Two families. One city. Too many secrets Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New...
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...
Balram Halwai, the eponymous ‘white tiger’, is a diminutive, overweight ex-teashop worker who now earns his living as a chauffeur. But this is only one side of his protean personality: he deals in confidence scams, over-ambitious business promotions (built...
Varma shows how India’s self-image has been distorted by simplistic myth-making, and sets out to find instead what it really means to be Indian at the beginning of a new century which is likely to see India grow into...
It is 1947, and Evie and Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life, and Martin...
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