(English) Shadows Across The Playing Field: 60 Years Of India-Pakistan Cricket
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Books by Shashi Tharoor
The Great Indian Novel
In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata,with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics.
Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and
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Show Business
A rollicking novel about the razzle-dazzle of the Hindi film industry, know as Bollywood. "Exuberant and clever . . . both affectionately and fiercely done."--New York Times Books ReviewNotable book of the year
This triumphant novel about the razzle-dazzle Hindi film
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India From Independence to Today
One of the best in a generation of Indian authors shows how the challenges facing the world's largest and most diverse democracy will also affect America and the West in the 21st century—now available in paperback, with a new preface
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Riot A Love Story
A powerful novel--set in and around a riot in India in 1989--about love hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing the truth by the award-winning author of The Great Indian Novel.
Who killed twenty-four-year-old
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The Five Dollar Smile And Other Stories
This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death.
In the title story — written
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Reasons of State
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Shashi Tharoor began reading books—Enid Blyton’s Noddy series—when he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when
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India: From Midnight to the Millenium
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Shashi Tharoor began reading books—Enid Blyton’s Noddy series—when he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when
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Nehru: The Invention of India
An incisive new biography of the great secularist who—alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi—led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world.
An incisive new biography of the great secularist who—alongside
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The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone
Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to an innovative, fast-changing society. This entertaining and informative book shows how and why.
Interest in India has never been greater. Here Shashi Tharoor, one of the
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Bookless in Baghdad
Supremely personal, yet always probing and analytical, this brilliant collection of essays is part memoir, part literary criticism.
“A fluid and powerful writer, one of the best in a generation of Indian authors” (New York Times Book Review), Shashi Tharoor, the
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