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Bombay Bhel

Bombay Bhel
  • Author(s): Ken Doyle
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A schoolboy’s loyalty to a street vendor is tested when the vendor disappears without notice. A grandmother prepares to begin a new chapter in her life. Bombay’s tangled web of bureaucracy threatens the livelihood of an ex-serviceman. Like the...

Bombay Wali Other Stories

Bombay Wali Other Stories
  • Author(s): Veela Gokhale
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere. An innocuous jazz concert that awakens painful memories for a middle-aged caregiver, a wealthy business woman compelled by the desire to hurt her best friend, a...

Dead to Them

Dead to Them
  • Author(s): Smita Bhattacharya
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): 21st century

Moira Madhwa is the typical young, beautiful and successful urban woman until the day she goes missing. Her friends start looking for her, but quickly realize nothing is as it seems. Moira had kept devastating secrets—secrets that could wreck...

Death of a Lesser God

Death of a Lesser God
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1950

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. Can...

Family Matters

Family Matters
  • Author(s): Rohinton Mistry
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

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.

Low

Low
  • Author(s): Jeet Thayil
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife’s ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis...

Meet Me in Mumbai

Meet Me in Mumbai
  • Author(s): Sabina Khan, Muhammed Sajid (Cover Artist)
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A novel in two acts – told eighteen years apart – gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned teen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption. Seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen was adopted by...

Midnight at Malabar House

Midnight at Malabar House
  • Author(s): Vaseem Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1949/50

Bombay, New Year’s Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city’s most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after...

Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
  • Author(s): Saumya Roy
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): N/A

All of Mumbai’s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small,...

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