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- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), South Africa, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 1700s
Calcutta, 1757. Bengal is on the brink of war. The East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, are advancing and nobody is safe. Meena, the Nawab’s neglected and abused daughter, finds herself falling under the spell...
- 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): 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): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A staggering debut novel of murder, loyalty, love, and survival at all costs, set in the teeming underbelly of Calcutta’s most infamous neighborhood. In Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu...
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...
- Location(s): Hong Kong, Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1850s
Calcutta 1841. Emanuel an ambitious Jewish merchant wants to make his fortune by trading opium with China. Over the ensuing decades Emanuel s success will be determined by two remarkable women Semah his dutiful first wife in Calcutta whose...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): present
The Kolkata Conundrum A novel by Kalyan Lahiri The mysterious and alluring Pramila, resident of Avantika Heights, is brutally murdered. Sudhir Das, the security guard from the Golden Red Security Agency, is caught red-handed.In steps Sudhir’s boss, young Orko...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lila De is on the verge of a career breakthrough when she gets a call from her mother in Kolkata, informing her that she’s inherited her family’s sprawling estate-so she returns there after a decade of estrangement. Lila’s grandmother,...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
A retired judge drops dead at a swish party in Kolkata. The needle of suspicion points to Punjabi mirchi Dolly Luthra. Now it’s up to her friend, the strait-laced Mrinalini Sen, to don the detective’s hat and clear Dolly’s...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Wyndham and Banerjee Book 5 Calcutta, 1923. When a Hindu theologian is found murdered in his home, the city is on the brink of all-out religious war. Can officers of the Imperial Police Force, Captain Sam Wyndham and...
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