When twelve-year-old Seema moves to Iowa City with her parents and younger sister, she leaves friends and family behind in her native India but gradually begins to feel at home in her new country.
Explores how traditional religious life in India has undergone change amid economic development around the turn of the twenty-first century, examining the lives of various religious adherents, including a sacred dancer, a Sufi mystic, and a Tantric practitioner.
Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta, friends who met during the 1970s at university in Bombay, reunite later in life when Armaiti discovers that she is gravely ill.
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah hopes to seal his dynasty with one of Shanghai's most elite buildings, but when he meets his match in retired schoolteacher Masterji, a resident of a once respectable apartment building Dharmen needs to buy in order to build his skyscraper, he is pushed to the limit as Masterji's refusal to move threatens to destroy everything Dharmen has worked for.
Compares Mahatma Gandhi's accomplishments as a politician and advocate for the downtrodden with his goals and expectations for himself and his country, and discusses his disappointments, the hopes that remained unfulfilled at the time of his death, and his legacy.
A moral allegory, set in ancient India, about one soul's quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of man's role in this world. The hero, Siddhartha, undergoes a series of experiences to emerge in a state of peace and wisdom.
After her San Francisco home is bombed, Calcutta native Tara Chatterjee sets out to find her roots, tracing the story of her great-great-aunt, Tara Lata, who was married to a tree in her Indian village at age five.
