Book Book
Games & Activities
Quite literally a book of books, The Book Book is full of ideas and inspiration to help readers write, illustrate and create their own books from everyday materials.

by Sophie Benini Pietromarchi

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Finger Print
Games & Activities
When designer and artist Andrea Anastasio visited the United States some years ago, he was fingerprinted (like everyone else) by the airport immigration authorities. This moment ? both banal and...
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by Andrea Anastasio
V. Gheetha

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Do!
Games & Activities
Do! is a set of action pictures, rendered in the Warli style of tribal art. It introduces basic verbs to the young reader through a series of brilliantly drawn pictograms, which illustrate the verb...
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Child Art with Everyday Materials
Games & Activities
This unorthodox and enabling approach to art education helps children experiment freely with different sorts of everyday material, from newspaper and clay to leaves and vegetables. The book features...
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