I can recommend this one, its not a work of fiction, neither is it a paperback, its actually a coffee-table sort of book (but far more readable) :
http://www.amazon.in/Handmade-India-Geographic-Encyclopedia-Handicrafts/dp/0789210479/ I had been looking for a book that documented all the handicrafts from different parts of india in one place (with pictures). There are other books too, but this one is far better than anything else out there. On 2 December 2014 at 04:17, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > For the sixth year[1] in a row, I am turning to silk listers for book > recommendation > this holiday season. > > What have you read over the last year that has left a mark on you? What are > you eagerly looking forward to reading over the Christmas/NewYear's > holidays? > > Past silk list recommendations have included such gems as: > > * Alice Albina's Empires of the Indus > * Samanth Subramaniam's Following Fish > * Sarnath Bannerjee's Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers > * Devdutt Pattanaik's Myth=Mithya. > * Nilanjana Roy's Wildings > * Aman Sethi's A Free Man > > Books that are easy to get a hold of in India (and more difficult > elsewhere) > preferred (but not required). Fiction and non-fiction recommendations are > equally welcome. > > The books that I enjoyed reading > <https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/646599?shelf=read> the most this > year: > > * The Works: Anatomy of a City by Kate Ascher. Beautiful illustrations and > great details about how a city (in this case, New York City) works. How is > water brought to the city? What happens to the sewage? How were the Subways > built? The book answers them all. > > * A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes by Sam Miller. As > Sankarshan said in another thread, "More engaging than expected". > > * This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War by Samanth > Subramaniam. Not as great as Following Fish, but quite fascinating anyway. > A compassionate, beautifully written book about the War and it's aftermath > in Sri Lanka. > > * Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha. Simply one of the best > biographies of Gandhi that I have read. Instead of deifying a man (who > was worshipped in his own lifetime) like many biographies of Gandhi do, > this book tries to explore how a mediocre student from a poor backwater > ended up going to London to study barristry and thence to South Africa to > practice Law, hang out with Left-leaning Jews, Vegetarians, Coolies and > Quakers and hone his message of Abstinence and Non Violence. > > Thaths > [1] Someone jumped the gun by starting the thread on Silk list in mid-nov > last year, but I am going to count it anyway >
