12 must-read nonfiction books like Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking by Krish Ashok

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Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking

By: Krish Ashok

3.77

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas,…

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Cover of India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

1. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

By: Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Format: 912 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more

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  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • india
"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"

-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Cover of The Liberation of Sita by Volga

2. 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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  • indian literature
  • india
Cover of Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits by Rahul Pandita

3. Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

By: Rahul Pandita

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction

4. 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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5. Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

By: Sunil Khilnani

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously un… read more

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6. 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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  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • india
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7. War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.65

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH. BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE? INDIA, 3400 BCE. Greed. Rage.… read more

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  • india
"Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish."

-Amish Tripathi, War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

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8. 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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  • indian literature
  • india
Cover of Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat by Perumal Murugan

9. 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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  • indian literature
  • india
Cover of Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya

10. 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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  • nonfiction
  • india
"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

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11. The Last Queen

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

Cover of Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future by Raghuram G. Rajan

12. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future

By: Raghuram G. Rajan

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
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13. Acts of God

By: Kanan Gill

3.92

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more

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  • indian literature
Cover of Why I am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor

14. Why I am a Hindu

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one … read more

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  • nonfiction
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"Who knows whence this creation had its origin? He, whether He fashioned it or whether He did not, He, who surveys it all from the highest heaven, He knows—or maybe even He does not know. — Rig Veda, …"

-Shashi Tharoor, Why I am a Hindu

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15. A Nation of Idiots

By: Daksh Tyagi

3.96

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED Inspired by true stories, Daksh Tyagi's witty and h… read more

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"Even on mute, the news is too loud."

-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots

"We build things to prove our worth, and break things to prove our point."

-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots

"It’s okay to be annoyed by people. I’m sure you’re annoying to others too."

-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots

"Kids are the future, as we were once. It is a nominal title. Best not to get too attached."

-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots

Cover of Diamonds in the Dust: Consistent Compounding for Extraordinary Wealth Creation by Saurabh Mukherjea

16. Diamonds in the Dust: Consistent Compounding for Extraordinary Wealth Creation

By: Saurabh Mukherjea

4.10

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Over the last few years, there has been a growing realization among Indians that their life's savin… read more

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17. Make Epic Money

By: Ankur Warikoo

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

In his groundbreaking book Do Epic Shit, Warikoo dropped this truth ‘Three relationships determine… read more

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Cover of Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking by Krish Ashok

18. Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking

By: Krish Ashok

3.77

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas,… read more

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  • health
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • indian literature
  • food writing
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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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  • india
Cover of Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine by Kavitha Rao

20. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine

By: Kavitha Rao

4.49

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

At a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine wha… read more

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Cover of How Prime Ministers Decide by Neerja Chowdhury

21. How Prime Ministers Decide

By: Neerja Chowdhury

4.53

Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition

India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more

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