68 products
68 products
68 products
Nitrate Saga-P.V.Gopalakrishnan
Regular price Rs. 1,120.00
The Peacock Prince-V Balakrishnan
Regular price Rs. 100.00
Krishnas Dark Son- V Balakrishnan
Regular price Rs. 150.00
Dvijottama- V Balakrishnan
Regular price Rs. 150.00
The Curse of Urvashi- V Balakrishnan
Regular price Rs. 150.00
The Cord- Sredhanea Ramkrishnan
Regular price Rs. 290.00
TABULA RASA-JAYANTHI SANKAR-PRE BOOK
Regular price Rs. 470.00
Punctured Silences- Shivapriya Ganapathy
Regular price Rs. 120.00
Towers Of Silence- Berjis Desai
Regular price Rs. 400.00
Ponniyin Selvan- Part 4- The Jewelled Crown- Kalki
Regular price Rs. 550.00
It’s the calm before the storm.
Crown Prince Aditha Karikalan is riding hell-for-leather towards Kadambur to honour Ilaiya Rani Nandhini’s kind invitation—while Vandhiyathevan is hurrying in the same direction, hell-bent on thwarting their meeting. Mandhakini Devi is abducted by ruffianly unknowns towards Thanjavur—while Poonguzhali, her niece, is hastening thither, to rescue her aunt. Peril threatens Sundara Chozhar, confined to his sickbed and at the mercy of Pandiya assassins—while Ilaiya Piratti strains every nerve to protect her father.
Will all three succeed in their quests? Will Arulmozhi Varmar recover from his ague? Will Aniruddhar’s schemes and stratagems save the royal family? Will Azhwarkkadiyaan’s efforts bear fruit? And lastly … will Chozha Nadu be free of the tangled web of conspiracies?
Misplaced Heads - Jayanthi Sankar
ZDP 176
Regular price Rs. 550.00The shift in the time frames, from past to present are seamlessly flowing with respective
characters. The novelist has done dense research in every detail of the repertoire, the training of the
devadasis, and their style. I was awestruck. It was mind-blowing, to think about how she could even
decipher various adavus and various mudras used by us, dancers.
-Kalaimamani Dr. Radhika Shurajit, Dancer, Teacher, Choreographer, Chennai
This fiction is a standing testament that though times have changed immensely, the bare human
emotion towards art and feelings towards fellow human beings remain the same and are truly
eternal. A devadasi of the yesteryear would not fret towards a polygamous institution as much as a
conditioned woman today would. The ironies are brought out gracefully while normalizing many
human emotions, probably considered a taboo by the general public.
- Prathik Sudha Murali, Historian, Teacher, Public speaker, Chennai
In this fabulous post-modernistic, historical fiction with feministic metaphors, the protagonist
Poorna's perspective towards her man reads so much like the modern representation of the temple
a woman married to God.
- - Raaghav Sankar. Banking professional, Singapore
This creative work is very unique in putting together apparently disjointed fragments spanning
centuries and geographical locations and an array of characters from different eras with their quirky
and very specific to times tonality and expressions. The unfolding of the characters and the
experiences of the temple dancer communities bring to the reader an unrivaled perspective of the
honor and dignity of the much-misrepresented class of women.
-Usha Nagasamy, Lecturer in Further Education College, London
The expansive postmodernist novel peopled with over a dozen characters, spanning generations,
different ages, and varying milieus successfully trashes several misconceptions regarding the devadasi
culture in India. It attempts to correct the distorted picture of the system and chronicles the
downfall of devadasis and their rich culture and heritage with the advent of colonial rule.
Without romanticizing them, the author depicts them simply as human beings with their strengths
and flaws.
- Dr. Revathy Sivasubramaniam, Assistant Professor, Chellammal Women’s College, Chennai
Time has memories, it's said. But even time wouldn't be able to depict events spanned across Eras
so beautifully, given a chance. A reader becomes a student as history unveils itself in front of our
bare eyes, yet astonishingly aware of the present as we read about the parallel line of thought that
comes out through the protagonist's experiences. A film scope of South India through medieval,
Islamic, colonial, and the present-day - Misplaced Heads does exactly that, making us delve deeper
into the musings of the human heart and its madness by misplacing our heads.
- Sredhanea Ramakrishnan, an Entrepreneur, Theni, India
With a simple, yet beautiful and fluent language that any reader of any level can engage in, the author
has done commendable, innovative storytelling. With ease, she takes the reader to the ancient eras
and the contemporary modern world that I could visualize the events scene by scene. The reading
experience was strikingly memorable in that sense.
- Bina Amul Subnis, Singapore
Through the pains and sensitivities of the two contemporary protagonists, the author artistically
suggests that the heads are that of women who go misplaced when they want to assert, clarify, and
say no and spell out their views. In Misplaced Heads, one of the best works by female authors,
through the parallel thread of the centuries of temple women she opens windows of deviations that
brought about the decline in their services to ancient art and temples.
- P.Muralidharan, novelist, poet, literary critic and a translator, Chennai
The character-driven tale unfolds with the courage of a rural temple woman of South India during
the early 1900s, looking to break a stranglehold from her place in society. The crisp and clever
narrative smoothly draws readers into the times before and after her. A half-world away, we are
delivered unto the colonial streets of India.
- Krishna Ahir, the author of the novel, The Cat Hunter, Hyderabad
Author: Jayanthi Sankar
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 492
Language: English
Catalina - Sathana
ZDP 175
Regular price Rs. 150.00When we listen to Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, we can visualize snow falling gently on to the
ground. All of Tchaikovsky’s fans have attested to this fact. Similarly while reading Sathana’s
tales, I could feel the ice and slowly drifting snowfall. Such stories have not appeared in Tamil earlier. Each one of these stories in this book is
easily worthy of being converted into world cinema with their themes and incidents. The
stories vividly unspool in front of our eyes even as we are reading them.
-Charu Nivedita
Author: Sathana
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 102
Language: English
Alamak! - Elangovan
ZDP132
Regular price Rs. 450.00A collection of Plays
Author: Elangovan
Genre: Film/ Drama/ Music
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 258
Language: English
Boundless And Bare 1 - Thanjai Prakash
ZDP31
Regular price Rs. 250.00One of ZDP’s aim is to introduce to the world some of the finest specimens of our literature. We take great pride in introducing our series ‘Boundless and Bare’, of which the first would be Thanjai Prakash, who is known for his bold, feminocentric stories.
Author: Thanjai Prakash
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 172
Language: English
Wilfully Evil - Balakumaran
ZDP30
Regular price Rs. 400.00Set during the Chola period in Southern India, Bhuvanapathi, a young Brahmin in Kanchi, nurtures an unquenchable desire to take on a perilous journey to Kasi, in order to earn fame and wealth. Having mastered all the survival skills, he sets on this journey to Kasi after his marriage. His greed makes him commit all forbidden sins during his stay in Kasi and top to it all, he lusts for another woman, Navagnani and lures her to marry him, lying that his first wife was dead.
Time goes by and Bhuvanapathi, now wanting to reap the benefits of his Kasi trip, plans to head back to Kanchi. His only problem – his second wife and her younger brother Sivagnani, who wants to go with him. Unable to stop them, he takes them along, all the while trying to make an evil plan to get rid of them. Bhuvanapathi’s male supremacy stoops low and does the unthinkable when they reach Thiruvenlangadu. Little did he know that a woman’s curse can span across births. What happens next and how the legend of Pazhayanur Neeli came to be, is a riveting read.
Author: Balakumaran
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 348
Language: English
Shadow Of The Palm Tree - Vatsala Mendonca
ZDP23
Regular price Rs. 400.00Shadow of the Palm Tree is set in Goa, India’s very own Shangri-la. It opens with a heart-rending tragedy: the death of a mother at her own hands. Yet the shadow of sadness cast on the Abreus took shape in the 1700s when the family converted to Christianity and joined the most lucrative enterprise of Christian Europe: the slave trade. From the day Imaculada, a traditional healer from Mozambique, entered the Abreu home, her family and theirs were fated to be entwined in a dark dance of intimacy. After their mother’s death, the Abreus flee from the penumbra of their collective grief becoming an inadvertent metaphor for the diasporic nature of the Goan community. As Goa gains independence, family equations are realigned once again. Claudinha, a descendant of Imaculada, flees Goa and the Abreus to take refuge with the Siddhis, a primitive tribal group. There is now no one left to deflect Imaculada’s malevolence. Will her prophecy finally be fulfilled? Richly told and profoundly moving, Shadow of the Palm Tree is a story of identity and survival, love and sacrifice, forgotten history and cultural conflicts.
Author: Vatsala Mendonca
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 264
Language: English
The Verdict Will Seek You - Pattukkottai Prabakar
ZDP22
Regular price Rs. 300.00Nirmal Kumar is a movie star whose perfect image and seemingly perfect life a dangerous predator is hell-bent on ruining. While on a cosy vacation, his life is turned upside-down when he becomes the sole suspect in a gruesome murder. With everything at stake, can Nirmal Kumar prove his innocence and recover from his fall from grace?
Author: Pattukkottai Prabakar
Genre: Crime/Thriller/Mystery
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages:186
Language: English
Tale Of Five Crocodiles - Saravanan Chandran
ZDP24
Regular price Rs. 250.00A transporting tale set around the shifting power dynamics of viciously aggressive investors who enter a nation to maraud it's resources and will stop at nothing to make money. A stunning meditation on human nature and survival instincts, this novel poses intense moral questions. Discover a world of love and deception as it weaves through the extraordinary world of magical realism.
Author: Saravanan Chandran
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 188
Language: English
They Came They Conquered - Madhan
ZDP26
Regular price Rs. 400.00Beginning with Timur, Sultan Ghazni who invaded India seventeen times at the head of a large army, plundering the country of its great wealth, to the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah, banished from the country by the British – details and descriptions of every incident and each king astonish and exhilarate us.
The approach is direct, simple and unambiguous. From Timur to Bahadur Shah it is one engaging account. The book should find a place in every household, as an authentic account of ourselves. A flawless portrait.
–THE HINDU
Madhan while explaining historical events uses modern similes…
In spite of being a cartoonist in his previous avatar, Madhan did not caricature the Moghul Emperors and their subjects. I am so pleased he did not sit on judgement as a south Indian non-Muslim writer.
–KAMAL HAASAN
Author: Madhan
Genre: History, Non-Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 396
Language: English
The Final Solitude - S. Ramakrishnan
ZDP20
Regular price Rs. 400.00With new possibilities in storytelling, The Final Solitude exposes the injustice that prevailed during Emperor Aurangzeb’s rule in a fictional small kingdom in Eastern India, called Satgarh.
Interspersed with fantastical tales, this allegorical novel brings to light the torment and the trouble people faced during the lunatic king Pishada’s fascist regime.
Author: S. Ramakrishnan
Genre: Literature and Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 292
Language: English
Ponniyin Selvan - Part 3 - Sword Of Slaughter - Kalki
ZDP19
Regular price Rs. 550.00Sword of Slaughter finds us at an exciting cliffhanger following the end of Book 2 – have Vandhiyathevan and Arulmozhi Varmar truly been saved? What of their fate in the land of their birth, Chozha Nadu? Are the Pazhuvettarayars truly stirring the country in a revolt against their favourite prince? Why does the alluring Nandhini Devi insist on meeting allies within crumbling palaces? Why does Madhuranthaka Thevar ride his stumbling horse through fields, on a rainy night? And why does Vanathi, that shrinking, timid violet, leave her charming mentor to go on a solitary journey?
Then, there are our old and trusted friends, whose fates are also unclear: is Sundara Chozhar still bedridden? What of the canny Anbil Aniruddhar and his cunning disciple, Azhwarkkadiyaan? And what of the light of the Chozhas, Princess Kundhavai herself? Read on, to find out.
Author: Kalki
Genre: History
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 424
Language: English
Ponniyin Selvan - Whirlwinds - Part 2 - Kalki
ZDP18
Regular price Rs. 630.00Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy’s historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan’s adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars – and meets the hero of his dreams.
Meanwhile, Kundhavai Piratti, princess of the Chozha empire is thrown into confusion and outrage, while the beautiful but poisonous Nandhini Devi weaves more deceitful webs to ensnare her enemies. She will stop at nothing to bring about the downfall of the Chozhas … but will the scions of that royal clan escape in time?
Read on to find out as the epic continues.
Author: Kalki
Genre: History
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 482
Language: English
Ponniyin Selvan - Fresh Floods - Part 1- Kalki
ZDP17
Regular price Rs. 630.00Ponniyin Selvan is Kalki R Krishnamurthy’s magnum opus, set in 10th century Tamil Nadu, exploring the early life of Emperor Rajaraja the 1st. It might have been written more than 60 years ago, but this saga is timeless, reeling in readers with a gripping plot interwoven with intrigue, conspiracies, mystery, romance and adventure. Fresh Floods is Book 1 of a total of five volumes.
Who is the rightful heir to the ancient Chozha throne? Will Madhuranthakar—son of the eldest son—or Aditha Karikalan—the grandson of the younger—wear the crown? And will justice prevail in this struggle for power?
Follow our young, enthusiastic hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan on his fascinating journey, as this historical fiction based on real characters and incidents unfolds at a spell-binding pace, delving deep into human tendencies, desires, personal motives, political ambitions and the fight to gain power at all costs.
Author: Kalki
Genre: History
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 454
Language: English
Out Of The Blue - Indra Soundar Rajan
ZDP16
Regular price Rs. 400.00Shyamala returns to Kannamangalam with her friend Raghav in the hope of finding tranquillity and musical inspiration. However, she finds herself in an embroilment with an enigmatic Bairagi who is haunting the village and derailing the lives of its inhabitants. The reason? He is desperately trying to acquire the flute of Krishna through her. The village becomes a hotbed of religious debate when death and disappearance crop up unexplained along with a claim that Shyamala is a reincarnation of Draupadi. Can peace and normalcy be restored in the celebrated haven of intrigue? And how? Through faith in the unseen or through rational thought and action?
Author: Indra Soundar Rajan
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 381
Language: English
Unfaithfully Yours - Charu Nivedita
ZDP26
Regular price Rs. 400.00The ideal combination of satirical ammunition launched at political powers, vivid descriptions of travels in Paris, witty movie reviews, appreciation of dogs and the under-appreciation of the Tamil writer, Unfaithfully Yours, is the very essence of Charu Nivedita’s raw perception of this world. A collection of articles, essays, blogs and interviews, the book presents Charu’s bold and unapologetic take on various subjects, at a single glance to the reader.
Author: Charu Nivedita
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 218
Language: English
Towards A Third Cinema - Charu Nivedita
ZDP28
Regular price Rs. 200.00The on-screen offerings of Hollywood and Europe have coloured the popular perspective of cinema- what it is and what it should be- to such a great extent that the film contributions of Latin American directors remain largely uncharted. This book, with its compelling insights, intends to put the stylistically groundbreaking, exceedingly true to life and aesthetically mesmerizing Latin American cinema on the map and establish it as the “Third Cinema”.
Author: Charu Nivedita
Genre: Film/ Drama/ Music
Publishing House: Zero Degree Publishing
No. Of Pages: 112
Language: English
To Byzantium - Charu Nivedita
ZDP27
Regular price Rs. 600.00Zero Degree -Charu Nivedita
ZDP25
Regular price Rs. 550.00Stay up-to-date about new collections, events, discounts and more