As though the fabulously creative and loveable Baby Ganesh series were not enough, the talented Vaseem Khan has now given us yet another wonderful Indian detective, and I am already a huge fan. Introducing Inspector Persis Wadia, India’s first woman detective. We are in Bombay, in the tumultuous, heady days …
This novel was a curious read for me. I am British, but I live full time and long term in India. The novel is about Brits – of Indian and Pakistani heritage – living in London. So it was a case of “my” Asian people living in “my” British town, …
Having just read “This United State”, moving straight to “Dragonfire” was another disturbing look at what could happen in the ambitious world of politics in which we live. What made this book even more fascinating is that it centres on a part of the world where I live, Asia, and …
What a pleasure to re-read a book after some 8 years and find it every bit as entertaining. My Delhi book club was bang on trend when we read this book in late 2008, and I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time. We all did, I seem to remember. In the …
You shouldn’t have to know a place and/or physically be in a place to enjoy a book, but there really is nothing like sitting in the Himalayas, relishing a book about the Himalayas. John Masters’ “The Himalayan Concerto” was written in 1975, published in 1976, and purports to take place …
How many gushing adjectives can one use to describe a wonderful book? Amazing. Well written. Moving. Realistic. This book was all of these and more. All the time I was reading this book, I kept saying “yes,” simply because so much of it was so familiar. I live in India. …
“Red Jihad” is a good story in need of a good editor, This clever, futuristic plot set in 2014, that sees India and Pakistan almost at war against each other, and then coming together to fight a common enemy, is marred by poor editing. A writer like Mr. Khan, a …
The debut novel of the young writer Shehryar Fazli is set in his home country, Pakistan, in 1970, in the politically fraught months leading up to civil war and the formation of Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan. The narrator, Shahbaz, returns from Paris, where he has lived for 19 years with …
