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  The White Tiger

  by Aravind Adiga

  Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier,... (more)
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  The Red Carpet

  by Lavanya Sankaran

  Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. “A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways,” Bangalore, India’s own Silicon Valley, is a crucible for prosperity, and at the chaotic crossroads between past and present. Here, American-trained professionals like Tara return... (more)
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  The World Is Flat

  A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

  by Thomas L. Friedman

  When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating... (more)
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  No One Here Gets Out Alive

  The Biography of Jim Morrison

  by Jerry Hopkins, Danny Sugerman

  Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity: singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent -- the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed the bounds of reality to see what would happen. Meticulously researched, this definitive biography tells the story of a genius who shot like a rocket across the musical horizon, then fell in burning fragments as his life... (more)
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  Bangalore

  by Peter Colaco

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  Keep Off the Grass

  by Karan Bajaj

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  Neti, Neti

  Not This, Not This

  by Anjum Hasan

  Twenty-five-year-old Sophie Das has moved from Shillong to Bangalore in search of work, fun and liberty. Neti, Neti follows Sophie and her free-spirited friends through offices, pubs, call centres, night streets, shopping malls, rock concerts, and the homes of Bangalore’s newly rich, as Sophie starts to feel more and more alienated in the money-mad city. A horrific murder sends her back to her hometown, where her... (more)
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  Mind Blogs 1.0

  by Nirmala Govindarajan, Christina Daniels, Zahid H Javali

  Sunshine, rain, bombs, bridges, mothers, friends, bikes, distances ---- sorrow, joy, hope, love, celebration --- cheap thrills, poignant observations and an intense desire to make this world a better place, bind these pieces by three writers of diverse, yet conjoined personality. Laugh, cry, reach out… and savour those small, many times unnoticed moments through the experiences of these writers. Mind Blogs 1.0 ---... (more)
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  Multiple City : Writings On Bangalore

  by Aditi De