Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India…
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1. 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
2. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.28
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-ki… read more
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3. Nirmala
By: Munshi Premchand , मुंशी प्रेमचंद
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Premchand's novella Nirmala, first published in 1928, is one of the most poignant novels in Hindi o… read more
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4. 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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5. The Emergency: A Personal History
By: Coomi Kapoor
4.04
Format: 192 pages,
In June 1975, Coomi Kapoor was a young reporter at the Indian Express in Delhi, when Indira Gandhi … read more
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6. India's Ancient Past
By: R.S. Sharma
3.66
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
Based on the extremely popular school text on Ancient India by Professor Sharma prepared by him yea… read more
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7. Free Will
By: Sam Harris
4.26
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think abo… read more
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8. Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth
By: Audrey Truschke
3.50
Format: 185 pages, Hardcover
Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu… read more
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9. Feet of Clay (Discworld, #19; City Watch, #3)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Sorry?' said Carrot. If it's just a thing, how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew… read more
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10. The Rise and Fall of Nations
By: Ruchir Sharma
3.99
Format: 380 pages,
Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers fro… read more
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11. 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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12. The General in His Labyrinth
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more
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14. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market
By: John Rothchild , Peter Lynch
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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15. 10 Judgements That Changed India
By: Zia Mody
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Here are the Supreme Court of India's ten pivotal judgements that have transformed Indian democracy… read more
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16. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
17. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
18. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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19. 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)
20. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
By: J. Sai Deepak
4.46
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of Europea… read more
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"The spiritual character of the relationship between indigeneity and nature is an emotion that the coloniser can at best exoticise but can never relate to."-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"Rest of the world was not living in the Dark Ages before Pax Europaea or European Peace, and will certainly not plunge into ignorance and darkness after the demise of Pax Europaea. Therefore, it is t…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"Until a decolonial approach is employed by experts and ‘intellectuals’, we will continue to see the entrenchment of colonialised identities and fissures, which began with an anti-Brahmin slant but wh…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millenn…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
21. A Burning
By: Megha Majumdar
3.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Tommy Orange, Yaa Gyasi, and Jhumpa Lahiri, an electrifying debut novel about three … read more
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"I am opening a card as if it is a flap of my heart. Opening and closing the card, opening and closing the card – I am ready for my heart to be tearing at the fold."-Megha Majumdar, A Burning
22. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more
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23. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From
By: Tony Joseph
4.33
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South … read more
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24. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
By: Vikram Sampath
4.58
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in I… read more
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"In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the …"-Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
25. Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History
By: Ami Ganatra
4.38
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the land of Bharata. But this hi… read more
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26. RAYA : Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara
By: Srinivas Reddy
3.66
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
In 1509 Krishnadevaraya, a prince from humble origins, ascended the throne of Vijayanagara. The emp… read more
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27. Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India… read more
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28. Ramayana Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Vālmiki’s Epic
By: Ami Ganatra
4.41
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
No epic has moved the consciousness of millions like the Ramayana. The appeal of the story of Rama … read more
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29. Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.52
Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover
Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted… read more
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30. India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
By: Madhav Khosla
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British r… read more
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31. A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Rohit de
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by e… read more
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