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ELEPHANT THE TIGER AND THE CELL PHONE by THAROOR SHASHI
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
India - From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, a new nation was born. It has 17 major languages and 22,000 distinct dialects. It has over a billion individuals of every ethnic extraction known to humanity. It has a population that is 32 percent illiterate, but also one of the worlds largest pools of trai ...Show more
Inglorious Empire - What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: History | Reading Level: very good
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and cause ...Show more
Inglorious Empire: what the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: History
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized racism, and caus ...Show more
The Struggle for India's Soul: Nationalism and the Fate of Democracy by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: History
Dissects how competing, increasingly strident visions of India will shape its destiny for decades to come. Over a billion Indians are alive today. But are some more Indian than others? To answer this question, central to the identity of all who belong to modern India, Shashi Tharoor explores hotly cont ...Show more
Why I Am a Hindu by Shashi Tharoor
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Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Reading Level: very good
Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts -- including Vedanta, the Purusharthas, and Bhakti -- before focusing on texts such as the Bhagadvagita. The 'Great Souls', or key individuals of Hinduism, from Adi Sha ...Show more
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