My recommendations: Truck de India by Rajat Ubhayakar. This is the account of a young journalist who decided to travel around India hitchhiking on trucks. Written in a nice, deadpan way. Quite poignant in parts.
Another book I loved was Incognito by David Eagleman about the subconscious brain. Simply fascinating. Also The Pope of Physics, a superb biography of Enrico Fermi On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 12:26 AM harry <listmans...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Who we are and how we got here by David Reich > 2. Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world by Jack Weatherford > 3. Blueprint by Nicholas Christakis > 4. The secret history of the mongol queens by jack weatherford > 5. Panthers in Parliament: Dalits, Caste, and Political Power in South > India by Hugo gorringe > 6. The Warren Commission report (not a new book by any measure) > > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2019 at 11:17, Alok Prasanna Kumar <kautilya...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > To add to the already fantastic books on this list (in no particular > order) > > > > 1. Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde > > 2. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe > > 3. Interrogating My Chandal Life by Manoranjan Byapari > > 4. Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra (older but read this year) > > 5. The Flaming Feet by DS Nagaraj (older but read this year) > > 6. There's Gunpowder in the Air by Manoranjan Byapari (older but read > this > > year) > > 7. Nightmarch by Alpa Shah > > 8. Early Indians by Tony Joseph > > 9. The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu > > 10. Single by Choice edited by Kalpana Sharma > > > > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 10:32 AM Ingrid <ingrid.srin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > My top 10 (no ranks) this year: > > > A Horse Walked Into A Bar - David Grossman > > > Milkman - Anna Burns > > > Less - Andrew Sean Greer > > > Not Quite Not White : Losing and Finding Race in America - Sharmila Sen > > > Winners Take All : The Elite Charade of Changing The World - Anand > > > Giridharadas > > > The RTI Story : Power To The People - Aruna Roy > > > Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng > > > Partitions Of The Heart - Harsh Mander > > > Bombay Balchao - Jane Borges > > > Twitter and Tear Gas : The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest - > > > Zeynep Tufekci > > > > > > > > > Ingrid Srinath > > > @ingridsrinath > > > > > > > > > > On 26-Dec-2019, at 9:15 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < > > > sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > The books I liked are: > > > > > > > > * Bottle of Lies (Katherine Eban) - from having a very scattered > > > > awareness of the underbelly of generics, the book was useful to > > > > understand what goes on. > > > > * Coming Out As Dalit (Yashica Dutt) - aside from the topical nature > > > > of the memoir, the writing/prose has strength which is both authentic > > > > and makes one pause > > > > * Assam - The Accord, The Discord (Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty) - have > > > > always had fragmented understanding of the accords and this provided > > > > an opportunity to seek to know more and have better understanding of > > > > the troubles. > > > > > > > > full list of books I read are at > > > > <https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2019/732796> > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 9:04 AM Thaths <tha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 7:49 AM Anil Kumar < > > anilkumar.naga...@gmail.com > > > > > > > >> wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Any takers for a book recommendation thread this year? > > > >>> > > > >>> Two books I enjoyed reading are: > > > >>> > > > >>> 1. This Divided Island - Samanth Subramaniam. > > > >> > > > >> 2. A Beginner's Guide to Japan - Pico Iyer. > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> I also enjoyed 'Autumn Light' by Pico Iyer. > > > >> > > > >> Other books that I read and enjoyed in 2019: > > > >> > > > >> * We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our > > > Families > > > >> (Gourevitch, Philip) : Excellent book about the Rwandan genocide, > and > > > the > > > >> aftermath > > > >> > > > >> * The Fat Years (Koonchung, Chan): Sometime after the 2008 Great > > > Financial > > > >> Crisis, China becomes the dominant world superpower following the > > > collapse > > > >> of the Western economies. But there seems to be a collective amnesia > > in > > > >> China. People don't seem to remember what happened during some > crucial > > > >> months. Only a handful seem to be immune from this amnesia. > > > >> > > > >> * A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth (Weinberg, > > > Samantha) > > > >> : The story of the discovery of the Coelacanth. > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Alok Prasanna Kumar > > Advocate > > Ph: +919560065577 > > >
