Audio Books
Click the thumbnails to hear audio samples, and to purchase the books from Farah's page on Audible.
Miss New India
Written by: Bharati Mukherjee
Narrated by: Farah Bala
Anjali Bose is Miss New India. Born into a traditional lower-middle-class family and living in a backwater town with an arranged marriage on the horizon, Anjali's prospects dont look great. But her ambition and fluency in language do not go unnoticed by her expat teacher, Peter Champion. And champion her he does, both to other powerful people who can help her along the way and to Anjali herself, stirring in her a desire to take charge of her own destiny.
Jasmine
Written by: Bharati Mukherjee
Narrated by: Farah Bala
When Jasmine is suddenly widowed at seventeen, she seems fated to a life of quiet isolation in the small Indian village where she was born. But the force of Jasmine's desires propels her explosively into a larger, more dangerous, and ultimately more life-giving world.
Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India
Written by: Amana Fontanella-Khan
Narrated by: Farah Bala
Sampat Pal was married at twelve, essentially illiterate. Today she leads a vigilante group fighting for women's rights: the Pink Gang. When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged that she had been assaulted by a man in the politician's household.
The Appeasement of Radhika: Radhika Santawanam
Written by: Muddupalani, Sandhya Mulchandani (translator)
Narrated by: Farah Bala
An erotic narrative poem that explores desire and jealousy, love experienced and love lost, Radhika Santawanam is the most recognized work of 19th-century poet and courtesan Muddupalani. Celebrated as a literary masterpiece in Muddupalani's lifetime, Radhika Santawanam was banned by the British in 1910. When it was published again, a century and a half later, critics panned its graphic descriptions of lovemaking. Now, after another 100 years, this epic is available in its entirety for the first time in English translation.
Fish in a Dwindling Lake
Written by: Ambai, Lakshmi Holmstrom (translator)
Narrated by: Farah Bala
A collection of bold, contemporary, and unique stories, told from a woman's gaze. The body was the only truth she knew. It was the body alone that was left, even as she went beyond the body. Journeys form the leitmotif of these astonishing new stories by Ambai. Sometimes culminating in an unconventional love affair, some are extraordinary tales of loyalty and integrity; others touch on the almost fantastic, absurd aspect of Mumbai. Yet others explore the notion of a wholesome self, and its tragic absence at times.
