The chapter has the following small but growing collection of books on various development related topics. Please contact Aniruddha Vaidya if you would like to borrow any of these.

1. Dams and Development

• The Cost of Living - Arundhati Roy
• Sardar Sarovar: The Report of the Independent Review - Bradford Morse and Thomas Berger
• Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams - Patrick McCully

2. Education / Literacy

• How Children Fail - John C. Holt
• Literacy and Empowerment - Venkatesh Athreya and Sheela Rani Chunkath
• The Paulo Freire Reader - Paulo Freire
• The PROBE Report: "Public Report on Basic Education in India" - PROBE Team

3. Women's Empowerment / Micro-credit

• Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus
• The Empowerment of Women in India: Grassroots Womens Networks and the State - Sangeetha Purushothaman
• United We Sit: The Savings Movement Guidebook - Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti

4. Development / Miscellaneous

• Bapu Kuti: Journeys in the Rediscovery of Gandhi - Rajni Bakshi
• Corruption and the Destiny of Asia - Syed Hussein Alatas
• Culture and Imperialism - Edward Said
• Everybody Loves a Good Drought (2 copies) - P. Sainath
• Its Always Possible: The Transforming of One of the Largest Prisons in the World - Kiran Bedi
• Live from India: Proceedings of the AID Conference, Chennai, India, Jan 1999 - Aravinda Pillalamarri (Editor)
• The One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
• Power Play: A study of the Enron Project - Abhay Mehta

Note: The book collection available in our chapter's informal library has been made possible by individual contributions of various volunteers. Books are circulated at meetings on an honor system. We encourage all members to borrow and/or contribute books/audio/video tapes on topics related to development.