Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda
By: Sugata Srinivasaraju
3.88
Format: 600 pages, Hardcover
H.D. Deve Gowda has been in public life for nearly seven decades. He started at the very bottom, as…
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1. Gandhi Before India
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.22
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first volume of a magisterial biography: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of… read more
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"You gave us a lawyer; we gave you back a Mahatma."-Ramachandra Guha, Gandhi Before India
2. The Emergency: A Personal History
By: Coomi Kapoor
4.04
Format: 192 pages,
In June 1975, Coomi Kapoor was a young reporter at the Indian Express in Delhi, when Indira Gandhi … read more
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3. Tuesdays with Morrie
By: Mitch Albom , None
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who under… read more
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4. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
5. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
By: None
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spi… read more
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6. Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India
By: Pankaj Mishra
3.87
Format: None pages,
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7. 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
8. The First Crusade: The Call from the East
By: Peter Frankopan
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at the instigation of Pope Urban II and culminated … read more
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9. Seven Sixes Are Forty Three
By: Kiran Nagarkar
4.09
Format: 256 pages,
Kushank Purandare is a young writer living off the goodwill of a host of friends, relatives, and lo… read more
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10. How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
By: Barbara F. Walter
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and ho… read more
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"For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces - people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They…"-Barbara F. Walter, How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them
11. Whereabouts
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.77
Format: 157 pages, Hardcover
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more
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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
12. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
13. Stay True
By: Hua Hsu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for se… read more
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"My parents are great, I said. Unbelievably non-stereotypical."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
"The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
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"It was a sign of personal growth, I thought to myself, that I could be friends with someone who liked Pearl Jam this much."-Hua Hsu, Stay True
14. 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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15. 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
16. Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
By: Luke Burgis
3.81
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking exploration of why we want what we want, and a toolkit for freeing ourselves from … read more
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17. Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
By: M. Rajshekhar
4.33
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwa… read more
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18. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine
By: Kavitha Rao
4.49
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
At a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine wha… read more
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19. Furrows in a Field: The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda
By: Sugata Srinivasaraju
3.88
Format: 600 pages, Hardcover
H.D. Deve Gowda has been in public life for nearly seven decades. He started at the very bottom, as… read more
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20. The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis
By: Machado de Assis
4.25
Format: 960 pages, Hardcover
A landmark event, the complete stories of Machado de Assis appear in English for the first time in … read more
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21. Growing Up Karanth
By: K. Ullas Karanth
4.19
Format: 242 pages, Hardcover
Karanth, Kuvempu, Bendre—the trinity of modern Kannada literature; the pride of Kannadigas; … It wa… read more
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