The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao (Penguin Random House)
The lives of Rameshwar Shinde, Ravindra Kumar, a woman named Janaki Lalji, and their neighbours, are torn apart by bigotry and the inescapable hold of religion. A retelling of the epic Ramayana, set at a time in Bombay’s history when blood flowed on the streets, and people died for dubious causes.
Gods and Ends (Penguin Random House)
Philomena Sequeira knows what she wants by the time she turns 14. Her father wants something else. Life is unyielding for tenants of Obrigado Mansion in Orlem, a Roman Catholic parish in Bombay. They grapple with love, loss, and sin, struggling to make sense of circumstances they have no control over.
Women's Voices (Oxford University Press)
Bringing together the writing of Indian women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume includes extracts from letters, diaries, essays, and articles. Highlighting the growing interest in social reform and women's rights during the period, it is an anthology that celebrates lesser-known figures of India’s literary history.