Shama Futehally

Shama Futehally (b. 1952) was born in Bombay. She studied English at the universities of Bombay and Leeds.

She taught English and Cultural History for eight years in Bombay and Ahmedabad. She moved to Delhi and spent her last few decades there. Her first novel Tara Lane won critical acclaim.

Shama Futehally died of cancer in December 2004.

Works

• Sorry, Best Friend^†
• In the Dark of the Heart
• Tara Lane {1993}
• Reaching Bombay Central
• Slivers of a Mirror

† Co-authored.

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Tara Lane

Tara Lane is a story about a young woman in a Muslim family in Bombay—the Mushtaqs—a gracious and cultured and, above all, an upright family which in course of time begins to disintegrate. Labour troubles undermine the family business and as family’s privileged life-style is threatened, it moves, almost without knowing it, towards the thin line where corruption begins.

Source: bookcrossing.com