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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,...

The Ash Museum

The Ash Museum
  • Author(s): Rebecca Smith
  • Location(s): England, India
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century/21st Century

Through ten decades and across three continents, The Ash Museum is an intergenerational story of loss, migration and the search for somewhere to feel at home. 1944. The Battle of Kohima. James Ash dies leaving behind two families: his...

The Bangalore Detectives Club

The Bangalore Detectives Club
  • Author(s): Harini Nagendra
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Solving crimes isn’t easy. Add a jealous mother-in-law and having to wear a flowing sari into the mix, and you’ve got a problem. When clever, headstrong Kaveri moves to Bangalore to marry doctor Ramu, she’s resigned herself to a...

The Billionaire Raj

The Billionaire Raj
  • Author(s): James Crabtree
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Present day

Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping India in a period of breakneck change – from controversial prime minister Narendra Modi, victor...

The Blue Monsoon

The Blue Monsoon
  • Author(s): Damyanti Biswas
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Police Procedural
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Blue Mumbai Thriller #2 A ritual murder at a Mumbai temple exposes the city’s dark secrets and ravages the personal life of a detective in this sequel to The Blue Bar. Amid incessant rains pounding down on Mumbai, Senior...

The Body in the Bath

The Body in the Bath
  • Author(s): Marissa de Luna
  • Location(s): Goa
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

As the International Film Festival of India draws to a close, the actress Subrina Basi is found dead in the bath of her hotel room. Subrina appears to have committed suicide, but closer inspection suggests foul play, and Detective...

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