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The Village by the Sea

The Village by the Sea
  • Author(s): Anita Desai
  • Location(s): South East Asia, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): timeless

The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going...

What Will People Think?

What Will People Think?
  • Author(s): Vedashree Khambete-Sharma
  • Location(s): India, Vile Parle
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ila has her pride. And she’s about to discover just how much trouble that can be… It’s 1976 and in the Vile Parle suburb of Mumbai, bastion of the Maharashtrian middle-class, Ila Bendre’s mother is determined to get her...

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