BOOKS READ IN 2000
 
  1. The Raj At Table : A Culinary History Of The British In India - David Burton (Jan 30)
  2. Autobiography - Benvenuto Cellini (Jan 30)
  3. The House of Kanooru (Kanooru Heggadithi) - Kuvempu (Feb 07)
  4. Rabindranath Tagore : The Myriad-Minded Man - Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson (Feb 12)
  5. The Fate Of The Elephant - Douglas Chadwick (Feb 22)
  6. Sardar Sarovar : The Report Of The Independent Review - Bradford Morse and Thomas Berger (Feb 22)
  7. Johnno - David Malouf (Feb 23)
  8. White Noise - Don DeLillo (Mar 1)
  9. The River Churning (Epar Ganga Opar Ganga) - Jyotirmoyee Devi (Mar 4)
  10. Drawing The Line : Tales Of Maps And Cartocontroversy - Mark Monmonier (Mar 6)
  11. Death Of A Salesman - Arthur Miller (Mar 12)
  12. All The Way To Heaven : An American Boyhood In The Himalayas - Stephen Alter (Mar 18)
  13. The Green Revolution : The American Environmental Movement, 1962-1992 - Kirkpatrick Sale (Mar 24)
  14. The Secret Life Of Saeed : The Ill-fated Pessoptimist - Emile Habiby (Mar 26)
  15. Of Dreams And Demons : A Memoir Of Modern India - Patwant Singh (Mar 27)
  16. Elephant Days And Nights : Ten Years With The Indian Elephant - Raman Sukumar (May 13)
  17. Anthills Of The Savannah - Chinua Achebe (May 19)
  18. Masters Of Illusion : The World Bank And The Poverty Of Nations - Catherine Caufield (May 23)
  19. Power Play : A Study Of The Enron Project - Abhay Mehta (May 31)
  20. Amazon Watershed : The New Investigation - George Monbiot (June 6)
  21. The Crooked Line (Terhi Lakir) - Ismat Chugtai (June 17)
  22. Cromartie vs. The God Shiva Acting Through The Government Of India - Rummer Godden (June 18)
  23. Rebels Against The Future : The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution : Lessons For The Computer Age - Kirkpatrick Sale (June 24)
  24. The Legacy Of Luna : The Story Of A Tree, A Woman And The Struggle To Save The Redwoods - Julia Butterfly Hill (July 4)
  25. Everybody Loves A Good Drought : Stories From India's Poorest Districts - P. Sainath (July 23)
  26. Rich Like Us - Nayantara Sahgal (July 29)
  27. Two Under the Sun : An Evocative Memoir Of Childhood In Bengal - Jon and Rummer Godden (Aug 05)
  28. The Calcutta Chromosome : A Novel Of Fevers, Delirium And Discovery - Amitav Ghosh (Aug 06)
  29. The Man Who Planted Trees - Jean Giono (Aug 08)
  30. Journey To Khiva : A Writer's Search For Central Asia - Philip Glazebrook (Aug 19)
  31. Swami And Friends - R K Narayan (Aug 20)
  32. Ragtime - E L Doctorow (Aug 21)
  33. Ecological Imperialism : The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 = Afred W Crosby (Sept 04)
  34. Ela Bhatt : Uniting Women In India - Jyotsna Sreenivasan (Sept 05)
  35. Goodbye, Mr Chips - James Hilton (Sept 05)
  36. The Vendor Of Sweets - R K Narayan (Sept 06)
  37. A Sand County Almanac And Sketches Here And There - Aldo Leopold (Sept 10)
  38. The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen (Sept 22)
  39. Confronting Empire : Interviews with David Barsimian - Eqbal Ahmad (Sept 24)
  40. Desert Solitaire : A Season In The Wilderness - Edward Abbey (Oct 23)
  41. The Songlines - Bruce Chatwin (Oct 29)
  42. Decolonising The Mind : The Politics Of Language In African Literature - Ngugi wa Thiongo (Nov 10)
  43. The Singer And The Song : Conversations With Women Musicians - C S Lakshmi (Nov 20)
  44. The Great Indian Middle Class - Pawan Varma (Dec 5)
  45. A Beautiful Mind : A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 - Sylvia Nasar (Dec 6)
  46. Pandit Bhimsen Joshi : A Biography - Mohan Nadkarni (Dec 14)
  47. The One-Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka (Dec 25)
  48. Bhaskar Patellar And Other Stories - Paul Zacharia (Dec 25)
  49. Grandmother's Tale - R. K. Narayan (Dec 26)
  50. Powers And Prospects : Reflections on Human Language And Social Order - Noam Chomsky (Dec 30)
  51. The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho (Dec 31)
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