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- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Poetry
- Era(s): Turn 20th Century
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God...
- Location(s): West Bengal, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on...
- Location(s): Assam, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Early 20th century
Calcutta police detective Captain Sam Wyndham and his quick-witted Indian Sergeant, Surrender-not Banerjee, are back for another rip-roaring adventure set in 1920s India. 1905, London. As a young constable, Sam Wyndham is on his usual East London beat when...
- Location(s): Darjeeling, Nepal
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party,...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): 1920s
India, 1921. Haunted by his memories of the Great War, Captain Sam Wyndham is battling a serious addiction to opium that he must keep secret from his superiors in the Calcutta police force. When Sam is summoned to investigate...
The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had already migrated halfway around the world four times. After graduating from Princeton, he moved back to the world which his immigrant parents had abandoned, to...