The Personal Is Political: An Activist's Memoir
By: Aruna Roy
4.09
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
'Aruna Roy reflects on [a] life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and [the] political. A gre…
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1. Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years
By: A.S. Dulat , Aditya Sinha
3.81
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Vajpayee PMO member's account of the quest for peace in a troubled stateThere comes a day in one's … read more
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2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
By: None , Matthew Walker
4.38
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781501144318. Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker pr… read more
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"the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span "-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"...our lack of sleep is a slow form of self-euthanasia..."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"When sleep is abundant, minds flourish. When it is deficient, they don't."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
"Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death."-None, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
3. 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
4. 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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5. 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
6. Home in the World: A Memoir
By: Amartya Sen
4.17
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and i… read more
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7. 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
8. The Book of Everlasting Things
By: Aanchal Malhotra
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more
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9. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
10. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
By: John Carreyrou
4.41
Format: 339 pages, Hardcover
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start… read more
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"It just feels like you want us to give you the formula for Coke in order to convince you that it doesn’t contain arsenic,"-John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
11. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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12. 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
13. Age of Vice
By: Deepti Kapoor
3.61
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that … read more
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"You are who you are, the past is gone. It’s the present you must master now."-Deepti Kapoor, Age of Vice
14. Everything the Light Touches
By: Janice Pariat
3.75
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious nov… read more
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15. This Life At Play: Memoirs
By: Girish Karnad
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Girish Karnad was one of modern India’s greatest cultural figures: an accomplished actor, a path-br… read more
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16. 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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17. A Brief History of Equality
By: Thomas Piketty
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more
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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality
18. Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.10
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
"From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and wom… read more
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19. The Personal Is Political: An Activist's Memoir
By: Aruna Roy
4.09
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
'Aruna Roy reflects on [a] life of deep engagement, weaving the personal and [the] political. A gre… read more
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