Karma Cola
Author: Gita Mehta
A wry account, by an Indian, of the quest for spiritual enlightenment that caused many people from the consumer societies of the West to go to India and seek fulfiment in the teachings and practices of Hinduism. Gita Mehta is also the author of ‘Raj’.,,’The scintillating flurry of anecdotes through which Gita Mehta describes the fools, knaves, wretches and occasional genuine….Read More
9 Books Similar to Karma Cola
A River Sutra
A sequence of delicate, tragic stories evokes the profound presence of tradition and desire. A retired bureaucrat has escaped the world to run a guest-house on the banks of the… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Historical Japanese Fiction, India Narmada River Valley, Translated Short Stories
Jesus’ Son
A collection of linked stories narrated by a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, Jesus' Son is a disturbing portrayal of loneliness and hope. He travels through an American underworld of… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Short Stories, Drifters, English Fiction, Literary Short Stories, Video
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through exacting maternal appraisal—a suitable boy… Continue Reading Posted in: Contemporary Christian Fiction, Domestic Fiction, Indic Fiction (English), Love Stories
Midnight’s Children
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the… Continue Reading Posted in: Alien Invasion Science Fiction, Epic Literature, First Contact Science Fiction eBooks, Islam, Paranormal Fiction
The White Tiger
Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that… Continue Reading Posted in: Australia & Oceania Literature, India Bangalore, India Delhi, Indian Literature, Novel
Maximum City
An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. 'If there's been a more striking… Continue Reading Posted in: Cultural, Nonfiction, Travel
Kim
An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, and perhaps his greatest long work, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Kim is edited with an introduction by Harish… Continue Reading Posted in: Classics, Cultural, Fiction
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.