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Sakina’s Kiss

Sakina’s Kiss
  • Author(s): Srinath Perur (Translator), Vivek Shanbhag
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A knock on the door shouldn’t be a cause for alarm. But when Venkat finds two insolent young men on his doorstep, he knows something is off. They say they need to get in touch with his daughter Rekha,...

The Great Indian Middle Class

The Great Indian Middle Class
  • Author(s): Pavan K Varma
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In this powerful and insightful critique, the author examines the evolution of the Indian middle class during the twentieth century, especially since Independence

12 Years

12 Years
  • Author(s): Chetan Bhagat
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

He’s 33. She’s 21. He’s a struggling stand-up comic. She’s a rising star in private equity. He’s divorced. She’s never had a boyfriend. He’s Punjabi. She’s from a conservative Jain family. They shouldn’t be together. But they can’t stay...

A Burning

A Burning
  • Author(s): Megha Majumdar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Megha Majumdar’s simmering, ambitious debut follows three seemingly separate characters whose lives intertwine after a terrorist attack on a train in India. Jivan, a Muslim girl raised in the slums, is accused of inciting the attack, and her case is...

A Daughter’s Courage

A Daughter’s Courage
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): South India, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s, Now

1929. When a passionate love affair threatens to leave Lucy in disgrace, she chooses a respectable marriage over a life of shame. With her husband, coffee-plantation-owner James, she travels to her new home in India, leaving her troubled past...

A Distant Heart

A Distant Heart
  • Author(s): Sonali Dev
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Her name means “miracle” in Sanskrit, and to her parents, that’s exactly what Kimaya is. The first baby to survive after several miscarriages, Kimi grows up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai’s Pali Hill, surrounded by love...

A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan

A Fantastic State of Ruin: The Painted Towns of Rajasthan
  • Author(s): David Zurick
  • Location(s): Shekhawati
  • Genre(s): Photography
  • Era(s): Modern looking back to 18th/19th Century

The first art-photography study of the painted towns of Shekhawati, India The book documents a unique and extraordinary vernacular architecture that is fast disappearing from the world due to neglect and urban development A visual account of small-town life...

A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India

A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India
  • Author(s): Meera Sriram, Mariona Cabassa (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this #OwnVoices book inspired by the author’s hometown of Chennai, India, a girl explores the vibrant rainbow of delights in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her amma (mother). Endnotes explain all...

A Girl In Traffick

A Girl In Traffick
  • Author(s): Mamta Jain Valderrama
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Twelve-year-old Juhi Gupta loves her simple life in a remote Indian village. She and her mother and father might be poor, but they’re happy. Then one day, everything changes. Her father goes to the doctor for a simple procedure—the...

A Greater God

A Greater God
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Hyderabad, Telegana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s India

Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns from the Straits Settlements to find his Madras Indian Police Service colleagues struggling with an outbreak of Hindu-Muslim tension. This particularly affects his assistant, Muhammad Habibullah, who feels that Muslim interests are being ignored....

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