Not Just Cricket
By: Pradeep Magazine
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving' - Ramachandra Guha Eminent journali…
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1. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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2. In Custody
By: Anita Desai
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custodyis woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small t… read more
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3. Nine Lives
By: William Dalrymple
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how tradit… read more
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4. Freedom at Midnight
By: Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins
4.20
Format: 32 pages,
A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India. read more
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5. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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6. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.22
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more
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7. 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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8. Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
By: Neil deGrasse Tyson
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural Historymagazine have long recognized Neil… read more
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9. The Discovery of India
By: Jawaharlal Nehru
4.00
Format: None pages,
In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the r… read more
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10. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
11. If God Was a Banker
By: Ravi Subramanian
5.00
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
In If God Was A Banker, the story revolves around two management graduates in the rat race for succ… read more
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12. Right Ho, Jeeves (Jeeves, #6)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
3.72
Format: 272 pages,
Follow the adventures of Bertie Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, in this stunning new… read more
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13. 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
14. Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.63
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The official narrative of India's freedom struggle has almost entirely been about the non-violent p… read more
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15. Hitting Against the Spin: How Cricket Really Works
By: Nathan Leamon
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The Times Best Sports Books 2021 - 'the sporting nerd's book of the year' 'Fascinating and insig… read more
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16. 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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"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
17. 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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18. 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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19. Sultan: A Memoir
By: Wasim Akram
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bo… read more
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"In fact, I was shortly to be chosen for my first tour to New Zealand. Again, I had Javed, now restored to captaincy, to thank. I was immediately anxious. I could not drive. I had neither money of my …"-Wasim Akram, Sultan: A Memoir
20. Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
By: Katherine Clarke
4.08
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the … read more
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21. Sanghi Who Never Went To A Shakha
By: Rahul Roushan
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This is the journey of a person who hated the word ‘Sanghi’ but ended up happily adopting it as a l… read more
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22. In The Footsteps Of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana
By: Vikrant Pande
4.26
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni's quest to retrace the trail of Rama's fabled travels during his… read more
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23. Not Just Cricket
By: Pradeep Magazine
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving' - Ramachandra Guha Eminent journali… read more
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24. Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography
By: Anirudha Bhattacharjee
4.10
Format: 654 pages, Kindle Edition
'Zindagi ek safar hai suhana...' He was the most outrageous performer of the Hindi film screen - l… read more
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25. Pure Evil : The Bad Men of Bollywood
By: Balaji Vittal
4.48
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Sholay (1975): Gabbar chops off Thakur's arms with a sword in each hand. Karz (1980): Kamini mur… read more
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26. The Commonwealth of Cricket: A Lifelong Love Affair with the Most Subtle and Sophisticated Game Known to Humankind
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From one of India’s finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with crick… read more
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27. 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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28. Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy
By: Pranay Kotasthane
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In Search of an Adarsh Indian State In India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pe… read more
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29. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
By: Vijay Kelkar
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and … read more
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30. Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey
By: K. Hariharan
3.62
Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition
In many ways, Kamal Haasan is unique. One of the greatest actors India has ever produced, he has us… read more
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31. India in Mind
By: Pankaj Mishra
3.25
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Ever since Herodotus reported that it was home to gold-digging ants, travelers have been intrigued … read more
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