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Reasons We Break
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
The Burning Grounds (Wyndham & Banerjee, #6)
A Guardian and a Thief
To Bargain with Mortals (Reckoning Storm, #1)
Intemperance
The Once and Future Riot
Abscond
Mother Mary Comes to Me
This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
Honor
A Burning
Is a River Alive?
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur (The Jaipur Trilogy, #2)
Six Days in Bombay
The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
There's Something About Mira
A Holly Jolly Diwali
Rosarita
Kaikeyi
Into the Wild by Jon KrakauerA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonWild by Cheryl StrayedEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Ultimate Backpacking Novels
473 books — 1,137 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters

The White Tiger by Aravind AdigaThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyUnaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa LahiriTrain to Pakistan by Khushwant SinghThe Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
India's best
142 books — 81 voters
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai HidierInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Contract by Zeenat MahalHaveli by Zeenat MahalThe Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Desi Chick Lit (fiction)
256 books — 347 voters

The God of Small Things
The White Tiger
Midnight’s Children
A Fine Balance
The Namesake
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Interpreter of Maladies
Shantaram
Life of Pi
A Passage to India
The Covenant of Water
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
The Inheritance of Loss
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
The Lowland

Arundhati Roy
At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? ...more
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

B.R. Ambedkar
On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality. In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value. In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value. How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we contin ...more
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Writings And Speeches: A Ready Reference Manual

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