This book cover is from the book Folktales from India by A.K. Ramanujan. It was an enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic.

This book cover is from the 1991 magazine Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the present, Volume 1: 600 BC. This outstanding body of writing and significant documentary resource deepens our understanding of literature, feminism, and the development of contemporary India by shedding light on the lives of Indian women through 2,600 years of change. Both volumes' introductions, which Anita Desai calls "intellectually rigorous, challenging, and analytical," are accompanied by biographical, critical, and bibliographical headnotes that situate the authors and their choices in the context of Indian history and culture. Cover art: Detail from an eighteenth-century painting from Nal Daman, manuscript collection of the Victoria Memorial Museum, Calcutta, reproduced by permission of Hiren Chakrabarti, Secretary and Curator

Grandmother's Tale is a novella by R.K. Narayan with illustrations by his brother R.K. Laxman, published in 1992 by Indian Thought Publications. In 1993, it was published outside of India titled "The Grandmothers Tale" by Heinemann. The book is about Narayan’s grandmother, who is forced to travel far and wide in search of her husband, as this is narrated to him by his grandmother. This book exhibits Narayan’s experimental tendencies.

This book cover is from the 1994 book Mathilerikkanni. It was an old and rare book that published a collection of folk songs in Malayalam. AUTHOR: T.H. KUNHIRAMAN NAMBIAR AND V.T. KUMARAN PUBLISHER: KERALA SAHITYA AKADEMI, THRISSUR