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- 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...
And Laughter Fell from the Sky
- 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...
- Location(s): Karnataka, Goa
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Longing to connect to his ancestral roots, Cajetan Pereira has taken up residence near one of the rare and mystical Baobab trees in South India. Into his world walks Sylvia, a young woman in search of a story. They...
- Location(s): Madurai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s onwards
‘A girl is a burden. A girl is a curse.’ Madurai, 1992. A young mother in a poor family, Janani is told she is useless if she can’t produce a son – or worse, bears daughters. They let her...
- Location(s): Kottayam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion...
- Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
- Genre(s): Fiction
Two families. One city. Too many secrets Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New...
The Illicit Happiness of Other People
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep – a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1970s
Madras (Chennai) 1970s. Kamala Kumari, beautiful and proud, is a Gemini Studio starlet who cannot reveal her caste origins because of the stigma attached to the Devadasis, women who have been dedicated to temple gods and often were forced...
- Location(s): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Travancore (until 1947)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...
- Location(s): Chennai (Madras), London
- Era(s): 1960s onwards
August, 1968: Babo Patel arrives in London from Madras, with curly hair, jhill mill teeth and dreams of becoming a success. When he meets the beautiful, auburn-haired Siân Jones, he falls in love instantly. She, like him, is in...