Authors

  • Kalidasa
  • Abhinavagupta
  • Arthashastra of Kautilya — read R P Kangle’s edition
  • Machiavelli — Discourses on Livy, the Prince
  • Marcel Proust — In search of lost time
  • Shakespere

History

  • The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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