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A Lovesong for India

A Lovesong for India
  • Author(s): Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
  • Location(s): Delhi, India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

Don’t be deceived by the title of this collection of stories. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – the only writer to have won both the Booker and two Oscars – is a post-Raj realist, not a romantic. Not for the first...

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...

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...

Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily

Scoop-Wallah: Life on a Delhi Daily
  • Author(s): Justine Hardy
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

Though born and educated in England, Justine Hardy spends more time thinking of India than of her home. “When I cannot sleep in London I have waking dreams peopled by the characters who inhabit my life in Delhi, and...

The Windfall

The Windfall
  • Author(s): Diksha Basu
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anil Kumar Jha has worked hard and is ready to live well. After thirty years in a modest flat, he and his family are moving to Gurgaon, one of Delhi’s richest areas. But his wife, Bindu, is heartbroken about...

Origins of Love

Origins of Love
  • Author(s): Kishwar Desai
  • Location(s): Delhi, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...

Afternoon

Afternoon
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kashmir, New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young...

Capital

Capital
  • Author(s): Rana Dasgupta
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Early 21st Century

When Rana Dasgupta arrived in Delhi at the turn of the twenty-first century, he had no intention of staying for long, but the city beguiled him – he ‘fell in love and in hate with it’ – and fifteen...

Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India

Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
  • Author(s): Madhur Jaffrey
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1930s, 1940s

Madhur (meaning “sweet as honey”) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound, where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more members of his extended family would savor together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were...

Crimson City (Muzaffar Jang, #4)

Crimson City (Muzaffar Jang, #4)
  • Author(s): Madhulika Liddle
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
  • Era(s): 17th century - Mughal Empire

A serial killer is terrorizing Dilli and Mughal nobleman and detective Muzaffar Jang might have finally met his match. In the spring of 1657, the Mughal armies have reached the Deccan, besieging the Fort of Bidar. Back home in...

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