We are familiar with the legacies of the leaders of India’s freedom struggle as influential, intelligent and persistent people. Many of them sacrificed their comfort and safety for the nation’s cause. But what if the sacrifice that freedom demands is also the very thing at the core of our humanity? The English Problem by Beena […]
It was raining, English rain, that first night when he came to England. Thin, fine icicles that fell at a slant and made incisions. Standing outside Victoria Station, waiting for a cab, he felt its needle pricks pierce his skin like markings. This is how England claimed you—through its rain. His hands and face burned […]
“Home-leaving, homecoming, home-losing. The only word they shared in common was home.” We are delighted to introduce the author of The English Problem, Beena Kamlani. She won a Pushcart Prize and the Yeovil (UK) Fiction Award for her work, as well as numerous fellowships and residencies. As former senior editor at Viking Penguin, she edited […]
“I knew that he would only have to strike once to wound me fatally.” The Bombay Circle Press is here with yet another brilliant author who will keep you hooked to her novels till the last page! Georgina Clarke is the debut author of Death and the Harlot which is the first instalment of the […]
“There is nothing to do but open the teakwood box…Here, a memory, and a memory, and a memory. Ridges along a spine.” The Bombay Circle Press is delighted to introduce our latest Author, Asha Thanki. She is the debut author of the historical fiction novel, A Thousand Times Before, along with being an essaysist. Her […]
No matter how many stories we hear from our mothers and grandmothers about their lives or their magical childhood, there is always a piece of us that thinks about how wonderful it would be to actually live those stories. Their kind attachments and memories are buried deep inside, which have been carried around with all […]
