Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
By: Radhika Iyengar
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'In the land of the dead, there is life all around.' Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. A place where life …
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By: Diana L. Eck
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
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2. Nine Lives
By: William Dalrymple
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
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3. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
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By: Ruskin Bond
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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By: Anuja Chauhan
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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6. 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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7. Why Bharat Matters
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3.94
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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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4.13
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3.92
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
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11. South vs North: India’s Great Divide
By: Nilakantan RS
3.76
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
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3.86
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13. Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
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4.27
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3.35
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15. Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras
By: Radhika Iyengar
4.20
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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16. Kashmir (The Partition Trilogy, #3)
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4.41
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17. H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars
By: Kunal Purohit
4.25
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18. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods
By: Sreenivasan Jain
3.80
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Rosarita
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3.29
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
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20. Tripping Abroad
By: Daksh Tyagi
3.88
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Nothing in life comes easy. Well, except failure. And in this respect, Daksh’s college life abroad… read more
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21. Upon an Old Wall Dreaming: More of My Favourite Stories and Sketches
By: Ruskin Bond
4.36
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