Amit Chaudhari’s Best Indian Books
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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..
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In Search of the Mahabharata (Jean Claude Carriere) A small delight.
Pankaj Mishra’s Best International Books
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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.
