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…
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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. 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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3. 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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4. 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
5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. Milk Teeth
By: Amrita Mahale
3.78
Format: 311 pages, Paperback
Childhood allies Ira Kamat and Kartik Kini meet on the terrace of their building in Matunga, Mumbai… read more
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"Salt makes grey, salt makes red. Salt heals, slowly."-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth
"Stories are the flesh and blood, the link between past and present."-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth
"Learning its mythology was one of many paths to calling a city home."-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth
"It will be okay, you will be okay. They call this the spirit of Bombay."-Amrita Mahale, Milk Teeth
9. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o… read more
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10. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
By: Aravind Jayan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more
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11. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
By: Meena Kandasamy
4.17
Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition
All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow … read more
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"Your absence is a presence."-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
"You only saw the tear waters that make these eyes fish."-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
"This pain we have harboured so long, breaks into beautiful song."-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
"What beats will capture our hearts, racing against these stolen, slow moving hours."-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You
12. 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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13. 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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14. City on Fire: A Boyhood in Aligarh
By: Zeyad Masroor Khan
4.19
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Zeyad Masroor Khan was four years old when he realized that an innocent act of clicking a switch ne… read more
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15. 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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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
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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
Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more
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19. Quarterlife
By: Devika Rege
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
India’s literary novel of the year—an enthralling, award-winning debut from a “blazingly original v… read more
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"Now he gets the value of the everyday stuff in the Peshwa museums. What is the culture of a place or people other than this - how we lived and how we died? What is an identity butt an accretion of al…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"Chitra Kaki's gestures are a result of ritual, house pride and belonging, all of which precede love, and this thought makes his joy in the modak more acute. ...Their generation has seen more change t…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"At her final dinner in Imperial Heights, she notices afresh all that a week has made familiar: the silk runner, the brass casseroles, and the many little bowls on her plate that Sita, already turning…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"Dusk. They park at the edge of a wide, sandy bank. Omkar hums Shanth wahate Krishna-mai. He says the lyrics mean that a truly great person is as quiet as the river Krishna. It's the same river at Men…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
20. The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
By: Alpa Shah
4.54
Format: 743 pages, Kindle Edition
The world’s largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial ru… read more
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21. This Land We Call Home: The Story of a Family, Caste, Conversions and Modern India
By: Nusrat F. Jafri
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1871, the British enacted the Criminal Tribes Act in India, branding numerous tribes and caste g… read more
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