No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
By: Jayant Kaikini
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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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 Lives of Others
By: Neel Mukherjee
4.04
Format: None pages, Paperback
The aging patriarch and matriarch of the Ghosh family preside over their large household, made up o… read more
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3. ಆವರಣ [Aavarana]
By: S.L. Bhyrappa
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Aavarana (Kannada: aavrnn) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. A… read more
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4. The Liberation of Sita
By: Volga
2.74
Format: None pages, Paperback
Valmiki's Ramayana is the story of Rama's exile and return to Ayodhya, a triumphant king who will a… read more
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5. Burma Chronicles
By: Guy Delisle
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'Burma Chronicles' presents a personal and distinctively humorous glimpse into a political hotspot,… read more
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6. ಮರಳಿ ಮಣ್ಣಿಗೆ | Marali Mannige
By: Kota Shivarama Karanth
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
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7. 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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8. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
By: None
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spi… read more
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9. ಅಬಚೂರಿನ ಪೋಸ್ಟಾಫೀಸು | Abachurina Post Office
By: K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
K P Poornachandra Tejsavi, son of the great Kannada poet, Kuvempu was born in 1938 in Shimoga distr… read more
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10. Family Life
By: None
4.00
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
In Family Life, Akhil Sharma delivers a story of astonishing intensity and emotional precision. We … read more
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11. ಸಾರ್ಥ [Sartha]
By: S.L. Bhyrappa
2.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Saartha, which means Caravan. Through a caravan, the novel explores the whole of India of the 8th c… read more
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12. ಕರ್ವಾಲೊ | Karvalo
By: K.P. Poornachandra Tejaswi
4.22
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
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13. A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
By: Vikram Seth
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both t… read more
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14. ಬೆಟ್ಟದ ಜೀವ | Bettada Jeeva
By: Kota Shivarama Karanth
4.33
Format: 300 pages,
Bettada Jeeva depicts the story of a old couple waiting for their son to return in a village which … read more
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15. Murder in Mahim
By: Jerry Pinto
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young man is found dead in the toilet of Matunga Road station, his stomach ripped open. Retired j… read more
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16. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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17. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
By: Sujata Massey
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more
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23. Tejo Tungabhadra: Tributaries Of Time
By: Vasudhendra
4.53
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tejo Tungabhadra tells the story of two rivers on different continents whose souls are bound togeth… read more
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"ಧರ್ಮಾಧರ್ಮದ ಸಂಘರ್ಷಣೆ, ರಕ್ಷಣೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಕೊನೆಗೂ ಸೊರಗುವುದು ಸಮಾಜದ ಸೌಂದರ್ಯವೆನ್ನುವುದು ಯಾರಿಗೂ ಸುಲಭಕ್ಕೆ ಅರ್ಥವಾಗುವುದಿಲ್ಲ."-Vasudhendra, Tejo Tungabhadra: Tributaries Of Time
24. Razor Sharp (Kutta Kadam, #1)
By: Ashwin Sanghi
3.90
Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition
A baffling crime. A rundown ex-cop. But he's their best bet. A city on edge A ruthless serial kil… read more
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25. Exquisite Cadavers
By: Meena Kandasamy
3.82
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Karim and Maya are lovers. They share a home, they worry about money, and then Maya falls pregnant.… read more
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26. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
By: Jayant Kaikini
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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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30. My Daughters' Mum Part 1
By: Natasha Badhwar
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
My Daughters’ Mum—a first in a series of two essay collections—covers a range of essential subjects… read more
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31. The Meat Market: Ten Stories and a Novella
By: Mashiul Alam
3.78
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
When Julekha’s breasts dry up, her baby finds sustenance in a way that astonishes the villagers of … read more
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