How long does it take to read The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997?
Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth West, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, G. V. Desani, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealey, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai
The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997 by Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth West, Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo, G. V. Desani, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, R. K. Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealey, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai takes about 10 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 10 hours 8 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 553 pages, about 152,075 words.
21 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 10 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Stories and excerpts of novels from India since the country attained its independence in 1947. The subjects range from religious strife, to the assault on the senses of the many people one is surrounded by.
Subjects: Indic literature (English), Literary collections, English literature, indic authors, Aufsatzsammlung, Literatur, Anthologies
