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Chenna Basava Nayaka Kannada
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar
A Vijayanagara-era historical novel of loyalty, war, and fate.
The Doctrine of Vibration English
Mark Dyczkowski
Kashmir Shaivism's theory of consciousness as dynamic pulsation.
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The Last Kings of Shanghai English
Jonathan Kaufman
Two Jewish families who shaped modern China from opium to revolution.
Indian Method in Acting English
Prasanna
Natyashastra-rooted approach to performance and rasa.
Gödel, Escher, Bach English
Douglas Hofstadter
Strange loops, self-reference, and the emergence of mind.
Gödel's Proof English
Ernest Nagel & James R. Newman
The incompleteness theorems explained for non-mathematicians.
Parva Kannada
S.L. Bhyrappa
The Mahabharata retold without divinity, only human ambition.
Ficciones Spanish
Jorge Luis Borges
Labyrinths, infinite libraries, and the architecture of thought.