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Age of Vice

Age of Vice
  • Author(s): Deepti Kapoor
  • Location(s): New Delhi
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill. New Delhi, three a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in the blink of an eye five...

And Laughter Fell from the Sky

And Laughter Fell from the Sky
  • Author(s): Jyotsna Sreenivasan
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru), Ohio, Portland (Oregon)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Still living at home despite a good career and financial independence, beautiful and sophisticated Rasika has always been the dutiful daughter. With her twenty-sixth birthday fast approaching, she agrees to an arranged marriage, all while trying to hide from...

Are You Experienced?

Are You Experienced?
  • Author(s): William Sutcliffe
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

For anyone with the slightest curiosity about travelling, or even if you’ve been, William Sutcliffe’s tremendously funny Are You Experienced? will have you in stitches. The protagonist is Dave, a 19-year-old Londoner on a gap year before starting university....

Artemis (2)

Artemis (2)
  • Author(s): Julian Stockwin
  • Location(s): India, South East Asia, Surrey
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1794

In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting. Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero’s...

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity
  • Author(s): Pavan K Varma
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Drawing upon modern Indian history, contemporary events and personal experience, he examines how and why the legacies of colonialism persist in our everyday life, affecting our language, politics, creative expression and self-image. Over six decades after Independence, English remains...

Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Behind The Beautiful Forevers
  • Author(s): Katherine Boo
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part...

Between the Assassinations

Between the Assassinations
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): West India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nestling on India’s southern coast lies the fictional town of Kittur, in West India. Ranging through the city’s streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its...

Blue-Skinned Gods

Blue-Skinned Gods
  • Author(s): S J Sindu
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy named Kalki is born with blue skin. He believes that he is the Hindu god Vishnu and that he can perform miracles. The truth, however, is much darker… As Kalki struggles to extract...

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India

Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in small town India
  • Author(s): Pankaj Mishra
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Turn of the 20th Century

A little over a decade ago, Pankaj Mishra travelled through the small towns of India and found they had shed their sleepy, half-apologetic air: brash and ostentatious, kitschy and clamorous, here was an India in transition. A convent-educated young...

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

Calcutta: Two Years in the City
  • Author(s): Amit Chaudhuri
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2009-2011

In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri moved back to Calcutta, the city in which he was born. It was a place he had loved in his youth and the place he had made his name writing about. But upon his return...

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