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2003
*1.A Harlot High and Low by Honore de Balzac
(Jan- Apr)
2. Globalization and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
(Jan)
3.A Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (Jan)
4.Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann (Jan- Apr)
5.In Chile by the Night by Roberto Bolano (Mar)
6.Embers by Sandro
Maria (Mar)
7.A Traveller and the Road by Mohit Sen (Mar)
8.Latin American Writers at Work Ed by ...(Apr)
9.The Sorrows of Young Werther by J W Goethe
(Apr)
10.Century in Scarlet by Lajos
Zilahy (Apr). Also see the same review at Amazon.com
11.The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (Apr-
June?)
12.In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa
(May 10)
13.This is your Life by John O Farrel (May)
14.A Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla
(May)
15.Twelve Fingers by Jo Soares (May)
16.A Book of Imaginary Beings by Luis Borges (May)
17.The Good Conscience by Carlos Fuentes (May)
18.The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
19.Karl Marx by Leon Trotsky
20.Letters to a Young Novelist by Mario Vargas Llosa
(22nd June)
21.Labyrinths by Luis Borges (July)
*22.Warrior Politics by Robert D Kaplan
*23.The Carpenter's Pencil by Manuel Rivas (July)
24. Soul by Andrey Platonov
(July)
25. The Odyssey by Homer (Aug)
*26. My Invented Country by Isabel Allende (Aug)
27. Schopenhauer: A Very short Introduction (Sept)
28. Faust by Ivan Turgenev
(Oct)
29. Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton (Oct)
*30. The Political Unconscious by Frederic Jameson (Oct)
31. The Rebel by Albert Camus (Oct)
32. Faust by Goethe (rereading after 16 years !)
(Oct)
33. The Language of Passion by Mario Vargas Llosa
(Oct)
34. The Cubs and other stories by Mario Vargas Llosa (Oct 26)
35. The Story of a Nobody by Anton Chekov (Oct 25)
36. The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa- my 14th
MVL since reading Alejandro Mayta ! (Oct)
37. The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa (Dec)
38. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Nov-Dec)
39. Runaway World by Anthony Giddens (Nov)
40. The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (Dec)
41. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
42. Because He Is (a Biography of Gulzar) by Meghna Gulzar
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2002
1. *Out of Poverty and into Something Better by John Stackhouse (Jan)
2. *Mahatma Jotiba Phooley
by Dhananjay Keer (Jan)
3. *Memoirs by Pablo Neruda (Jan-Feb)
4. Spanish Civil War by Anthony Beevor (May)
5. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa (June)
6. Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa (June)
7. The War of the End of the World by Mario
Vargas Llosa (June- Aug)
8. The Making of the Marxist Philosophy (Part I)
by T.I Oizermann
9. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa (Sep-Oct)
10. The Italian Renaissance by P.H Plumb (Aug-Sep)
11.*Falling Leaves: The Story of an unwanted Chinese daughter by Adeline Yen Mah (Sep-Oct)
12. Interesting Times by Eric Hobsbawm
(Oct-Nov)
13. Koba The Dread by Martin Amis (Oct)
14. Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario
Vargas Llosa (Oct-Nov
18)
15. Lost Illusions by Balzac (Dec 31)
16. Who Killed Palomino Molero? by
Mario Vargas Llosa- Llosa
at his worst
17. *The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas
Llosa - my 7th Llosa this
year !
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2001
1. From Amritsar to Lahore By Stephen Alter
2. Portrait of a Martyr: A Biography of Shyama Prasad Mookerji by Balraj Madhok
3. The Famous Ghalib By Ralph Russel
4. John Company to the Republic: A History of Modern India by Mushirul Hasan
5. Exasperating Essays by D.D.
Kosambi
6. Myth and Reality by D.D.
Kosambi
7. On the Abyss: Pakistan after the Coup
(Contemporary Essays)
8. One Language, Two Scripts by Christopher R King
9. Hindi Nationalism by Alok Rai
10. Science, Society and Peace by D.D. Kosambi
11. The BJP and RSS: A Division of Labour by A.G. Noorani
12. *The Rogue State: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
13. *Aadha Gaon by Rahi Masoom Raza
14. India's Communication Revolution: From Bullock Carts to Cybermarts by Arvind Singhal and Everett M Rogers
15.* The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson
16. Metamorphosis and Other stories by Franz
Kafka
17. The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle(reread)
18. A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
19. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (reread)
20. Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
21. Driving Mr Albert:
A journey across America
with Einstien's brain by Michael Paterniti
22. *500 Years of Western Culture: From Dawn to Decadance
By ....
23. The Philosophy of History by F.W. Hegel
24. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha
Christie
25. Down and Out in Paris and London by George
Orwell
26. The Road to Wigan Pier by Gerorge
Orwell
27. Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
28. Secular Commonsense by Mukul Kesavan
29. *The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
30. India and the Millenium Ed by Romilla Thapar
31. I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
32. Lenin: A Biography by Robert Service
33. *Early Socratic Dialogues by Plato
34. Nineteen Eight Four by George Orwell
35. A Hundred Encounters by Sham Lal
36. Post Soviet Russia: A Journey through the
Yeltsin Era by Roy Medvedev
37. His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
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2000
1. Essays on Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
2. Profit
Over People by Noam Chomsky
3. **South Asia on a Short Fuse by Achin Vanaik and Praful Bidwai
4. The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
5. The Rise of the Network Society by Manuel Castells
(Vol
I)
6. *Postmodernism by Francois Lyotard
7. *The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
8. *The Rise of the Network Soceity Vol II: The Power of Identity By Manuel Castells
9
A Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
10. Three Men in a Boat by
Jerome K Jerome
11. Acts of
Resistance: Against the Tyranny of the Market by Pierre Bourdieu
12. The Coming Anarchy by Robert D Kaplan
13. What is to be Done? by Nikolai Chernesvesky (reread)
14. On the Edge
of the New Century by Eric Hobsbawm
15. Karl
Marx: A Biography by Francis Wheen
16. *India After Independence by Bipan Chandra, Aditya and Mridula Mukerjee
17. Life and Fate
by Vasily Grossman- War and Peace of the 20th
century
18. Web Business
@ the speed of thought by Bill
Gates
19. Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh by D.R. Goyal
20. Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
21. Candide by Voltaire
22. *History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel
23. King Lear by William Shakespeare
24. *Necessary and Unnecessary Utopias (The Socialist Register 2000) Edited
by Leo Palitich
25. *Partition and Freedom by Sucheta Mahajan
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1999
1.
Communalism Contested by Achin Vanaik
2. The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
3. Science Hegemony, Violence Edited by Ashish Nandy
4. The Idea of India by Sunil Khilani
5. The Illegitimacy of Nationalism by Ashish Nandy
6. Hind Swaraj by M.K. Gandhi
7. Baltasar and Blimunda
by Jose Saramago (incomplete)
8. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
9. The Unhappy Conciousness by Sudipto
Kaviraj
10. Sooraj Ka Saatvaan Ghoda by Dharamvir Bharati
11. The Nation and its Fragments by Partha Ghosh (incomplete)
12. In The
Belly of the Beast: The Hindu
Supremacist RSS and BJP of India by Partha Bannnerjee
13. Modern Myths, Locked Minds Fundamentalism
and Secularism in India by T.N. Madan
14. Hindutva
Reawakened by G.S. Hingle
15. Pickwick
Papers (completed) by Charles Dickens
16. The Advent of the Aryans by R.S. Sharma (1999)
17. The
Concerned Indian's Guide to Communalism Edited by K.N. Panikkar
18. Contemporary India Edited by P.A. Panandiker
and Ashish Nandy
19. The Rise of Varna and State in India By R.S.
Sharma
20. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carrol
21. A World to Win Edited by Prakash Karat
*22. Midnight's
Children by Salman Rushdie
23. The Sena Story
by Vaibhav Purandare
*24. Gunahon ka Devta by Dharamvir Bharati (incomplete) -
quaint social realism
25. Capitalism in the Age of Globalisation by Samir Amin
*26. The Black Economy in India by Arun Kumar
27. Indian
Nationalism: A Study in
Evolution By Sitanshu Das
*28. Nations and
Nationalism since 1780 By Eric Hobsbawm
29. Kathopnishad: Sankara's
Commentary
30. Revenge and Reconciliation: Understanding South Asian History by Rajmohan Gandhi
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1998
1. The Intimate Enemy: The
Loss and Recovery of the Self Under Colonialism by Ashis
Nandy.
2. Making of a Nationality: Ramjanmabhoomi Movement
and Self Expression by Asish Nandy,
et al.
3. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
4. Indian
Modernity by Avijit Pathak
5. Words
Like Freedom by Siddharth
Dube
6. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (reread)
7. Stalin by Vladmir Radzinsky
8. Among the Barbarians by Paul Sheehan
9. Uncommon
People by Eric Hobsbawm
10. The Possessed by Dostoevesky
11. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (incomplete)
12. On
History by Eric Hobsbawm
13. Autopsy
for an Empire by Dmitri Volkogonov
14. Stalin by Isaac Deutscher
15. A People's Tragedy by Orlando Figes
16. Karamazov
Brothers by Dostoevesky
17. The Good Soldier Svejk by Varoslav
Hasek
18. One Day in the
Life of Ivan Deneshovich by A. Solznetsyn
19. Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
(incomplete)
20. History of
Sexuality by Michel Focault (incomplete)
21. Worshipping False Gods by Arun Shourie - easily the worst book I read in the year
22. The English Patient by Michael Ondaanje
1997
/1997, those that I can remember/
1. Rumi's Poetry Tr by AJ
Arberry
2. The History of Civilizations by F. Braudel
3. Reason,
Romanticism and Revolution by MN Roy
4. The
Life and Times of Iqbal by Iqbal
Singh
5. Everyone Loves a Good Drought by P. Sainath
6. Economic Opportunities and Social Development by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
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