 | Swimming Lessons: and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.75 If you have lived in Bombay flats, you will appreciate his work even more
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 | Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Buy used from: $3.78 Being a Bombayite, this book is my bridge to the Bombay that I have always known. You almost smell, taste and feel the city
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy used from: $0.35 Novel set in a political environment - post-Indira India reeks through every word, every situation
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 | Gora by Rabindranath Tagore
Buy used from: $44.21 The story of a sahib raised in an Indian family in the British era - homage to the wide vision and outlook of Tagore - a superb and yet a simple read
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 | Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $3.00 Some of these poems are so memorable --
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 | Kanthapura by Raja Rao
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $3.23 An underappreciated book in the west - strong content - microcosm of a small rural town in India
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 | Malgudi Days (Twentieth-Century Classics) by R. K. Narayan
Buy used from: $3.40 The Malgudi Series --- Classic compilation of stories -- Narayan lives on!
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| The god of small things by Arundhati Roy
Buy used from: $0.40 Brave novel in a conservative world - Ms. Roy continues to blast the establishment with her works on the Sarvaddy dam projects and introduction in Mosaic- A reader. Shake, rattle, and roll - baby!
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| A house for Mr. Biswas by V. S Naipaul
Buy used from: $102.79 An elitist novel - well written and well paced although it cannot escape the acerbic Walcott review of Naipaul's attitude toward Trinidad. This is his classic work.
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| Pather Panchali: Song of the Road by Bibhuti Bhusan Banerjee
Buy used from: $50.35 Led to the epic trilogy of Ray - pather panchali which received rave reviews internationally - the book is set in a village environment - simple and lyrical
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| Train to Pakistan
Buy used from: $3.00 Interesting twist at the end - a small book capturing the impact of Partition on a village - the end is superb but love story could have been better
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| Tamas: Winner of the Sahitya Award by Bhisham Sahni
Buy used from: $4.81 Book on the communal clashes in India - winner of prestigious awards and a great complementary read to "Train to pakistan" and Modern Indian History
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 | Shame: A Novel by Tasalima Nasarina
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $8.97 This is an absolute stunner - will make u sad, angry at the absolute venality of man
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| A Suitable Boy: Novel, A by Vikram Seth
Buy used from: $0.77 If you need to workout- buy this book --- joke aside - a great research based novel - allows us to go behind the doors of life in Lucknow, Kumbhamela et al. North India presented historically very wel
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 | Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Buy used from: $8.00 Read it in one night. Could not keep it down. Riveting. like reading some Tolstoy or O Henry short stories.
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| The Moor's Last Sigh (Windsor Selections) by Salman Rushdie
Buy used from: $15.00 I look upon this as a sequel to Midnight's Children - Rushdie blasts Shiv Sena - great book for a devoted Bombayite, not a Mumbaiyite.
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 | Adventures of Feluda (India) by Satyajit Ray
Buy used from: $7.30 Had the unique pleasure of having Mr. Ray read these stories to me in late evenings in Calcutta - highly imaginative book - his storytelling was even more awesome.
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 | Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love and Wisdom by Krishna Dharma
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $13.98 One of two greatest epics - Rajagopalchari and RK Narayan have written translations but I think that for a serious reader, this is a great translation
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 | Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time by Krishna Dharma
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $21.75 One of two greatest epics - Rajagopalchari and RK Narayan have written translations but I think that for a serious reader, this is a great translation
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 | Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $4.75 Leaves a nice smooth and soft touch of feelings after you read this - a very pleasant read
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 | India: From Midnight to the Millennium by Shashi Tharoor
Buy used from: $0.01 Excellent essays on Modern Indian History - Great complement to works of Rushdie, Mistry, Nasrin etc
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 | The Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
Buy used from: $9.09 Great work of Indian History - I was fortunate to have this drilled into me in my college days and I have often thumbed many pages to just revisit the richness of Indian history over and over again
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| Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru
Buy used from: $100.54 Touching letters to Indira Gandhi from Jail where Nehru goes over world history - I learnt quite a few neat little stuff in this book - lovely compendium of letters with rich rich content
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| Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre
Buy new: $19.60 / Used from: $10.46 Perhaps one of the most brilliant books that most beautifully capture India's freedom at midnight and all that led to it and all immediately thereafter
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| Making of India by Ranbir Vohra
Buy used from: $16.00 Brief history of India from the Vedic Age to 1996 and a little after
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 | Incongruity of Metaphors by Hindol Datta
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $9.47 First book of poems that reflect observations and experiences of the author.
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