Books like Boots, belts, berets by Tanushree Podder

An Englishman finds himself in the most unlikely of places: the sun-baked countryside of India. With no job, no prospects, and no sense of belonging, he must rely on his wits and humor to survive.

Akshara, devastated by her mother's death, seeks a magical solution to her pain in a story about a young woman's miraculous reunion with her dead boyfriend.

A historical mystery about a thug who becomes a detective in Victorian London, set in a small Bihari village in India and filled with skull-lined mansions and underground tunnels.

Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965. As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, "Samskara" serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths, and a serious, poetic study of a religious man living in a community of priests gone to seed. A death, which stands as the central event in the plot, brings in its wake a plague, many more deaths, live questions with only dead answers, moral chaos, and the rebirth of one man. The volume provides a useful glossary of Hindu myths, customs, Indian names, flora, and other terms. Notes and an afterword enhance the self-contained, faithful, and yet readable translation

Novel on Yuvanashva, a childless king from Mahabharata.