This India trip has given me lots of free time and I was able to utilize at least a part of it to read some quality books.
I decided that I should read something about contemporary India thinking that it would help me understand India better.
Books that I read:
1. Imagining India by Nandan Nilekani
2. India after Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
3. A better India: A better World by Narayana Murthy
Interestingly, two of these books are written by the founders of Infosys, a highly successful and respected company in India and abroad.
'India after Gandhi' is a classic. The book deals with post- independence India and the narration was so good that I completed reading the 900 page book in about a week ( This is the third fastest I have ever completed reading a book. Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' and William Shirer's 'Rise and Fall Of The Third Reich' are the first two in the list).
Did I understand India completely by reading these books?
Definitely not.
But it is a start.
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