Many of the locations from Gregory David Robert’s classic Indian underworld story Shantaram (2003) are real and still standing in Colaba, South Mumbai. I went out to find the exact locations of Shantaram’s most iconic locations like Leopold’s, the slum Lin Baba lived in, the very first hotel he stayed at, and even where he […]
India has always contributed abundantly to literature. Ancient Vedas and epics are still read worldwide. After the colonial period, many international writers began to write about fictional or real accounts with India as their background. These novels were bestsellers. Now, many books written by Indian authors for international audiences are being published, and this has […]