To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism
By: Debasish Roy Chowdhury
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democ…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. 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
3. ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham
By: Benyamin
4.31
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള് ഗള്ഫില് ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള് ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില് എത്ര പേര് മരുഭൂ… read more
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"നിങ്ങൾ സത്യമായും നിർഭാഗ്യത്തിന്റെ നാടുവിലാണെങ്കിൽ, പിന്നെ നിങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യുന്നതെല്ലാം ഒന്നാംതരം മണ്ടത്തരങ്ങളായിരിക്കും"-Benyamin, ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham
4. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
5. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.63
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more
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6. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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7. The Secret River
By: Kate Grenville
3.47
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compas… read more
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8. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
9. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
10. The Day of the Jackal
By: Frederick Forsyth
4.27
Format: 358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. The Jackal. A tall, blond… read more
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"It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad."-Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
11. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
12. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
13. Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
By: Anirudh Kanisetti
4.23
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a… read more
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- history
14. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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15. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
16. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
By: Jason F. Stanley
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Fascist politics are running rampant in America today—and spreading around the world. A Yale philos… read more
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"Fascist politics does not necessarily lead to an explicitly fascist state, but it is dangerous nonetheless. Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intel…"-Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
17. 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
18. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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19. This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
By: Peter Pomerantsev
4.04
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Learn how the perception of truth has been weaponized in modern politics with this “insightful” acc… read more
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"З багатьох поглядів Ігорю пощастило. Він мав видимість вибору. Майор чітко дав зрозуміти, що він проведе сім років у в’язниці і п’ять на засланні у радянських загумінках, якщо залишиться. Якби він бу…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"The display, which was called 'Can Democracy Survive the Internet?' was dedicated to a 'global election management' company called Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica claimed to have gathered 5,…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Some of the farm's work reached a level of granularity that stunned Lyudmilla. Two trolls would go on the comments sections of small' provincial newspapers and start chatting about the street they li…"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
"Conspiracy theories have long been used to maintain power: the Soviet leadership saw capitalist and counter-revolutionary conspiracies everywhere; the Nazis, Jewish ones. But those conspiracies were …"-Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
20. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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21. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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22. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
By: Max Fisher
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist, “an essential book for ou… read more
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"Remember that the number of seconds in your day never changes. The amount of social media content competing for those seconds, however, doubles every year or so, depending on how you measure it. Imag…"-Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
23. The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
By: Tim Schwab
3.72
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigation of Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation, showing how he uses philanthropy t… read more
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"The foundation enjoys unparalleled privileges in the marketplace. It is not taxed or regulated as a private company because all its deal making happens through charitable agreements. It is not scruti…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Bill Gates is not plowing hundreds of millions of dollars into journalism because he believes in the democratic ideals of the free press or because he is a personal fan of watchdog reporting. His pri…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Gates donates money from his private wealth to his private foundation. He then assembles a small group of consultants and experts at the foundation’s half-billion-dollar corporate headquarters to dec…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
"Across most of the diseases the Gates Foundation works on, its track record of innovation is quite weak. Gates planted its flag as the leading voice on malaria, working with a number of different com…"-Tim Schwab, The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
24. How Propaganda Works
By: Jason F. Stanley
3.55
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News com… read more
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"Perhaps most disturbingly for me, when I look upon my own discipline, the discipline of philosophy, I find egregious effects of ideology and propaganda. Philosophy is self-consciously devoted to the …"-Jason F. Stanley, How Propaganda Works
25. A Nation of Idiots
By: Daksh Tyagi
3.96
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK IF YOU ARE EASILY OFFENDED Inspired by true stories, Daksh Tyagi's witty and h… read more
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"Even on mute, the news is too loud."-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots
"We build things to prove our worth, and break things to prove our point."-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots
"It’s okay to be annoyed by people. I’m sure you’re annoying to others too."-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots
"Kids are the future, as we were once. It is a nominal title. Best not to get too attached."-Daksh Tyagi, A Nation of Idiots
26. Zikora
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.27
Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition
The emotional storms weathered by a mother and daughter yield a profound new understanding in a mov… read more
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"You can’t nice your way to being loved."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Some kindnesses you do not ever forget. You carry them to your grave, held warmly somewhere, brought up and savored from time to time."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"Respect: a starched deference, a string of ashen rituals. It was my mother who sat beside my father at weddings and ceremonies; it was her photo that appeared above the label of “wife"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
"If he was going to have a child, of course he should have a say, but how much of a say, since the body was mine, since in creating a child, Nature demanded so much of the woman and so little of the m…"-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Zikora
27. 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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28. A Life in the Shadows: A Memoir
By: A.S. Dulat
3.51
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
No Indian spymaster has, until now, written a memoir. A.S. Dulat is the first to do so, and in A Li… read more
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29. India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
By: Ashoka Mody
4.17
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of n… read more
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"The policy warning was clear: invest now in education or sacrifice productivity for decades"-Ashoka Mody, India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
30. To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage to Despotism
By: Debasish Roy Chowdhury
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democ… read more
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- 21st century
31. A Dismantled State: The Untold Story of Kashmir After Article 370
By: Anuradha Bhasin
3.90
Format: 564 pages, Kindle Edition
On 5 August 2019, the status of Jammu and Kashmir was altered by revoking Articles 370 and 35A, con… read more
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