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Drifter, dropout, dreamer Jingo believes he has rejected any form of class privilege in a hideously unequal society. Making a meagre living as a part-time door-to-door market researcher, he jots down notes on characters and insights for a novel. Is he serious about his self-professed vocation? Or just too laid-back, just too fond of getting high?
As the story moves effortlessly from a middle-class Parsi housing colony to a far-flung slum on the outskirts of the ...
Award-winning author Cyrus Mistry’s first collection of short stories is dark, mysterious and inhabited by characters that walk a thin line between fantasy and reality.
A serendipitous discovery on the floor of a local bus transforms the melancholic life of Percy, who meets a ghost in the washroom of a public library; a new mother struggling with depression and the urge to end her newborn’s life opens the door to a stranger; stalked by mysterious men, ...
A Touch of Brightness centers on Rukmini, a girl sold to a brothel in Mumbai and her relationship with Pidku, a street urchin, who tries desperately to rescue her from her life as a prostitute. Rukmini mesmerizes Pidku with her visionary stories of the Gods and her dreams of a married life. Even in a brothel, her extravagant optimism never ceases but only deepens. Doongaji House, winner of the Sultan Padamsee Award, deals with the last years of Hormusji, a ...