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Night Theatre

Night Theatre
  • Author(s): Vikram Paralkar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

As dusk approaches, a former surgeon goes about closing up his dilapidated clinic in rural India. His day, like all his days, has been long and hard. His medical supplies arrive late if at all, the electrics in the...

Of Serpent Born

Of Serpent Born
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Zacharias
  • Location(s): York, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Anitha has just turned sixteen. She is intelligent and studious, but she feels like a misfit amongst her peers at school and in her own extended family. Having lost her father tragically when she was a baby, she still...

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia

Off the Beaten Track: My Crazy Year in Asia
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, Australia, London, Thailand
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Humour
  • Era(s): 1980s

One man. Four continents. And a love-crazed travel writer going off the beaten track… In 1989, Frank Kusy found himself the unwilling love pawn of a booted and bodiced Boadicea on a Harley low rider. Then he fell in...

Oleander Girl

Oleander Girl
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...

One Small Voice

One Small Voice
  • Author(s): Santanu Bhattacharya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life: one to which his family turn a blind eye. As he approaches...

Our City That Year

Our City That Year
  • Author(s): Geetanjali Shree
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

“an unnamed city in India..” Shruti, a writer paralyzed by the weight of events, tries to find her words, while Sharad and Hanif, academics whose voices are drowned out by extremism, find themselves caught between clichés and government slogans....

Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
  • Author(s): Rahul Pandita
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1990s

Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family, who were Kashmiri Pandits: the Hindu minority within a Muslim majority Kashmir that was becoming increasingly agitated...

Painted Ghosts

Painted Ghosts
  • Author(s): Neil Beardmore
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Novella
  • Era(s): Starting in the early 70s and leading up to 2010

Three women have personal reasons to head from England to modern day India, each on a quest to rebuild their past and family. Daphne has strange experiences at the Buddhist caves of Ajanta; Stella is on a painting holiday...

Paper Moon

Paper Moon
  • Author(s): Rehana Munir
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

BOOKS. BOMBAY. ROMANCE. When her estranged father passes away, Fiza, fresh out of college, discovers that he has left her a tidy sum in the hope that she will open a bookshop… Overnight, Fiza’s placid life is thrown into...

Please Don’t Ask For Extra Glasses

Please Don’t Ask For Extra Glasses
  • Author(s): Barb Taub, Janine Smith (photos), Jayalakshmi Ayyer (photos)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): current

Guess what India? We’re baaack! After our travel adventures the year before in which none of us technically died — although there were times it seemed like an attractive option — my two long-suffering travel companions, Jaya and Janine,...

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