A classic fictional account of the very real issues around caste.

The Booker Prize-winning labyrinthine, charming tale of two twins…

The defining classic of Urdu literature, a millennia-spanning epic published in 1959 and only recently translated into English.

A Malayalam writer from the Kerala region and one of India’s early feminists depicts Indian women’s challenges and triumphs in a series of short stories.

In two essays, the acclaimed fiction writer examines how the debates around dam building and nuclear power reflect some of the issues facing modern India.

A meticulous and fascinating look at the wonders and horrors of Dehli past and present.

Gandhi’s inner musings on truth and non-violence.

After 25 years away, writer and activist Pramila Jayapal returned to India in 1995 and spent two years reacquainting herself with the place where she was born and raised. Pilgrimage to India: A Woman Revisits Her Homeland captures some of her impressions and experiences as she confronts the culture that both enchants and enrages her. A recommended read for anyone who liked Adventure Divas’ India: Holy Cow.

A young boy makes his way in the streets of Mumbai.

A movie about the life of the late Phoolan Devi, an outlaw-turned-Parliamentarian and champion of the lower castes and who was recently shot dead outside her home.

From the film dilogy directed by Canadian/Indian Deepa Mehta. Fire is a story of two sisters-in-law who fall in love in modern-day Delhi…

...Earth is based on Parsee novelist Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel about an eight-year-old girl growing up during the 1947 partition of India. One half of the dilogy by Deepa Mehta.

Whatever happened in the Marabar caves? Based on the classic by E.M. Forster. Button-down Brits fumble around with Indian mysticism. Gorgeous scenery.

Cross-cultural Persian and Indian improvisations with Tabla by the masters.