Shantaram —
Gregory David Roberts
Mumbai · Fiction · Urban life
An immersive novel set in Bombay, exploring the city's underworld, relationships and overlapping lives. Read it as fiction rather than a factual guide to contemporary Mumbai
A Suitable Boy —
Vikram Seth
Society · Family · Post-independence India
A sweeping novel about family, marriage, politics and social change in newly independent India.
The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
Kerala · Family · Social structures
A literary introduction to Kerala through family, memory, social hierarchies and the emotional landscape of a place.


