Andrea Anastasio and V. Gheeta 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 ominous — stayed with him until it worked its way into his art. The result is Fingerprint, a visual fable that celebrates resistance to state surveillance and control. The artist’s fingerprints, screen printed onto the pages of the book, create progressively complex patterns and sequences, transporting the fingerprint from the world of forensics and law into the freeing world of art and imagination. An accompanying essay by historian and political activist V. Geetha points to those suggestive instances when people across cultures and nations have resisted fingerprinting, asserting their right to existence while fighting all attempts to foreclose their identities.

A spectacular pop-up alphabet book. Watch as the alphabet comes to life on paper in ornate and ingenious fashion. ABC3D is the second title in our ongoing French Focus series, brought to you with the help of the French Embassy in India. NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE INDIA

"An absolute delight." - Kirkus Reviews "The single most beautiful book I've ever owned." - Cory Doctorow, via boingboing.net "Does for paper what Claymation did for mud ... easily the most innovative alphabet book of the year, if not the decade." - The Washington Post "This hand-size French alphabet book is as stylish as a pop-up can be ... A-plus for drama and innovation." - Publishers Weekly starred review

Fat cats, brat cats, hurried carts, worried cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls... I Like Cats emerges from the brushstrokes of the best-known tribal and folk artists of India. Hand bound with a silk screened cover, this book features an impressive gallery of irresistible felines across a variety of Indian tribal art traditions, and comes with a framable screenprint. A book to delight art lovers, cat lovers and artsy cat lovers! Carrying on in the comic verse tradition, the witty and jubilant poetry-tales of Indian writer Anushka Ravishankar are internationally acclaimed, widely translated, and honoured with innumerable awards. Art by various artists from the finest tribal and folk traditions from across India.

Raja Mohanty & Sirish Rao Illustrated by Radhashyam Raut Above the Himalayan peaks, Garuda, the divine eagle of the God Vishnu, sees the Lord of Death hastening towards an exquisitely beautiful little bird. He decides to save it, and hides the bird away - but can death be cheated? A new and accessible take on a timeless Hindu parable of destiny and love, illustrated in the delicate and ornamental Patachitra tradition of Orissa, in eastern India. It has been printed and bound by hand at Tara Books’ award-winning bookmaking workshop. Both a collector’s item and an ideal gift for those interested in Indian culture, myth, religion and folk arts.