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In an Antique Land
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Amitav Ghosh
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In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. Abraham Ben Yiju, a prosperous Tunisian Jewish merchant based in medieval Cairo, resettled in Aden, then spent...
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Amitav Ghosh
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In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. Abraham Ben Yiju, a prosperous Tunisian Jewish merchant based in medieval Cairo, resettled in Aden, then spent...
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The Village by the Sea
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Anita Desai
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One of a series of classic fiction for schools, this novel won the 1982 "Guardian" Award for Children's Fiction. As the eldest children of a poor family in India, 13-year-old Lila and her younger brother have to cope when their parents cannot support
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Anita Desai
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One of a series of classic fiction for schools, this novel won the 1982 "Guardian" Award for Children's Fiction. As the eldest children of a poor family in India, 13-year-old Lila and her younger brother have to cope when their parents cannot support
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The Inscrutable Americans
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Anurag Mathur
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The hilarious novel describes an Indian student's one year spent in a small university campus in the U.S. He comes from a small town, locally reputed as the 'Paris of Madhya Pradesh'. His English is comically Indian, and his initial notions of America are absurdly Indian, inadequate and stereotyped....
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Anurag Mathur
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The hilarious novel describes an Indian student's one year spent in a small university campus in the U.S. He comes from a small town, locally reputed as the 'Paris of Madhya Pradesh'. His English is comically Indian, and his initial notions of America are absurdly Indian, inadequate and stereotyped....
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Discover The Diamond In You
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Arindam Chaudhuri
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As I look back, over the years, I realise that I’ve ventured far away from what I started my career with... I was supposed to be this management teacher whose passion lay in the areas of leadership and motivation. However, with time, especially after I wrote ‘The Great Indian Dream’ with my father, ...
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Arindam Chaudhuri
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As I look back, over the years, I realise that I’ve ventured far away from what I started my career with... I was supposed to be this management teacher whose passion lay in the areas of leadership and motivation. However, with time, especially after I wrote ‘The Great Indian Dream’ with my father, ...
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2 states - The story of my marriage
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Chetan Bhagat
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Chetan Bhagat latest book '2 States' is about a boy and girl from two different states of India, who fall in love and want to get married. Of course, their parents don't agree. What happens next is what the book is about. From the author of blockbusters Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Cente...
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Chetan Bhagat
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Chetan Bhagat latest book '2 States' is about a boy and girl from two different states of India, who fall in love and want to get married. Of course, their parents don't agree. What happens next is what the book is about. From the author of blockbusters Five Point Someone, One Night @ the Call Cente...
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The Mirror Of Fire And Dreaming
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Set in contemporary India, as well as several hundred years in the past, this title continues the adventures of Anand and his quest to become a full member of the Brotherhood of the Conch.
In a pristine valley hidden in the Himalayas, Anand has a disturbing vision. His mentor and spiritual guide,...
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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Set in contemporary India, as well as several hundred years in the past, this title continues the adventures of Anand and his quest to become a full member of the Brotherhood of the Conch.
In a pristine valley hidden in the Himalayas, Anand has a disturbing vision. His mentor and spiritual guide,...
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Johnny Gone Down
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Karan Bajaj
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Once, he was an Ivy League scholar with a promising future at NASA; now, at forty, he is broke, homeless,and minutes away from blowing his brains out in a diabolical modern-day joust.
It wasnt meant to be this way. An innocent vacation turned into an epic intercontinental journey that saw Nikhil ...
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Karan Bajaj
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Once, he was an Ivy League scholar with a promising future at NASA; now, at forty, he is broke, homeless,and minutes away from blowing his brains out in a diabolical modern-day joust.
It wasnt meant to be this way. An innocent vacation turned into an epic intercontinental journey that saw Nikhil ...
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Delhi: A Novel
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Khushwant Singh
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‘I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands…’
Thus begins Khushwant Singh’s vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprob...
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Khushwant Singh
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‘I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands…’
Thus begins Khushwant Singh’s vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi. The principal narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprob...
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
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Kiran Desai
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Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to be t...
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Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard |
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Kiran Desai
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Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. All signs being auspicious, the villagers triumphantly assured Sampath's proud parents that their son was destined for greatness. Twenty years of failure later, that unfortunately does not appear to be t...
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Funda Of Mixology: What Bartending Teaches That IIM Doesnt
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Mainak Dhar
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The Funda of Mix-ology is a novel a young man who is not unlike many of us. After spending his youth in the pursuit of academic excellence and admission into the 'right' institutes, he joins a multinational firm after graduating from an IIM. A few years down the line, once the sheen of Day one jobs ...
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Mainak Dhar
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The Funda of Mix-ology is a novel a young man who is not unlike many of us. After spending his youth in the pursuit of academic excellence and admission into the 'right' institutes, he joins a multinational firm after graduating from an IIM. A few years down the line, once the sheen of Day one jobs ...
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