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The Association of Small Bombs

The Association of Small Bombs
  • Author(s): Karan Mahajan
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Lae 20th Century

On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Just a ‘small’ bomb, but it is fatal for two Khurana school boys. Their friend Mansoor survives the blast bearing the physical and psychological...

The Bandit Queens

The Bandit Queens
  • Author(s): Parini Shroff
  • Location(s): Uttar Pradesh
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife… Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a...

The Book of Gold Leaves

The Book of Gold Leaves
  • Author(s): Mirza Waheed
  • Location(s): Kashmir, Srinagar
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Mirza Waheed’s extraordinary new novel The Book of Gold Leaves is a heartbreaking love story set in war-torn Kashmir. In an ancient house in the city of Srinagar, Faiz paints exquisite Papier Mache pencil boxes for tourists. Evening is beginning to...

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing

The Case of the Man who Died Laughing
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Tarquin Hall’s second novel is a great read for those interested in India, its people, and its customs. It features Vish Puri a 50 year old detective in Delhi with a large family who often features in his sleuthing....

The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri 1)

The Case of the Missing Servant (Vish Puri 1)
  • Author(s): Tarquin Hall
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

We plunge into the intimate life of Indian culture, with Vish Puri, skilled detective, and through him experience the bowels of Indian life. This debut finds him checking out the suspiciously squeaky-clean groom of the daughter of a strict...

The Coffer Dams

The Coffer Dams
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers,arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife, Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are faced with a formidable challenge,...

The Forgotten Daughter

The Forgotten Daughter
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): Udupi, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

‘You were adopted’. Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parent’s will, tear Nisha’s carefully ordered world apart. Raised in England, by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks. Now, with...

The Girl from Nongrim Hills

The Girl from Nongrim Hills
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • Location(s): Shillong
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Bok, a guitar player with a Shillong band, has a lot on his mind. His elder brother Kitdor has lost 50 lakh rupees on a trip to Nagaland to purchase arms for a group of militants. Kitdor is given...

The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills

The Green Unknown: Travels in the Khasi Hills
  • Author(s): Patrick Rogers
  • Location(s): Meghalaya, India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Green Unknown is about walking, without a map or a plan, across the Khasi Hills in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya—a place of jungle canyons and thousand-foot waterfalls, where it rains more than any other inhabited place...

The Half Mother

The Half Mother
  • Author(s): Shahnaz Bashir
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

‘The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too’ It is the 1990s, and Kashmir’s long war has begun to claim its first victims. Among them are Ghulam Rasool Joo, Haleema’s father,...

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