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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorYayati: A Classic Tale of Lust
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar · 256 pages
The Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore, Sourindro Mohun Tagore
I mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace. They came at the start of my life's journey, like the first streak of dawn, giving me golden provision to carry me on my way.
Sesher Kobita, The Last Poem
Rabindranath Tagore · 168 pages
Chokher Bali
Rabindranath Tagore, Radha Chakravarty · 298 pages
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
Valmiki, Ramesh Menon · 539 pages
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Salman Rushdie · 575 pages
At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous and much-loved singer, is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again by human eyes. This is her story, and that of Ormus Cama, the lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over, throughout his own extraordinary life in music. Their epic romance is narrated by Ormus's childhood friend and Vina's so
Bhima Lone Warrior
M.T. Vasudevan Nair · 392 pages
Ka
Roberto Calasso · 454 pages
Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is. So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky,
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny · 261 pages
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality. Adopting the panoply of the venerable Hindu religion, they live lives as its Gods, surrounded by advanced technology within the trappin
The Pregnant King
Devdutt Pattanaik · 349 pages
Novel on Yuvanashva, a childless king from Mahabharata.
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R.K. Narayan · 171 pages
A retelling of the Tamil epic poem which records Prince Rama's search for his abducted sweetheart, Sita.
Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
Pratibha Ray · 402 pages
Epistolary novel about Draupadī, Hindu mythological character from the Mahābhārata.
Goddess of Spring
P.C. Cast · 368 pages
To save her failing bakery, Lina trades souls with Persephone, the Goddess of Spring--and starts falling for hunky Hades.
Tiger's Voyage
Colleen Houck · 564 pages
After battling the villanous Lokesh, Kelsey and the Indian princes Ren and Kishan return to India, where Kelsey learns that Ren has amnesia, and five cunning dragons try to keep the trio from breaking the curse that binds them.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Vikram Chandra · 580 pages
Vikram Chandra's first novel is a story about exile, about the hunger for experience and the ache for return that mark the beginning and end of all journeys, and about the processes of personal redefinition implicit in such migrations. In a feat of magnificent invention, it links epic history - and the tale of a culture spiraling toward a moment of unspeakable violence - with the fates of three c
The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa · 64 pages
The object of a translator should ever be to hold the mirror upto his author. That being so, his chief duty is to represent so far as practicable the manner in which his author's ideas have been expressed, retaining if possible at the sacrifice of idiom and taste all the peculiarities of his author's imagery and of language as well. In regard to translations from the Sanskrit, nothing is easier th
The City of Devi
Manil Suri · 400 pages
"Mumbai has emptied under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation; gangs of marauding Hindu and Muslim thugs rove the desolate streets; yet Sarita can think of only one thing: buying the last pomegranate that remains in perhaps the entire city. She is convinced that the fruit holds the key to reuniting her with her physicist husband, Karun, who has been mysteriously missing for more than a for
The Oath of the Vayuputras
Amish Tripathi · 575 pages
Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and Evil is finally revealed. The Neelkanth prepares for a holy war against his true enemy, a man whose name instils dread in the fiercest of warriors. India convulses under the onslaught of a series of brutal battles. It's a war for the very soul of the nation. Many will die. But Shiva must not fail, no matter what the co
Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
Anand Neelakantan · 504 pages
The story of the Ramayana has been told countless times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the King of Wrath, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors, that lives on. But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell? Asura is the epic narrative of the vanquished Asura people, a st
Toads and Diamonds
Heather Tomlinson · 288 pages
A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.