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Baby Does A Runner

Baby Does A Runner
  • Author(s): Anita Rani
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / Partition

Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong. Baby has had it with just about everything. She’s fed up with her job and her colleagues, her love life is permanently casual, she’s grieving for her...

Bheda

Bheda
  • Author(s): Akhila Naik
  • Location(s): Odisha (Orissa)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Akhila Naik’s Bheda (2010) has the distinction of being the first Odiya Dalit novel. It is set in remote villages of the Kalahandi district in western Odisha mired in poverty, drought, famine, child trade, and malnutrition. The novel traces...

Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus
  • Author(s): Rumer Godden
  • Location(s): Indian Himalayan Region
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General’s harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting. The palace is bestowed to the Sisters...

Black River

Black River
  • Author(s): Nilanjana Roy
  • Location(s): India
  • Era(s): Contemporary

IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO KILL A CHILD… The Indian village of Teetarpur is a quiet, unremarkable place, until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu community,...

Boats on Land

Boats on Land
  • Author(s): Janice Pariat
  • Location(s): Shillong, North East India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world...

Bombay Balchão

Bombay Balchão
  • Author(s): Jane Borges
  • Location(s): Cavel, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Various

Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, the Goans and the Mangaloreans. Looking for safe harbour, livelihood, and a new place to call home. Communities congregated around churches and...

Bombay Bhel

Bombay Bhel
  • Author(s): Ken Doyle
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A schoolboy’s loyalty to a street vendor is tested when the vendor disappears without notice. A grandmother prepares to begin a new chapter in her life. Bombay’s tangled web of bureaucracy threatens the livelihood of an ex-serviceman. Like the...

Bombay Wali Other Stories

Bombay Wali Other Stories
  • Author(s): Veela Gokhale
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere. An innocuous jazz concert that awakens painful memories for a middle-aged caregiver, a wealthy business woman compelled by the desire to hurt her best friend, a...

Burnt Sugar

Burnt Sugar
  • Author(s): Avni Doshi
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless ‘artist’ – all...

Business Business : Untold failure story

Business Business : Untold failure story
  • Author(s): Avinash T V
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Comedy, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

BUSINESS BUSINESS is a light fiction comedy that illustrates four friends’ struggle to get their startup’s dream to come true. It also displays the saga of continuous failures and lesson learns going forward. The Story takes us way back...

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