A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1) By Vikram Seth

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Title	:	A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
Author	:	Vikram Seth
ISBN	:	0060786523
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	1474

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Vikram Seth s novel is, at its core, a love story Lata and her mother, Mrs Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find through love or through exacting maternal appraisal a suitable boy for Lata to marry Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extend Vikram Seth s novel is, at its core, a love story Lata and her mother, Mrs Rupa Mehra, More...

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Animal's People By Indra Sinha

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Title	:	Animal's People
Author	:	Indra Sinha
ISBN	:	1416578781
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	374

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I used to be human once So I m told I don t remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet, just like a human being Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, his back twisted beyond repair by the catastrophic events of that night when a burning fog of poison smoke from the local factory blazed out over the town I used to be human once So I m told I don t remember More...

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Bengali Women By Manisha Roy

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Title	:	Bengali Women
Author	:	Manisha Roy
ISBN	:	0226730433
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	232

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Drawing on personal experiences and interviews with others, Roy explores the frustrations and rewards in the lives of Hindu Bengali women in upper and upper middle class families in India Roy traces the psychological dimensions of these women as they play their specific roles, including daughter, wife, mother, and sister in law.In a new Afterword, Roy discusses changes in Drawing on personal experiences and interviews with others, Roy explores the frustrations and rewards in the lives of Hindu B More...

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The Pancatantra By Vishnu Sharma

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Title	:	The Pancatantra
Author	:	Vishnu Sharma
ISBN	:	0140455205
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	512

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Panchatantra, is perhaps the oldest collection of Indian Fables still surviving It is written around 200BC by the great Hindu Scholar Pandit Vishnu Sharma Panchatantra means the five books It is a Nitishastra which means book of wise conduct in life The book is written in the form of simple stories and each story has a moral and philosophical theme which has stood Panchatantra, is perhaps the oldest collection of Ind More...

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The Guide By R.K. Narayan

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Title	:	The Guide
Author	:	R.K. Narayan
ISBN	:	0143039644
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	224

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R.K Narayan 1906 2001 is unusual among Indian authors writing in English in that he has stayed contentedly in his home country, venturing abroad only rarely He rarely addresses political issues or tries to explore the cutting edge of fiction He is a traditional teller of tales, a creator of realist fiction which is often gentle, humorous, and warm rather than hard hit R.K Narayan 1906 2001 is unusual among Indian aut More...

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A Married Woman By Manju Kapur

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Title	:	A Married Woman
Author	:	Manju Kapur
ISBN	:	0571215661
Format	:	Paperback
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Astha has everything an educated, middle class Delhi woman could ask for a loving husband and affluent surroundings and yet is consumed with a sense of dissatisfaction She begins an extra marital affair with a younger woman, the widow of a political activist and jeopardizes everything. More...

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Untouchables By Narendra Jadhav (डॉ. नरेंद्र जाधव )

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Title	:	Untouchables
Author	:	Narendra Jadhav (डॉ. नरेंद्र जाधव )
ISBN	:	0743270797
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	320

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Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman Their story has rarely been told This remarkable book achieves something altogether unprecedented it gives voice to India s voiceless In Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable For thousands of years the untouc More...

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Brick Lane By Monica Ali

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Title	:	Brick Lane
Author	:	Monica Ali
ISBN	:	0743243315
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	432

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A captivating read from a debut novelist, Brick Lane brings the immigrant milieu of East London to vibrant life With great poignancy, Ali illuminates a foreign world her well developed characters pull readers along on a deeply psychological, almost spiritual journey Through the eyes of two Bangladeshi sisters the plain Nazneen and the prettier Hasina we see the divergen A captivating read from a debut novelist, Brick Lane brings the immigrant More...

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The Inheritance of Loss By Kiran Desai

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Title	:	The Inheritance of Loss
Author	:	Kiran Desai
ISBN	:	0802142818
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	357

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Kiran Desai s first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty two countries Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace when his orphaned g Kiran Desai s first novel, Hullabaloo in the G More...

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The White Tiger By Aravind Adiga

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Title	:	The White Tiger
Author	:	Aravind Adiga
ISBN	:	1416562591
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	320

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The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur On the occasion of the president of China s impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Ind The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwa More...

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A Free Man By Aman Sethi

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Title	:	A Free Man
Author	:	Aman Sethi
ISBN	:	0393088901
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	230

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Like Dave Eggers s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician s apprentice now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of old Delhi How did he end up this way In an astonishing debut, Aman Sethi brings him and his indelible group of friends to li Like Dave Eggers s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters s Stuart, this is a tour de force of n More...

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The Speech of Angels By Sharon Maas

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Title	:	The Speech of Angels
Author	:	Sharon Maas
ISBN	:	0007123868
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:

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How far can a special ability take you from your roots without damaging or destroying you Jyothi is growing up on the streets of Bombay when she is rescued by an affluent Western couple, their contribution to the starving of India But she soon finds adapting to the orderly, middle class English way of life, to school, and to rules and regulations hard She feels a misfit How far can a special ability take you from you More...

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Ramayana By Vālmīki

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Title	:	Ramayana
Author	:	Vālmīki
ISBN	:	0520227034
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	461

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Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago In Ramayana written by a poet known to us as Valmiki , William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic Few works in world literature have inspired so More...

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