An Indian college student returns home for Diwali for the first time in two years. Upon his return, he must decide if he will please his dying father by getting married, or tell his family about his dreams to study in America.

After a tragedy in Dehli India kills a significant portion of India's best writers, the lesser writers who are left behind decide to put together an anthology to keep Indian literature alive by their own terms.

As Tamil people on the hillside celebrate the eve of their independence, a young Indian boy plots his escape to the city.

Shortly after an Indian P.h.D. student is arrested for hiring a prostitute, he is released from prison and develops feelings for a P.h.D student working in the library, all while attempting to differentiate between love and desire.

A Cambridge-educated writer returns to India for his brother's wedding only to develop feelings for his brother's new wife.

During an unwanted conversation with a stranger on a train in India, a woman reflects on her loveless marriage to her husband — born of financial necessity — and her abandoned dream to attend college in America.

In Ceylon, colonized by the British, an Indian Tamil woman describes the events that follow the departure of the British from the plantations. She imagines the possibility of a new world as the Indians reclaim their land. However, the reality that follows shows how the British values persist and are upheld by ethnic differences between the Indians on the plantation.

A young man in India travels with his family to the village where his betrothed lives — however, when his marriage procession meets a river, they find the bridge across unsafe and seek help from the villagers at the river.

An Indian accountant loses his job and can't support his wife and child. He aimlessly searches for new income, takes up a mistress and watches as his life spirals out of control.

An Indian-American teenager grapples with his mother's alcoholism and the adultery of his father, who threatens to send his mother back to India.