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- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern
Every morning in Sadar Bazaar, one of the oldest markets in Delhi, a gang of men gather looking for work in the building trade. For five years, Aman Sethi shared their lives, and in particular that of Mohammed Ashraf....
Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
The author trips up over rough pavements, crosses highways, clambers onto rooftops and over 500-million-year-old rocks as he brings this city to life in the pages of his book.
The Association of Small Bombs
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Lae 20th Century
On a hot May day in 1996 a car bomb detonates in a Delhi marketplace. Just a ‘small’ bomb, but it is fatal for two Khurana school boys. Their friend Mansoor survives the blast bearing the physical and psychological...
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
A riveting description of a year spent in Delhi. A fascinating portrait of a city with an array of amazing characters. This book really describes the city, its magical and interesting nature both past and present.
The Case of the Love Commandos (Vish Puri 4)
- Location(s): Agra, Delhi, Luknow
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
When Ram and Tulsi fall in love, the young woman’s parents are dead set against the union. She’s from a high-caste family: he’s an Untouchable, from the lowest strata of Indian society. Young Tulsi’s father locks her up and...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
My boyfriend died when I was twenty-one. His body was left lying broken in the highway out of Delhi while the sun rose in the desert to the east. I wasn’t there, I never saw it. But plenty of...
- Location(s): Delhi, India
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Don’t be deceived by the title of this collection of stories. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala – the only writer to have won both the Booker and two Oscars – is a post-Raj realist, not a romantic. Not for the first...
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
Short stories under the editorship of Hirsh Sawhney. The legendary city of Delhi, India, provides fertile ground for stories of darkness and despair. Brand new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Meera...
It Must’ve Been Something He Wrote
- Location(s): Delhi
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
When obsessive book-lover (ahem, book snob) Amruta – Ruta – Adarkar arrives in Delhi to work as a marketing executive for Parker-Hailey’s Publishing, she learns that the world of books is not as cozy as she’d imagined. Her eccentric...
- Location(s): Delhi, Manipur, Nagaland
- Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): present day
A girl from north-east India is murdered in Delhi. The main suspect is her ‘Indian’ boyfriend, but there isn’t enough evidence to prove his guilt. Amid a growing outcry about police neglect and racial injustice, detective Arjun Arora reluctantly...