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Manjul’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Manjul’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Manjul Bajaj’s Followers (124)
418 books
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Manjul Bajaj
Goodreads Author
Born
in Lucknow, India
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Member Since
September 2012
Winnie the Pooh, honey and me
Let me begin with a disclaimer: Winnie the Pooh and I are not childhood friends. Back when I was growing up in the sleepy ’70s, children’s literature came in only two flavours: Classic and Enid Blyton.
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In Search of Heer
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2019
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Another Man's Wife and Other Stories
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2012
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Come, Before Evening Falls
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2010
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5 editions
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Once Upon A Summer
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Elbie's Quest
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2013
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Locked Down
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The Book of Bullah
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Nargisa's Adventures
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The Book of Bullah: A Selection of Verses
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india smiles
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2006
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Manjul’s Recent Updates
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Manjul Bajaj
rated a book it was amazing
Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
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"This book has a slow burn and that mood or vibe lasts throughout the book. Having read Aw’s other titles, I found this one to be the most contemplative. The combination of the pacing and the intimate feel lends itself to a swoon factor. Jay’s interio"
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Manjul Bajaj
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37 other people
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Madhulika Liddle's review
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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire:
"English traveller and writer Thomas Coryat, visiting India during the reign of Jahangir, wrote: “The king keepeth a thousand women for his own body”. Gross exaggeration, of course, but wild assertions such as this, along with those of other Europeans"
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Manjul Bajaj
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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
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Manjul Bajaj
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I’m currently reading Babel. I’m confused about whether I like or don’t like Kuang’s writing. I like the different premise of her books, the ambition
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“Whatever wisdom I have has been hard-earned – each meaning carefully culled out of the dictionary of human experiences and emotions and put in its precise place in the matrix. Meaning doesn’t come easy. The Great Crossword Setter in the Sky is capricious and wilful, demanding absolute obedience. You can waste the better part of a lifetime arguing about the randomness of the clues, the setting of the squares, why a certain square is black and not white as you need it to be, question the whole point of doing the crossword – what, after all, is to be gained by solving it. Only after all the chattering is over and you give your complete attention to it, does the perfection of the pattern reveal itself. As is, where is, everything fits. And at the end, when it’s all done, there is no reward to be had – the joy of doing it right is all the reward there ever is. (A Deepavali Gift)”
― Another Man's Wife and Other Stories
― Another Man's Wife and Other Stories
“History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.”
― Come, Before Evening Falls
― Come, Before Evening Falls
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| Around the World ...: India | 77 | 1733 | Jun 16, 2025 10:08PM |
“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever. ”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
― Selected Stories
― Selected Stories
“It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.”
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“I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.”
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