My favourite book this year was Neera Adarkar's brilliant anthology, Galleries of Life: The Chawls of Mumbai. Of more general interest, I thought Aman Sethi's A Free Man was outstanding, as will Naresh Fernandes' Taj Mahal Foxtrot (out later this month) be. Also, if you enjoy poetry you may like Ranjit Hoskote's translations of the Kashmiri poet Lalla/Lal Arifa - I, Lalla.
I second the recommendations for Mehrotra's Kabir and for River of Smoke (if you've read Sea of Poppies). I thought Mohammed Hanif's Our Lady of Alice Bhatti and Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman were both flawed but great books, and entertaining from start to finish. And you will probably come by these more easily in the West, but I also loved Hanan al-Shaykh's One Thousand and One Nights, Binyavanga Wainaina's One Day I Will Write About This Place, and Teju Cole's Open City. Supriya On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Ingrid <ingrid.srin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Generosity - An Enhancement: Richard Powers > Super Sad True Love Story: Gary Shteyngart > To The End Of The Land: David Grossman > The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: David Mitchell > From Dictatorship to Democracy: Gene Sharp > The New Life: Orhan Pamuk > Tiger Tiger: Margaux Fragoso > River of Smoke: Amitav Ghosh > > Ingrid Srinath > > >
