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Narcopolis

Narcopolis
  • Author(s): Jeet Thayil
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

If you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don’t have to work too hard. Much of it...

Nectar in a Sieve

Nectar in a Sieve
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction

‘Sometimes we eat and sometimes we starve. We live by our labours from one harvest to the next, there is no certain telling whether we shall be able to feed ourselves and our children, and if bad times are...

Nightrunners of Bengal

Nightrunners of Bengal
  • Author(s): John Masters
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1857

New Year’s Eve, 1856. As Captain Rodney Savage of the 13th Rifles, Bengal Native Infantry, celebrates the start of 1857 with his wife and friends in the isolated cantonment of Bhowani, news comes of a crisis that will have...

No Full Stops in India

No Full Stops in India
  • Author(s): Mark Tully
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking insight Mark Tully has woven a superb series of ‘stories’ which explore Calcutta,...

Not Always to Plan

Not Always to Plan
  • Author(s): Colin Bisset
  • Location(s): Australia, India, Italy
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Dorman family lives a humdrum existence in a surfing suburb of Sydney until they are rocked by upheaval. Change is inevitable, but is it welcome? All that is certain is that each member of the family will have...

Om Shanti, Babe

Om Shanti, Babe
  • Author(s): Helen Limon
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...

Origins of Love

Origins of Love
  • Author(s): Kishwar Desai
  • Location(s): Delhi, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In Delhi a small baby lies alone and abandoned. The product of IVF and surrogacy, she had been so coveted – until she was born with a fatal illness. No one knows how the infection could have been transferred...

Pleasure City (Shalimar)

Pleasure City (Shalimar)
  • Author(s): Kamala Markandaya
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Please see entry under Shalimar. Same book, different title

Sacred Games

Sacred Games
  • Author(s): Vikram Chandra
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

A novel with an incredible amount of breadth, politics, partition, the city of Mumbai – this is truly a book “set in India”.

Saraswati Park

Saraswati Park
  • Author(s): Anjali Jospeh
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main...

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