Books

I would be lying if I said that I always enjoyed reading. I picked up this habit in law school, credits to my friends who introduced me to the world of books. As I have said before, I take an active interest in reading about Constitutional Law and Legal History. However, if not law I enjoy reading books on History (especially Mughal History), Biographies and on wrestling. Below are the works I have read.

Legal (India):

• Abhinav Chandrachud, Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (Penguin:207)
• Abhinav Chandrachud, Supreme Whispers: Supreme Court Judges, 1980-90 (Penguin: 2018)
• Anuj Bhuwania, Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post Emergency India (Cambridge: 2016)
• Arun K Thiruvengadam, The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis (Constitutional Systems of the World) (Bloomsbury: 2017)
• Chintan Chandrachud, The Cases that India Forgot, (Juggernaut)
• Fali S Nariman, God Save the Hon’ble Supreme Court (Hay House: 2018)
• Gautam Bhatia, Offend, Shock or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution (Oxford: 2018)
• Gautam Bhatia, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts, (Harper Collins: 2019)
• George H Godbois, Judges of the Supreme Court of India 1950-89 (Oxford:2016)
• George H Godbois, Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings (Oxford: 2018)
• Granville Austin, The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation, (Oxford: 2018)
• Granville Austin, Working in a Democratic Constitution: A History of the Indian Experience (Oxford: 2003).
• H.M. Seervai, Constitutional Law of India, 4th ed. (2015)
• Madhav Khosla, The Indian Constitution (Oxford: 2012)
• O. Chinappa Reddy, Court and the Constitution: Summits and Shallows (Oxford: 2009)
• Prashant Bhushan, The Case that Shook India, (Penguin)
• Rama Goyal, Saving India from Indira, (Rupa)
• Rohit De, A People’s Constitution, (Princeton University Press: 2018)
• Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine (Oxford: 2010)
• Sujit Chowdhary, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (Oxford: 2016)
• Subhash Kashyap, Our Parliament (2016)
• Tripurdaman Singh, Sixteen Stormy Days: Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India, (Penguin)
• V Sudish Pai, Legends in Law (2013)
• Zia Modi, 10 Judgments that Changed India (Penguin: 2013)

Legal (International):

• Akhil Reed Amar, America’s Constitution: A Biography (Random House Trade: 2006)
• Akhil Reed Amar, America’s Unwritten Constitution (Basic Books: 2015)
• Akhil Reed Amar, The Constitution Today (Basic Books: 2016)
• Akhil Reed Amar, The Law of the Land (Basic Books: 2015)
• Alfred Denning, What Next in the Law (Oxford: 1982)
• Alfred Denning, Due Process of Law (Butterworth: 1980)
• Andrew Burrows, Rights and Remedies (Oxford)
• Bob Woodward, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (Simon: 2005)
• Bruce Ackerman, Revolutionary Constitutions
• Chintan Chandrachud, Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and United Kingdom (Oxford:2016)
• David Dyzenhaus, Philosophical Foundations of Constitutional Law (Oxford: 2016)
• David Strauss, The Living Constitution
• Frederic William Maitland, A Sketch of English Legal History (2010)
• Helen J. Knowles, The Tie goes to Freedom (Rowman: 2009)
• Heun, Constitution of Germany
• Klug, Constitution of South Africa
• Lary Meter, United States v. Nixon: The Question of Executive Privilege (Chelsea House: 2007)
• Lord Denning, The Due Process of Law, (Oxford)
• Lord Denning, What’s Next in Law, (Oxford)
• Melina Schwartzberg, Democracy and Legal Change
• Michael Sandel, Justice (Penguin: 2010)
• Michael Sandel, What Money can’t buy (Penguin: 2013)
• Nick Barber, Principles of Constitutionalism (Oxford)
• Oppenheimer, Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
• Paul Yowell, Constitutional Rights and Design (Oxford)
• Sandra Fredman, Discrimination Law (Oxford)
• Sandra Fredman, Comparative Human Rights (Oxford)
• Tim Mcneese, Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Pursuit of Freedom (Chelsea House: 2007)
• Tim Mcneese, Plessy v. Fergusson: Separate but Equal (Chelsea House: 2007)
• Tim Mcneese, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke: American Education and Affirmative Action (California House: 2007)
• Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution

Autobiographies/Biographies:

• Adolf Hitler, Mein Kamph (Jaico: 1988)
• Arvind Datar and Soli Sorabjee, Court Room Genius, (Lexis Nexis)
• Chris Jericho, Undisputed: How to Become the World Champion in 1,372 Easy Steps, (Grand Central: 2012)
• Ed Cray, Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren, (Simon: 2017)
• F. Nariman, Before Memory Fades, (Hay House)
• H.R. Khanna, Neither Roses nor Thorns (EBC: 2010)
• H.V. Kamath, Nani Palkhiwala: A Life (Hay House:2012)
• Indu Bhan, Legal Eagles, (Random House India)
• J. Nehru, An Autobiography, (Penguin)
• Kunal Nayyar, Yes My Accent is Real
• Karan Thappar, Devil’s Advocate (Harper: 2018)
• Katherine Frank, Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (Harper: 2007)
• Lord Denning, The Family Story, (Hamlyn Paper Back: 1982)
• Lord Denning, The Closing Chapter, (Butterworths)
• M.C. Chagla, Roses in December, (Bhawan’s Book University)
• M.C. Mahajan, Looking Back, (Har Anand Publication)
• M.C. Setalvad, My Life: Law and Other Things, (Universal Law Publishing)
• M.K Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, (Fingerprint: 2009)
• M Hidayatullah, My Own Boswell (Universal: 2015)
• Marilyn Munroe, My Life
• Michael Kirby, H.M. Seervai-Doyen of Indian Constitutional Law (Universal: 2012)
• Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight against the Islamic State (Virago: 2017)
• Nathuram Godse, Why I Assasinated Gandhi, (Hindi Sahitya Sadan)
• Nawazuddin Siddique, The Ordinary Life (2017)
• PB Gajendragadkar, To the Best of My Memory, (Bhawan)
• PJ Reddy, The Judiciary I Served, (Orient Blackswan)
• Priyanka Chopra, Unfinished
• Shashi Tharoor, Nehru: The Invention of India  (Penguin: 2012)
• Stephen Hawking, A Life
• Sweta Bansal, Courting Politics, (Eastern Book Company)
• The Rock (Dwayne Johnson), The Rock Says, (Harper: 2000)
• Thomas Healy, The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America, (Metropolitan: 2013)
• Thomas Grant, Jeremy Hutchinson: Case Histories
• Vinod Mehta, The Sanjay Story, (Harper India)

History: 

• Abraham Erally, The Emperor’s of the Peacock Throne: Saga of the Great Mughals (Penguin: 2007)
• Alex Rutherford, Empire of the Moguls (Headline: 2010)
• Dominique Lapierre, Freedom at Midnight (Vikas: 2011)
• James Todd, Annals & Antiquities of Rajasthan, (Rupa: 2008)
• J. Nehru, Letters from a father to a daughter, (Penguin)
• J. Nehru, The Discovery of India, (Penguin: 2008)
• J. Nehru, The Glimpses of World History, (Penguin)
• K.R. Malkhani, Political Mysteries, (Prabhat Prakashan)
• Manu Pillai, Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Sivaji (Juggernaut: 2018)
• Paul Sullivan, A Secret History of Oxford
• Percival Speer, Delhi: Its Monuments and History, (Oxford India)
• Rachel Dwyer, Bollywood’s India
• Rana Safvi, Where Stone Speak: Historical Trails in Mehrauli the First City of Delhi (Element: 2015)
• Rana Safvi, The City of Heart, (Hachette India)
• Ronald Bergan, The Film Book
• Sapna Liddle, Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi (STP: 2017)
• Sharar Abdul Hamim, Lucknow: The Last Phase of an Oriental Culture, (Oxford India)
• William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi (Bloomsbury: 2016)
• William Dalrymple, Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond (Juggernaut: 2016)
• William Dalrymple, The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters (Bloomsbury: 2017)

Others:

• A.M. Singhvi, From the Trenches, (Juggernaut)
• Blue, Blue All Rise: Our Story (HQ: 2018)
• Devdutt Patnaik, My Gita (Rupa: 2015)
• Devdutt Patnaik, My Hanuman Chalisa (Rupa: 2017)
• Devdutt Patnaik, Olympus: My Indian Retelling of  the Greek Myths, (Penguin)
• Devdutt Patnaik, Ramayana v. Mahabharata: My Playful Comparison (Rupa: 2018)
• Devdutt Patnaik, Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata, (Penguin)
• Devdutt Patnaik, Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of Ramayana, Rupa: 2013)
• Devdutt Patnaik, 7 Secrets of Shiva (Rupa: 2016)
• Gurucharan Das, The Difficulty of being Good, (Penguin)
• Jignesh R Shah, Wits and Wisdom of Nani Palkhivala (2015)
• Kuldip Nayar, On Leaders and Icons: From Jinnah to Modi, (Speaking: 2019)
• Laurence, The Life and Opinions of Fristream Shendy, Gentleman
• Mark Tully, Mrs. Gandhi’s Last Battle (Rupa: 2006)
• Michael Alexander, The New Jim Crow
• Prashant Bhushan, The Case That Shook India: The Verdict that led to the Emergency (Penguin: 2018)
• Raj and DK, Bollywood 
• Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and The Nation, (Speaking Tiger: 2018)
• Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness (Aleph: 2016)
• Shashi Tharoor, The Hindu Way, (Aleph)
• Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister (Aleph: 2018)
• Shashi Tharoor: Why I am a Hindu (Aleph: 2018)
• Stephen Alter, Amritsar to Lahore: Crossing the Border between India and Pakistan (Penguin: 2009)
• Tara, Why Men Rape
• Vallabhbhai Patel, Words of Freedom: Ideas of a Nation, (Penguin: 2017)

[The ones highlighted in blue, are my personal favorites and are highly recommended for people interested in these genres.]