Strange Burdens: The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi
By: Sugata Srinivasaraju
3.86
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
Strange Burdens is not a biography but a book of political commentary. It examines and analyses Rah…
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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. 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
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4. Homage to Catalonia
By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling
4.00
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more
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5. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
6. Simple Passion
By: Annie Ernaux
3.93
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more
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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion
7. 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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8. 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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9. 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
10. 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
11. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
12. 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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13. 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
14. The Day I Became a Runner: A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport
By: Sohini Chattopadhyay
4.45
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
The Day I Became a Runner starts from a striking premise-that, since running is a solitary activity… read more
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15. The Life and Times of George Fernandes: Many Peaks of a Political Life
By: Rahul Ramagundam
4.05
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Since the time he left his coastal town of Mangalore and came to Bombay (now, Mumbai), more than se… read more
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16. The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
By: Arundhati Roy
4.33
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine… read more
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"Gandhi actually said everything and it's opposite. To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree."-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
"The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power. The battle of the poor and the powerless …"-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
"In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most dalits lived and worked, in order to slide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistr…"-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
17. Elevation
By: Stephen King
3.64
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confid… read more
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"adwawd"-Stephen King, Elevation
"the past is history, the future's a mystery"-Stephen King, Elevation
"The past is history, the future's a mystery."-Stephen King, Elevation
"The town motto seems to be if you can't keep it on the down-low, then out you must go."-Stephen King, Elevation
18. 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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19. Black River
By: Nilanjana Roy
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the village of Teetarpur, a few hours from the capital city of Delhi, Chand’s peaceful life is s… read more
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20. Fire Bird
By: Perumal Murugan
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Fire Bird is a masterfully crafted tale of one man's search for the elusive concept of permanence. … read more
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21. Manjhi's Mayhem
By: Tanuj Solanki
3.86
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023 Introducing Sewaram Manjhi in this explosive no… read more
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22. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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23. Nehru: The Debates That Defined India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
3.87
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
From being elected as Congress president in 1929 till his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remained … read more
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24. The People of the Indus
By: Nikhil Gulati
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Who were the people of the Indus? Why didn't they build pyramids like the Egyptians? And ultimat… read more
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25. After Messiah
By: Aakar Patel
3.65
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
'Everyone bowed to the Big Man. He was glorified, deified even, with temples raised to him, as the … read more
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26. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods
By: Sreenivasan Jain
3.80
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more
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27. 28 JOBS, 28 WEEKS, 28 STATES
By: Jubanashwa Mishra
3.53
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
DescriptionAt age 28, when most people are expected to settle down or risk disaster,Jubanashwa Mish… read more
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28. MONEY WISE: Timeless Lessons on Building Wealth
By: Deepak Shenoy
3.87
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Wealth is not just about adding zeroes to your net worth but having enough to live an unconstrained… read more
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29. Strange Burdens: The Politics and Predicaments of Rahul Gandhi
By: Sugata Srinivasaraju
3.86
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
Strange Burdens is not a biography but a book of political commentary. It examines and analyses Rah… read more
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30. A Walk Up The Hill: Living with People and Nature
By: Madhav Gadgil
4.15
Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition
Madhav Gadgil was born in Pune in 1942, just as Salim Ali's superbly illustrated Book of Indian Bir… read more
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31. Marginlands : India's Last Natural Frontiers
By: Arati Kumar-Rao
4.48
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
'A tour de force' – Robert Macfarlane 'Some of the best environmental writing I have read' – Amitav… read more
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