The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor, first published by Viking Press in 1989. It is a fictional work that takes the story of...
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The Great American Novel (sometimes abbreviated as GAN) is the term for a canonical novel that generally embodies and examines the essence and character...
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The Great Indian Murder is a Hindi-language crime mystery drama television series directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia for Disney+ Hotstar. It was produced by...
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travelogue. Shashi Tharoor, in his The Great Indian Novel (1989), follows a story-telling (though in a satirical) mode as in the Mahabharata drawing his ideas...
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Shashi Tharoor's satirical novel The Great Indian Novel, the story of Shumbha and Nishumbha is used both as a warning against the dangers of seduction, and...
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Shashi Tharoor (category Indian officials of the United Nations)
for The Great Indian Novel. 1991 – Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book of the Year in the Eurasian Region, for The Great Indian Novel 1998 –...
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Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence. The Indian rebellion was...
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The novel popularized the phrase and idea of the Great Game. The story is set after the Second Anglo-Afghan War (which ended in 1881), but before the...
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criticised the Emergency through his novel Qatar bi Aarzoo. Shashi Tharoor portrays the Emergency allegorically in his The Great Indian Novel (1989), describing...
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Draupadi (category Use Indian English from December 2015)
as the lead character. The Great Indian Novel by Dr. Shashi Tharoor – Written as a fictional work that is analogous to the events featured in the Mahabharata...
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(1981), The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor (1989), Possession by A. S. Byatt (1990), The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (1992), The Master of...
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One Indian Girl is a 2016 novel by Indian author Chetan Bhagat.[citation needed] The story follows Radhika Mehta, a senior employee in the distressed debt...
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published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2012. The novel centres on Saul Indian Horse, a First Nations boy who survives the residential school system and becomes...
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published in the United States in 2013. Novels portal France in the Seven Years' War George Washington in the French and Indian War Great Britain in the Seven...
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Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by English author Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel. The novel is a bildungsroman and depicts...
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The French and Indian War (1754–1763) was a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those...
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Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: [ziˈdaʁta] ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual...
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romanticism. The novel acquires the quality of a fable in which life in the fishermen's community is depicted with great emotional detail. The customs, taboos...
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The Great Gambler is a 1979 Indian crime action film directed by Shakti Samanta. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh. It was based...
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The God of Small Things is a family drama novel written by Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins...
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The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (reporting mark GIPR) was a predecessor of the Central Railway (and by extension, the current state-owned Indian Railways)...
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and diverse community. The novel describes a number of foreigners of various origins, as well as local Indians, highlighting the rich diversity of life...
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Blood Meridian (redirect from Blood Meridian, Or the Evening Redness in the West)
magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels of all time. Some have labelled it the Great American Novel. The novel tells the story of a teenaged...
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The Far Pavilions is an epic novel of British-Indian history by M. M. Kaye, published in 1978, which tells the story of a British officer during the British...
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the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. The novel revolves around Rusty, an orphaned seventeen-year-old Anglo-Indian boy living in Dehradun. Due to his guardian...
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Ghachar Ghochar (category 2015 Indian novels)
"positive". Writing for The New York Times, Parul Sehgal considered Ghachar Ghochar to be "a great Indian novel" and wrote, "Folded into the compressed, densely...
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a first-person narrative novel by Sherman Alexie, from the perspective of a Native American teenager...
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Classic book (redirect from List of novels considered the greatest)
as the Chinese classics or the Indian Vedas. Many universities incorporate these readings into their curricula, such as "The Reading List" at St. John's...
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Premchand (redirect from Pratigya (novel))
the 1979 film Saanch Ko Aanch Nahin. Bazaar E Husn, a 2014 Indian Hindi-language film, was based on Premchand's novel of the same name. A 2019 Indian...
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The Indian in the Cupboard is a low fantasy children's novel by the British writer Lynne Reid Banks. It was published in 1980 with illustrations by Robin...
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