BOOKS READ IN 1999
 
  1. The Fifth Flame : The Story of Safdar Hashmi - Qamar Azad Hashmi (Jan 6)
  2. Wings of Fire : An Autobiography - APJ Abdul Kalam with Arun Tiwari (Jan 9)
  3. Salt and Sawdust - R K Narayan (Jan 15)
  4. Exploring Indian Railways - Bill Aitken (Jan 19)
  5. The Tunnel of Time - R K Laxman (Jan 20)
  6. Etoa Munda Won The Battle - Mahashweta Devi (Jan 21)
  7. Short Stories (Katha Classics) - Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (Jan 22)
  8. Short Stories (Katha Classics) - Masti Venkatesha Iyengar (Jan 23)
  9. The Inner Courtyard : Stories by Indian Women - Ed. Lakshmi Holmstrom (Jan 25)
  10. Rabindranath Tagore : An Anthology - Ed. Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson (Jan 30)
  11. The End of Imagination - Arundhati Roy (Jan 30)
  12. Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma - Amitav Ghosh (Jan 31)
  13. Woman in a Lampshade - Elizabeth Jolley (Feb 3)
  14. In The Dutch Mountains - Cees Nooteboom (Feb 8)
  15. Difficult Daughters - Manju Kapoor (Feb 10)
  16. The Missionary Position : Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice  - Christopher Hitchens (Feb 16)
  17. My Son's Story - Nadine Gordimer (Feb 23)
  18. Inside the Belly of the Beast :  The Hindu Supremacist RSS and BJP in India - Partha Banerjee (Feb 26)
  19. Swami and Friends - R K Narayan (March 3)
  20. Toujours Provence - Peter Mayle (March 7)
  21. Travels with  My Aunt - Graham Greene (March 10)
  22. Kanthapura - Raja Rao (March 12)
  23. The Pen and the Sword - Edward Said in conversation with David Barsamian (March 13)
  24. Nad : Understanding Raga Music - Sandeep Bagchee (March 15)
  25. A Possible India : Essays in Political Criticism - Partha Chatterjee (Mar 20)
  26. Phantoms In The Brain - V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee (Mar 28)
  27. On History - Eric Hobsbawm (Apr 5)
  28. Hind Swaraj - Mohandas K. Gandhi (Apr 7)
  29. My Brain Is Open : The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos - Bruce Schechter (Apr 14)
  30. A Strange And Sublime Address - Amit Chaudhuri (Apr 16)
  31. Afternoon Raag - Amit Chaudhuri (Apr 20)
  32. Freedom Song - Amit Chaudhuri (May 2)
  33. The Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (May 5)
  34. Silenced Rivers : The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams - Patrick McCully (May 12)
  35. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (May 15)
  36. The Life and Times of Michael K - J. M. Coetzee (May 16)
  37. The Financial Expert - R. K. Narayan (June 9)
  38. Biopiracy : The Plunder Of Nature And Knowledge - Vandana Shiva (June 12)
  39. Sanjoy's Assam : Diaries And Writing Of Sanjoy Ghose - Ed. Sumita Ghose (June 19)
  40. Mr Stone And The Knight's Companions - V S Naipaul (June 20)
  41. My Music - Steve Race (June 24)
  42. A History Of Reading - Alberto Manguel (June 25)
  43. Small Is Beautiful : Economics As If People Mattered - E F Schumacher (July 2)
  44. Masks Of Conquest : Literary Study And British Rule In India - Gauri Vishwanathan (July 6)
  45. Bapu Kuti : Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi - Rajni Bakshi (July 8)
  46. Miramar - Naguib Mahfouz (July 15)
  47. In The Belly Of The River : Tribal Conflicts Over Development In The Narmada Valley - Amita Baviskar (July 16)
  48. The Greater Common Good - Arundhati Roy (July 17)
  49. The Demon Seed and other writings - M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Aug 19)
  50. By The Sabarmati : Stories - Esther David (Sept 1)
  51. The God Of Small Things - Arundhati Roy (Sept 3)
  52. Raag Darbari - Shrilal Shukla (Sept 5)
  53. The World Of Nagaraj - R. K. Narayan (Sept 7)
  54. Muddy Waters : A Critical Assesment Of The Benefits Of The Sardar Sarovar Project - Rahul Ram (Sept 15)
  55. My Dateless Diary : An American Journey - R. K. Narayan (Sept 15)
  56. The Uruguay Round And Third World Sovereignty - Martin Khor (Sept 16)
  57. J.P. : His Biography - Allan and Wendy Scarfe (Sept 20)
  58. Sartre On Cuba : A First-Hand Account On The Revolution In Cuba - Jean-Paul Sartre (Sept 22)
  59. The Quilt And Other Stories - Ismat Chugtai (Sept 24)
  60. No Destination : An Autobiography - Satish Kumar (Sept 27)
  61. He Conquered The Jungle - Kesav Reddy (Sept 28)
  62. In An Antique Land - Amitav Ghosh (Oct 05)
  63. Samskara - U. R. Anantha Murthy (Oct 10)
  64. Tropical Classical : Essays From All Directions - Pico Iyer (Oct 19)
  65. East Timor : Genocide In Paradise - Mathew Jardine (Oct 27)
  66. Around The World In Eighty Days With Michael Palin - Michael Palin (Nov 08)
  67. The Survivor (Danapani) - Gopinath Mohanty (Nov 12)
  68. The French Leiutenant's Woman - John Fowles (Nov 14)
  69. The Saga of Dharmapuri (Dharmapuranam) - O. V. Vijayan (Nov 19)
  70. The Stranger - Albert Camus (Dec 09)
  71. G - John Berger (Dec 13)
  72. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje (Dec 19)
  73. Mother of 1084 - Mahashweta Devi (Dec 20)
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