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If You Look for Me, I am Not Here

If You Look for Me, I am Not Here
  • Author(s): Sarayu Srivatsa
  • Location(s): Machilipatnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Post 1947

When Malika loses her longed-for daughter at birth, it is not the only loss in the family: the surviving twin -a boy – loses the love of his mother. He grows up needing to be the daughter his mother...

In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced

In the Mirror, a Peacock Danced
  • Author(s): Justine Bothwick
  • Location(s): Agra, Portsmouth
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s - 1950s

Agra, 1938: Eighteen-year-old Florence Hunt has grown up riding horses past the Taj Mahal and chasing peacocks through her backyard under the critical gaze of her father. Increasingly enamoured with his work on the booming railway, Florence yearns to...

India Becoming

India Becoming
  • Author(s): Akash Kapur
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1990s onwards

The book is divided into two parts. The first focuses on all the positives, the expanding middle classes, the proliferation of women in the workplace, the new businesses and construction and culture. The second is about the destruction and...

India Rising

India Rising
  • Author(s): Oliver Balch
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction

India is on the up. Historically derided as the lumbering elephant of Asia, this vast sub-continent has quickened its pace. The economy is booming. Tens of millions have been pulled out of poverty. Software and service companies abound. Millionaire...

It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote

It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote
  • Author(s): Nikita Deshpande
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When obsessive book-lover (ahem, book snob) Amruta – Ruta – Adarkar arrives in Delhi to work as a marketing executive for Parker-Hailey’s Publishing, she learns that the world of books is not as cozy as she’d imagined. Her eccentric...

Jaipur Journals

Jaipur Journals
  • Author(s): Namita Gokhale
  • Location(s): Jaipur
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

A brilliant, funny, and moving account of the characters that make festivals tick. There are the authors enjoying moments of adulation after years of creative isolation and the star-struck public allowed to mingle with their cultural icons.  And those...

Kim

Kim
  • Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 19th Century

Kim is Rudyard Kipling’s finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the life and landscapes of India in the late nineteenth century. Kim himself is a resourceful lad who befriends a lama, an ageing...

Land Where I Flee

Land Where I Flee
  • Author(s): Prajwal Parajuly
  • Location(s): Gangtok
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

To commemorate Chitralekha Nepauney’s Chaurasi – her landmark 84th birthday – three of Chitralekha’s grandchildren are travelling to Gangtok, Sikkim, to pay their respects. Agastaya is flying in from New York. Although a successful oncologist, he is dreading his...

Last Man in Tower

Last Man in Tower
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury...

Lost and Found in India

Lost and Found in India
  • Author(s): Braja Sorensen
  • Location(s): Mayapur
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Most books on India written by foreigners share one trait: the authors visit India, then leave. Sorensen moved in, set up house, became a resident in a village on the banks of the Ganges river, and eventually called India...

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