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India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond

Shashi Tharoor - Business & Economics - 2006 - 428 pages
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born. It has 17 major languages and 22,000 distinct dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic ...
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The Great Indian Novel

Shashi Tharoor - Fiction - 1993 - 866 pages
Ved Vyas, India's oldest surviving politician from the days of Raj, reveals behind-the-scenes atrocities in India's struggle for independence.
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Riot

Shashi Tharoor - Fiction - 2001 - 300 pages
A powerful and poignant novel, set in and around a riot in India in 1989, is about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing ...
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The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the ...

Shashi Tharoor - India - 2007 - 408 pages
For More Than Four Decades After Gaining Independence, India, With Its Massive Size And Population, Staggering Poverty And Slow Rate Of Growth, Was Associated With The Plodding ...
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan

Yasmin Khan - History - 2007 - 302 pages
Examines the context, execution and aftermath of partition, integrating the knowledge of political manoeuvres with an understanding of their fundamental social and cultural ...
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Cricket: A Bridge of Peace

Shaharyar M. Khan - Cricket - 2005 - 280 pages
This book is more than a cricketing journal. It is essentially about the impact of this ennobling sport on the minds of people. For the cricket enthusiast, the book provides an ...
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Lala Amarnath: A Stormy Petrel of Indian Cricket

Kishin R. Wadhwaney - Cricket players - 2000 - 176 pages
Biography of an Indian cricketer.
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