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Swimming Lessons and other stories from Firozsha Baag

Swimming Lessons and other stories from Firozsha Baag
  • Author(s): Rohinton Mistry
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1980s

Tales from India

Tales from India
  • Author(s): Bali Rai
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A collection of 20 stories from India’s rich folklore heritage. From wicked magicians to wise old priests, charming princes and beautiful princesses, to greedy tigers and wily jackals, these magical tales are full of adventure and trickery, and infused...

Tales of India: Folk Tales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu

Tales of India: Folk Tales from Bengal, Punjab, and Tamil Nadu
  • Author(s): Svabhu Kohli (illustrator), Viplov Singh (illustrator)
  • Location(s): Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

A shape-shifting tiger and a pretentious rat. A generous goddess and a powerful demon. A clever princess and a prince who returns from the dead. This collection of 16 traditional tales transports readers to the beguiling world of Indian...

Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

Tamarind & the Star of Ishta
  • Author(s): Jasbinder Bilan
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Tamarind never knew her Indian mum, Chinty, who died soon after she was born. So when she arrives at her ancestral home, a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens, she’s full of questions for her extended...

Tears of Jhelum

Tears of Jhelum
  • Author(s): Anita Krishan
  • Location(s): Kashmir
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 90s

Kashmir has long seen years of strife and turmoil, and Wali Mohammad Khan has been a silent witness to it all.The violence that terrorism unleashed in the valley was every bit as senseless as the men who propagated it...

Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors

Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
  • Author(s): Aravind Jayan
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporaryu

It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off to their neighbours in Blue Hills housing colony. But their eldest son Sreenath is behaving strangely, and...

Ten Days Of The Strike

Ten Days Of The Strike
  • Author(s): Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Arunava Sinha (Translator)
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Sandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost fiction writers of his time. A staunch anti-establishment figure and a supporter of creative freedom, his writings reflect his concerns with class and gender...

The Acrobats of Agra

The Acrobats of Agra
  • Author(s): Robin Scott-Elliot
  • Location(s): Agra
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1857

Agra 1857, the Indian rebellion. Three children are trying to make their way through a country at war with a circus tiger in search of safety. Jacques is a boy acrobat who has lost his circus; Beatrice ( Bea)...

The Anarchy

The Anarchy
  • Author(s): William Dalrymple
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): 1765 onwards

In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army –...

The Ascetic of Desire

The Ascetic of Desire
  • Author(s): Sudhir Kakar
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Biography, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 400 BCE–200 CE

The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, though the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains, for the most part, a mystery. In The Ascetic of Desire,...

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