BOOKS & AUTHORS

Some Famous Indian Books and Authors

 BOOKS                                           AUTHORS 

1.      A Suitable Boy                                   Vikram Seth   

2.      Akbarnama / Ain-I-Akbari                  Adbul Fazal

3.      Anandhmath/Vish Vriksha                  Bankim C. Chatterjee

4.      Arthashastra                                        Kautilya

5.      Ashtadhyayi                                        Panini

6.      Between the Lines                              Kuldip Nayar

7.      Bitter Sweet                                        Noel Coward

8.      Ceasar & Cleopatra                             G. B. Shaw    

9.      Coolie                                                  Mukul Raj Anand      

10.  Das Kapital                                         Karl Marx

11.  David Copperfield                              Charles Dickens

12.  Don Quixote                                       Miguel de Carvantes

13.  Experiments with Untruth                   Michael Anderson

14.  End of an Era                                      C. S. Pandit

15.  Five Point Someone                            Chetan Bhagat

16.  Frankenstein                                        Mary Shelley

17.  Freedom from fear                              Aung San Suu Kyi

18.  Geet Govinda                                     Jayadev

19.  Gitanjali / The Wreck                          Rabindra Nath Tagore

20.  Glimpses of World History                 Jawaharlal Nehru

21.  Godan                                                 Prem Chand

22.  Harry Potter                                        J.K. Rowling

23.  Ignited Minds/Wings of Fire               A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

24.  Importance of Being Earnest              Oscar Wilde

25.  Jet City Women                                  Ankush Saikia

26.  Jurassic Park                                        Michael Crichton

27.  Kadambari                                          Bana Bhatt

28.  Kamsutra                                             Vatsayayan

29.  Les Miserables                                    Victor Hugo

30.  Let's Kill Gandhi                                 Tushar A. Gandhi

31.  Life Divine                                          Aurobindo Ghosh

32.  Malgudi Days/Guide                           R.K. Narayan

33.  Management                                       Elizabeth

34.  Mein Kampf                                        Adolf Hitler

35.  Midnight's Children                             Salman Rushdie

36.  Mill On the Floss                                George Eliot

37.  Non-violence in Peace & War M.K.   Gandhi

38.  Natya Shastra                                      Bharat Muni

39.  Odyssey                                              Homer

40.  Oliver Twist                                        Charles Dickens

41.  Panchtantra                                         Vishnu Sharma

42.  Paradise lost                                        John Milton

43.  Rajatarangini                                       Kalhana

44.  Ramcharitamanas                                Tulsidas

45.  Ratnavali                                             Harshavardhan

46.  Saket / Yashodhara                             Maithili Sharan Gupt

47.  Shahnama                                            Firdausi

48.  Shakuntala                                          Kalidas

49.  Stutichintamani                                   Bhima Bhoi

50.  The God of Small Things                    Arundhati Roy

51.  The Inheritance of Loss                      Kiran Desai

52.  The Merchant of Venice                     William Shakespeare

53.  The Nameshake                                 Jhumpa Leheri

54.  The song of India                                Sarojini Naidu

55.  The White Tiger                                  Aravind Adiga

56.  Time Machine                                     H.G. Wells

57.  Unhappy India                                     Lala Lajpat Rai

58.  Voice of conscience                            V.V. Giri

59.  War and Peace                                    Leo Tolstoy

60.  We Indians                                          Khushwant Singh

61.  Why England Slept                             John F. Kennedy

62.  Yama                                                 Mahadevi Verma

  

QUIZ on BOOKS & AUTHORS 

Answer the following questions:

1.      Which is the longest novel ever published?

2.      What do you mean by philology?

3.      Which language has the richest vocabulary?

4.      Which is the oldest language of the world?

5.      Which book has beeb printed in a shorthand script and in maximum number of languages?

6.      Which is the oldest printed work in the world which dates back to AD 868?

7.      What is the weight of largest superbook which is 270 cm × 300 cm in size?

8.      Which languages are included in the 8th schedule of the constitution of India?

9.      Which famous Hindu epic was written by Ved Vyas and Valmiki respectively?

10.  Which highest literary award setup by the Booker company & the British Publishers Association in 1968?

ANSWERS

1. Les Hommes de bonne volonte 2.Science of Language 3. English 4. Sanskrit 5. The Bible 6. The Hiraka Sutra 7. 252 kg 8. Sindhi and Kashmiri 9. Mahabharata and Ramayan 10. Booker Prize