Reading reading reading...

Currently we are preparing ourselves for our departure at the end of the month. We're doing a bunch of reading, researching and fundraising. I (Dede) am reading In spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce and Alizarin is reading Maximum City by Suketu Mehta. Other books that we have read recently about or set in India include Family Matters and Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (both amazing), White Tiger by Aravind Adiga (not as good), and From Midnight to Millenium by Shashi Tharoor. We are also studying pages of dense, technical information about the Bhopal disaster in the Bhopal Reader and I'll soon be starting Animal's People by Indra Sinha (a novel based on the aftermath of the Bhopal disaster). Any reccomendations or thoughts on novels and non-fiction about India would be awesome.