S01E04 | A Brief Guide to Great Indian Writers
Apr 07, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 4
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Episode description
Did you know that India is the world's second-largest English-language book market? The nation has also produced some of the world's best fiction and non-fiction authors. In this episode, Marina takes us through a list of nationally and globally awarded writers as well as some of her personal favourites.
- Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children; The Enchantress of Florence
- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
- Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
- Amitav Ghosh - Sea of Poppies; The Glass Palace
- Megha Majumdar - A Burning
- Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
- Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis
- Anees Salim - The Vicks Mango Tree
- Jhumpa Lahiri - The Namesake
- Gita Mehta - A River Sutra
- Pankaj Mishra - Age of Anger: A History of the Present
- Amit Chaudhuri - Friend of My Youth
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