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1) A GOLDEN AGE

Firmly rooted in the soil of Bangladesh, a brilliant first novel tells the tale of two nations that became three.

By Tahmina Anam

Published by John Murray

Pages:276 Best Buy Price: Rs.295

2) INDIA ON TELEVISION

How satellite news channels have changed the way we think and act.

By Nalin Mehta

Published by HarperCollins

Pages:310 Best Buy Price: Rs.395

3) INDIA: THE EMERGING GIANT

The book is an answer to several questions that have plagued Indian minds over the country’s economy. It charts the economy’s history from the first Five Year Plan and highlights the relationship between politics and economics.

By Arvind Panagariya

Published by Oxford

Pages:514 Best Buy Price: Rs.695

4) SEEING IS BELIEVING: SELECTED WRITINGS ON CINEMA

An analysis of themes as diverse as the history of parallel cinema in India, national film awards, the unique interface between politics and cinema in the country and the quintessential Indian contribution to movies, the song.

By Chidananda Das Gupta

Published by Penguin

Pages:295 Best Buy Price: Rs.499

5) A NEW HISTORY OF INDIA

The history of India’s beginnings were written by European colonizers, downgrading Indian civilization. The quixotic historian says generations of academics have endorsed their theories at great cost to India.

By Francois Gautier

Published by Har-Anand Publishers

Pages:248 Best Buy Price: Rs.495

6) THE NIGHT OF KAAMINI

Purple prose and colourful history combine in a soppy soap opera

By Bela Lal

Published by Penguin

Pages:374 Best Buy Price: Rs.299

7) TEN YEARS WITH GURU DUTT: ABRAR ALVI’S JOURNEY

By Sathya Saran

Published by Penguin/Viking

Pages:216 Best Buy Price: Rs.499