Bombay


Shantaram
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
A Fine Balance
Family Matters
Em and The Big Hoom
Narcopolis
Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
Bombay Balchão
City Adrift : A Short Biography of Bombay
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Sacred Games
Such a Long Journey
Milk Teeth
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
98 books — 13 voters
Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaReading New India by Emma Dawson VarugheseFive Point Someone by Chetan BhagatThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor2 States by Chetan Bhagat
21st Century Young India
50 books — 8 voters

The Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuMotherwit by Urmila PawarThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay NavariaThe Branded by Laxman Gaikwad
Dalit Literature
103 books — 10 voters
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek ShanbhagCobalt Blue by Sachin KundalkarOne Part Woman by Perumal MuruganSamskara by U.R. AnanthamurthyPather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Indian Fiction Translated Into English
340 books — 26 voters

Maximum City by Suketu MehtaBehind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooShantaram by Gregory David RobertsAlice in Bhuleshwar by Kaiwan MehtaBeautiful Thing by Sonia Faleiro
Best Bombay/Mumbai Non-Fiction
28 books — 18 voters
Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanAnts Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
Dalit Nonfiction
95 books — 4 voters

Jeet Thayil
“ I found Bombay and opium, the drug and the city, the city of opium and the drug Bombay ”
― Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis

Martin Luther King Jr.
“ To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ”
― Martin Luther King Jr

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