Ep. 60: Take a trip to 1920s India with Perveen Mistry and her award-winning creator Sujata Massey

Nov 12

Nov 12 Ep. 60: Take a trip to 1920s India with Perveen Mistry and her award-winning creator Sujata Massey

Grab a cup of chai, a glass of champagne, or go for a walk and hear how my new favorite book series starring Perveen Mistry, lawyer and sleuth extraordinaire, was created! Author of this historical mystery series which includes The Widows of Malabar Hill, The Satapur Moonstone, and The Bombay Prince, Sujata Massey tells me her own story of journalism, Japan and more on the latest episode of the podcast!

Listen now on your favorite podcast app, Spotify or iTunes and please take a second to rate us wherever you’re listening so the voices of these inspiring women can be heard all over the world!

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 60:

Sujata Massey’s website and instagram
Go buy Perveen Mistry and Sujata’s other books at Bookshop.org

BOOKS and MORE:

Soniah Kamal’s Unmarriageable
Harini Nagendra’s upcoming mystery set in Bengaluru The Bangalore Detectives Club and her previous Cities and Canopies
Nev Marsh’s Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
Rohinton Mistry’s work
Amitav Ghosh’s books
Pico Iyer’s Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-So-Far-East

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Special thanks to Varun Dhabe and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!

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