Books

Travel Guides
1. Lonely Planet India
2. Footprint India
3. Rough Guide India
4. Lonely Planet North India
5. Lonely Planet Rajasthan

Traveler Tales
1. In Rajasthan - Royina Grewel
2. Calcutta - Krishna Dutta
3. Travellers Tales of India - James O’Reilly and Larry Jaffrey
4. The Age of Kali - William Dalrymple
5. Holy Cow - Sara McDonald

Stories and Discourses
1. Story Wallah - Shyam Selvadurai
2. Being Indian - Pavan K Varma
3. Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
4. The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
5. Queen of Dreams - Chitra Bannerjee Diva karuni
6. Sister of my heart - Chitra Bannerjee Diva karuni
7. Mistress of Spices - Chitra Bannerjee Diva karuni
8. The Vine of Desire - Chitra Bannerjee Diva karuni
9. A fine balance - Robinton Mistry
10. Such a long journey - Robinton Mistry
11. The Argumentative Indian - Amartya Sen (Any by Sen is good)
12. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
13. Two lives - Vikram Seth
14.India in slow motion - Mark Tully
15. No full stops in India - Mark Tully
16. Karma Kola - Gita Mehta
17. A River Sutra - Gita Mehta
18. Red Earth and Pouring Rain - Vikram Chandra
19. The Hungry Tide - Amitav Ghosh
20. The Shadow Lines - Amitav Ghosh
21. Indian Summer - Will Randall (funny)
22. The Granta Book of India
23. Raj - Gita Mehta
24. Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
25. Tamarind Woman - Anita Rau Badami
26. Bollywood Boy - Justine Hardy (funny)
27. Are you Experienced - William Sutcliffe (funny)
28. Midnight's Children- Salman Rushdie
29. Yoga School Dropout - Lucy Edge (funny)

Movies

City of Joy
Fire (lesbian) - Deepa Mehta
Earth
Water
Born in Brothels
Salaam Bombay
Chutney Popcorn (lesbian)
Monsoon Wedding
Pather Panchali (trilogy) - Satyajat Ray (Any movie by Ray is good)
Two Daughters
Gandhi
Jewel and the Crown
Passage to India
My Brother Nikil (gay)
The Journey (lesbian)

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