India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking

8 best books like India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking (Anand Giridharadas): The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, The Book of Tea, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India, When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Author	George Packer
ISBN	1466836954

A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation

American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending...

The Book of Tea

Author	Kakuzō Okakura
ISBN	0804800693

Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "object d'art" will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves. A keepsake enjoyed by tea lovers for over a hundred years, The Book of Tea Classic Edition will enhance your enjoyment and understanding...

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

Author	Priya Parker
ISBN	1594634920

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at work, at school, at home and beyond.

Every day we find ourselves in gatherings, Priya Parker says in The Art of Gathering. If we can understand what makes these gatherings effective and memorable,...

First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life

Author	Eve Brown-Waite
ISBN	0767929357

In this laugh-out-loud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him —literally–to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without...

Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India

Author	Miranda Kennedy
ISBN	1400067863

When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly developing country. What she quickly learns in Delhi about renting an apartment as a single woman—it’s...

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Author	Roger Lowenstein
ISBN	0375758259

With a new Afterword addressing today’s financial crisis

A BUSINESS WEEK BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In this business classic—now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis—Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride...

Untouchables: My Family's Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India

Author	Narendra Jadhav
ISBN	0743270797

Every sixth human being in the world today is an Indian, and every sixth Indian is an untouchable. For thousands of years the untouchables, or Dalits, the people at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, have been treated as subhuman. Their story has rarely been told. This remarkable book achieves something...

The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

Author	Pico Iyer
ISBN	1476784728

A follow up to Pico Iyer’s essay “The Joy of Quiet,” The Art of Stillness considers the unexpected adventure of staying put and reveals a counterintuitive truth: The more ways we have to connect, the more we seem desperate to unplug.

Why might a lifelong traveler like Pico Iyer, who has...