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Books and Authors
Famous Books by Indian Writers Authors Books
Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam • Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power within India, • Inspiring Thoughts • You Are Born to Blossom • The Luminous Sparks, My Journey, Turning Points (2012) • Indian 2020-A Vision for the New Millennium • The Family and the Nation (2008), Wings of Fire, Indomitable Spirit, Mission India RamachandraGuha • Makers of Modern India • India After Gandhi, The History of the World’s Largest Democracy • Environmentalism: A Global History • The State of India Cricket, Patriots and Partisans Jawaharlal Nehru • A Bunch of Old Letters • Glimpses of World History • Letters from a Father to his Daughter • The Discovery of India Khushwant Singh • The Sunset Club • Sahibs Who Loved India • Why I supported the Emergency • Truth, Love and A Little Malice • We Indians • A Bride for the Sahib RK Narayan • Guide • Dark Room • The Vendor of Sweets ChetanBhagat • Five Point Someone • Three Mistakes of My Life • One Night at the Call Centre • 2 States : The Story of My Marriage • Revolution 2020-Love, Corruption, Ambition 2
• what Young India Wants • Sparks Speech
Sarojini Naidu • The Broken Wing • The Golden Threshold • The Feather of the Dawn JP Narayan • Inside Lahore Fort War Circulars To All • Fighters of Freedom • Prison Diary • Why Socialism Ram Mohan Roy • Percepts of Jesus • A Gift of Monotheists
Authors Books Mahatma Gandhi • My Experiments With Truth • Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule • Key to Health AmartyaSen • Development as Freedom • The Idea of Justice Abdul Kalam Azad • India Wins Freedom
Annie Besant • Wake up India
AravindAdiga • The White Tiger • The Last Man in Tower • Between The Assassination AurobindoGhosh • Life Diving
Amish Tripathi • The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputhras • The Immortals of Meluha BR Ambedkar • What Congress and Gandhi have done to Untouchables, Annihilation of Caste C. Rangarajan • Growth and Finance
DadabhaiNaoroji • Poverty and Un-British Rule in India
PN Bhagwati • My Tryst with Justice
Dr. Radha Krishnan • Hindu View of Life
Dr. Rajendra Prasad • India Divided
VD Savarkar • India War of Independence
Edited by Pranab • The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation Mukherjee Hamid Ansari • Travelling Through Conflict
IK Gujral • Matters of Discretion (Autobiography)
Indira Gandhi • My Truth 3
Jaswant Singh • Jinnah – India, Partition, Independence
KapilDev • Straight from the Heart
KapilSibal • I Witness : Partial Observation
KuldipNayar • The Judgement
KR Narayanan • In the Name of the People : Reflections of Democracy • Freedom and Development
Authors Books Lal Krishna Advani • My Country My Life
LalaLajpatRai • Unhappy India
ManoharMalgaonkar • A Bend in the Ganges
Meghnad Desai • The Rediscovery of India
M. VeerappaMoily • Shree Ramayana Mahanveshanam
NandanNilekani • Imaging India : Ideas for a New Century
NarendraModi • Convenient Action
Natwar Singh • Walking with Lions
Nirad C Choudhary • An Autobiography of Unknown India
Rajmohan Gandhi • The Good Boat Man : A Portrait of Gandhi
Ruskin Bond • Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
Ravi Shankar • My Music My Life
Russi M Lala • For the Love of India : The life and Time of Jamsitji Tata RohintonMistry • Such a Long Journey
Raghuran G Rajan • Saving Capitalism from Capitalists
SC Bose • The Indian Struggle
Shobha De • Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstoppable, Sethji SainaNehwal • Playing to Win
Subramanian Swamy • Electronic Voting Machines - Unconstitutional and Tamperable Sunil Gavasmar • Sunny Days
Surjit Singh Barnala • My Other Two Daughters
Swami Dayanand • SatyarthPrakash
TarunTejpal • The Valley of Masks 4
TS Krishnamurthy • The Miracle of Democracy : India’s Amazing Journey V VGiri • Voice of Conscience
VeerappaMoily • Unleashing Earth
Vinita Kamte • To the Last Bullet
YV Reddy • Glogal Crisis Recession and Uneven Recovery
Yuvraj Singh • The Test of My Life
ZoyaHasan • Congress After Indira Award Winning Authors of Indian Origin and their Writings
Authors Books Salman Rushdie • Midnight’s Children • Shame • The Moor’s last Sigh • Fury • The Satanic Verses Vikram Seth • A Suitable Boy • An Equal Music • Two Lives • The Golden Gate Arundhati Roy • The God of Small Things • The Algebra of Infinite Justice • An ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire • Broken Republic RohintonMistry • Such a Long Journey • Family Matters • A Fine Balance VS Naipaul • A House for Mr. Biswas • India : A Wounded Civilisation • An Area of Darkness • India : A Million Mutinies now • The Masque of Africa • A Bend in The River JhumpaLahiri • The Namesake • The Interpreter of Maladies • The Unaccustomed Earth Kiran Desai • The Inheritance of Loss (Man Booker Prize, 2006)
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LATEST BOOKS
Authors Books ShatrughanSinha • Anything But Khamosh
Jain • MARU BHARAT SARU BHARAT (My AcharyaRatnasundersuriswarjiMaharaj India Noble India)
P.J. Alexander (Editor) • Jawaharlal Nehru and The Indian Polity in Perspective MM Agarwal • Objective Railway Engineering –Track, Works & Others ShriSubhash Chandra • The Z Factor
Mamata Banerjee • Tolerance
Pranab Mukherjee • The Turbulent Years – 1980-1996 – Vol-II APJ Abdul Kalam • Transendence
Vani Mahesh and Shinie Antony • A Kingdom for his Love
Razack • Indian Paper Money
Sri GovindPansare • Who was Shivaji?
P.S. NagiLoktus • The Culture Heritage of Trans Himalayas – Kinnaur PramodKapoor • Gandhi : An Illustrated Biography
Bilal Siddiqui • The Kiss of Life How a Superhero and my son defeated BG Verghese • A State in Denial – Pakistan’s Misguided and Dangerous Scott Kelly • Endurance: My year in Space and Our Journey to Mars KartarLalvani • The Making of India : The Untold Story of British RanaAyyub • Gujarat Files : Anatomy of a Cover Up
ManjuLodha • Book on ParamVir Chakra Winners
Pavithra Ramesh • No Time to Pause – book
ShashiKapoor • ShashiKapoor – The Householder, The Star Husain Haqqani • India Vs. Pakistan : Why Can’t we just be Friends Ruskind Bond • My Favourite Nature Stories
BinodChaudhary • Making it Big
M.K. Rasgotra • A Life in Diplomacy
Harinder S. Kohili • The World in 2050 – Striving for a More Just, Prosperous and Harmonious Global Community 6
Dr. KP. Mathur • The Unseen Indira Gandhi
RudraneilSengupta • Ringside with Vijender
SaniaMirza • Autobiography ‘Ace Against Odds’
Mr. Subbarao • Who moved my interest rate?
Margaret Alva • Autobiography “Courage & Commitment” AmitavGhosh • The Great Derangement : Climate Change Mrs. PremAhluwalia • India’s most Powerful Women
JK Rowling • Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Prof. Anil K Gupta • Grassroots Innovation
ChetanBhagat • One Indian Girl
SanjeevSanyal • The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History AB De Villiers • AB: The Autobiography
Josue Saenz • The Grolier Codex
Chris Gayle • Six Machine
Mohd Hamid Ansari • Citizen and Society
Surendra Kumar • Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign Policy
Arundhati Roy • The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Gandhi Serve India • Mahatma – Gandhi’s Life in ColourUntouchability No More Shailesh Gandhi • e-book on RTI
Twinkle Khanna • The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad
Dhrubajyoti Borah • The Sleepwalker’s Dream
Vijay Lokapally • Driven : The ViratKohli Story
ArunJaitley • Andhere se UjalekiAur
Pa Ekalaivan • Rajiv Gandhi Assasin, hidden truths, Priyanka Meeting Nalini Dr. ShashiTharoor • An Era of Darkness : The British Empire in India Shri Ram Naik • Charaiveti, Charaiveti
Samar Khan • Shah Rukh Khan biography ‘SRK – 25 years of Life’ Vimal Mohan, Digvijay Singh Deo and • DipaKarmakar’s biography her • DipaKarmakar : The Small Wonder coach Bishweshwar Nandi 7
Ravindra Kumar • Many Everests : An Inspiring Journey of Transforming Dream into Reality SourabhDuggal • Akhada : The Authorized Biography of Mahavir Singh S.M. Khan • The People’s President : Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Tarun Vijay • Cyber Pathshala
Rishi Kapoor • KhullamKhulla : Rishi Kapoor Uncensored Shri Vijay Kumar • Veerappan, Chasing the Brigand
Prepared by National Atlas and • World’s first Comprehensive Braille Thematic Mapping Organisation Atlas (NATMO) under Department of Science & Technology Ram Kamal Mukherjee • HemaMalini : Beyond the Dream Girl
Khushwant Sing • Amarinder Singh’s Biography ‘ The People’s Maharaja’ Cricketer Aakash Chopra • Number Do Lie
Former Australia Captain Michael • Autobiography My Story Clarke VeerappaMoily • Flaming Tresses of Draupadi
Dr. Ashwani Kumar • Hope in a Challenged Democracy – An India Narative SumitraMahajan • Matoshree
Khalid Mohamed • Asha Parekh’s Autobiography ‘The Hit Girl’ ArjunGaind • Building the Land of five Rivers
Anand Sharma • India’s Indira – a Centennial Tribute
Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay • Metaphysics, Morals and Politics
MS Swaminathan • M.S. Swaminathan: The Quest for a world without hunger World’s first philosophical novel on • Confessions of a dying mind: the blind God faith of atheism Abhirup Bhattacharya • Winning Like Virat: Think & Succeed like Kohli UdayMahurkan • Mann Ki Baat: A Social Revilution on Radio’ and ‘Marching with a Billion – AnalysingNarendra Modi’s Government at Midterm’ Dr. Prafulbali& Lanka Mahesh • Colour Atlas of Oral Implantology 8
Dr. RK Bali & Cr. • Conservative Dentistry – basis Mazoomdar J.R.R. Tolkien • Beren And Luthien
Prof. MuchkundDubey • Lalan Shah Fakir KeGeet
Ganesh Devy • The Crisis Within
Jairam Ramesh • India Gandhi – A Life in Nature
Ramesh PokhriyalNishank • YugPurush, Bharat Ratna, AtalJi
Surya Prakash • The Emergency – Indian Democracy’s Darkest Hour
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subsidized pulses VinodZutshi Committee • For the ‘SwadheshDharshan”Scheme P Chidhamabaram Committee • To review border issues and border security VeerappaMoily Committee • 1.To review disinvestment policy, banking sector • 2.To review all budgetary reforms TVSN Prasadh Committee • Regarding alternatives of Pellet Guns ShriMadhukar Gupta • For strengthening border protection and Committee addressing the issue of gaps and vulnerability in border fencing along Indo-Pakistan border. Pradeep Kumar Sinha • To develop PAN –India roadmap for trade Committee facilitation Amitabh Kant Committee • To review e-commerce rules on foreign direct • investment norms SudarshenSen Committee • To study regulatory issues relating to financial • technology and digital banking in India MadhavChitale Committee • To gear up the guidelines for the desiltation(clearing • odd the silts)of the river Ganga Aravind Subramanian • To consider reasonable increase in minimum Committee support • price (MSP) for pulses and bonus for farmers BimalJalan Committee • To suggest amendments to Stock Exchange and • Clearing Corporations (SECC) Regulations RaoInderjith Singh Committee • International Paralympic has recognized the • Paralympic of India Justice A.K.Mathur • To recommend substantial raise to the salaries Committee and • pensions to one crore central government employees PK Sinha Committee • To shortlist the candidates for RBI governor post Shankar Acharya Committee • To examine the desirability and feasibility of having a new financial year Munialapp Committee • To keep vigil on bird flu situation InjetiSrinivas Committee • To suggest improvements in the National Sports Development Code functioning of sports federations
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