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    Amica

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    Any recommendations for books in English written by authors of Indian descent?

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    Amica

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    I'm also looking for good fiction set in India.

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    Amulya Malladi: all her books
    Amitav Ghosh: the Ibis trilogy
    Vikram Chandra: Sacred Games
    Suketu Mehta: Maximum City: not fiction but a fascinating look at Mumbai
    Kavita Daswani: The village bride of Beverly Hills
    Vikram Seth: A Suitable Boy has got to be one of my absolute favorites
    Gita Mehta: Karma Cola, A River Sutra
    Aravind Adiga
    Rani Mallicka: The Rice Mother
    Shashi Tharoor: The Great Indian Novel
    Khushwant Singh: Delhi
    Arundhati Roy, though I have not yet read her books
     
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    White tiger
    The God of small things
    The loss of inheritance
    English August
    Midnight"s children ( Indian origin hi hai )
    Subeh subeh Dimaag itna hi dauda hai! Hope it helped
     
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    Ravi subramaniam- If god was a banker, Devel in pinstrips, bankerupt, bankster..His entire banking series
    Ashwin sanghi- Chanakya's chant
    Devdutt Pattanaik- Jaya
     
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    Shiv Trilogy by Amish (series if 3 books)
    Palace of Illusions by chitra banerjee divakaruni
     
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    Some more

    Indu sundaresan
    Devadutt patnaik
    Kavita kane
    Jhumpa
    Manohar malgoankar (less known)
    Rknarayan
    Kiran desai
    Anand neelkantan
    V.s.naipaul
    Amitav ghosh
    Kiran nagarkar
    Meena kandasamy


    Some famed but personally not my liking
    Chetan bagath
    Ravinder
    Durjoy dutta

    There are some nice non fiction works too..
     
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    Amica

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    Oh wow! You guys are awesome! Thank you for my reading list. [​IMG]

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    @MalStrom, I've read a couple books by Kavita Daswani. They were light and enjoyable.

    Aravind Adiga's "White Tiger" was awesome! I didn't know he had published other books.

    Shashi Tharoor ... I'm a fan. :)

    I loved "God of Small Things" but haven't read anything else by Arundhati Roy.
    I'll look for the rest of your recommendations. [​IMG]

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    @ashima10, I thought White Tiger was so authentic, did you? At times, I could almost smell sarson ka tel in the air. [​IMG]

    I'll look for the rest of the books you mentioned. [​IMG]

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