Madhur (meaning “sweet as honey”) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound, where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more members of his extended family would savor together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were...

A serial killer is terrorizing Dilli and Mughal nobleman and detective Muzaffar Jang might have finally met his match. In the spring of 1657, the Mughal armies have reached the Deccan, besieging the Fort of Bidar. Back home in...

Largely set in upper-middle-class Delhi in the 1990s, kapur’s fifthe novel opens iwth a premise familiar in fables – that the beautiful and lucky can do what they want, usually at the expense of the less fortunate. The story...

A body recovered from a tandoor oven. A young accountant missing with a suitcase full of cash. A city in the heady grip of T20 fever. Private eye Arjun Arora works the streets of Delhi dealing with the shady...

Arun, a struggling writer of urdu thrillers, feels trapped in dull and dusty Pipalnagar, where nothing ever happens. He hopes to write a blockbuster one day, and escape to Delhi. Meanwhile, he falls in love with a young prostitute,...

Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. But the nature of his father’s...

India. The country of curry, chutney, tigers, the Taj Mahal… and the blue rat gang. In Delhi, hundreds of children have been enslaved. Will no one help them? Does no one care? One person does. And one dog too....

Set in the context of the zeitgeist and idealism of the late sixties, Harp is about love, longing and coming of age. The three main protagonists—a young man travelling in a Europe-less-travelled including the Iron Curtain, a young woman...

If anyone could transform laughter to light, she did, Inga. Radiance upon radiance of laughter,chime upon bell chime of light sparkled and shone everywhere. It was as if the sky showered tiny star grains that scattered, glinting, on the...