Top 5 Indian Books for Christmas: Gift or Keep These Award-Winning Reads!

• Explore five acclaimed books by Indian authors, ideal for thoughtful Christmas gifts or personal reading, spanning diverse genres.
• Banu Mushtaq's 'The Heart Lamp' and Arundhati Roy's 'Mother Mary Comes to Me' offer deep insights into women's lives and personal/political inheritance.
• Ravikant Kisana's 'Meet the Savarnas' incisively critiques urban India's caste codes and privilege with wit and precision.
• Megha Majumdar's 'A Guardian and a Thief' presents a gripping tale of survival and inequality in a near-future Kolkata.
• Kiran Desai's 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' explores migration, class, and belonging, earning praise from Barack Obama.

Why It Matters: These five diverse and acclaimed books by Indian authors make perfect, thoughtful Christmas gifts or personal reads.