Booklist

The Ecology of Delhi: A Recommended Reading List

by  Amit R. Baishya
A collage made up of the covers to the books discussed below

Novels

 

Ahmed Ali

Twilight in Delhi

Hogarth Press, 1940

 

Nilanjana Roy

The Wildings

Aleph, 2012

 

Nilanjana Roy

The Hundred Names of Darkness

Aleph, 2013

 

Siddhartha Deb

The Light at the End of the World

Soho Press, 2023

 

Samit Basu

The City Inside

Tor Books, 2022

 

Graphic Novel

 

Sarnath Banerjee

All Quiet in Vikaspuri

HarperCollins, 2015

 

Poetry

 

Sudeep Sen

Anthropocene

Pippa Rann Books, 2021

 

Documentary

 

Shaunak Sen

All That Breathes

Rise Films, 2022

 


Amit R. Baishya is associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He teaches courses on postcolonial literature and environmental humanities. His most recent project is titled Attunement to Others: Multispecies Cohabitation in the Anthropocene. It is under consideration with a major university press.

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