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Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka by Ameena Hussein
A read that tries to trace the explorer’s travels in Sri Lanka. Ameena Hussein’s travelogue-ish book about Ibn Battuta in Sri Lanka is a...
bindu chandana
Jun 7, 20231 min read
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants by Peggy Mohan
The lesson that I refuse to learn is to write the blog as soon as I read the book. it is so needed in order to translate the brilliance...
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Jun 7, 20233 min read
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Fiction and the Vijayanagara Empire
Salman Rushdie's "Victory City" and Vasudhendra's "Tejo Tungabhadra" were two books that I read in a span of a month. Both set in the...
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Jun 7, 20233 min read
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Gods of the upper air - Charles King
I am so glad I read and I love to read. There are some experiences in life that visuality will never come close to being as good as my...
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Jun 6, 20223 min read
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Karimayi - Chandrashekhara Kambara & The Book Of Longings - Sue Monk Kidd
I love reading on trips, as it offers the guilt-free guilty pleasure of choosing books that are written for the sole purpose of 'beach'...
bindu chandana
Feb 23, 20223 min read
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When 'books' like 'Ascent of Man' disappoint, shows like 'Fall of Civilisations' restore your faith.
'The Ascent of Man' was a book I went back to after 3-4 years, I figured with the depth of my understanding gradually increasing I would...
bindu chandana
Sep 3, 20213 min read
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History of Medieval India - Satish Chandra
It is another textbook. Detailed, dense, filled with pertinent and some very startling (had read opposing perspectives all my life)...
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Jun 25, 20214 min read
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Liberation of Sita (Vimukta) - Volga. Translated from Telugu by T. Vijay Kumar and C. Vijayashree
'Sita is so meek, timid and full of sorrow'. 'Do not ever name your child Sita, you will invite all sorts of unhappy fate onto her' -...
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Jun 4, 20213 min read
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Myth of Sisphyus - Albert Camus
I started this book completely clueless about what I was in for. Had not really read Camus beyond a few essays/articles written about his...
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May 31, 20215 min read
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Mythos - Stephen Fry (Audible)
After reading this blog if you feel the strong urge to buy this book, I recommend listening to it. Stephen Fry is hilarious. Not only...
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Apr 12, 20213 min read
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Jerusalem A Biography - Simon Sebag Montefiore
To read in such detail about the story of the 'rightful' stake on Jerusalem gave me nightmares. No jokes, I woke up in a sweat dreaming...
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Mar 17, 20213 min read
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Early India: from the origin to AD 1300 - Romila Thapar
Believe it or not I did not know who Romila Thapar was until October 2020. I am truly ashamed to call myself an Indian history...
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Jan 10, 20213 min read
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Stories of Circe & Achilles as told by Madeline Miller
Circe Though Achilles was Miler's first book I got to Circe first and was immediately hooked - the environment she created with her words...
bindu chandana
Nov 6, 20203 min read
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'Silk Roads' as it lives and breathes
One of the most formidable tasks of this year was to finish this book in a record time of 3 weeks. The bibliography itself is 120 (fine...
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Nov 3, 20203 min read
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Yugandhar by Shivaji Sawant - "Conqueror of Yugas"
This was not a book that I would have picked up, not for anything but the fact that Krishna's story is etched in my brain from the age of...
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Jun 21, 20202 min read
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The Heroine's Journey.
This was not a book to be done with but revisited throughout a lifetime. And honestly one needs to be ready for it. Most things you hold...
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May 16, 20203 min read
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Apr 13, 20200 min read
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The Early Indian
This was the book that compelled me to start this blog, it took a while to put my thoughts together on this. Read it twice over. For...
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Apr 3, 20202 min read
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sarmaya.in
is a self funded passion (not a strong enough adjective, but will do for now) project of Pavitra Rajaram & Paul Abraham. It is a website...
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Apr 1, 20202 min read
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You are what you read
I am one of the many lucky (actually, depends on how you look at it) ones, I pretty much remember most of my childhood. Especially the...
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Mar 24, 20202 min read
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