I had published on my Tamil blog, a list of books that I had read in 2013. Reproducing that list here.
The books I chose to read are possibly a reflection of the nature of my search, and many of these books have influenced my thinking and the course of my life in a big way.
In English:
- The One-straw revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka
- The Story of Nai Talim, Fifty years of education at Sevagram – Marjorie Sykes
- Unto This Last – John Ruskin
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
- Gandhian Economic Thought – J.C.Kumarappa
- Trusteeship -Gandhi
- Mr.Gandhi : The Man – Millie Graham Polak
- Bapu – My Mother – Manubehn Gandhi
- A school under trees- Raghu Babu
- Village Swaraj – Gandhi
- The Miracle of Calcutta – Manubehn Gandhi
- Subash Chandra Bose, The Spring Tiger – Hugh Toye (Jaico)
- K.Kamaraj : A Study – V.K.Narasimhan
- Without Fear : The Life & Trial of Bhagat Singh – Kuldeep Nayar
- Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
- Blindness – Jose Saramago
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
In Tamil:
- 18வது அட்சக்கோடு – அசோகமித்திரன்
- குறத்தி முடுக்கு – ஜி.நாகராஜன்
- நாளை மற்றுமொரு நாளே – ஜி.நாகராஜன்
- புலிநகக் கொன்றை – பி.ஏ.கிருஷ்ணன்
- பிறகு – பூமணி
- வெக்கை – பூமணி
- செம்மீன் – தகழி சிவசங்கரப் பிள்ளை; தமிழில் – சுந்தர ராமசாமி
- சாருலதா – ரவீந்திரநாத் தாகூர்; தமிழில் – த.நா.குமாரசுவாமி
- தமிழ்நாட்டில் காந்தி – தி.சே.சௌ.ராஜன்
- எனது வாழ்வும் போராட்டமும் – கான் அப்துல் கஃபார் கான்; தமிழில் – க.விஜயகுமார் (தமிழோசை பதிப்பகம்)
- என் குருநாதர் பாரதியார் – கனகலிங்கம்
There were many books that remain partially read; most of them for no fault of the book. Since I do not know how many of these books I will complete, I am also recording, for my own sake, a list of some of the important works.
- Indira, the Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi – Katherine Frank
- The Indian Struggle – Subash Chandra Bose
- Colporul, A History of Tamil Dictionaries – Gregory James (Cre-A)
- Early Tamil Epigraphy, From the Earliest times to the sixth century AD – Iravatham Mahadevan (Cre-A, Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 2003)
- Gandhi, His Life and thought – J.B.Kripalani
- Seven Months with Mahatma Gandhi – Being an inside view of the Non-cooperation movement 1921-22 – Krishna Das (S.Ganesan Publisher, Triplicane, Madras, 1928)
- The First Phase – Pyarelal
- The Guilty Men of Partition – Ram Manohar Lohia