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Monsoon Summer

Monsoon Summer
  • Author(s): Mitali Perkins
  • Location(s): Berkeley, Pune (Poona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jasmine (Jazz) lives in Berkeley, CA and is the child of an Indian Mother and a white Father. At 15 she is already running a small business with Steve, taking photos of tourists in front of Landmarks. Jazz’ Mum...

Motiba’s Tattoos

Motiba’s Tattoos
  • Author(s): Mira Kamdar
  • Location(s): California, Saurashtra
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th Century, Early 21st

In a lyrical memoir spiced with mouth-watering Indian recipes and old family photographs, Mira Kamdar takes us back to the ancient world into which her grandmother was born: a tiny village in Kathiawar, India. Kamdar traces the Indian diaspora,...

Mrs Ali’s Road to Happiness

Mrs Ali’s Road to Happiness
  • Author(s): Farahad Zama
  • Location(s): Visakhapatnam (Vizag)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Mrs Ali’s much loved home is suddenly under threat – a road widening scheme threatens to destroy both it and the family business, the Marriage Bureau for Rich People. Meanwhile, Mrs Ali’s niece, Pari, a young Muslim widow, adopts...

Murder in Bollywood

Murder in Bollywood
  • Author(s): Shadaab Amjad Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Someone at this table has killed before, and someone at this table will kill again. Nakhil Kapoor, Bollywood’s biggest film director, made this shocking proclamation to his friends one night. Sameer Ali Khan, Bollywood’s badshah, seethed with rage. Nyra...

Murder in Mumbai

Murder in Mumbai
  • Author(s): K D Calamur
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mumbai, India: a city of beauty and squalor, old and new, wealth and poverty, honest work and deep corruption… and inevitable target of scandal and condemnation if Inspector Vijay Gaikwad doesn’t solve the murder of American businesswoman Liz Barton,...

Narcopolis

Narcopolis
  • Author(s): Jeet Thayil
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

If you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don’t have to work too hard. Much of it...

Nightrunners of Bengal

Nightrunners of Bengal
  • Author(s): John Masters
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1857

New Year’s Eve, 1856. As Captain Rodney Savage of the 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, celebrates the start of 1857 with his wife and friends in the isolated cantonment of Bhowani, news comes of a crisis that will have...

No Full Stops in India

No Full Stops in India
  • Author(s): Mark Tully
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of ‘stories’ which explore Calcutta,...

Not Always to Plan

Not Always to Plan
  • Author(s): Colin Bisset
  • Location(s): Australia, India, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Dorman family lives a humdrum existence in a surfing suburb of Sydney until they are rocked by upheaval. Change is inevitable, but is it welcome? All that is certain is that each member of the family will have...

Pleasure City (Shalimar)

Pleasure City (Shalimar)
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Please see entry under Shalimar. Same book, different title

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