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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,...

Postcards from Goa

Postcards from Goa
  • Author(s): Simran Silva
  • Location(s): Goa, Nova Scotia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1945-47, 1998

Goa, India 1945 India sought to reclaim her land from 400 years of Portuguese rule. Amidst the turmoil, and hatred, a friendship is born between two people from opposing sides. As the forbidden friendship deepens, could anything destroy the...

Postcards from Ladakh

Postcards from Ladakh
  • Author(s): Ajay Jain
  • Location(s): Ladakh
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): c. 2009

Ladakh, circa 2009 You never have a sense of déjà vu in Ladakh. No place looks the same again. No moment repeats itself here. There is always something new to discover about the land and its people. Birds and...

Prana Soup: an Indian Odyssey

Prana Soup: an Indian Odyssey
  • Author(s): Margaret Halliday
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1999-2001

Prana Soup describes Margaret Halliday’s three trips to India in candid, sometimes hilarious, detail. She embarks alone on her first trip at the age of fifty, undeterred by multiple sclerosis and osteoarthritis. She fell in love with the country...

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
  • Author(s): Sufiya Ahmed
  • Location(s): India, England
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

My Story: Princess Sophia Duleep Singh – the thrilling story of the princess and suffragette. Born in Britain to Indian and Egyptian parents, Princess Sophia Duleep Singh was a prominent suffragette and campaigned for the women’s right to vote.

Pyre

Pyre
  • Author(s): Perumal Murugan, Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Translator)
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Saroja and Kumaresan are young, in love and in danger. They meet in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works in a soda bottling shop, and quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s family village. But they are harbouring...

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