A Tale Within A Tale
The Last Kaurava, Kamesh Ramakrishna. Frog Books, 2015, 536 pages. The Mahabharata is an epic tale of tales stacked one onto another like Russian babushka d
Girija Sankar
In the Wake of a Tragedy
WHERE EARTH MEETS WATER by Pia Padukone. Harlequin Mira. harlequin.com piapadukone.com Available in paperback, digital book. 269 pages. $14.95. Karom Seth sho
Tea Estate Tales
The setting: a rambling colonial mansion in small town in Northeastern India and later a rambling mansion in a tea estate; the characters: a young woman whose s
Painting a Tale
Tiger Hills is a story of familiar themes set in extraordinary settings. Spanning over 60 years in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries in colonial south Indi
The Promise of Happiness
In the non-fiction Beautiful Thing, Sonia Faleiro offers up a rare and fascinating account of Bombay’s dance bars through a raw, honest and, at times, heart w
Don’t Just Google It!
The teenage girl in the ABC sitcom The Middle asks her mother (played by Patricia Heaton of Everybody Loves Raymond fame) where she could learn about love, seei
Of Blue Morphos, Sloths, and Ziplines
We were instructed to wear dark clothes, preferably all black. No flashlights, no camera. Just your self, your imagination, and more importantly, faith in the g
A Country Undergoing Seismic Social Change
What was the inspiration for Miss New India? In previous interviews, you had mentioned visiting Bangalore and meeting call center customer specialists … can y
The Zeitgeist of Modern India
Anjali Bose is a small town girl with big city dreams. In defiance of her parent’s wishes for her to be married soon after high school, Anjali seeks bigger an
To be (good) or not to be (good)
The debate over what is good and what is evil is as old as humanity. An absolutist might say, “We are good and they are evil” while a relativist might point
Of Blue Morphos, Sloths, and Ziplines
We were instructed to wear dark clothes, preferably all black. No flashlights, no camera. Just your self, your imagination, and more importantly, faith in the g
Down and Dirty with Delhi
DELHI: ADVENTURES IN A MEGACITY, by Sam Miller. St. Martin’s Press, New York, N.Y. July 2010. Hardcover. 304 pages. $24.99 So often in travel writing, the pro
