#MothersDay: 20 Books That are Perfect Gifts for Moms Who Love Reading

About the Book - The Namesake

"When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a…

About the Book - LADIES' TAILOR

This is a story of Gurdev and his cohort, a group of refugees who travel east from Pakistan after Partition. It is a tale of falling apart and coming together as the world burns around them.Will Gurdev be successful in…

About the Author - Priya Hajela

About the Book - Valli

High in the Western Ghats in northern Kerala is a land of mist and mystery, of forests and folklore, rich with the culture of its indigenous people, the Adivasis. Its old name was Bayalnad - land of the paddy fields…

About the Author - Sheela Tomy

Sheela Tomy is a novelist, short story writer and scriptwriter. Valli is her debut novel, for which she was awarded the Cherukad Award for Malayalam Literature in 2020. She is also the author of a short story collection, Melquíadesnte Pralayapusthakam…

About the Author - Jayasree Kalathil

Jayasree Kalathil is the author of The Sackclothman, a children’s book that has been translated into Malayalam, Hindi and Telugu. She shared the JCB Prize for Literature in 2020 with S. Hareesh for her translation of his novel, Moustache. She…

About the Book - Lahore

In the months leading up to Independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are engaged in deliberations with British Viceroy Dickie Mountbatten over the fate of the country. In Lahore, Sepoy Malik returns home from the Great War hoping…

About the Author - Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

About the Book - Chronicles Of The Lost Daughters

When unspeakable tragedy befalls Bhubonmoni, a young widow, she must leave her village along with her brother, Krishnoshundor, and his family. Ensnared by the wily entrepreneur Nobokishore Dutta, they end up in an overcrowded depot near a port, soon to…

About the Author - Debarati Mukhopadhyay

About the Author - Arunava Sinha

About the Book - Breaking Free

A magical storyteller -- SHASHI DESHPANDE'Doesn't this life strike you as shameful?''I am an artist. That's the only thing that matters to me.' Kasturi and Lakshmi are born into the devadasi clan. While Kasturi thinks of nothing other than the…

About the Author - VAASANTHI

VAASANTHI is a renowned author and journalist who writes in English and Tamil. She has been writing in Tamil for more than forty years and has published thirty novels, six short-story collections and four travelogues. Her books in English include…

About the Author - N. Kalyan Raman

About the Book - The Immortal King Rao

A fully imagined world: propulsive, prophetic, dizzying" - Jeet Thayil, author of Names of the Women"An astonishing debut. An amazing imagination" - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of The Last Queen"A masterwork-a book that is three great novels in one" -…

About the Author - Vauhini Vara

About the Book - Dream Factory

Set in Kollywood, or the Tamil film industry, in the 1980s, Dream Factory is a fictional chronicle of the shenanigans and the rising and falling fortunes of various players in show business. Vijay, the handsome protagonist, who is at the…

About the Author - Sujatha

About the Author - Madhavan Narayanan

About the Book - Memsahibs

For young Englishwomen stepping off the steamer, the sights and sounds of humid colonial India were like nothing they'd ever experienced. For many, this was the ultimate destination to find a perfect civil servant husband. For still more, however, India…

About the Author - Ipshita Nath

About the Book - The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

Debut Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi’s THE PEARL THAT BROKE ITS SHELL, the entwined stories of two Afghan women separated by a century who find freedom in the tradition of bacha posh, which allows girls to dress and live as boys…until…

About the Author - Nadia Hashimi

Nadia Hashimi’s parents left Afghanistan in the 1970s, before the Soviet invasion that led to decades of war. She was raised in the U.S. and in 2002 made her first trip to Afghanistan with her parents. Hashimi is a pediatrician…

About the Book - The Story of a Brief Marriage

The Story of a Brief Marriage is a feat of extraordinary sensitivity and imagination, a meditation on the fundamental elements of human existence - eating, sleeping, washing, touching, speaking - that give us direction and purpose, even as the world…

About the Author - Anuk Arudpragasam

Anuk Arudpragasam is from Colombo, Sri Lanka, and for the time being lives between Colombo and New York, where he is completing a dissertation in philosophy at Columbia University. The Story of a Brief Marriage is his first novel, and…

About the Book - Interpreter Of Maladies

A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the arrival of his…

About the Author - Jhumpa Lahiri

jhumpa lahiri has been a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, but is currently teaching in New York. She has published her fiction in various US journals including the New Yorker, and has won several US…

About the Book - Nobody Killed Her

The nation sinks deep into mourning as news of former Prime Minister Rani Shah's assassination arrives. Intelligence agencies, opposition leaders, the army top brass, her closest relatives - all seem to be shifting in their chairs even as special investigative…

About the Author - Sabyn Javeri

SABYN JAVERI is an award-winning short-story writer and a novelist. She is a professor of literature and creative writing in Pakistan. Her first novel, Nobody Killed Her, was published by HarperCollins in 2017.

About the Book - Happily Never After

Tina Raja's average day involves a houseful of kids, animals, fleas, leaking pipes and sundry relatives. Is this the marriage she signed up for? And anyway, with an absentee husband, can she be certain she's married still? Okay, so there…

About the Author - Jane De Suza

Jane De Suza is a leading humour writer and columnist. Her books, which have a habit of hitting bestseller charts, include the SuperZero series for kids, Happily Never After and The Spy who lost her Head. She is a management…

About the Book - The Liberation of Sita

Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, of a triumphant king who will always do right by his subjects. In Volga's retelling, it is Sita who, after being abandoned by Purushottam Rama, embarks on an…

About the Author - Volga

SHORT STORY WRITER, critic, translator and poet, Volga, has been a forerunner in introducing a feminist perspective into the literary-political discourse in Telugu Literature through her very first volume of short stories, Rajakeeya Kathalu (Political Stories), her first novel Sweccha…

About the Author - T. Vijay Kumar

About the Author - C. Vijayasree

About the Book - Yasmeen

Yasmeen Khalil is beautiful and charming. She is also unpredictable, enigmatic, funny and tragic. One day she vanishes, leaving behind a heartbroken husband and a desolate daughter. Irenie refuses to accept that Yasmeen is gone; she haunts the house with…

About the Author - Sophia Khan

Sophia Khan has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She lives in Islamabad.

About the Book - Alphabet Soup for Lovers

Lena Abraham knows that love can end in only one way -- disappointment. Her marriage to KK is perfect precisely because she is not in love with him, and their life on a tea plantation in the picturesque Anamalai hills…

About the Author - Anita Nair

About the Book - Rajesh Khanna

A gripping biography of India' first superstar Like a shooting star doomed to darkness after a glorious run, Rajesh Khanna spent the better half of his career in the shadow of his own stardom. Yet, forty years after his last…

About the Author - Gautam Chintamani

Gautam Chintamani is the author of Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna (2014) and Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak: The Film That Revived Hindi Cinema (2016). His writing has featured in national publications, including a compilation on Dadasaheb Phalke…

About the Book - My Beautiful Shadow

I have a secret. I belong to a club. And my club is the biggest, best kept secret in all of Tokyo. Kayo-chan goes about her life, raising a family and coping with inquisitive neighbours in a claustrophobic suburban neighbourhood…

About the Author - Radhika Jha

Radhika Jha was born in Delhi in 1970, studied anthropology at Amherst College, did her Masters in Political Science at the University of Chicago and was an exchange student at the University of Paris (V). She is the author of…

About the Book - The Golden Son

The New York Times #1 internationally bestselling author of Secret Daughter returns with an unforgettable story of family, responsibility and identity. The first of his family to go to college, Anil Patel carries the weight of his family's expectations when…

About the Author - Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto to parents who migrated there from Mumbai. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has lived in New…