What to read before going to India

Books and documentaries on India

• R K Narayan, The Guide
• Krishnamurti, Free oneself from the known
• Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Scent of India
• Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
• Tarun J Tejpal, Far from Chandigarh
• Lavison Wood, Walking the Himalayas: An adventure of survival and endurance HardcoverArundhati Roy, The god of Small things
• Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
• Jhampa Lahiri, The Lowland
• Jean-Claude Carrière, In search of Mahabharata
• Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram