Books that currently have readers in progress can be viewed in bold type. 2000s 1.Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro 1 a. Animal’s People – Indra Sinha 1 b. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – Muriel Barbery 2.Saturday – Ian McEwan 2 a. Falling Man – Don DeLillo 2 b. The Childr...
His style is marked by genial humor, gentle irony, and simplicity. Hand in hand with pioneering Indian novelists Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao, Narayan laid the foundations of the novel as a genre in Indian literature. Whereas Anand focused on social realism, and Rao breathed philosophical depth...
The Revolt of 1857 and the British raj The term sepoy refers to an Indian soldier employed by a European power. It entered English via the Portuguese sipai, derived from the Hindustani sipāhī, itself from the Persian sipahi, meaning “cavalryman.” By the 1850s, the company had consolidat...