Tharoor, Shashi <br/><br/>
Bookless in Baghdad and Other Writings About Reading 

 - New Delhi  Penguin Random House India Pvt Ltd  2012 
 - 236p 
<br/><br/> includes index and biblioraphy 
<br/><br/>1. Inspirations   Growing up with books in India ..........3  Revenging rudyard, Subverting scarlett.......10  Mining the Mahabharata: whose culture is it anyway .........14  In defence of the bollywood novel ...............32  A novel of Collision .......36  Art for Heart`s Sake ........40  2. Reconsiderations   Right ho, Sahib: wodehouse and India ............45  The last englishman : Malcolm muggeridge ........53  Blood and rombast: Winston churchil .........57  Remembering pushkin .........69  The committed poet ................73  Speaking ill of the Dead ........78  R. K narayan`s Comedies of Suffering .....82  The enigma of Being V. SNaipaul ........87  Salman Rushdie : The ground beneath his Feet .......92  3. The literary life .............115  4. Appropriations ...............165  Interrogations ..............205   
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143418955  299 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>R72  / T329