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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

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• 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 Mukherjee

• The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation

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 (Man Booker Prize, 2006)

• The Inheritance of Loss

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LATEST BOOKS

Authors Books

ShatrughanSinha • Anything But Khamosh

Jain AcharyaRatnasundersuriswarjiMaharaj

• MARU BHARAT SARU BHARAT (My 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 her coach Bishweshwar Nandi

• DipaKarmakar’s biography

• DipaKarmakar : The Small Wonder

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 Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO) under Department of Science & Technology

• World’s first Comprehensive Braille

Atlas

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 Clarke

• Autobiography My Story

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 God

• Confessions of a dying mind: the blind 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. Mazoomdar

• Conservative Dentistry – basis

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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the Cinematograph Act/Rules

Kamlesh Chandra Committee • To review pay structure and social security benefits provided to GraminDakSevaks

Justice R M Lodha Committee • For reforms in BCCI

ArvindPanagariya Committee • To fast – track bullet trains

P.K. Sinha Committee • To process the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission

R V Easwar Committee • To simplify Income Tax Act,1961

Tapan Roy Committee • To examining and making recommendations on changing of the Companies Act,2013

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T.S.R. Subramanian Committee

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B BTandon Committee • Guidelines set for Government advertisements

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understand the distinctions of film certification of the censor board

T S R Subramanian Committee

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RM Lodha Committee • To oversee how the regulator of medical profession and education in India function

S. Ayyapan Committee • To prepare a draft national policy on marine fishery

Lt Gen D B Shekatkar (retd) Committee

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Sanjay Mitra Committee • To frame a policy framework for taxi aggregators and other transport operators

Anand Desai Committee • To examine Specific Relief Act,1963

Ratan P. Watal Committee • To boost digital payment system in India

A.K.Bajaj Committee • Tasked with assisting the Krishna River Management Board(KRMB)

RenukaChoudhary Committee • Prevent the fires in the Himalayan forests spread across Uttarkhand,Himachal Pradesh,Jammu and Kashmir

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Mohandas Pai Committee • To consolidate and amend laws relating to reorganization as well as insolvency resolution of corporate persons, partnership firms and individuals in a time bound manner.

J P Nadda Committee • To review fire safety measure at various Central government hospitals and directed it to submit a report within 15 days.

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Justice L Narasimmha Reddy Committee

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MadhusudhanSahoo Committee

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GS Jha Committee • To visit the Cauvery basin area and assess the ground

Hem Pande Committee • Government decided to utilize the vast network of post offices across the country to sell

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P Chidhamabaram Committee • To review border issues and border security

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Pradeep Kumar Sinha Committee

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SudarshenSen Committee • To study regulatory issues relating to financial

• technology and digital banking in India

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• odd the silts)of the river Ganga

Aravind Subramanian Committee

• To consider reasonable increase in minimum support

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BimalJalan Committee • To suggest amendments to Stock Exchange and

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RaoInderjith Singh Committee • International Paralympic has recognized the

• Paralympic of India

Justice A.K.Mathur Committee

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• 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

Prof. Timothy Gonsalves Committee

• Suggested to create 20 percent reservation seats for the girl students in IITs

11 Anil Baijal Committee • To review the decision taken by the Delhi

Police and other departments regarding women’s

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VinodRai Committee • Supreme Court Appoints VinodRai as BCCI Committee’s Head

N.S. Kang Committee • To frame uniform rules for the states to avoid delay in proper implementation of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (RPD) Act across the country

N.K. Singh Committee • To Review the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management (FRBM) Act

Amitabh Chaudhry Committee

• To analysis the existing framework of IRDA linked and non-linked insurance product regulations

Jeddah, A fzalAmanullah Committee

• To look into the matter of how to improve the Haj Policy of India

Dr. H.R. Nagendra Committee • To Prepare a Yoga Protocol for Diabetes Control

KadiyamSirhari Committee • To Look into issues related to girls education

Dr. Pritam Singh Committee • To integrate and streamline the long and complex process of defence acquisitions

MeenaHemchandra Committee

• To review the threats emerging from the use of technology, study adoption of new technology standards and suggest appropriate policy interventions to strengthen cyber security and resilience

ParthaMukhopadhay Committee

• To suggests Legal Framework to Secure the Rights of Migrants

ArvindPanagariya Committee • To examine the working of the regulatory bodies Central Council of Indian Medicine (CCIM) and Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH) said by YessoNaik, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for AYUSH

AK Bajaj Committee • Water Sharing between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

DB Shekatkar Committee • To reform the military financial management

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• Draft Ganga Act

Dinesh Sharma Committee • To propose new regulations related to digital currencies or virtual currencies

Kewal Kumar Sharma Committee

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commission in education institutes

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Maa Committee • To Check mid-day meal quality in UP schools

MadhavChitale Committee • To recommends measure for desiltation of river Ganga

MHA Panel Committee • To examine the rules which allows free

movement of Indian and Myanmarese citizens within 16 Kms of the border.

Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan Committee

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DuayKotak Committee • To improving the stands of corporate governance of listed companies

Pradeep Kumar Committee • To look at the stressed assets of the banking sector