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LEST WE FORGET
THE LOST FLAMINGOES OF BOMBAY Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's second novel is a story about four protagonists and their Bombay life; of how they cope up with various idiosyncrasies which the city caters to them.
These books will get yellowed and brittle. But you will definitely turn its pages in the coming years
THE BIKINI MURDERS Farrukh Dhondy's crime-thriller debut The Bikini Murders is about Johnson Thhat, who managed to elude justice for a long time and about Inspector Pradhan's investigation of the psycho's mind.
THE STORY OF MY ASSASSINS The editor-in-chief and the mind Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal's second novel peeps into the dark underbelly of the minds of a journalists' murderers in the hinterlands of the country and that of the elite class' mentality alike.
FICTION
MY FRIEND SANCHO A debut novel by noted blogger Amit Varma (longlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize 2008) is a funny, crispy love story set in Mumbai and about the nature of journalism these days.
NINE LIVES William Dalrymple's first and the finest ever travel book takes a look into how the lives of nine people having different religious lives changes with the rapid alteration in the milieu of their locality.
THE IMMORTALS Amit Chaudhari's novel delves into the lives of two Eighties Bombay-families who are tied with a common interest of music, and its affect on them.
THE REDISCOVERY OF INDIA This majestic piece of art by Lord Meghnad Desai analyses the various phases of India's birth - from the colonial past, to the battle for independence, and to the more recent intricacies of the present times.
IMAGINING INDIA Ideas For The New Century: A magnum opus by the co-founder of Infosys puts under its scanner the traditional ideas which have changed over the times, the clash of ideas and the ideas that are going to shape our future.
THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING GOOD The Subtle Art of Dharma: Gurcharan Das takes the help of the ancient epic Mahabharata in order to quench the thirst of the questions haunting us in the contemporary times.
THE IDEA OF JUSTICE A though-provoking book by Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice, calls for the need of practical steps to be taken to reduce injustice, rather than building castles in the air of the proposition of an ideal society.
NON FICTION PRAVASI TODAY | JANUARY 2010
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