11 must-read india books like Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink by Arati Kumar-Rao

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Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink

By: Arati Kumar-Rao

4.48

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force' – Robert Macfarlane 'Some of the best environmental writing I have read' – Amit…

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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

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2. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By: Anita Anand

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was h… read more

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3. 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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4. Seeing Like a Feminist

By: None

3.50

Format: 24 pages, ebook

THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENS For Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final trium… read more

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5. Lajja: Shame

By: Taslima Nasrin , None

3.00

Format: None pages,

The Duttas - Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya - have lived in Bangla… read more

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6. Family Matters

By: Rohinton Mistry

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait o… read more

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7. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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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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9. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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10. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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"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

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13. Latitudes of Longing

By: Shubhangi Swarup

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more

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"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"

-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing

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14. Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink

By: Arati Kumar-Rao

4.48

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force' – Robert Macfarlane 'Some of the best environmental writing I have read' – Amit… read more

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15. Aranyaka

By: Amruta Patil

4.03

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In the wilderness of humanity, In the forests of the mind, Who eats whom? Who sees whom? Aran… read more

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16. Chronicle of an Hour and a Half

By: Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari

4.30

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

A COMPELLINGLY IMAGINED, TIGHT-PACED STORY OF SPIRALLING RUMOURS AND MASS HYSTERIA. In the foot… read more

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17. 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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18. We, The Citizens: Strengthening the Indian Republic

By: Khyati Pathak

4.47

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

… the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — Walt WhitmanWhat is a republic? How … read more

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19. White As Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s Isolated Tribes

By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may … read more

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20. Mansur: A Novel

By: Vikramajit Ram

3.68

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Vivid and elegant’ RANA SAFVI‘Entrancing … soulful and evocative’ ANIRUDH KANISETTISaturday, the 2… read more

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21. Intertidal: A Coast and Marsh Diary

By: Yuvan Aves

4.26

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Over two years and three monsoons, Yuvan Aves pays scrupulous attention to the living world of his … read more

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  • nature

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