E. M. Forster's 1924 masterpiece, A Passage to India, is a novel that tackles the thorny notions of preconceptions and misconceptions through characters' desire to overcome the barrier that divides East and West in colonial India. Here we see the limits of liberal tolerance, good intentions, and good will as we try to sort through the common problems that exist between two very different cultures. But Forster's India is a country where the English

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Novel about life of women.

"Indian American journalist Smita has returned to India to cover a story, but reluctantly: long ago she and her family left the country with no intention of ever coming back. As she follows the case of Meena--a Hindu woman attacked by members of her own village and her own family for marrying a Muslim man--Smita comes face to face with a society where tradition carries more weight than one's own heart, and a story that threatens to unearth the painful...

In this novel, the story takes shape from the unfolding of the characters. Every effort of the novelist is to bring out whatever is hidden. The truth of the lives we live and die in conditions that are cancerous inside, keeps growing around us and we keep our eyes closed to it, but Poonam Manu exposes the reality of her characters with full courage and conviction. She asks what kind of society is this where the only basis of the relationship is to...