Indian readers will fondly remember her for novels and story collections: Householder,A backward place,Heat and dust,Like birds like fishes,Desmond in India. She delights with gentle but incisive lampooning of Indians as well as the contempt she had for the misty-eyed romanticism of the foreigners visiting Indian Gurus or falling in love with Indian men who can only be described as rascals.Jhabhvala wrote for American and English readers too,but none of that writing could match the insights shown in her Indian themes.
