The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o…
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1. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
By: Suketu Mehta
3.94
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approac… read more
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"It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
2. English, August: An Indian Story
By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more
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"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
3. Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
By: Vikram Chandra , S. Hussain Zaidi
4.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the s… read more
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4. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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5. Swami and Friends
By: R.K. Narayan , Madhukar Dharmapurikar
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and… read more
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6. 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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7. Controversially Yours: An Autobiography
By: None
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Shoaib Akhtar has been one of the most colorful characters in the history of cricket. He is the fas… read more
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8. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
9. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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10. The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
By: Tim Marshall
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Spy satellites orbiting the moon. Space metals worth more than most countries’ GDP. People on Mars … read more
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11. 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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12. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
By: Perumal Murugan
4.11
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more
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13. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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14. The Day I Became a Runner: A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport
By: Sohini Chattopadhyay
4.45
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
The Day I Became a Runner starts from a striking premise-that, since running is a solitary activity… read more
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15. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.38
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this bac… read more
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16. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. Aryans: The Search for a People, a Place and a Myth
By: Charles Allen
4.19
Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition
Few themes in history have had as strong a hold on people's imagination. Fewer still have managed t… read more
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18. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
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. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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21. How to Be a Writer
By: Ruskin Bond
4.20
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Writing for me is the simplest and greatest pleasure in the world. How to be a Writer is peppe… read more
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22. H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
By: Kunal Purohit
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
" Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the g… read more
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23. Shakchunni
By: Arnab Ray
4.30
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
a demon from Bengali lore, one who possesses married women.The Great Famine scours Bengal. Armies … read more
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24. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods
By: Sreenivasan Jain
3.80
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more
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25. The Machine is Learning
By: Tanuj Solanki
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature Top 10 fiction books of 2020, The Hindu Saransh wor… read more
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26. Mangifera indica: A Biography of the Mango
By: Sopan Joshi
4.50
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The mango, the king of fruits, is also the fruit of desire and the fruit of love. Every aspect of t… read more
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27. The Cinema of Satyajit Ray
By: Bhaskar Chattopadhyay
4.38
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Satyajit Ray is the tallest Indian figure in world cinema. Retrospectives across the globe, perhaps… read more
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28. Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King
By: Patrick Olivelle
4.00
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and … read more
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29. The Lady on the Horse and Other Secrets : A Novel
By: Ramona Sen
4.08
Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition
Spanning over a century, The Lady on the Horse tells the story of five generations ofa family in Ca… read more
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30. The Gold Collection: The Master’s Greatest Stories
By: Ruskin Bond
4.63
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The ten stories in The Gold Collection are among the finest ever written by India’s most beloved wr… read more
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31. Mother India: A Novel
By: Prayaag Akbar
3.74
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING LEILA Mother India is the story of two young people living … read more
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