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Selected Poems

Selected Poems
  • Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore
  • 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...

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss
  • Author(s): Kiran Desai
  • 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...

Oleander Girl

Oleander Girl
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • 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...

The Sleeping Dictionary

The Sleeping Dictionary
  • Author(s): Sujata Massey
  • Location(s): West Bengal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930

From an award-winning novelist, a stunning portrait of late Raj India–a sweeping saga and a love story set against a background of huge political and cultural upheaval. YOU ASK FOR MY NAME, THE REAL ONE, AND I CANNOT TELL....

Sister of My Heart

Sister of My Heart
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • 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...

Death in the East

Death in the East
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • 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...

The Himalayan Summer

The Himalayan Summer
  • Author(s): Louise Brown
  • 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,...

Smoke and Ashes

Smoke and Ashes
  • Author(s): Abir Mukherjee
  • 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...

Abandon

Abandon
  • Author(s): Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘India has found its Ferrante’ – Niven Govinden, author of All the Days and Nights “And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair for that is what makes good literature...

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta

The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta
  • Author(s): Kushanava Choudhury
  • 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...

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