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Best Of Books

Amit Choudhary and Pankaj Mishra on their favourites Indian and international books of the year. <br > <a > Free Speech: Your Take </a>

Amit Chaudhari’s Best Indian Books

  • Walking in December (Anand Thakore) Delicate powerful poems on inward journeys.

  • On Cleaning Bookshelves (Arundhati Subramaniam) Assured, intelligent poems.
  • Dangerlok (Eunice D’Souza) Its casual, unillusioned drift belies the book’s sympathy with life.
  • Uncollected Prose and Poems (A.K. Ramanujan) A collection betraying his constant reinvention..
  • In Search of the Mahabharata (Jean Claude Carriere) A small delight.

Pankaj Mishra’s Best International Books

  • Empire (Dominic Lieven) A profound, unostentatious grasp about the workings of empires, society.

  • Complete Works (Isaac Babel) New translation places Babel in his own unique realm.
  • Lineages of the Present (Aijaz Ahmed) This piece includes great reassessment of Maulana Azad.
  • Hell and Back (Tim Parks) Has some penetrating essays on W.G. Sebald, Leopardi, Verga, Borges.
  • Summerland (Malcolm Knox) Assured fictional debut by the Australian writer.
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