A satire on the export trade in live organs from the Third World to the West. Om is driven by poverty to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. Jeetu, his brother returns unexpectedly and is taken away as the donor. Om can't accept this, so he follows his brother. Jaya, his wife is left alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich westerners? Winner of the Onassis International Play Competition. Broadcast on the BBC World Service and now a feature film.

Three days to go before a gigantic killer asteroid will end life on Earth! Everyone is in a panic. Everyone, that is, but Vanita, who has things to do. Such as saving the planet. She has a plan drawn up to the minutest detail. All pure science. With just a little help from fridge magnets, a little puppy--and a special "shrinking" gift that she has. This is a sure winner of a storyline! In a world of superheroes, this spectacular science fiction tale featuring a supergirl. The incredibly detailed "out-of-this-world" illustrations filled with humor in this side-splittingly hilarious book from a master storyteller with a straight face and her tongue firmly in cheek!

"Tell me please: What is The Night?" asks a little girl of the owl, the earthworm, the firefly. Glowing out from the pages, their answers merge into a tapestry of the more mysterious sides of night-time and the curious habits of creatures that come to life in darkness. A breathtaking "nature facts" book, in which striking visuals and punny verse illuminate an alternative world where light and sight don't matter. Filled with exciting science, while incredibly detailed illustrations evoke the mystery and magic of night-time.

Creating a Profession: Disparate Voices of Indian Women Playwrights is a collection of plays demonstrating a broad variety of contemporary perspectives as told through the eyes of the women who created them. The anthology is enhanced by significant interviews between each writer and the editor and an introduction filled with information about the profession of playwriting throughout India. Details include the challenges of multiple languages throughout the country, the lack of funding and rehearsal spaces, the role of censorship, the need for specific training, and the influence of gender upon these writer's ability to find what one woman called "brain space" given the continuation of traditional gender expectations.

A twelve-stop trip to monuments, sites and wonders of the world with a lively family of six. But that's not all. There's detective work to be done! * A picture puzzle book from the multifaceted Manjula Padmanabhan after the award-winning I am Different and the wacky Same and Different * Quiet hints in the jottings of the travellers and helpful clues in the spectacular pictures invite readers to guess where the family's just been - and no, it's not to the place on the previous page! * Vivid, detailed replications give children (and adults!) close glimpses of monuments, sites and wonders of the world, with interesting clues, pops of colour, and groups of entertaining tourists * Explores identity creatively and uniquely, with the artist's trademark humour tickling readers of all ages, everywhere * Perfect for family puzzle time, with pictures that make the readers observe closely and think in logical sequence

In the 1970s, the author was in her mid-twenties and living in Bombay. She moved to New York in search of the American dream, but it was in Europe that she believed her quest for contentment would end. A humorous memoir about a young woman's fight with diets, marriage, sex and India.