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May 20
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All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems (Paperback)
by Vikram Seth
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read in August, 2006
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May 04
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (Paperback)
by Oliver W. Sacks
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marked as to-read:
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (Paperback)
by V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee
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May 01
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Paperback)
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Corner Of A Foreign Field: The Indian History Of A British Sport (Paperback)
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read in December, 2007
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"Excellent chronology of history of Indian cricket. Learned that the Indian Parsis were the first to start playing cricket in India. It was a move by the parsis to stay close to the colonial rulers , the Brits. Was amazed to read that the quadrangular...more
Excellent chronology of history of Indian cricket. Learned that the Indian Parsis were the first to start playing cricket in India. It was a move by the parsis to stay close to the colonial rulers , the Brits. Was amazed to read that the quadrangular tournament among teams drawn on the communal lines (brits, parsis, hindus, muslims) was a hit for decades although it was abhored by the politicians fighting the battle for independence. The book chronicles the story of Balu, a dalit swashbuckling star cricketer, is pretty contextual in the "reserved" india of today. ...less
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In Xanadu: A Quest (Paperback)
by William Dalrymple
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read in November, 2006
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"Informative,witty & brilliantly written.
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April 28
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India After Gandhi (Hardcover)
by Ramachandra Guha
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Salty
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NGO Accountability: Politics, Principles and Innovations (Paperback)
by Lisa Jordan
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May 01
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Aldous Huxley: A Biography (Hardcover)
by Nicholas Murray
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June 25
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