The Heat and Dust Project
By: Devapriya Roy and Saurav Jha
Pages: 280
Publisher: HarperCollins
Price: Rs 250
The authors are a DINK couple who gain a couple of backpacks and set out on a transformational journey across India. On a very, very tight budget—Rs 500 a day for bed and board.
Flood of Fire
By: Amitav Ghosh
Pages: 624
Publisher: Penguin
Price: Rs 799
The Hind sails from Bengal to participate in the First Opium War. Onboard is a motley group of travellers, each nurturing their own agendas. The third book of the Ibis trilogy follows their fortunes through the war to China’s defeat.
Girl in the Dark: A Memoir
By: Anna Lyndsey
Pages: 242 Price: Rs 399
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Suffering from a severe sensitivity to light, Lyndsey is, at the worst times, forced to spend months in a blacked-out room. But even impossible lives, she learns, endure. This is her story.