Classic, Ancient, Vintage Writing… In Your Pocket
Bhagavad Gita
Krishna’s counsel to Arjuna on duty, action and the self, on the eve of war.
Valmiki Ramayana
The epic journey of Rama, from Ayodhya to Lanka and home again.
Manache Shlok
Samarth Ramdas’s gentle verses of advice, addressed to one’s own mind.
Kabir Dohe
Two-line couplets that cut through ritual to the heart of devotion.
Katha Upanishad
Young Nachiketa questions Death himself about what lies beyond.
Tukaram Gatha
Fifteen hundred abhangs of longing and joy from the poet-saint of Dehu.
Bhaja Govindam
Shankaracharya’s stirring call to look past worldly pursuits.
Subhashitas
Pithy Sanskrit sayings on character, friendship and good conduct.
Shyamachi Aai
Sane Guruji’s tender memoir of a mother who shaped her son’s soul.
Isha Upanishad
Eighteen verses on seeing the divine in everything that moves.
Premchand’s Best Stories
Village life, hardship and quiet dignity from Hindi’s great storyteller.
Ram Raksha Stotra
Budha Kaushika’s protective hymn invoking Rama, limb by limb.
Stories from Tagore
Short stories of Bengal by the Nobel laureate poet.
Dasbodh
Samarth Ramdas’s practical guide to spiritual and worldly life.
Anandamath
The novel of sannyasi rebels that gave India “Vande Mataram”.
Mundaka Upanishad
The higher and lower knowledge, and the source of “Satyameva Jayate”.
Raja Shivaji
G. S. Sardesai’s account of the founder of the Maratha kingdom.
Songs of Kabir
One hundred of Kabir’s poems, as rendered by Rabindranath Tagore.
Vikram and the Vetaal
A king, a ghost and a riddle at the end of every tale.
Kathasaritsagara
The “Ocean of the Streams of Story”, a vast medieval tale-collection.