Author · Storyteller · Founder of Kahani Press
Stories rooted in the
soil and stars
of the subcontinent.
N. B. Raj writes fiction at the meeting place of meticulous research and immersive storytelling — tales of forgotten kingdoms, ancient mysteries, and ordinary people pulled into extraordinary forces.
The Debut Novel
The Jungle’s Veil
A Novel · N. B. Raj
“The read is powerful, strong, and this is a book I would strongly recommend to other readers.”
What Makes This Different
A novelist building a literary world,
not just a book.
Built on the archive.
Every world is researched from primary sources — colonial-era surveys, regional folklore archives, oral histories, and the land that still remembers them.
Story before spectacle.
Lush sentences, restrained mysticism, characters with weight. The kind of novel you slow down for, then can't put down.
A connected library.
Not single titles — a slowly unfolding universe of regions, dynasties, and figures, each book a doorway into the next.
Independent by design.
Published under Kahani Press, the author's own imprint. No house style. No diluted vision. Reader-first, always.
Now in the World
The Jungle’s Veil
A debut novel set in the lush, lawless kingdom of Jalapura — where the foliage holds its breath, where empires are remembered only by the rivers that survived them, and where a single secret can unmake a dynasty.
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Enter the World
A kingdom you can walk through.
A starter map for the geography, language, and quiet danger of the world inside the book.
Early Whispers
The first readers have spoken.
Beta readers of The Jungle’s Veil have weighed in — unprompted, unedited. Read the full synopsis and their notes on the book’s page.
The Imprint
Founded by the author. Built for stories that endure.
Kahani Press is an independent imprint shaping a library of interconnected fiction — historical, mythic, speculative — drawn from the centuries-deep imagination of the Indian subcontinent. Every N. B. Raj title is born and published here.
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Be Early
The next chapter belongs to readers who arrive early.
Cover reveals, kingdom lore, ARC opportunities, and quiet news from the imprint land first on Instagram and in the Kahani Press newsletter. Walk in before the gates open.
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