Chapter 01
Midnight's Children
Rushdie's Bombay is a city drunk on its own mythology. Saleem Sinai is born at midnight on August 15, 1947 — his story a...
Salman Rushdie / 1981
Pillar I: Research
The Research Ledger
Public literary geography rows with place anchors, notes, and clear scope. Non-fiction is excluded from the public ledger.
5325
Places
5286
Works
3264
Authors
1241
Cities
Pillar II: Platform
Spatial Explore
Search and filter literary places, switch map layers, and open story routes without leaving the platform.
Layers: Places / Density / Connections
Routes: Stories and tours
Source: Public literary dataset
Section 01 / Methodology
Open Research LedgerThe Public Ledger
Every mapped point ties back to a literary reference and note. This section previews real records from the current dataset.
Marriage and morals
Delhi
"Marriage & Morals is the great book by great Philosopher of 20th c Bertrand Russell..."
May it please your honour
Delhi
"On the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 1869-1948; deposition of the assassian at the Court of the Special Judge, Red Fort, Delh..."
Beṅgalūrina itihāsa
Bangalore
"Detailed History of Bengaluru, from founding till Indian Independence, written by Sri Ba. Na. Sundara Rao, with some photographs in black an..."
Map Layer Preview
Section 02 / Interface
Spatial Intelligence
- 01
Search + Filter
Find by author, work, place, region, and literary themes.
- 02
Layer Switching
Toggle between place markers, density view, and connection arcs.
- 03
Passage Context
Inspect the literary context attached to mapped coordinates.
Section 03 / Narratives
Literary Mumbai
Stop-based storytelling from the currently available tour experience.
Chapter 02
Sacred Games
Chandra's Mumbai is the city at its most operatic — a 900-page epic that maps the underworld onto the actual streets. In...
Vikram Chandra / 2006
Chapter 03
A Fine Balance
Mistry's Bombay is Emergency-era India compressed into a single flat. Four strangers from different castes and classes a...
Rohinton Mistry / 1995
Curated Reading Pathways
Partition Fiction
Novels reckoning with partition-era memory and displacement.
27 works
Mumbai Noir
Crime and urban tension across narrative Mumbai.
2 works
Fiction in Translation
Works beyond English in the current mapped collection.
2048 works
Historical Fiction
Narratives anchored in past eras and historical memory.
11 works
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Method and data details are available through project docs and GitHub.