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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
Movies
1. Fire (lesbian) - Deepa Mehta
2. Earth
3. Water
4. Born in Brothels
5. Salaam Bombay
6. Chutney Popcorn (lesbian)
7. Monsoon Wedding
8. Pather Panchali (trilogy) - Satyajat Ray (Any movie by Ray is
good)
9. Two Daughters
10. Gandhi
11. Jewel and the Crown
12. Passage to India
13. My Brother Nikil (gay)
14. The Journey (lesbian)
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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) |
