Important Books and Authors

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[A] India writers and their books :

Writer	Books
Pt. Vishnu Sharma	Panchatantara
Vishakhadatta	Mudra Rakshas
Raskhan	Prem Vatika
Panini	Ashtadhyayi
Shudrak	Mrichhakatikam
Kalidasa	Raghuvansham, Kumarsambhavam, Meghdootam, Abhigyanshakuntalam
Vatsyayana	Kama Sutra
Vigyaneshwar	Mitakshara
Jeemootwahan	Daybhag
Kalhana	Rajtarangini
Plini	Natural History
Kautilya	Arthashastra
Dandi	Avanti Sundari, Daskumaracharitam
Ved Vyas	Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharata
Ashwaghosh	Buddha Charitam
Jayadev	Geet Govind
Bana Bhatt	Kadambari
Bhavabhuti	Malti Madhav
Amar Singh	Amar Kosh
Bhartrihari	Niti-Shatak, Shringar Shatak, Vairagya Shatak
Firdausi	Shahnama
Abul Fazal	Ain-i-Akbar, Akabarnama
Surdas	Sahityalahari, Sursagar
Kabirdas	Bijak, Ramayani, Sabar
Gulbadan Beghum	Humanyunama
Al-Beruni	Kitab-ul-Hind
Malik Mohammed Jayasi	Padmavat
Mulk Raj Anand	Coolie,Confession of a Lover, Two leaves and a bud
Nirad C.Chaudhury	Hinduism, Autobiography of an unknown Indian, a Passage to England, Culture in the Vanity Bag, Continent of Crime.
Rabindra Nath Tagore	Chitrangada, Gitanjali, Gora, Chandalika, Visarjana, Hungry Stones
Sumitranandan Pant	Jyotsana, Yugwani, Chidambara
Kuldip Nayyar	The Judgment, Distant Neighbours; India, the Critical Years; In Jail, India after Nehru, between the lines
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh	Life Divine, Essays on Gita
Swami Shivanand	Divine Life
Amrita Pritam	Death of a City, Kagaz te Canvas, Forty nine Days
Munsi Premchand	Godan, Gaban, Karmabhumi, Rangbhumi
Khushwant Singh	Indira Gandhi Returns, Indira Gandhi: Badhate Kadam, The Company of Women
B.M.Kaul	Untold Story, Confrontation with Pakistan
Vijay Tendulkar	Sakharam Binder
R.K Narayanan	The Dark Room, Malgudi Days, Guide, My Days, Swami and Friends
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan	Indian Philosophy
Sarojini Naidu	Golden Threshold, Broken Wings
Suryakant Tirpathi Nirala	Anamika, Parimal,, Gunjan Juhi Ki Kali
Yashpal	Jhootha Sach
Jai Shankar Prasad	Kamayani, Aansoo, Skandagupta, Ajatshatru
Kazi Nazrul Islam	Agni Veena
Maithilisharan Gupt	Bharat Bharati
Ramdhari Singh Dinkar	Kurukshetra, Urvashi
Mrs. Indira Gandhi	Eternal India
S.H. Vatsyayan ‘Agyeya’	Kitni Nawon Mein Kitnee Bar, Aangan Ke  Paar, Dwar, Shekhar: Ek Jivani, Nadi ke Dweep
Mahadevi Verma	Yama, Niharika, Neeraja
Amrit Lal Nagar	Amrit Aur Vish
Nayantara Sehgal	Avoice of Freedom
V.S Naipal	Area of Darkness, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Million Mutinies Now, A Bend in the River
Devkinandan Khatri	Chandrakanta Santati
Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay	Devdas, Charitraheen, Shrikant, Parineeta
Vrindavanlal Verma	Jhansi Ki Rani
Jainendra Kumar	Sunita, Tyagpatra
Bhagwati Charan Verma	Chitralekha
Panishwar Nath ‘Renu’	Maila Aanchal, Mare Gaye Gulfam
Gajanan Madhav ‘Muktibodh’	Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai
Bhartendu Harischandra	Bharat Durdasha, Satya Harischandra

 

[B] Some Important Foreign Writers and their Books

Writer	Books
Adam Smith	Wealth of Nations
Adolf Hitler	Mein Kamph
Albert Einstein	The World as I See it
Alexander Solzhenitsyn	August 1914
A.L Basham	The Wonder that was India
Anton Chekhov	Cherry Orchard
Arther Hele	Airport
Aristotle	Politics
Boris Pasternak	Dr. Zhivago
David Baldacci	Absolute Power
Dante	Divine Comedy
E.M. Forster	A Passage to India, Maurice
Homer	Odyssey, Illiad
H.G. Wells	Shape of Things to Come
Harold Evans	Good Times, Bad Times
Henry Miller	Tropic of Cancer
Issac Newton	Principia
Katherine Mayo	Mother India
Machiavelli	The Prince
Maxim Gorky	Mother
Plato	Republic
Jean J. Rousseau	The Social Contract
John Milton	Paradise Lost, Lycidas
Winston Churchill	Gathering Storm
George Orwell	Farm House, Animal Farm
Charless Darwin	Descent of Man, origin of Species
Willian Shakespeare	Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, Hemlet, King Lear, Othello
George Bernard Shaw	Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Apple Carte, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra, Candida
Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield
J.K Galbraith	Affluent Society, Ambassador’s Journal, The Triumph
Herold Joseph Laski	Grammar of Politics, Dilema of Our Time
J.M. Barrie	Hindu Civilization, Peter Pan
Gunnar Myrdal	Against the Stream, Asian Drama
Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace
Z.A Bhutto	Great Tragedy
Vladimir Nabakov	Lolita
Mao-tse Tung	On Contradiction

 

[C] Some Latest Books and Authors

Books	Writer
Ramancing with Life	Dev Anand
Saurach Ganguli: The Maharaja of Cricket	Debasheesh Dutta
Mohan Das : A True Story of a man, his People and Empire	Raj Mohan Gandhi
Lets Kill Gandhi	Tushar Gandhi
Eat, Prey, Love	Elizabeth Gilbert
Manzilon se Jyada Safar	V.P. Singh
A Call to Honour ; In service of Emergent India	Jaswant Singh
Vikram Sarabhai : A life	Amrita Shah
Mr. Midnight	Jim Echison
Soldier : The Life of Colin Powell	Carren d’ Young
Bangladesh : The Next Afghanistan	Hiranyam nKarlekar
The Making of A Superstar	Sushmita Sengupta
Full Empowered	Pablo Neruda
Drishtikon	Arjun Munda
Amrita Shergil : A Life	Yashodhara Dalmia
Guiding Souls	Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Nine O’ Nine	Nandita Puri
Collected Plays	Girish Karnad
All my Sisters	Zudith Lenox
The longest Race	Tom Alter
Gulab Bai : The Queen of Nautanki Theatre	Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Touch Play (biography of Prakash Padukone)	Dev Sukumar
Out of My Comfort Zone: The Autobiography	Steev Waugh
Honeymoon	James Petterson
Da Vinci Code	Don Brown
The Broker	John GReeson
God of Small Things	Arundhati Rai
Speed Post	Shobha De
The Better Man	Anita Nayyar
Bookless in Baghdad	Shashi Thiroor
The Argumentative Indians	Dr. Amartya Sen
The Algebra of Infinite Justice	Arundhat RAi
Fire fly : A Fairy Tale	Ritu Beri
Tow Lives	Vikram seth
Glass palace	Amitav Ghosh
The Brief History of Time	Stephen Hawking
Freedom from Fear	Aung San Suu Kyi
Fasting, Feasting	Anita Desai
The Lord of the Flies	William Goldings
Struggle for  Change	K.B Lal
My Life	Bill Clinton
Life of Pi	Yann Martel
Indian in Slow Motion	Mark Tully
Ignited Minds	Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Wings of Fire	Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Envisioning an Empowered Nation	Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri
One Day Cricket, the Indian Challenge	Ashish Roy
A view from Outside	P. Chidambaram
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows	J.K Rawling
The Year of the Roester	Guy Sorman
Above Average	Amitabh Bagchi
Dalits in India : a Profile	Sukhdeo thorat
The top of the raintree	Kamalini Sengapta
Terrifying Visions : Golwalkar, the RSS and India	Jyotirmay Sharma
Frontline Pakistan : the Struggle with Millitant Islam	Zahid Hussain
21st century Journalilsm in India	Nalini Rajan
The Splender of Silence	Indu Sundaresan
The Leopard and the Fox : A Pakistani Tragedy	Tariq ali
A Time of Transition : Rajiv Gandhi To the 21st Century	Mani Shankar Aiyer

 

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