Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These A great read – short, precise, and impactful. Do read if you like short novels.
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants
An interesting book by Peggy Mohan about the history of India through the story of its languages
Coming Out as Dalit
Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit is a personal and political memoir about caste, shame, identity, and what it means to stop hiding one’s Dalit identity.
The Nellie Massacre of 1983
The Nellie Massacre of 1983 is an attempt to search for clues from the narratives of attackers and survivors of the incident, which are fragmented and sometimes contradictory to each other.
Rumours of Spring
Farah Bashir’s Rumours of Spring is a moving memoir of growing up in Kashmir during the 1990s, capturing fear, memory, conflict, family life, and everyday survival.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
First in the book of autobiography of Maya Angelou, capturing her childhood days till the age of seventeen.
Midnight’s Borders
Suchitra Vijayan’s Midnight’s Borders takes readers through India’s borderlands, showing how borders shape ordinary lives, memory, violence, citizenship, and belonging.
Whole Numbers and Half Truths
A fascinating, interesting, insightful and eye opening book about the data and numbers and the truth behind the numbers.
Last Among Equals
An informative book about the development policies in rural Bihar and how caste and power plays a role often exploiting the people at the bottom.
Born A Muslim
A book to understand the genesis of Islam and how it came to India and what it means to be a Muslim in India.