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Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition

Revolution 2020: Love, Corruption, Ambition
  • Author(s): Chetan Bhagat
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Once upon a time, in small-town India, there lived two intelligent boys. One wanted to use his intelligence to make money. One wanted to use his intelligence to create a revolution. The problem was, they both loved the same...

River of Gods

River of Gods
  • Author(s): Ian McDonald
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2047

As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj the...

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE

Robert Baden-Powell: A Biography – foreword by Bear Grylls OBE
  • Author(s): Lorraine Gibson
  • Location(s): Africa, Afghanistan, India, London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 1857 to present day

Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity. A conflicted character – militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist – he was one of the 20th century’s most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, finding fame not once,...

Romantic Guerrilla

Romantic Guerrilla
  • Author(s): D S Kumar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

A bad-boy entrepreneur, Subash Bodhi runs the show in style at Guerrilla, an energy drink startup. He gets into a power struggle with a billionaire investor and heir of a family-run business group. As the power struggle escalates, he...

Run And Hide

Run And Hide
  • Author(s): Pankaj Mishra
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway town. He is about to enrol in the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, determined to make something of himself. But once there, he meets two friends who are...

Rupee Millionaires

Rupee Millionaires
  • Author(s): Frank Kusy
  • Location(s): India, London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1990s

When Frank teams up with Spud, he thinks he’s got it made. But what he’s made is a deal with the Devil. ‘Dodgy’ Frank Kusy, born into poverty from immigrant parents, learns to live on his wits––first as an...

Saraswati

Saraswati
  • Author(s): Gurnaik Johal
  • Location(s): North India
  • Genre(s): Essays, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Centuries ago, the myths say, the holy river Saraswati flowed through what is now Northern India. But when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandmother’s funeral, he is astonished to find water in the long-dry well behind...

Savage Beasts

Savage Beasts
  • Author(s): Rani Selvarajah
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), South Africa, Sri Lanka (Ceylon)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

Calcutta, 1757. Bengal is on the brink of war. The East India Company, led by the fearsome Sir Peter Chilcott, are advancing and nobody is safe. Meena, the Nawab’s neglected and abused daughter, finds herself falling under the spell...

Schrödinger’s Cat May or May Not Have Been Here

Schrödinger’s Cat May or May Not Have Been Here
  • Author(s): Nilam A McGrath
  • Location(s): Mussoorie, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): late 1970s/early 1980s

What good is a superstitious scientist? For Krishna Kumar, what starts as a harmless superstition sparks a journey that no scientist could have predicted. Aged 12, Krishna is recognised as a child prodigy and gets a prestigious scholarship to...

Second Destiny

Second Destiny
  • Location(s): Avignon, Agra, London, The South of France (Le Midi)
  • Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The Older Generation Broke Them Apart… Lia Abraham gave up everything for her family and culture—art, autonomy and even self-worth. Worst of all was the sacrifice of Bollywood-gorgeous, idealistic Devraj Shah, when Lia caved in to pressure from both...

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