Leela Devi Panikar: 3 books

There are 14 stories in Leela’s third short-story collection. It begins with The Darjeeling Affair and ends with The Sexy Send-Off. In between, there’s love and calligraphy, a Hong Kong murder, a drunken Welshman, an Indian student studying in England, a Vietnamese boy on the wrong side of war, the challenge of burying a husband, and more.

You can sit by a river all day long just to watch what the current carries past. Depending on the day and where you live, it could be small boats of fishermen, children in inner tubes, trees bound for the sawmill, or bodies. And the only thing they will have in common is the river itself. The same...

A collection of six short stories: Bathing Elephants – Suchin Srisai breaks away from her traditional moneyed family in Bangkok and sets up her own orchid business in Chiang Mai. On one of her frequent holiday trips to Phuket she meets Michael. Then the tsunami hits. Inshallah –...