It is January 1993 and Bombay is threatened by terrorism and sectarian violence. Ten-year-old Chamdi has rarely ventured outside his orphanage, and entertains an idyllic fantasy of a paradise he call
In The Matka King a landscape of betrayal and redemption comes to life via an illicit lottery in the red-light district of Bombay, India.In Bombay Black, when a mysterious blind man named Kamal visits
Eighteen-year-old Hasan Siddiqui lives in a bustling Muslim quarter of Bombay. He escapes the drudgery of his work at a chicken slaughterhouse by fostering two fervent dreams — to become a star in cri
'There is a term for me in almost every Indian language. I am reviled and revered, deemed to have been blessed, and cursed, with sacred powers.' In the swollen and crumbling red-light district of Kama
