Darkness at Star Mills looks at the 1982 textile mill strike at Mumbai, one of the largest industrial strikes in the world.
The protagonist is a boy named Vinod, a resident of the chawl, who is struggling with changing friendships too, and out of envy and boredom stumbles upon an ugly mystery that is set to change not just his world, but the city around him.
It is set against the little known backdrop of the 1966 Bombing of Aizwal during the bloody two decade long civil war. This is an attempt to bring public attention to this little known part of Indian History that was perhaps deliberately ignored and sidelined for many years.
The Chowpatty Cooking Club is set in Bombay, 1942, when Mahatma Gandhi’s Quit India Movement was gathering momentum. Three children, Sakina, Zenobia and Mehul, find their carefree playful lives ‘disrupted’ by student protests, secret magazines, and even an underground radio station.
This book is about Tughlaq, an emperor, who wanted to eat his favorite dessert, the sugared melons. But someone had stolen his precious sweets. The “Thunderous Three” are hired to find out who stole the sweets!
It’s a stunning book that talks about a momentous event in history; the first step on the Moon. You must be wondering what’s so unique. The story is told from the eye of a young girl. June is waiting for her baby brother’s little steps to land whereas everyone else in the world is waiting for the astronauts to walk on the Moon.
