Ashutosh Sahoo
"Heart Lamp" by Banu Mushtaq, translated by Deepa Bhasthi
A collection of short stories, that capture the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.
"Tomb of Sand" by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
In northern India, an 80-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, but gains a new life as she seeks to travel to Pakistan, her home before partition.
"Clear Light of Day" by Anita Desai
Tara, revisiting her childhood home in old Delhi, makes new discoveries around her childhood and family exploring how the unexplored crises of childhood reveals new worlds
"Sleeping on Jupiter" by Anuradha Roy
Jarmuli: a city of temples, is where a young girl finds herself taken from her parents and in an ashram. Twenty years later she finds herself chasing shadows when she returns to the city that haunts her dreams
"Burnt Sugar" by Avni Doshi
A mother is succumbing to a fading memory and her daughter, now a married artist, is tasked with caring for the woman who never really cared for her in return.
"The Inheritance of Loss" by Kiran Desai
An orphan, who has come to live in the mountains of the Himalayas with her grandfather, and another individual, who lives illegally in the United States, what holds them together?
"The Lowland" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Two brothers, inseparable, become involved in the Naxalite movement, with their paths diverge, and tragedy ensures affecting their future
"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
A vivid picture of life in a rural Indian town, the thoughts and feelings of the two small children, and the complexity and hypocrisy of the adults in their world.