Fearless Freedom
By: Kavita Krishnan
4.53
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
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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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"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
2. 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
3. Unaccustomed Earth
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more
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- india
4. Everybody Loves a Good Drought
By: Palagummi Sainath , P. Sainath
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry langu… read more
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5. When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife
By: Meena Kandasamy
4.12
Format: 428 pages, Hardcover
Seduced by politics and poetry, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor and … read more
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6. The Glass Palace
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the sto… read more
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7. 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
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-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
8. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
By: Nora Ephron
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more
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9. Why I Assassinated Mahatma Gandhi
By: None , Gopal Godse
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
Book contains the original statement given by Nathuram Godse (Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi). Writer i… read more
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10. 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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11. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
12. Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
By: Jean Sasson
4.07
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Sultana is a Saudi Arabian princess, a woman born to fabulous, uncountable wealth. She has four man… read more
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14. Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
By: Aanchal Malhotra
3.78
Format: None pages,
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15. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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16. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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17. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
By: Urvashi Butalia
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Oral History Association Book Award 2001 The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakis… read more
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18. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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19. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
By: Mahatma Gandhi
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more
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20. 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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21. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
By: Josy Joseph
4.39
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘They were not expected to behave like the terrorists they were hunting. Even in the thickest fog o… read more
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22. 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
23. A Woman Is No Man
By: Etaf Rum
4.26
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
This debut novel by a Palestinian-American voice takes us inside the lives of a conservative Arab f… read more
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"It’s hard to belong anywhere, truly belong, if we don’t belong to ourselves first."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Her powerlessness even comforted her somehow. Knowing that she couldn't change things - that she didn't have a choice - made living it more bearable."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"Sadness was like a cancer, she thought, a presence that staked it's claim so quietly you might not even notice it until it was too late. She hoped her other daughters didn't see."-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
"It's the loneliest people who love books the most...it was the opposite of loneliness, too, like there were too many people around me, forced connections, that I needed a little isolation to think on…"-Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man
24. Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
By: Cinzia Arruzza
4.03
Format: 85 pages, Paperback
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these a… read more
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"confront head on, the real source of crisis and misery, which is capitalism."-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"who will guide the process of societal transformation, in whose interest, and to what end?"-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"What we are living through is a crisis of society as a whole—and its root cause is capitalism."-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
"Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive"-Cinzia Arruzza, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
25. Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
By: Daniel Jones
4.20
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York… read more
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"Our futile search for answers only deepened our depression, but the great thing about depression is that it’s not one size fits all, but rather comes tailor-made to suit one’s particular personality."-Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
"He wasn’t really a texter anyway, so his lack of response didn’t necessarily reflect the weirdness of my text. It was probably normal for non-texters to see a text and not reply to it. They saw it, f…"-Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
"Because real love, once blossomed, never disappears. It may get lost with a piece of paper, or transform into art, books, or children, or trigger another couple’s union while failing to cement your o…"-Daniel Jones, Modern Love: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
26. Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
By: Gyan Prakash
3.86
Format: 456 pages, Hardcover
The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern India On the night of … read more
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27. Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here
By: Aakar Patel
4.07
Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition
India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What… read more
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28. Fearless Freedom
By: Kavita Krishnan
4.53
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
'Safety' for women in India is, more often than not, coded as curtailment of autonomy. To be 'safe'… read more
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30. Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
By: Christophe Jaffrelot
3.97
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy towa… read more
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31. No Nation for Women: Reportage on Rape from India, the World's Largest Democracy
By: Priyanka Dubey
4.20
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Numbers convey, in part, why India is referred to as one of the world’s rape capitals—one woman is … read more
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