Desh-e-books
Here’s a rundown of some of the desi lit on tap at Amazon’s Kindle ebook store, and what’s not available yet:
| Author | Book | Ebook? |
| Salman Rushdie | Shalimar the Clown |
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| Fury |
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| Step Across This Line |
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| Midnight’s Children |
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| The Satanic Verses |
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| The Moor’s Last Sigh |
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| The Ground Beneath Her Feet |
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| East, West |
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| Imaginary Homelands |
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| Vikram Chandra | Sacred Games |
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| Love and Longing in Bombay |
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| Red Earth and Pouring Rain |
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| Michael Ondaatje | Divisadero |
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| Anil’s Ghost |
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| The English Patient |
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| In the Skin of a Lion |
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| Coming Through Slaughter |
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| Rana Dasgupta | Tokyo Cancelled |
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| Hari Kunzru | My Revolutions |
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| Transmission |
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| The Impressionist |
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| Kiran Nagarkar | Ravan & Eddie |
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| Gautam Malkani | Londonstani |
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| Nirpal Dhaliwal | Tourism |
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| Niven Govinden | Graffiti My Soul |
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| M.G. Vassanji | The Assassin’s Song |
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| Elvis, Raja |
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| The In-Between World of Vikram Lall |
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| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
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| Vikram Seth | Two Lives |
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| A Suitable Boy |
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| The Golden Gate |
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| An Equal Music |
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| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Namesake |
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| The Interpreter of Maladies |
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| Pankaj Mishra | Temptations of the West |
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| Butter Chicken in Ludhiana |
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| An End to Suffering |
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| Rohinton Mistry | Family Matters |
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| Such a Long Journey |
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| A Fine Balance |
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| Swimming Lessons |
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| Srividya Natarajan | No Onions Nor Garlic |
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| Siddhartha Chowdhury | Patna Roughcut |
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| Ruchir Joshi | The Last Jet-Engine Laugh |
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| Lavanya Sankaran | The Red Carpet |
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| Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
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| Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard |
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| Anita Desai | Fasting, Feasting |
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| Mohsin Hamid | The Reluctant Fundamentalist |
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| Moth Smoke |
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| Amitav Ghosh | The Glass Palace |
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| The Hungry Tide |
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| Shadow Lines |
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| Zadie Smith | White Teeth |
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| Amitava Kumar | Husband of a Fanatic |
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| Passport Photos |
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| Bombay, London, New York |
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| Home Products |
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| Gregory David Roberts | Shantaram |
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| Monica Ali | Brick Lane |
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| Alentejo Blue |
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| Khaled Hosseini | The Kite Runner |
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| A Thousand Splendid Suns |
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| Nadeem Aslam | Maps for Lost Lovers |
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| Meera Syal | Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee |
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| Anita and Me |
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| Kiran Narayan | Love, Stars and All That |
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| Bharati Mukherjee | Jasmine |
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| Desirable Daughters |
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| The Middleman and Other Stories |
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| The Holder of the World |
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| The Tree Bride |
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| Chitra Divakaruni | The Vine of Desire |
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| Sister of My Heart |
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| Queen of Dreams |
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| The Unknown Errors of Our Lives |
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on Tuesday, November 27th, 2007, 11:46 pm in Business, Literature, Salman Rushdie, Tech › 
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Da*n! no shobha de.
How is the e-ink screen? Does it really ahve the feel of ink on paper? And how is the interface? They need lessons from Apple on how to design a device.
not understanding manish… red x means it is there?
the kindle isn’t in color… i’m not biting… happier with the iphone and the bells and whistles :)
so tempting Manish..
looks like they are way behind and hardly have any desi lit..looks like recent releases of Rushdie vikram chandra etc., are there..wonder if they have only the desi lit books recommended in english literature classes in US and not all desi lit..wonder what is the criteria of choosing only certain books of certain indian writers and not all writers..
looks like most of the ones that are there are 2008 releases and US/canada based writers..may be those books are best sellers at amazon…
Impressive list of books in general though , so many categories of books…even in fiction they have 15 different kind of fiction books from classics to 2008 releases..
even poetry collection looks good..from biographies to religious books to blogs to newspapers..its worth 400 dollars..
Iam so so glad our generation has an oppurtunity to hold 80,000 books in our hand in this small hand held device..
I miss telling my dad and showing him the link tonite..he would have been so so happy..wish this came three years back when he was alive I bought this for him…
there are 700 reviews on this ebook…most of the negative reviews are about the price..but it is all worth it I think..just imagine having to buy a mini library worth 80,000 books it would cost thousands of dollars…
is it sold outside in book stores or can we buy it online only?
did u see it personally Manish..how does it look, is it easy to read..reviews says it is egronomical and great to read..but want a first hand experience before I buy it..
cant believe it even has shakespeare and angelou and all classics..
bTW A fine balance is not vikram seths novel but it is in his list? it is mistry’s novel..
They certainly have taste as they stock ALL of Monica Ali’s literary works. This is clear validation of her talent and I am very happy for her.
So they have Rushdie’s better writing in stock, you should be pleased …
Does the Kindle read/open Ebooks that you create yourself? Is the format proprietary?
That would make a big difference for me — there’s a huge array of out-of-copyright books at Project Gutenberg that could be formatted. (Amazon is already selling many out-of-copyright books in the Kindle format for $ 0.99)
Maajhi: the screen is higher res than a monitor and reflective like paper, which means much less eyestrain. But the friend who tried it said it’s grayish, not white. Yeah, the housing is clunky.
Chick pea: fixed. The e-ink screen is the point, of course, compared to the LCDs on iPhones.
Prakruti: I think it’s online only, which is lame because you can’t demo it. Fixed, thanks.
UMM: I love the smell of napalm in the morning!
Ennis: UMM runs a snark dojo. Sit at his feet.
Amardeep: It’s proprietary, closed and DRM’d. You can email them for conversion for ten cents apiece, but I’m sure it’ll be hacked soon. You can also have them convert it free if you’ll load it via a cable rather than wireless. The main downside for academics I’ve been hearing about is no PDF support yet.
Like the iPhone, this will be a whole lot more useful once it’s hacked to accept open content.
I didn’t know about half of the books on the list (or the authors) — thanks so much for posting it. Now I have more stuff to read.
(what was the rest of the post about? something about a kindle?)
A desi dude has already started a blog dedicated to Kindle hacks: here.
Not a whole lot there yet, though one interesting discovery is that you can get around the limits on web browsing on the Kindle (designed to make you subscribe to the NYT, etc.) using RSS feed sites like bloglines.
Given the selection it could double as lumbar support