A. K. Shrikumar

Stream of consciosness novel, about a young Indian graduate's encounters with employment and love

this is that book which has described about the shami tree won first prize in the category natural history.

A historical thriller, set in eighteenth century Lucknow. Amid the political machinations of the Nawab, his nobles and the British, the maneuvers of the queens and their flunkeys, the high noon of Awadh's culture sees the building of the great mosque, the Bara Imambara, and the evolution by chance of 'Dum Pukht', the cuisine of the Nawabs.