The Indian Fiction Top 25 Here is Jerry Pinto’s list of the 25 Best Books in Indian fiction (English language, no translations): we’d be interested to know your comments on this here at Indiaphile…. 1. Vikram Chandra: Love and Longing in Bombay 2. Aubrey Menen: The Fig Tree 3. Rohinton Mistry: Tales from Firozhsha...
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(1) The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy Actress Diana Quick, famous Julia from Brideshead Revisited, does a great job of reading Arundhati Roy’s masterful book. (2) Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert Perfect for some holiday listening. (3) Mark Tully’s India This compilation of Mark Tully’s acclaimed reports from India includes his...
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One day in the southern Indian state of Kerala in December 1969, a little girl is drowned. The events leading up to this tragedy emerge in a beautifully told narrative of political turbulence and cross-caste love, set within a verdant landscape. With its cinematic time shifts and breathtaking prose, The God of Small Things...
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Who would have thought that 590 stanzas of iambic tetrameter would be such a witty and thought provoking read. Vikram Seth’s remarkable achievement, based in San Francisco during the 1980′s, remains of the author’s best works and a favourite here at Indiaphile. All rights reserved Indiahile: for the best Indian arts, food, travel and...
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia is a 2006 memoir by American author Elizabeth Gilbert that can only be described as a publishing phenomenon. The memoir chronicles the author’s trip around the world after her divorce and, as of February 2010, had remained on the New York...
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Gandhi’s nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a great innovator in the struggle against...
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Here at theindiaphile we’ve been hunting for the perfect incense for a long time. In an age when most incense is basically a stick of charcoal dipped into chemicals, the true art of rolling incense by hand over slender threads of bamboo is getting quite rare. Last year, however, we struck gold when we...
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Surely one of the greatest books never to win the Booker Prize, A Fine Balance is one of the best novels ever written about India and rightly became an international best-seller. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is...
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