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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMay You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India
Elisabeth Bumiller · 306 pages
Reveals the lives of India's women of all social classes, the Indian women's movement, population control and other issues affecting womens' lives.
India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India
Akash Kapur · 292 pages
"A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives. The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to his birth country for good, eager to be part of its exciting growth and modernization. What he found w
Turtle Feet
Nikolai Grozni · 326 pages
Nikolai Grozni was a music prodigy, a jazz pianisttraining at the prestigious Berklee College of Musicin Boston, when suddenly he decided to transformhis life. He moved to India to become a Buddhistmonk—shaving his head, learning Tibetan, and donninglong traditional robes. In the Himalayas—livingin a hut a stone's throw from the Dalai Lama's compound—Grozni became entrenched in a sometimescomical,
India: A Portrait
Patrick French · 416 pages
Second only to China in the magnitude of its economic miracle and second to none in its potential to shape the new century, India is fast undergoing one of the most momentous transformations the world has ever seen. In this panoramic book, Patrick French chronicles that epic change, telling human stories to explain a larger national narrative. Melding on-the-ground reports with a deep knowledge of
Walking With The Comrades
Arundhati Roy · 182 pages
In early 2010, Roy traveled into the forests of Central India, homeland to millions of indigenous people, dreamland to some of the world's biggest mining corporations. The result is this... report from the heart of an unfolding revolution.
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait Of A Nation's Remaking
Anand Giridharadas
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels & Encounters
William Dalrymple · 385 pages
In Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India itself, William Dalrymple searches for evidence of Kali Yug, the Hindu "age of darkness." Venturing to places rarely visited by foreigners, he travels deep into guerilla territory with the Tamil Tigers. Visits Benazir Bhutto and meets the drug lords of the North West Frontier. He inveils a region where the strengths and problems of both modernity and tradition rema
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Suketu Mehta · 542 pages
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in sea
Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast
Samanth Subramanian · 167 pages
Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language
Katherine Russell Rich · 360 pages
"In this inspirational memoir, Rich documents her experiences in India ? ranging from the bizarre to the frightening to the unexpectedly exhilarating -- using Hindi as the lens through which she is given a new perspective not only on India, but on the radical way the country and the language itself were changing her. Fascinated by the process, she went on to interview linguistics experts around th
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Paul Theroux · 496 pages
In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change.
In an Antique Land: History in the Guise of a Traveler's Tale
Amitav Ghosh · 393 pages
Overview: Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an Indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had traveled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medieval customs coexist with twentieth-century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself i
Roads To Mussoorie
Ruskin Bond · 125 pages
Anecdotes of the English author about his travels to Mussoorie, India.
Rifle and Romance in the Indian Jungle
Alexander Inglis Robertson Glasfurd · 522 pages
An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen · 448 pages
When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. Maintaining rapid as well as environmentally sustainable growth remains an important and achievable goal for India. Two of India's leading economists argue that the country's main problems
One Life To Ride: A Motorcycle Journey To The High Himalayas
Ajit Harisinghani · 234 pages
Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
Jenny Feldon · 321 pages
When Jenny's husband gets transferred to India for work, she looks forward to a new life filled with glamorous expat friends and exciting adventures. What she doesn't expect is endless bouts of food poisoning, buffalo in the streets, and crippling loneliness in one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Ten thousand miles away from home, Jenny struggles to fight off depression and a
Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia
Anne Garrels · 240 pages
Slowly Down the Ganges
Eric Newby, Wanda Newby · 326 pages
The author recounts his experiences traveling down the Ganges River in India with his wife, and shares his observations on the country and its people.