Vinegar Sunday by Kankana Basu

Animal Farm
by George Orwell

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality.

But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

The Diaries of Franz Kafka
by Max Brod

Franz Kafka is one of the greatest and most widely read and discussed authors of the twentieth century, and continues to be a tremendous influence on artists of our time, he remains an elusive figure, his life and work open to endless interpretation.

These diaries reveal the essential Kafka behind the enigmatic artist. Covering the period from 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka's death at the age of forty, they provide a penetrating look into Kafka's world -- notes on life in Prague, accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and for the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt and of being an outcast, and his struggles and triumphs in expressing himself as a writer.

Gulabi Talkies and Other Stories
by "Vaidehi"

A vibrant collection of stories from one of Karnataka's finest story tellers. Vaidehi, noted kannada writer has been hailed for her evocative portrayal of women. She writes with deep compassion and understanding about women who live amidst deep sorrow and poverty but somehow find the strength to go on living. She focuses on the ordinariness of their lives, writing about the midwife turned gatekeeper at the town's new cinema house, the half crazed woman who thinks she is pregnant, the compulsions of an honest but poor man's wife, the upheaval when a young girl confesses to her neighbor that she wants to be a prostitute.The stories are full of wry humour and acute social description...