Kamat Book Club
Page Last Updated: November 16, 2024
Selections by Vikas Kamat
These are the books I have read time and again. I have provided links to the titles are available online for purchase.
-Vikas Kamat
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Man Eaters of India Jim Corbett takes you to the forests of Kumaon on a trilling and enchanting expedition. I enjoy reading it now as I did as a young boy. [buy]
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Preprocessing and Post processing of the Soul
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The Madam of Kanooru The English translation of dramatic Kannada novel Kanoouru Heggadati by K. V. Puttappa stands tall among the fiction I have read, "Oh Destiny", being the favorite chapter. [buy]
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Experiments With Truth
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Wonder that was India Masterpiece by A. L. Basham, probably the finest introduction to Indian culture by a "mleccha". In production of Kamat's Potpourri, and The Timeless Theater CD-ROM, I have heavily relied on this book whenever in doubt. [buy]
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Bride of the Mountains
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Darkness of Communalism Tamas, by Bhishma Sahani is a must read for students of ethnology, lovers of freedom and for Indians born after the independence. Later made into a controversial tele-film, the book illustrates the anatomy of communal riots in India. It is so intense, I could hardly read more than a few pages at a time. It is honest as it is disturbing. [buy]
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Rajaji's Ramayan
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The Unconquered Single most book that has influenced my life is Ajeya (the unconquered, in Kannada), the biography of Chandrashekhar Azad by Babu Krishnamurthy. As a ten year old, I had read it so many times, that when I met the author when on a vacation, I recited several pages of the book word-to-word much to his amazement! A very well researched work, it illustrates the struggle of young revolutionaries in India to drive the British out of the country.
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Born Thieves of India
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Krishnashastry's Mahabharat The great Mahabharat is a complex, story with very well developed characters and numerous digressions (upakathas). I have read many interpretations and narrations, and I like A. R. Krishnasastry's Vachana Bharata, the best- he has adhered to Kumara Vyasa's Mahabharat. Forget the video and the play. Read the real stuff.
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