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22 Yards
by Tuhin Sinha
It’s exactly twenty-five years after India’s spectacular World Cup victory at Lords, and Indian cricket captain Mayank Pradhan is preparing for the match of his life: the Twenty20 World Cup final.
While an entire nation waits for the finals with bated breath, Mayank learns that some .... (Read more)
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A Journey Down The Memory Lane:The Making Of A Hindi Film Song
by Raju Bharatan
A unique and fascinating journey into the world of melodies and memories marked by unforgettable milestones.
The Hindi film song has held millions spellbound for nearly eight decades. In this unputdownable labour of love , India's leading film song historian, Raju Bharatan, delves deep.... (Read more)
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A Poet's Mind
by Rabindranath Tagore
A Poet's Mind, is a selection of quotations from the vast range of literary works of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore — poet,song writer, novelist, educationist, philosopher among others. A Nobel laureate, Tagore became a world figure not only for his poems and songs but also for his thought.... (Read more)
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A Rainbow In The Night
by Dominique Lapierre
In 1652 a small group of Dutch farmers landed on the southernmost tip of Africa. Sent by the powerful Dutch India Company, their mission was simply to grow vegetables and supply ships rounding the cape. The colonists, however, were convinced by their strict Calvinist faith that they were a.... (Read more)
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Annie John
by Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John, the heroine of the book, starts out as a young girl who worships her mother. She follows her everywhere, and is shocked and hurt when she learns that she must some day live in a different house from her mother. While her mother tries to teach her to become a lady, Annie is sent.... (Read more)
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Appointment In Samarra
by John O’Hara
In December 1930, just before Christmas, the Gibbsville social circuit is electrified with parties and dances, where the music plays late into the night and the liquor flows freely. At the center of the social elite stand Julian and Caroline English-the envy of friends and strangers alike..... (Read more)
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Bastard Out Of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison
Greenville County, South Carolina, is home to the Boatwright family - rough-hewn men who drink hard and shoot up each other's trucks, and indomitable women who marry young and age all too quickly. At the heart of this astonishing novel is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known simply as Bone, a So.... (Read more)
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Birthday Letters
by Ted Hughes
The past contemporary poet gives an account in 88 poems in letter form of his romance and the life spent with Sylvia Plath.
Formerly Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II, the late Ted Hughes (1930-98) is recognized as one of the few contemporary poets whose work has mythic scop.... (Read more)
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Burning Bright
by Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Irom Sharmila has been on a fast unto death for eight years, demanding a repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur. Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces in Malom, a village near Imphal, in November 2000. The perpetrators were not punished, protect.... (Read more)
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City Of Djinns: A Year In Delhi
by William Dalrymple
City of Djinns is an entertaining mix of history and diary informed by a deep curiosity about the ways in which the ghosts of even the most distant past still walk in the twentieth century. On one level there are the amusing rites of passage, the struggles with bureaucracy, the eccentricit.... (Read more)
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