Akhila, 45 and single, gets a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car, Akhila can ask the question that has been haunting her: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?[...]
SEX KVINNOR råkar hamna i samma kupé på en tågresa genom södra Indien. De börjar samtala. Det är huvudpersonen Akhila som får kvinnorna att berätta om sina liv. Hon behöver lära känna sig själv och resan blir en bildningsresa för henne. Hon vill återfå rätten till sitt liv, äga sit[...]
And thus begins the story of Kerala, the land of coconut palms (kera), backwaters and lagoons; joyous temple festivals, classical kathakali and ayurvedic healing. In this anthology, writers as diverse as Arundhati Roy, Ramachandra Guha, O.V. Vijayan, Vaikkom Mohammad Basheer and Kamala Das combine t[...]
Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-w[...]
Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-w[...]
Meera is happily submerged in the role of corporate wife and cookbook writer. Then, one day, her husband fails to come home. Overnight, Meera, disoriented and emotionally fragile, becomes responsible not just for her two children, but also her mother, grandmother and the running of Lilac House, thei[...]
When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, Radha's uncle and a Kathakali dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her uncle are drawn to the young man. The triangle quickly excludes Shyam, R[...]
It is the first night of Ramadan. At Shivaji Nagar in the heart of Bangalore, a young male prostitute is killed and burnt alive. It would have stayed as yet another unsolved murder, but for Inspector Borei Gowda, the investigating officer. As bodies begin to pile up one after the other, and it becom[...]