Your skin had the warmth of the sun, it was blinding how beautiful you were, gods thought he wouldn’t fall for anyone and now they pitied him

Tapping into this, Ranjit Lal brought out Faces In the Water, which doesn’t shy away from talking about a pertinent topic like female infanticide. Paro Anand’s books, Weedand No Guns At My Son’s Funeral, talk about Kashmir, a matter of recurring political discourse in India. On the other hand, YA LGBTQIA+ novels were slow to enter the market. Himanjali Sankar’s Talking of Muskaan and Payal Dhar’s Slightly Burntwere the two that first introduced LGBTQIA+ themes to the Indian YA scene. Living in harmony since centuries the current upheaval challenges the acceptance of other communities in India. Further giving West a chance to discriminate against the developing countries on the basis of their dominant religion. Whereas the developed countries are not known by their religion but through their work, culture and ethics. This dire change in perception leads to deception as the majority religion is given much more priority than the minorities, which in recent times seem to become the reality of today's India especially after the CAA/NRC legislation. Finally, the repetition, run-on sentences and roundabout descriptive tours are obscene if not excruciating. The book commits most of the Orwellian sins. While the general perception is that teenagers (young adults) need to be protected from heavy social or political problems, the truth is that they are more than aware of the reality within India. Today, teenagers are participating in protests, voicing their opinions and are interested in being aware citizens of the country. Which means their fiction needs to reflect the same. Aside from exhaustive research, Bipan Chandra’s India’s Struggle For Independenceincludes interviewing hundreds of freedom fighters nationwide. Through this, he offers a full account of what happened then. He inquires about the events in detail and adds the impacts of the movement on the people of India.History of Medieval India’sfocal point is the momentous changes India has undergone from the 8th to the 18th century. It’s the land’s tale of invasion, religious evolution, and others. Despite this book’s dark history, it also excels in pointing out the positive aspects of the Mughal rule and Islam in India. In the 1990s, Tara Books published Mahabharata – A Child’s View by Samhita Arni in English. A 12-year-old’s view of the epic was quite a novel idea albeit a bit ahead of its time. The trend perhaps set in the early 2000s when a certain fantasy book marketed as a children’s book started making waves in the West. The story of a small boy who goes to wizardry school and fights the evil, distorted Voldemort appealed to adults and kids alike. In light of its popularity, perhaps India too was rediscovering her own stories of fantasy through the abundance of mythological tales. Fourth, his so-called secular attitude: one of the follies of the present day ‘seculars’ and ‘intellectuals’ of this country is to pounce upon every opportunity to prove how wrong the Hindu fundamentalists are with their stances and views, all the while expressing easy or even no opinions about the radical behaviors of such fundamentalists from other religions. Mr.Sen is guilty of this too. He even comes close to suggesting that the conflict of Kargil was a provocation more on the part of India, while mentioning that the part of Pakistan’s army regulars in that conflict may or may not be true. Really, Mr.Sen?! Attempting to sound neutral, Mr.Sen ends up sounding so annoying and without sense in many places, especially when he uses the negative word of ‘chauvinism’ to refer to the basic human inclination to praise one’s own country! Nations have to be built on an inclusive identity.” Romila Thapar, A History of India 2. India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracywas first published in August 2007 Draupadi’s heady persona and Sita’s unyielding nature comes to the fore in The Palace of Illusions (Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee) and Sita: An Illustrated Retelling Of The Ramayana (Devdutt Pattanaik). The genre fuelled the growth of not only the main characters but also of peripheral characters like Sita’s sister and Karna’s wife who were featured as important characters/ protagonists. Easy To Read And Enjoy

Genette, G. (1980). Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method (J. E. Lewin, Trans.). Cornell University Press. No Presents Pleaseis set in Mumbai; every person in every story has made this city a part of them; it has raised them, and they are a part of it. They keep its lights on. It’s through them that we get to understand the city from so many different angles.

Go through the country’s thousands of years of evolution in Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300before its relationship with Europe began. Learn facts about the Indus Valley Civilization, its dynasties, and teachings still influencing India today.

You can feel the presence of Gandhi, Tagore, Ashok and Akbar, whom Sen conspicuously admires and looks up to, almost throughout all the essays - I wouldn't hesitate from calling them the primary protagonists of this book.

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I didn't read the entire book because I just couldn't stomach the thought of finishing a poorly edited and research set of essays. My comments reflect the 1/3 I was able to get through**