7 must-read nonfiction books like Bhang Journeys: Stories, Histories, Trips and Travels by Akshaya Bahibala

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Bhang Journeys: Stories, Histories, Trips and Travels

By: Akshaya Bahibala

4.24

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

‘A wild ride through the dreamworlds and shadow life of bhang and ganja in Odisha… Akshaya Bahibala…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bhang Journeys: Stories, Histories, Trips and Travels by Akshaya Bahibala , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. English, August: An Indian Story

By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None

3.78

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more

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"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

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3. All About Love: New Visions

By: bell hooks

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our… read more

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"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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4. Unaccustomed Earth

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Eight stories--longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written--that take us fr… read more

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5. 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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6. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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7. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.89

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more

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8. Mother of 1084

By: Mahasweta Devi , None

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in B… read more

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9. Uncle Dynamite

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.91

Format: 2 pages, Paperback

Uncle Fred's nephew Pongo has just smashed the prized statue of his lady love's father. His trouble… read more

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10. The Annihilation of Caste

By: B.R. Ambedkar

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more

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11. 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

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12. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

By: Satoshi Yagisawa

3.65

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading. … read more

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"It hurts to realize that it might be too late now for anything but regret."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"And here I am spending a sleepless night in a strange place. We might not be far from home, but I feel lonely."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"No es cuestión de ser expertos o novatos. Si lo plantea así, ni siquiera yo lo soy tanto. Lo importante es sentir emociones al toparse con un libro."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

"In my dream, I was an android maid living in a city in the not-so- distant future. In that neighbourhood, all the buildings were made of used books."

-Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)

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13. 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

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14. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

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"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

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15. 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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16. 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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17. Figuring

By: Maria Popova

4.34

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the i… read more

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  • nonfiction
"History is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance."

-Maria Popova, Figuring

"We can no more claim all credit for our achievement than deflect all blame for our impediments."

-Maria Popova, Figuring

"Nobody knows what goes on between two hearts including, more often than not, the people in whose chests they beat."

-Maria Popova, Figuring

"Life is infinitely more interesting when considered for the questions it raises rather than for the answers it bestows."

-Maria Popova, Figuring

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18. 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]

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19. Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

By: Meena Kandasamy

4.17

Format: 111 pages, Kindle Edition

All disciplinea deception to hide the wildness, all symmetry an excuse for keeping count. Tomorrow … read more

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"Your absence is a presence."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

"You only saw the tear waters that make these eyes fish."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

"This pain we have harboured so long, breaks into beautiful song."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

"What beats will capture our hearts, racing against these stolen, slow moving hours."

-Meena Kandasamy, Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

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20. My Father's Garden

By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar

3.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019 Spanning half a life, My Father’s Garden tell… read more

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21. Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras

By: Radhika Iyengar

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'In the land of the dead, there is life all around.' Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. A place where life … read more

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22. The Heart Asks Pleasure First

By: Karuna Ezara Parikh

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary tale of love in a world being torn asunder. It is 2001 and Daya and Aaftab have… read more

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23. Resurrection (Warlord of Ayodhya, #2)

By: Shatrujeet Nath

4.64

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

A kingdom on the brink of collapse. A dynasty under threat. A legacy in peril. Having taken on t… read more

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24. Premika

By: Bibhuti Pattnaik

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

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25. Bhang Journeys: Stories, Histories, Trips and Travels

By: Akshaya Bahibala

4.24

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

‘A wild ride through the dreamworlds and shadow life of bhang and ganja in Odisha… Akshaya Bahibala… read more

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26. The Goa Gambit

By: Anurag Tripathi

4.46

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

The Goa Gambit is set in the glamorous world of the casinos of Goa, where powerful politicians, fam… read more

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27. Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve

By: Urmilla Deshpande

4.38

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In 1927, when Irawati Karve, aged twenty-two, arrived in Berlin to do her doctoral studies at the F… read more

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28. Days of My China Dragon: Stories

By: Chandrahas Choudhury

3.77

Format: 197 pages, Kindle Edition

The Bombay restaurateur Jigar Pala has three great, overlapping passions: food, people, and convers… read more

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29. The Life and Times of Banka Harichandan

By: Dipti R Pattanaik

5.00

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

In this tour-de-force of a coming-of-age narrative, the story of an ordinary but precocious boy nam… read more

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30. Oblivion and Other Stories

By: Gopinath Mohanty

3.80

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Oblivion and Other Stories is an anthology of twenty short stories by Gopinath Mohanty, the doyen o… read more

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31. Clouds

By: Chandrahas Choudhury

3.70

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Farhad Billimoria is so looking forward to being a departed soul! On the cusp of his forty-seco… read more

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12 Best nonfiction books like The Day I Became a Runner: A Women's History of India through the Lens of Sport by Sohini Chattopadhyay

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John Berger

3.97

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Shilpa Ranade , Shilpa Phadke , Sameera Khan

3.70

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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

4.10

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