Indian Readers discussion

are there any indian authors who write in the style of shashi deshpande or shashi tharoor? i mean, if u like these two authors, is there any author u are likely to like reading too? including translated works from other languages

Suchitra wrote: "are there any indian authors who write in the style of shashi deshpande or shashi tharoor? i mean, if u like these two authors, is there any author u are likely to like reading too? including trans..."

Ismat Chugthai
Gita Hariharan

I haven't read Shashi Tharoor...

havent read Shashi Deshpande. Just read the great indian novel by Tharoor but loved it. He is extremely intelligent and witty so difficult to think somebody on those lines but in Indian authors, Amitav Ghosh is good.

I also loved this book India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking by Anand GiridharadasU can try it if it intersts you!

There is a good feature on goodreads that may be helpful for what you are looking for.

If you go in the page of, for example, Shashi Deshpande, under the sentence "Books by Shashi Deshpande" you see written "average rating, ratings, reviews, distinct works, similar authors".
Click on "similar authors" and maybe you can find interesting authors who write like Deshpande.

Then you can do the same with Shashi Tharoor.

I hope this can help you!

thanks Aravind, Mansee and Dely!

dely wrote: "There is a good feature on goodreads that may be helpful for what you are looking for.

If you go in the page of, for example, Shashi Deshpande, under the sentence "Books by Shashi Deshpande" you s..."

thanks dely. This is new to me.

Smitha wrote: "thanks dely. This is new to me."

Yes, I think it's a new feature. There are a lot of interesting features on GR.