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Afternoon

Afternoon
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kashmir, New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young...

Things We Choose To Hide

Things We Choose To Hide
  • Author(s): Jane Riddell
  • Location(s): Florence, Delhi, Kashmir, Positano
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After ending a long-term relationship, Rachel Grosvenor goes to stay with friends in Florence, where she meets the attractive Sicilian businessman, Tommaso. Despite her friends’ concerns, she marries him weeks later, only to learn at the end of their...

The Peacock Spring

The Peacock Spring
  • Author(s): Rumer Godden
  • Location(s): India, Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Raj era

Una and her younger sister Hal have been abruptly summoned to live in New Delhi by their diplomat father Sir Edward Gwithiam. From the first meeting with their new tutor and companion, the beautiful Eurasian Alix Lamont, Una senses...

Inga

Inga
  • Author(s): Poile Sengupta
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

If anyone could transform laughter to light, she did, Inga. Radiance upon radiance of laughter,chime upon bell chime of light sparkled and shone everywhere. It was as if the sky showered tiny star grains that scattered, glinting, on the...

YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN

YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN
  • Author(s): Damyanti Biswas
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Suspense, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

LIES. AMBITION. FAMILY. It’s a dark, smog-choked new Delhi winter. Indian American single mother Anjali Morgan juggles her job as a psychiatrist with caring for her autistic teenage son. She is in a long-standing affair with ambitious police commissioner...

More Bodies Will Fall

More Bodies Will Fall
  • Author(s): Ankush Saikia
  • 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...

The Windfall

The Windfall
  • Author(s): Diksha Basu
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anil Kumar Jha has worked hard and is ready to live well. After thirty years in a modest flat, he and his family are moving to Gurgaon, one of Delhi’s richest areas. But his wife, Bindu, is heartbroken about...

We That Are Young

We That Are Young
  • Author(s): Preti Taneja
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Jivan Singh, the bastard scion of the Bapuji family, returns to his childhood home after a long absence – only to witness the unexpected resignation of the ageing Devraj Bapuji from the vast corporation he founded, Company India. On...

Dreams Of Rivers And Seas

Dreams Of Rivers And Seas
  • Author(s): Tim Parks
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Just days after controversial anthropologist Albert James writes these elusive lines to his son John, he is dead. Abandoning his girlfriend in London, John flies to Delhi to join his mother in mourning. But the nature of his father’s...

Harp

Harp
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the context of the zeitgeist and idealism of the late sixties, Harp is about love, longing and coming of age. The three main protagonists—a young man travelling in a Europe-less-travelled including the Iron Curtain, a young woman...

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