Date

Title

Author

2001

January

A Bend In The River

V.S. Naipaul

February

Motiba's Tattoos

Mira Kamdar

March

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Mohandas K. Gandhi

April

Curry Coast

Binoo K. John

May

Chakori

Chandrasekhar Kambar

June

Bolo! Bolo!

July

The Death of Vishnu

Manil Suri

August

Samsara

Rajiv Vrudhula

September

Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh

October

The Karma of Brown Folk

Vijay Prasad

November

Moth Smoke

Mohsin Hamid

December

Malgudi Days

R.K. Narayan

2000

January

Homework

Suneeta Perez de Costa

February

Reef

Romesh Gunesekra

March

In Light Of India

Octavio Paz

April

Beach Boy

Ardashir Vakil

May

The Snake Charmer

Sanjay Nigam

June

The Blue Bedspread

Raj Kamal Jha

July

My Own Country

Abraham Verghese

August

Cinnamon Garden

Shyam Selvadurai

September

Junglee Girl

Ginu Kamani

October

Meatless Days

Sara Suleri

November

Pilgrimage

Pramila Jayapal

December

Cracking India

Bapsi Sidhwa

1999

January

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra

February

Arranged Marriages

Chitra Bannerji Devakurani

March

Midnight's Children

Salmun Rusdie

April

Arrow of the Blue Skinned God

Jonah Blank

May

Midnight to the Millenium

Shashi Taroor

June

May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons

Elisabeth Bumiller

July

Shiva Dancing

Bharti Kirchner

August

Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard

Kiran Desai

September

The Invisibles

Zia Jaffrey

October

Snakes And Ladders

Geeta Mehta

November

What the Body Remembers

Shauna Singh Baldwin

December

Interpreters of the Maladies

Jhumpa Lahiri

1998

October

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

November

Tennis Partner

Abraham Verghese