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By Ananya Mukherjee
The Last Dance
By Anmol Arora
She Stoops to Kill
By Preeti Gill
Dancing in the Family
By Sukanya Rahman
Maharishi and Me
By Susan Shumsky
The Book of Love
By Ekarat
Those Magnificent Women and Their Flying Machines
By Minnie Vaid
On Leaders and Icons
By Kuldip Nayar
Cancer, Your Body and Your Diet
By Arati Bhatia
Great Jataka Tales
By Noor Inayat Khan
The Greatest Indian Fairy Tales
By Joseph Jacobs
Strange Worlds! Strange Times!
By Vinayak Varma
Jiya Jale
By Gulzar in conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir
Sky Is My Father
By Easterine Kire
Shillong Times
By Nilanjan P. Choudhury
The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers
By Raghu Chundawat
Right Arm Over
By Moti Nandy
Looking for the Nation
By Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee
The Impossible Fairy Tale
By Han Yujoo
The Disobedient Indian
By Ramin Jahanbegloo
The Scope of Happiness
By Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
The Flavours of Nationalism
By Nandita Haksar
Travels On My Elephant
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The Man Who Saw the Sun
By Makarand Sathe
Sunita De Souza Goes to Sydney and Other Stories
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She Goes to War
By Rashmi Saksena
Weaving Water
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Manspotting
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The Haunted Horse
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A Time for All Things
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Prison Days
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Murder in Seven Acts
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Gardens of Love
By Meera Godbole-Krishnamurthy
Naishapur and Babylon
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The Guru Who Came Down from the Mountain
By Roshen Dalal
New Delhi Love Songs
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Dancing with the Nation
By Ruth Vanita
Don’t Run, My Love
By Easterine Kire
Woman to Woman
By Madhulika Liddle
Season of Crimson Blossoms
By Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
The Assassinations
By Vikram Kapur
Available Light
By C.P. Surendran
An Elsewhere Place
By Malay Kumar Roy
There’s a Carnival Today
By Indra Bahadur Rai
The Girl Who Couldn’t Love
By Shinie Antony
Lessons for Mrs Hauksbee
By Rudyard Kipling
Shehzadi Mircha
By Flora Annie Stee
Upcountry Tales
By Mark Tully
Smritichitre
By Lakshmibai Tilak
When the Moon Shines by Day
By Nayantara Sahgal
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris
By Christopher Snedden
The Meaning of Civilisation
By Naguib Mahfouz
The Leopard’s Tale
By Jonathan and Angela Scott
Shiva’s Drum
By Chandrasekhar Kambar
Comeuppance
By James Tooley
Guldaar
By Stephen Alter
Is That Even a Country, Sir!
By Anil Yadav
The Elephant in the Temple
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One Out of Two
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Dispossessed
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No Path in Darjeeling Is Straight
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The Secret Life of Zika Virus
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The Diary of a Nobody
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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
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A Night with a Black Spider
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The Division of Heaven and Earth
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Tibetan Caravans
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The Shah of Chicago
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Azadi’s Daughter: A Memoir
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The Ring of Truth
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The White Umbrella
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Mishti, the Mirzapuri Labrador
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Shared Tables
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Pocket Piketty
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Eve Out of Her Ruins
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Star of India
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Unforeseen Desires
By Anil Chopra
Vampire in Love
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Half-Open Windows
By Ganesh Matkari
The Vermilion Boat
By Sudhin N. Ghose
The Flame of the Forest
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Curry
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Bombay Modern
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Harilal & Sons
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Immoderate Men
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Tourist Season
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The Woman in the Bazaar
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Lords of the Global Village
By Ranendra
Intimacy Undone
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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a Tiger
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And Gazelles Leaping
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Snowfed Waters
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Murder in Mahim
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The Adivasi Will Not Dance
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Chandni Chowk
By Swapna Liddle
Perhaps Tomorrow
By Pooranam Elayathamby and Richard Anderson
The Sari of Surya Vilas
By Vayu Naidu
Kautik on Embers
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The Sun and Two Seas
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Out of War
By Swati Sengupta
Thamel
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Son of the Thundercloud
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The Exodus Is Not Over
By Nandita Haksar
The Pocket Kamasutra
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Amba
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The Creature on the Moonlit Road
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Fatal Accidents of Birth
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The Curry Coast
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The Temple Road
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Loitering with Intent
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A Village Dies
By Ivan Arthur
Gandhi on Non-Violence
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A Season for Martyrs
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The Haunted Dolls’ House
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The Big Cat Man
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I Want to Destroy Myself
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Journey After Midnight
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Himalaya
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The Case of Lady Sannox
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The Sand Libraries of Timbuktu
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A Full Night’s Thievery
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Istanbul Istanbul
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Up Campus, Down Campus
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Garrisoned Minds
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The Sleepwalker’s Dream
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Gulbadan
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A Book of Light
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Kohima
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Belonging
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The Man Who Wouldn’t be God
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Man Tiger
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Shell-Shocked
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On Art, Literature and History
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Indian Dust
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One Last Drink at Guapa
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A Little Book of Happiness
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Empire of Tea
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Kingpin
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House Spirit
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The Prisoner of Kathmandu
By Charles Allen
One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator
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Tram 83
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I, the Salt Doll
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Feasts and Fasts
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The Yard
By Aliyyah Eniath
Tales of the Metric System
By Imraan Coovadia
Growing Older without Feeling Old
By Rudi Westendorp
The Silk Road
By Jonathan Clements
The Hangman’s Journal
By Shashi Warrier
Two under the Indian Sun
By Jon Godden and Rumer Godden
Beauty Is a Wound
By Eka Kurniawan
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
By Jerome K. Jerome
The Science of Happiness
By Stefan Klein
Bicycle Dreaming
By Mridula Koshy
The Ballad of Bant Singh: A Qissa of Courage
By Nirupama Dutt
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By Ruchira Gupta
Mother, Where’s My Country?
By Anubha Bhonsle
Framed As A Terrorist
By Mohammad Aamir Khan
The Hunter’s Friends
By Jim Corbett
The Fortunate Tiger
By Jim Corbett
The Invisible Man from Salem
By Christoffer Carlsson
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By Shyam Bhatia
The Patiala Quartet
By Neel Kamal Puri
Remember to Forget
By Neel Kamal Puri
On My Terms
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East of Suez
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We Are All Stardust
By Stefan Klein
New Songs of the Survivors
By Yvonne Vaz Ezdani
Runaway Writers
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Friends in Wild Places
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The Scenes We Made
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Like a Pinprick to the Heart
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The Light of His Clan
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Into the Hidden Valley
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
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The Naked Surgeon: The Power and Peril of Transparency in Medicine
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The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World
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Animal Madness
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Asian Absences: Searching for Shangri-La
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The Valley of Flowers: An Adventure in the Upper Himalaya
By Frank S. Smythe
The Adivasis Will Not Dance: Stories
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Breakthrough: How a Teen Innovator is Changing the World
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
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By Sándor Jászberényi
Nine: Poems
By Anupama Raju
Rungli-Rungliot {Thus Far and No Further}
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Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Under-Rated Organ
By Giulia Enders
The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism: From the Cold War to the Present Day
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The Edge of Another World
By Pepita Seth
Uncertain Light
By Marion Molteno
Reading the Kamasutra
By Wendy Doniger
The Ends of the Earth
By Roger Willemsen
Nehru’s India: Essays on the Maker of the Nation
By Nayantara Sahgal
Baluta
By Daya Pawar
In the Court of the Ranee of Jhansi
By John Lang
Art of Hearing Heartbeats
By Jan-Philipp Sendker
The Last Candles of the Night
By Ian Bedford
The Himalaya Club
By John Lang
A View from the Bund
By Ian Bedford