Hum to Aise Hain, Bhaiya.
(We are like this only, brother.)

Celebrating 60 years of the Indian Republic, we bring you Indian Essentials, a light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek ode to India. In this quirky collection, twenty writers and social commentators ponder the mysteries of the Indian psyche and try to make sense of one trait, phenomenon or cultural value that is quintessentially Indian. From the Indian male’s penchant for public urination to the Indian female’s obsession with gold, from the jhatkas of Bollywood to the melas of Allahabad, from our embarrassingly frank matrimonials to how seriously we take our copulation problems, nothing is spared scrutiny.

And because we Indians like a little something extra over and above what we are promised, we are giving away a complimentary copy of  Extra!— a little book that tackles all those peculiar Indian qualities that we didn’t want to leave out of the Indian Essentials.

Dip into this collection and join us to find out what it means to be Made in India.

1. Jerry Pinto
2. Indrajit Hazra
3. Namita Gokhale
4. Devdutt Pattanaik
5. Samrat
6. Soumya Bhattacharya  
7. Sanjay Suri
8. Bachi Karkaria
9. Srividya Natarajan
10. Manjula Padmanabhan
11. Vikram Doctor
12. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
13. Pratik Kanjilal  
14. Renuka Narayanan
15. Anand Sahay
16. Vidya Subramaniam.
17. Punita Singh  
18. Ira Pande
19. Family by Geeta Doctor
20. Seema Goswami