White As Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s Isolated Tribes
By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may …
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1. 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
2. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
3. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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- indian literature
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4. 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
By: Chetan Bhagat
3.80
Format: 8 pages, Paperback
Love marriages around the world are simple: Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy. They get married. In In… read more
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5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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6. The Adivasi Will Not Dance
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
4.08
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
SHORTLISTED FOR THE HINDU PRIZE 2016 In this collection of stories, set in the fecund, mineral-rich… read more
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7. Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more
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10. 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
11. 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
12. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
By: S. Jaishankar
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more
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- india
- indian literature
- nonfiction
- history
"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
13. 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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14. The Forest of Enchantments
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20
Format: 372 pages, Hardcover
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant ret… read more
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- india
"-the girl I'd been on that day, burnished with innocence, believing that goodness and love were armour enough."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"I knew now that love - no matter how deep - wasn't enough to transform another person: how they thought, what they believed. At best, we could only change ourselves."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"A wind rose around me, from where I didn't know. It was unexpectedly cold and made me shiver. 'Sacrifice, sacrifice', whispered the trees, carrying my promise across the valley"-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
"My first lesson on nature of love was that in a moment it could fulfill the cravings of a lifetime, like a light that someone might shine into a cavern that has been dark for a million years."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Forest of Enchantments
15. The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
By: Audre Lorde
4.55
Format: 51 pages, Paperback
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on th… read more
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"There are no new pains."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"We can train ourselves to respect our feelings and to transpose them into a language so they can be shared."-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"For women, the need and desire to nurture each other is not pathological but redemptive, and it is within that knowledge that our real power I rediscovered"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
"As women, we have been taught either to ignore our differences, or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation, only…"-Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
16. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
17. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
By: Keigo Higashino
3.93
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more
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"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)
18. 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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- indian literature
- nonfiction
- india
"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
19. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
By: Farah Bashir
4.10
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in t… read more
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"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
20. Acts of God
By: Kanan Gill
3.92
Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition
Channelling the craft of Neil Gaiman, the humour of Douglas Adams and the genius of Terry Pratchett… read more
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21. Latitudes of Longing
By: Shubhangi Swarup
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, lyrical debut about the love and longing between humanity and the earth itself, by a ma… read more
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"What is the purpose of belief if even god can't put the world back the way you worshipped it ?"-Shubhangi Swarup, Latitudes of Longing
22. The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
By: David Quammen
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our un… read more
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- biography
- nonfiction
23. The Education of Yuri
By: Jerry Pinto
4.13
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more
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24. कई चांद थे सरे-आसमां [Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman]
By: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
4.14
Format: 748 pages, Paperback
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"...her own restless coveting of his love and the slow but sure ebullience of her desire for him; then the Nawab's martydom and her spiritual homelessness and physical loneliness; there was so much, s…"-Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, कई चांद थे सरे-आसमां [Kai Chand The Sar-e-Aasman]
25. Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking
By: Krish Ashok
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas,… read more
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26. Aranyaka
By: Amruta Patil
4.03
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
In the wilderness of humanity, In the forests of the mind, Who eats whom? Who sees whom? Aran… read more
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27. Name Place Animal Thing
By: Daribha Lyndem
3.96
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
Set in politically charged Shillong, this interconnected collection of stories speaks of the coming… read more
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28. From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada
By: Sudha Bharadwaj
4.50
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Some prisoners pray, some weep, some just put down their heads and work themselves weary. Sudha Bha… read more
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29. White As Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s Isolated Tribes
By: Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Maria girls from Bastar practise sex as an institution before marriage, but with rules—one may … read more
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- biography
- travel
- indian literature
- india
- nonfiction
- anthropology
30. 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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- nonfiction
- history
31. The Tombstone In My Garden
By: Temsula Ao
3.71
Format: None pages, None
In this collection of five spare and poignant stories from Nagaland, Temsula Ao holds up a mirror t… read more
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