City Improbable: An Anthology of Writings on Delhi
By: Khushwant Singh
3.75
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
Witness to the rise and fall of several empires, Delhi has often been compared to the phoenix that …
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1. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
By: Suketu Mehta
3.94
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approac… read more
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"It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"This is the true meaning of exile : some insurmountable force that keeps you from going back."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"Love exposes you, makes you vulnerable and kills the personas you built on top of your true self."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
"We lived in Bombay and we lived in Mumbai and sometimes, I lived in both of them at the same time."-Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
2. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
3. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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4. The Penelopiad
By: Margaret Atwood
3.72
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Now that all the others have run out of air, it's my turn to do a little story-making. In Homer'… read more
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"the gods often mumble"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Boys with their first beards can be a thorough pain in the neck."-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
"Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?"-Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
5. Oleander Girl
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
3.72
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of One Amazing Thing, a sweeping, suspenseful, atmospheric coming-of-ag… read more
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"May your heart be mine, may my heart be yours. May your sorrows be mine, may my joys be yours."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
"It feels as though it were just yesterday Grandfather exited my life like a bullet, leaving a bleeding hole behind."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
"In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
"Sarojini admits he has a point; girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women, and surely Bimal does a good job of that. But deep in a hidden place inside her th…"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Oleander Girl
6. राग दरबारी
By: None
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
raagdrbaarii ek aisaa upnyaas hai jo gaaNv kii kthaa ke maadhym se aadhunik bhaartiiy jiivn kii muu… read more
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7. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
By: William Dalrymple
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… 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. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
By: Naomi Klein
4.52
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more
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10. Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
By: Aanchal Malhotra
3.78
Format: None pages,
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11. 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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12. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
3.77
Format: None pages,
From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more
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13. Independence
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more
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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence
14. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
15. 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
16. 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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17. 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
18. Notes on Grief
By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4.22
Format: 86 pages, Hardcover
Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more
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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
19. The Last Queen
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more
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"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
20. The Return of Faraz Ali
By: Aamina Ahmad
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more
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21. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
By: Declan Walsh
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more
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"Zia perished in 1988"-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
22. Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
By: Ira Mukhoty
4.27
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With him ride his wives, his… read more
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23. The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao
By: Lindsay Pereira
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
'My story may end with sadness, but I want you to remember that it started with love. Mumbai has mo… read more
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24. Gods And Ends
By: Lindsay Pereira
4.14
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Philomena Sequeira knows what she wants by the time she turns fourteen. Her father wants something … read more
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25. The Begum and the Dastan
By: Tarana Husain Khan
4.06
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
In 1897 in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to … read more
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26. City Improbable: An Anthology of Writings on Delhi
By: Khushwant Singh
3.75
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
Witness to the rise and fall of several empires, Delhi has often been compared to the phoenix that … read more
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