34 review for The Non Fiction Collection 2 : Twenty Years Of Penguin India

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   4 out of 5

   S.Ach – Jan 04, 2021

   When I bought both parts of this series almost 13 years ago, I was reading only fictions then, and had bought these in the anticipation that these would open a window to the world of non-fiction. However, as over the years I have already dug deep into the realm of non-fiction, I really didn't find the necessity to read this book. After I had read the first one, I realized this collection of excerpts from celebrated non-fictions published by Penguin Books are not intended to provide any structura When I bought both parts of this series almost 13 years ago, I was reading only fictions then, and had bought these in the anticipation that these would open a window to the world of non-fiction. However, as over the years I have already dug deep into the realm of non-fiction, I really didn't find the necessity to read this book. After I had read the first one, I realized this collection of excerpts from celebrated non-fictions published by Penguin Books are not intended to provide any structural information to the readers, but to as trailers to the readers to buy those books instead. I skimmed through the book nevertheless, as I was unaware of most of the writers and their works, the topics ranging from politics, cricket, bollywood, biographies and memoirs. This collection has the book excerpts of some of the writers, whose work I am already familiar with -Jawaharlal Nehru, APJ Abdul Kalam, J Krishnamurti, R K Laxman, RamChandra Guha, Sadat Hasan Manto, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Suketu Mehta, Bimal Jalan, Pupul Jayakar, Bachi Karkaria, Sunil Khilnani, R M Lala, and Osho. However, these are the writers I got introduced to through this collection and would love to read their books - Pico Iyer, Christophe Jaffrelot, Sudhir Kakar, Mukul Kesavan, Amitava Kumar, Harsh Mander, Gita Mehta, Ved Mehta, Madhushree Mukherjee, Rudragshu Mukherjee, Sudha Murty, Ashis Nandy and Renuka Narayan.

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   4 out of 5

   Jay Jani – Sep 21, 2011

   Wondeful collection of diverse articles on myriad issues. Great blend of fine thoguhts except few crap ones on Godhra riots particularly the one by Dionne Bunsha ( Venomous article spilling out a false story ).

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   5 out of 5

   Hema Rajashekar –

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   4 out of 5

   Preethi –

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   5 out of 5

   Nanda Kumar –

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   5 out of 5

   Kaustabh Acharya –

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   4 out of 5

   Shalini –

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   4 out of 5

   Pranvendra Champawat –

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   4 out of 5

   Anshu –

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    4 out of 5

    Hugo Buisset –

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    5 out of 5

    Sauveer –

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    4 out of 5

    Prasant kumar –

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    4 out of 5

    Divya Banerjee –

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    4 out of 5

    Praj –

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    5 out of 5

    Nirmal –

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    5 out of 5

    Arvind –

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    4 out of 5

    Sunila Verma –

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    4 out of 5

    Raychan –

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    4 out of 5

    Tilottama –

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    5 out of 5

    Muddle head –

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    5 out of 5

    Sarad Pradhan –

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    5 out of 5

    Kanupriya Ahuja –

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    5 out of 5

    Arvind Venkatadri –

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    5 out of 5

    A Einstein –

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    4 out of 5

    Vageesh –

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    4 out of 5

    Abhigna Arigala –

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    4 out of 5

    Jaydeep –

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

    Vinay Ravi –

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    4 out of 5

    Imran –

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

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    4 out of 5

    Arun Kumar –