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Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grand Life Apartments is a middle-class apartment block surrounded by lush gardens in the coastal city of Chennai, India. It is the home of Kamala, a pious, soon-to-be retired dentist who spends her days counting down to the annual...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore. A young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari and expensive pearl earrings. He is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender seeking love in the bazaars of...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Madras in the 1920s. The British are slowly losing the grip on the subcontinent. The end of the colonial enterprise is in sight and the city on India’s east coast is teeming with intrigue. A grisly murder takes place...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 21st Century
Nestled between the luxury high-rise blocks of Bangalore is an ironically named slum called Heaven. It’s here that five girls – Muslim, Christian and Hindu; gay and straight – forge a binding friendship. But when Heaven is threatened by...
- Location(s): Udupi, London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Two sisters. Bound by blood. Torn apart by love. My sister – the glue that held our family together and the gatekeeper to the memories of our shared childhood. The girl I made a pact with – to protect...
And Laughter Fell from the Sky
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), Ohio, Portland (Oregon)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Still living at home despite a good career and financial independence, beautiful and sophisticated Rasika has always been the dutiful daughter. With her twenty-sixth birthday fast approaching, she agrees to an arranged marriage, all while trying to hide from...
- Location(s): Tamil Nadu
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth, however, is much darker… As Kalki struggles to extract...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), Harrow, Udupi
- Genre(s): Fiction
Exiled from her family in India for more than a decade, Shirin and her husband lead a comfortable but empty life in London. Memories of her childhood – exotic fragrances, colours, stifling heat and tropical storms – fill Shirin...
- Location(s): Kerala
- Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
- Era(s): Modern
Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...
- Location(s): Karnataka, Goa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Longing to connect to his ancestral roots, Cajetan Pereira has taken up residence near one of the rare and mystical Baobab trees in South India. Into his world walks Sylvia, a young woman in search of a story. They...
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