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The God of Small Things
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1997
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15 editions
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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2017
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119 editions
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
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2025
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16 editions
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Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
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2020
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36 editions
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
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2014
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26 editions
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The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate
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2017
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12 editions
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An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
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2003
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22 editions
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Walking With The Comrades
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2010
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23 editions
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice
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2001
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23 editions
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
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2009
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33 editions
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A perfect day for democracy
Arundhati Roy
Wasn’t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament Attack was secretly hanged, and his body was interred in Tihar Jail. Was he buried next to Maqbool Butt? (The other Kashmiri who was hanged in Tihar in 1984. Kashmiris will mark that anniversary tomorrow.) Read more of this blog post »
Wasn’t it? Yesterday I mean. Spring announced itself in Delhi. The sun was out, and the Law took its Course. Just before breakfast, Afzal Guru, prime accused in the 2001 Parliament Attack was secretly hanged, and his body was interred in Tihar Jail. Was he buried next to Maqbool Butt? (The other Kashmiri who was hanged in Tihar in 1984. Kashmiris will mark that anniversary tomorrow.) Read more of this blog post »
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“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“...the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
That is their mystery and their magic.”
― The God of Small Things
Polls
February 2015 New School Classic Poll
1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages
1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages
1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages
1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages
1997, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 321 pages
1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages
1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
1981, The Wave by Morton Rhue, 138 pages
1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages
1927, Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham, 326 pages
1969, Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, 254 pages
1955, Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute, 285 pages
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