I know i have been pretty late in posting it, it was in my outbox and simply forgot to post on The Day, anyways as said in old cliché its better late than never. So far i ve completed only one. Hey, do not forget to lend me one, if you have any of them
A collection of titles to remember the sixty years gone by… (Courtesy: THE HINDU)
The 60th year celebration of Indian independence is an occasion to browse through tomes that takes you back in time. Penguin India celebrates the spirit of freedom through a collection of titles. The list has more than 30 titles that have already been published; some of them will be released as revised editions.
Here are some of the titles:
* Vishnu’s crowded temple: India since the great rebellion by Maria Misra
* The Great Partition: The making of India and Pakistan by Yasmin Khan
* India since 1947: The independent years by Gopa Sabharwal
* The Penguin book of modern Indian speeches by Rakesh Batabyal
* The ultimate India quiz book by Derek O’Brien
* The great Indian middle class by Pavan K. Varma
* India 2020: A vision for the new millennium by A.P.J. Abdul kalam
* India unbound by Gurcharan Das
* The argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen
* India: From the midnight to the millennium and beyond by Shashi Tharoor
* The Elephant, the tiger and the cellphone: Reflections on India in the 21st century by Shashi Tharoor
* India after independence by Bipin Chandra
* Being Indian: The truth about why the 21st century will be India’s by Pavan K. Varma
* India in slow motion by mark Tully
* The idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
* Out of God’s oven: Trav a fractured land by Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivasta
* Holy warriors: A journey into the heart of Indian fundamentalism by Edna Fernandes
* Everybody loves a good drought by P. Sainath
* No full stops in India by Mark Tully : Through it
Its Introduction simply rocks .Ummm
* The other side of silence: Voices from the partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
* The discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru
* Mohandas: A true story of a man, his people and his empire by Rajmohan Gandhi
* The Indians, portrait of a people by Sudhir Kakar and Katharina Kakar
* India’s struggle for independence by Bipin Chandra
* Brushing up the years: A cartoonist’s history of India by R.K. Laxman
* The age of Kali by William Dalyrymple