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A Passage to India

A Passage to India
  • Author(s): E M Forster
  • Location(s): Patna (Bankipur)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s

Said to be based on Bankipur, a suburb of Patna. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced ‘Anglo-Indian’ community. Determined to...

A People’s History of Heaven

A People’s History of Heaven
  • Author(s): Mathangi Subramanian
  • 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...

A Person is a Prayer

A Person is a Prayer
  • Author(s): Ammar Kalia
  • Location(s): Haridwar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades. Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged. When they first...

A Walk across the Sun

A Walk across the Sun
  • Author(s): Corban Addison
  • Location(s): India, Paris, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Ahalya Ghai is just seventeen when a tsunami rips through her Indian village. Ahalya and her sister Sita are the sole survivors of their family. Destitute, their only hope is to find refuge at a convent in Chennai, many...

Across Many Mountains: three Daughters of Tibet

Across Many Mountains: three Daughters of Tibet
  • Author(s): Yangzom Brauen
  • Location(s): India, Switzerland, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

In 1950 the Chinese invaded Tibet. This book describes the journey from Tibet to India describes the journey and the story of three generations of Tibetan women: Kunsang, Sonam and Yangzom, Sonam’s daughter. They flee to the refugee camps...

Age of Vice

Age of Vice
  • Author(s): Deepti Kapoor
  • Location(s): New Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, three a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five...

An Astronomer in Love

An Astronomer in Love
  • Author(s): Antoine Laurain, Louise Rogers Lalaurie (Translator), Megan Jones (Translator)
  • Location(s): Paris, Pondicherry (Puducherry), The Indian Ocean
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Historical
  • Era(s): 2010 (and 1760)

Part swashbuckling adventure on the high seas and part modern-day love story set in the heart of Paris, An Astronomer in Love is an enchanting tale of adventure, destiny, and the power of love from bestselling author Antoine Laurain....

And Laughter Fell from the Sky

And Laughter Fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Jyotsna Sreenivasan
  • 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...

Artemis (2)

Artemis (2)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1794

In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...

Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Behind The Beautiful Forevers
  • Author(s): Katherine Boo
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part...

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