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Inside carefully stored in glass-enclosed bookshelves, is a treasure trove of old manuscripts some from the 1500s, translations of the Upanishads, beautiful folios of calligraphic art with gold paint..
But what takes my breath away, are the newspapers sepia-coloured newsprint sheets bound in volumes..
I decide to turn to geography to mark the celebrations of India's 77th Independence Day next week, scouring my collection of recent reads to pick up five books..
She travels from the drought-ridden sands of the Thar Desert to the flood-prone plains of the Farakka Barrage area in West Bengal, the heights of Ladakh and the coast of Kerala and the Tigerlands of the Sunderbans tiger, telling stories of lands and people..
And if you are taking time off, and travelling over the Independence Day holidays, and looking for more reading, here are five fast-paced books for your airplane reads..
