some Indian books

I laid my hands on soft copies of some works by Indian authors recently. Some thoughts:

- Wings of fire: by APJ Abdul Kalam -- inspirational autobiography. A good read. Also the first autobiography I've read.

- The financial wizard: by RK Narayan -- This is one author who never disappoints his reader. Nothing serious, simple, well told story.

- The calcutta chromosome: by Amitabh Ghosh -- A thriller, which is well told, but I lost the author at some points. And at some other points it looked like the script of a hindi horror movie from the 1950s.

-River Sutra: by Geeta Mehta -- not recommended. The book is sort of a collection of unrelated snippets of glorified descriptions of Indian culture -- the kind a "non-Indian" may enjoy.

- God of small things: by Arundati Roi -- could not complete. The scanning was very poor and most of the text was garbled.

(indian subcontinent still)- Lajja: by Tasleema Nasreen -- All the controversy and Hipe aside, I found the author launching into far too detailed descriptions of riots and repeating the same thing over and over...at which point I left reading. Will probably finish it some day to see if there is a twist in the story at the end.