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'When you read a classic, you do not see more
in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was
before' - Clifton Fadiman |
The
Crossword Book Award -
Shortlist
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English Fiction |
Indian Language Fiction
Translation |
| The
Tiger Claw, Shauna Singh Baldwin |
A Dying
Banyan, Manzoor Ahtesham |
| Tokyo
Cancelled, Rana Dasgupta |
Sangati: events, Bama |
| Surface, Siddhartha Deb |
After
Kurukshetra, Mahasweta Devi |
| The
Radiance of Ashes,
Cyrus Mistry |
The
Unspoken Curse, VK Madhavan
Kutty |
| Magic
seeds, V S Naipaul |
The
Survivors, Gurdial Singh |
| Shalimar the Clown, Salman
Rushdie |
The
Heart has its Reasons, Krishna
Sobti | |
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English Non Fiction |
| One Hundred
years, One hundred voices, Meena Menon & Neera
Adarkar |
| Pundits from
Pakistan: On tour with India 2003-04, Rahul
Bhattacharya |
| Finding
Forgotten Cities: How the Indus civilization was
discovered, Nayanjot Lahiri |
| Maximum city,
Suketu Mehta |
| Diddi: My
mother's voice, Ira Pande |
| Chasing the
monk's shadow: A journey in the footsteps of Xuanzang,
Mishi Saran
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Shortlist
- 2004 |
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English
Fiction |
Indian
Language Fiction Translation |
| If You Are Afraid of Heights, Raj Kamal
Jha |
Astride the Wheel Yantrarudha, Chandrasekhar
Rath |
| Moving On,
Shashi Deshpande |
Bait, Mahasweta Devi |
| The Brainfever
Bird, I Allan Sealy |
In the Name of the Mother, Mahasweta
Devi |
| The Hungry Tide,
Amitav Ghosh |
The Birth of the Maitreya, Bani
Basu |
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The Outcaste Akkarmashi, Sharankumar
Limbali |
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Waiting For Rain, Sirshendu
Mukhopadhyay | |
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English
Fiction |
Indian
Language Fiction Translation |
| Small Remedies, Shashi Deshpande |
Karukku, Bama |
| Something Barely
Remembered, Susan Visvanathan |
Mai, Geetanjali Shree |
| The Glass Palace,
Amitav Ghosh |
The Primal Land, Pratibha Ray |
| The Mandala of
Sherlock Holmes, Jamyang Norbu |
Titu Mir, Mahashweta Devi |
| The Romantics,
Pankaj Mishra |
The Village Before Time, Madhavan
Kutty | |
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English
Fiction |
Indian
Language Fiction Translation |
| A Sin of Colour, Sunetra Gupta |
The Servant's Shirt, Vinod Kumar
Shukla |
| An Equal Music, Vikram Seth |
The Story of a Seaside Village, T M
Meeran |
| Listening Now, Anjana Appachana |
Old Women,
Mahashweta Devi |
| Mango-Coloured Fish, Kaveri Nambisan |
On the Banks of the Mayyazhi, Gita
Krishnankutty |
| The Gabriel Club, Joydeep
Roy-Bhattacharya |
Vasaveswaram, Kritika
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| English Fiction |
| Across the Lakes, Amal Chatterjee |
| Difficult Daughters, Manju Kapur |
| The Everest Hotel, I. Allan Sealy |
| The Madwoman of Jogare, Sohaila
Abdulali |
| Tivolem, Victor
Rangel-Rebeiro | | |
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