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Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India
  • Author(s): Pankaj Mishra
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air: brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young...

Cawnpore

Cawnpore
  • Author(s): Tom Williams
  • Location(s): Kanpur (Cawnpore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 19th Century

During the Indian uprising of 1857, a small British force was surrounded by rebels in Cawnpore. The massacre that followed shocked Britain. ‘Cawnpore’ tells the story of the events leading to the massacre. It is a story of a...

Dancing to the Flute

Dancing to the Flute
  • Author(s): Manisha Jolie Amin
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Abandoned as a young child, the street urchin Kalu has, against all odds, carved out a life for himself in rural India. One day, a travelling healer overhears Kalu playing a melody through a rolled-up banyan leaf and encourages...

Dark Road to Darjeeling

Dark Road to Darjeeling
  • Author(s): Deanna Raybourn
  • Location(s): Darjeeling, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1800s

No 4 in the Lady Julia Grey series. The honeymoon of Lady Julia Grey and investigator Nicholas Brisbane is interrupted by the arrival of Julia’s sister, Portia, and brother, Plum. Jane, Portia’s former lover is in India, preganant and...

Delhi Noir

Delhi Noir
  • Author(s): Hirsh Sawhney
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Short stories under the editorship of Hirsh Sawhney. The legendary city of Delhi, India, provides fertile ground for stories of darkness and despair. Brand new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Meera...

Eat Pray Love

Eat Pray Love
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Location(s): Bali, India, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2000s

Liz’s memoir who- after her marriage breakdown – takes off for a year and goes to mull over her life in three destinations: Italy, India and Indonesia (Bali). Italy is about the pleasure of eating, India is about finding...

Fear and Lovely

Fear and Lovely
  • Author(s): Anjana Appachana
  • Location(s): New Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling, New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated by secrets that she, her mother and her aunt...

Full Tilt

Full Tilt
  • Author(s): Dervla Murphy
  • Location(s): Afghanistan, Europe, India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Shortly after her tenth birthday, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost 20 years later, she set out to achieve her ambition. Her epic journey began during the coldest winter in memory, taking her through Europe, Persia, Afghanistan,...

Goa Traffic

Goa Traffic
  • Author(s): Marissa de Luna
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Lisa Higgins is an average twentysomething looking for love in all the wrong places. To Lisa, a two-week holiday in India seems like just the ticket to coax her out of her comfort zone and help her find her...

Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust
  • Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): 1920s, 1970s

A marvellously written book which looks at anglo-Indian relations, through the stories of two women. Set in colonial India of the 1920s and the independent India of the seventies, when the lure of India for disenfranchised youth was at...

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