The book in my hand
9 years, 3 months ago

The book in my hand

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Navtej Sarna I wanted to read some Russian literature this year. So I read some plays by Anton Chekhov, Ivan Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons, and I am slowly going through Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. I also chanced upon and thoroughly enjoyed a slim book in Punjabi, Mera Pakistani Safarnama by the famous actor Balraj Sahni. Kancha Ilaiah I am wandering in the Book Fair in Hyderabad wondering what to read in the coming year. The book I loved reading was The Norton Anthology of World Religions, put together by Wendy Doniger.

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The Hindu on Books | Best fiction and non-fiction reads of 2023
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The Hindu on Books | Best fiction and non-fiction reads of 2023

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The world is in turmoil politically and socially, with wars being waged on two fronts. Joya Chatterji’s Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century tells the “turbulent, rich and compelling” history of the region and how it informs the present. In the Introduction, she writes that unlike many other histories of the subcontinent that concentrate solely on politics, people …

The book in my hand
9 years, 1 month ago

The book in my hand

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Abdul Basit I like to read books on philosophy, history and politics. I just finished Barkha Dutt’s recent book This Unquiet Land, and am currently reading former Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s latest memoirs, The Other Side of the Mountain. Rohini Mohan I started reading The Hungry Ghosts by Shyam Selvadurai, a novel about a Canadian man going to …

How much do you score on this list of 25 books by Indian authors you must read?
9 years, 11 months ago

How much do you score on this list of 25 books by Indian authors you must read?

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On the occasion of World Book Day, here’s a list of 25 books, in no particular order, written by Indian authors that you must read in this lifetime. Malgudi Days, R K Narayan Originally published in 1943, R K Narayan’s book of short stories around the fictional village of Malgudi is what Indian nostalgia is about. English, August; Upamanyu Chatterjee …

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