BOOKS/works | AUTHORS |
Indian diary | Edwin S. Montagu (Secretary of State for India, 1917-1922) |
Arctic Home of Vedas | Bal G. Tilak(great leader as "Father of the Indian unrest ) |
Problems of East | Lord Curzon( Viceroy of India, 1898-1906 |
Indian Mussalmans | W.W.Hunter( British scholar and civil servant) |
The People | Lala Lajpat Rai {popularly known as Punjab Kesari (The Caesar of Punjab)} |
India Today | RP Dutt |
The Audacity of Hope | Barack Obama( President of USA) |
In Custody, Fire on the Mountain | Anita Desai (was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1978 for her novel, "Fire on the Mountain" , by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters ) |
Sea of Poppies, The Glass Palace | Amitav Ghosh ( Indian Bengali Writer) |
The Argumentative Indian | Amartya Sen {He is known as "the Conscience of Economics", won Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences(1998)
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Unaccustomed Earth | Jhumpa Lahiri (an Indian American author, won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and her first novel, The Namesake (2003), was adapted into the popular film of the same name) |
Debi Chaudhurani | Bankimchandra (novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram) |
Nil- Darpan | Dinabandhu Mitra (the Bengali dramatist) |
Shatranj je khilari | Premchand (he foremost Hindi-Urdu writer during the early twentieth century |
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie(British-Indian novelist and essayist, won the Booker Prize in 1981) |
In a Free State | V.S. Naipaul {AwardS:Booker Prize
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Staying on (won the Booker Prize for 1977.) | Paul Scott(British novelist, playwright, and poet best known for his monumental tetralogy the Raj Quartet) |
The Siege of Krishnapur (won the 1973 Booker Prize.) | J.G. Farrell (other books: Troubles, The Siege of Krishnapur and The Singapore Grip) |
The Future of India | Bimal Jalan(a former Governor of India's Reserve Bank and a nominated member of the Upper House of India's Parliament, the Rajya Sabha during 2003-2009) |
An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire | Arundhati Roy(She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her novel, The God of Small Things) |
Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist | Mani Shankar Aiyar (a former Indian diplomat who resigned from the foreign service and became a politician working for Rajiv Gandhi in 1989-1991. He is a member of the Indian National Congress party and was Panchayati Raj Minister until he lost his seat in the 2009 Election) |
My Presidential Years | R.Venkataraman(eighth President of India) |
The Hindu View of Life | S. Radhakrishnan {second President of India(1962–1967)} |
Voice of Conscience | V.V,Giri( fourth President of India 1969-74) |
Without Fear of Favour | N.Sanjiva Reddy ( sixth President of India 1977-82) |
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