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The Rediscovery of India

  Sanctuary Line
By Jane Urquhart
Review by John Barber
  Memoirs of a Parliamentarian
By Somnath Chatterjee
Review by Harper Collins India
  India for a Billion Reasons
By Amit Dasgupta
Review by IANS
  A GATE AT THE STAIRS
By Lorrie Moore
322 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25.95
Review by Jonathan Lethem
  Four Fish
By Paul Greenberg
Review by Heller McAlpin
  THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST
By Stieg Larsson
Review by DAVID KAMP
  A revelatory, comprehensive and perceptive autobiography – candid, compelling and authoritative
An Autobiography
Fali S. Nariman
  Moon Over Marrakech
By Nazneen Sheikh; The Butterfly Mosque
By G. Willow Wilson
Reviewed : By Donna Bailey
  Beatrice and Virgil
By Yann Martel
Review by Sarah Churchwell
  Nine Lives
By William Dalrymple
Knopf, 276 pages, $26.95
  1984: Lessons From History
By Harminder Kaur,
Review by Arun Anand
Publisher: Corporate Vision
  The Rational Optimist
By Matt Ridley ,
Reviewed by: David Papineau
  NOMAD
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali,
Knopf Canada, 274 pages,
Price: $32
  Trickster City
By Belly of a Metropolis
Publisher: Penguin-Viking; Price: Rs.499
Review by Madhusree Chatterjee
  Deliver Us from Evil
By Sean Hannity
Review by Edwin C. Pauzer
  Empire of the Moghul: Brothers at War
By Alex Rutherford
Headline Review
Review by: Shubha Singh
  Songs of Blood and Sword
By Fatima Bhutto
Review by Roderick Matthews
  THE HELP
By Kathryn Stockett
Amy Einhorn Books/G. P. Putnam's Sons
Review by JANET MASLIN
  Must for Mums Delhi
By Rina Mehta
Publisher: Oxford
Review by Paloma Ganguly
  MY EAR AT HIS HEART
By Hanif Kureishi
Scribner
Review by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
  Rukmini Devi - A Life
By: Leela Samson; Penguin-Viking
Review by: Madhusree Chatterjee
  From Rajahs and Yogis to Gandhi and Beyond
By: Vijay Mulay
Seagull
Review by: John Samuel
  One Amazing Thing
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakarunni
Hyperion Books
Review by: John Samuel
  Looking East to Look West
By Sunanda K. Datta-Ray
Penguin Viking
Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy
  The World is What it is: Authorized Biography of VS Naipaul
By Patrick French
Review by Cyril Dabydeen
  The Five People You Meet in Heaven
By Mitch Albom
Reviewed by Hagen Baye
  UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
By Jhumpa Lahiri.
Alfred A. Knopf. $25.
Review by Liesl Schillinger
  The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
Review by JANET MASLIN
  Original Letters From India
By Eliza Fay
Review by RICHARD B. WOODWARD
  A Review of 'Introducing Hinduism'
By Vinay Lal
Publisher: Totem Books, USA.
Review by Vishal Agarwal
  Empires at War
By Francis Pike
Publisher: I B Tauris
Reviewed by Kanam TJ
  NOT MY DAUGHTER
By Barbara Delinsky
Review By: Doubleday
  THE HIDDEN BRAIN
By Shankar Vedantam
Review By: SUSAN PINKER
  Unaccustomed Earth
By Jhumpa Lahiri
Review By: MICHIKO KAKUTANI
  WHEN CHINA RULES THE WORLD
By Martin Jacques
  Making Sense of Pakistan
By Farzana Shaikh
Review By: Andrew Buncombe
 
  The Rediscovery of India
By Meghnad Desai
Review By: Penguin
 
  A Life Of Louis Armstrong
By Terry Teachout
Review by: David Margolick
 
  FORD COUNTY
Author : John Grisham
Review By: JANET MASLIN
 
  NINE LIVES
Author : Dan Baum
Review By: Jason Berry
 
  THE OXFORD INDIA
Author :M.N Srinivas
Review By: A. R. VENKATACHALAPATHY

 
  THE QUEEN MOTHER: The Official Biography
Author :William Shawcross
Review By: JOE QUEENAN

 
  Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000
Author :John English
Review By: John Gray

 
  Fearful Symmetry: The fall and rise of Canada's founding values
Author :Brian Lee Crowley
Review By George Abraham

  India-China Relations : The Border issues and Beyond
Author :Mohan Guruswamy & Zorawar Daulet Singh
Review By Jabin T. Jacob

 
  The Idea of Justice
Author :Amartya Sen
Review By Ziauddin Sardar

 
  The Old Cape Magic
Review By ROXANA ROBINSON
 
  The Last Song
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Review by Broad "A" - Ava

 
  Too Much Happiness
Review By Munroe
 
  Margaret Atwood's 'The Year Before the Flood'
Review By Abena Agyeman-Fisher
 
  Jaswant Singh: Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
Review By Omer Jamil
 
  'Julie and Julia': The Servantless American Cook
Review By DAVID KAMP
 
  The Idea of Justice
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin-Allen Lane
Review By Madhusree Chatterjee

 
  Burnt Shadows
by Kamila Shamsie
Publisher :Bond Street
Review By Piali Roy

 
  Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
By Arundhati Roy
Publisher :Penguin-Books India
Review By Madhusree Chatterjee

 
  Dead Aid
By Dambisa Moyo
Review By Paul Collier

 
  My Sister's Keeper
Review By Allison Block
 
  The Winner Stands Alone
By Vishesh Unni Raghunathan
 
  The Toss of a Lemon
By Padma Viswanathan
Review by Michael Gorra

 
  Angels & Demons
By Dan Brown
Published by Simon & Schuster
Review by W. R. Greer

 
  Shalini Shankar's "Desi Land: Teen Culture, Class and Success in Silicon Valley"
By Arun Venugopal
 
  The Strike
By Anand Mahadevan
Review by: Tara Lee

 
  Stranger to History
By Aatish Taseer
 
  Losing Confidence: Power, Politics, and the Crisis in Canadian Democracy
By Elizabeth May, McClelland & Stewart
REVIEWED BY NICOLA ROSS

 
  The Hindus: An alternative history - The Penguin Press, 2009
By Wendy Doniger
 
  A better India, a better world
By Narayana Murthy
 
  A Thousand Splendid Suns
By Khaled Hosseini
 
  Rudyard and the Raj
By Charles Allen
 
  The theory of everything
By John Crace
 
  A Good Indian Wife
By Anne Cherian
Publisher: WW Norton & Company, 2008
Review by Reeta Sinha

 
  The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul by Patrick French
Review by Hilary Spurling
 
  Palestine: Peace not apartheid
By Jackie Northam
 
  Sea of Poppies
By Amitav Ghosh
Published by: John Murray

 
  The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century
By George Friedman
 
  Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Posted by Rhapsodyinbooks
 
  Imagining India: Ideas For The New Century
Review by M.L.MURTY
 
  Book : The Last Lecture
Author : Dr Randy Pausch with Jeoffrey Zaslow
Publisher : Hachette India

 
  Dreams from My Father
Review by Oona King
 
  Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Review by John Burns
 
  The Book of Negroes
Review by Afra Kavanagh
 
  Descent Into Chaos
Autor : Ahmed Rashid
Review by Kim Sengupta

 
  Catch the 2093 to space: It's the flight of future
Review by Madhusree Chatterjee
 
  Sea of Poppies
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Review by Shashi Tharoor

 
  Three Cups of Tea
Author: Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
Viking/Penguin
Review by Alma Lee

 
  Drums of My Flesh
Author: Cyril Dabydeen
Toronto-based TSAR Publications
Review by Dr. Mariam Pirbhai

 
The White Tiger
Author: Aravind Adiga
Review by Richard Marcus

 
THE POST AMERICAN WORLD
Author:Fareed Zakaria
Review by Pastor Bob Cornwall

 
THE MAN WHO OWNS THE NEWS
Author: Michael Wolff
Review by TIM ARANGO

 
TWO LIVES
Author: Vikram Seth
McArthur & Company
Review by Kanam TJ

 
Barbara Frum: A Daughter's Memoir
Author: Linda Frum
Random House
Review by Kanam TJ

 
The Immigrant
Author: Manju Kapur
Random House India
Review by Shubha Singh

 
  My Belly Is White
Author: Austine Fernando
Vijitha Yapa Publications, Colombo
Review by M.R. Narayan Swamy

 
  Drums of My Flesh
Author: Cyril Dabydeen
Toronto-based TSAR Publications
Review by Dr. Mariam Pirbhai

 
  Chasing Life
Author: Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Warner Wellness, New York, 2007
Review by Dr. John Samuel

 
  Brick Lane
Author: Monica Ali
Scribner, New York
Review by Kanam TJ

 
  Evening Is The Whole Day
Author: Preeta Samarasan
HarperCollins Publishers
Review by Shubha Singh

 
  What Falls Away
Author: Mia Farrow
Review by Kanam TJ

 
  The Cellist Of Sarajevo

Review by Andrew Riemer

 
 
 
 
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