The Nine-Chambered Heart
By: Janice Pariat
3.52
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
'You, though, are as beautiful as light splitting through glass.' Nine characters recall their rela…
Want to Read $ 3.49"Quelli che fingiamo di ignorare sono quelli di cui percepiamo la presenza con più intensità."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
"I grow jealous of your memories because those are times in your life i will never be a part of, and i imagine them large and exuberant in your head."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
"And things will mellow. And all this love will turn to friendship tinged forever. After that, there will be only accidental meetings, a stray email, a long-lost text."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
"Because life is like that, isn't it? One cannot stop its ebb and flow. You step into the current and whatever's in your path will cross you and touch you and sometimes stay."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
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1. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
2. The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)
By: Amish Tripathi
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of t… read more
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3. The Blue Umbrella
By: Ruskin Bond
3.79
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
'The umbrella was like a flower, a great blue flower that had sprung up on the dry brown hillside.'… read more
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4. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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5. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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6. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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7. ന്റുപ്പൂപ്പാക്കൊരാനേണ്ടാർന്ന് | Ntuppuppaakkoraanaendaarnnu
By: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
4.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
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8. Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
By: Anand Ranganathan
4.48
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must What kind… read more
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"The concept of justice is like memory. It keeps getting passed on until it is realised."-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
"To me, the mark of civilisation is this unquenchable thirst of man to demand justice for his ancestors; to correct a historical wrong. For that exemplifies a continuity; an idea, a memory that can ne…"-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
"And to those who now call this nation a Hindu Rashtra, run by religious zealots and fascists, to those I ask: In which theocratic state would religious zealots wait for half a millennium and even the…"-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
9. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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10. The Forest of Enchantments
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more
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"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
11. The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
By: Amish Tripathi
4.10
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga wa… read more
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"Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want"-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
"Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk."-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
"The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person."-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
"I don’t believe anything till I’ve seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn’t matter whether the theory is true or not."-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
12. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
By: Shrayana Bhattacharya
4.29
Format: 384 pages, None
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
13. The Nine-Chambered Heart
By: Janice Pariat
3.52
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
'You, though, are as beautiful as light splitting through glass.' Nine characters recall their rela… read more
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"Quelli che fingiamo di ignorare sono quelli di cui percepiamo la presenza con più intensità."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
"I grow jealous of your memories because those are times in your life i will never be a part of, and i imagine them large and exuberant in your head."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
"And things will mellow. And all this love will turn to friendship tinged forever. After that, there will be only accidental meetings, a stray email, a long-lost text."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
"Because life is like that, isn't it? One cannot stop its ebb and flow. You step into the current and whatever's in your path will cross you and touch you and sometimes stay."-Janice Pariat, The Nine-Chambered Heart
14. Bombay Balchao
By: Jane Borges
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, th… read more
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15. The Education of Yuri
By: Jerry Pinto
4.13
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more
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16. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
By: Aravind Jayan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more
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17. Welcome to Paradise
By: Twinkle Khanna
3.59
Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition
Rich narratives that explore the depth of loneliness, heartbreak and deception. Huma’s divided fami… read more
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18. My Father's Garden
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
3.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019 Spanning half a life, My Father’s Garden tell… read more
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19. Girl in White Cotton
By: Avni Doshi
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more
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20. Dopehri
By: Pankaj Kapur
3.98
Format: 110 pages, Hardcover
Amma Bi is an elderly widow who lives alone in her deserted Lucknow haveli. Every afternoon, at pre… read more
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21. Rosarita
By: Anita Desai
3.29
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more
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