People enjoy using books to travel to distant places and learn about other cultures, as is evident in the abundance of books about India. February was a rich month for books set in the seemingly ...

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 359 pages, $23.95 Do you have nut-brown skin? Long silky hair? Deep, limpid pools for eyes? Well then, what are you waiting for? If you are Indian, and female, and even ...

THERE IS A case to be made that, to a Westerner, India is the most interesting place on Earth. This writer had that thought decades ago on the banks of the Ganges river in Varanasi, a city that is ...

My mouth was blue from Slurpee and I was wearing my favorite pink SpongeBob shirt as I perused the supermarket’s paperback section. As a 13-year-old raised on a cattle farm, I devoured books ...

The Mother of all Indian novels, as Don Quixote is of Western novels; in fact all, novels in Marathi and Kannada are called kadambaris. A sophisticated narrative of three love-stories spanning three ...

Even though Dalit self-assertion has come a long way since the 1980s, Dalit voices remain subdued in mainstream Indian media and fiction. India’s upper-caste elite are exclusive producers, promoters, ...

India, June 11 -- The world with a good book feels a little less lonely. But when a book needs to align with one's reality or gently offer one the lens with which to view another reality, it becomes ...