Anita Nair

It's the first day of Ramadan in heat-soaked Bangalore, and a young man begins to dress: makeup, a sari, and expensive pearl earrings. Before the mirror, he is transformed into Bhuvana. She is a hijra, a transgender person seeking love in the bazaars of the city. What Bhuvana wants, she nearly gets: a passing man is attracted to this elusive...

Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore, India, the city now a hub for child trafficking. How is twelve-year-old Nandita's disappearance connected to the murder of a well-known lawyer? What services has college student Rekha been persuaded to perform by her 'boyfriend'? Who is the mysterious crime lord lurking just out of sight? And who, just...

Nair captures the seedy side of shiny new India vividly Guardian When elderly Professor Mudgood, a well-known rationalist and fervent critic of right-wing forces in India, is found dead in his home in Bangalore by his daughter, Assistant Commissioner of Police Borei Gowda is quite certain that this is a homicide. Although all evidence points to the murder being politically...