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Ghachar Ghochar

Ghachar Ghochar
  • Author(s): Vivek Shenbagh
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth after a miraculous change in fortune. As the narrator, along with his sister, his parents, and his uncle...

Ghost-Eye

Ghost-Eye
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 60s and present day

Varsha Gupta wants fish for her lunch. Her family can’t understand it; the three-year-old has never tasted fish in her life. The Guptas are strict vegetarians and don’t allow it inside their Calcutta mansion. But Varsha claims she can...

Girl in a Red Silk Sari

Girl in a Red Silk Sari
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Madras, India. Caroline steps off the plane into the searing heat, senseless with worry. So much has changed since her first visit. This time, a piece of her heart is missing. This time, she is here to find her...

Girls Burn Brighter

Girls Burn Brighter
  • Author(s): Shobha Rao
  • Location(s): India, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her mother, beside herself, screamed at her...

Goodnight Ganesha

Goodnight Ganesha
  • Author(s): Nadia Salomon, Poonam Mistry (illustrator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A gorgeously illustrated goodnight story that celebrates the nighttime rituals of two young children visiting their grandparents in India. As nighttime falls over the city, two children visiting their grandparents in India find there’s so much fun to be...

Graffiti

Graffiti
  • Author(s): Joanie Pariera
  • Location(s): India, United States (USA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

‘Graffiti’ Is a debut novel by East Indian author Joanie Pariera. Set in India and the USA, the novel explores the coming of age of young India at the advent of the global ‘flat world’ revolution. It questions the...

Grk Smells a Rat

Grk Smells a Rat
  • Author(s): Josh Lacey
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Modern

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....

Half Light

Half Light
  • Author(s): Mahesh Rao
  • Location(s): Darjeeling, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the misty mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide entraps the guests and staff of a dilapidated hotel. Cooped up inside, two men exchange lingering glances. For carefree Neville, this is one of many exhilarating encounters, stolen kisses in stairways...

Harp

Harp
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

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...

Haunting Bombay

Haunting Bombay
  • Author(s): Shilpa Agarwal
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A motherless girl living with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in their bungalow in 1960s Bombay inadvertently unleashes a ghost, forcing the family to confront the shocking truth behind a drowning death that occurred there years earlier.

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