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It’s hard to judge a book when it fails to create an opinion, when the work is neither bad nor too impressive. I call this situation ‘The Valley of Hot and Cold’.
Author: Shovon Chowdhury
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789382277606
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Set in an imaginatively futuristic India, The Competent Authority is a delectable political satire of the current national political scenario.
Author: Bhasha Singh, Reenu Talwar (translator)
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9780143420385
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Unseen: the Truth about India’s Manual Scavengersis a harrowing compilation of accounts of different manual scavengers across the nation, providing shocking stories of their plight and struggle.
Author: Faith Johnston
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788184004878
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Four Miles To Freedom is a true escape saga of three former Indian fighter pilots, who were taken in as prisoners of war (POW) in the then West Pakistan during the Bangladeshi liberation war.
Author: Alai, Howard Goldblatt (Translator), Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Translator)
Publisher: Canongate Books
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781847672339
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The Song of King Gesar by Alai, a classic 12th century Tibetan epic retold as a fresh narrative, throws light on the human side of the demi-god Gesar, and brilliantly traces the contours of his journey.
Author: Manju Kapur
Publisher: Random House
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9788184000610
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Canada, the Great White North, is the home to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, many of whom are Indian. This influx started with the movement of East Indian and Sikh troops along with the British regiments to claim and settle in North America. Today, more than 5% of the Canadian population is South Asian. Manju Kapur’s The Immigrant is the story of one such woman who gets entwined in the question of her identity and nationality.
Author: Gaurav Punj
Publisher: Tranquebar by Westland
Year: 2013
ISBN: 97889383260522
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Consisting of the real travel and trekking experiences of author Gaurav Punj, The Land of Flying Lamas works more as a travelogue describing the beauty and magic of the Indian Himalayas than a compilation of travel stories.
A comedy of errors using ‘concatenation of circumstances’, Wodehouse’s Joy In The Morning amuses and bemuses us in each and every page. Paper has rarely been put to better use than printing Wodehouse.
Author: Supriya Dravid
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788184002034
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A fictional memoir dipped in intoxication, A Cool, Dark Place is an attempt to understand people curtained with layers and layers of secrets. The novel explores the dystopian relationship of Zef’s mother and the imaginatively composed character of Don, her grandfather.
Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Year: 1993
ISBN: 978014023038
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A magnanimous poetic saga of four families, A Suitable Boy is a lovable in-depth read, where the reader not only spends his minutes, hours and days with the numerous characters, but lives inside their minds too.A Suitable Boy is essentially about Lata and her mother’s quest to find a befitting boy for Lata to marry.