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Saturday, 8 December 2012

List of famous BOOKS and 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 been 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 super book 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 Ramayana
10. Booker Prize


BOOKS & AUTHORS

BOOKS                                                                      AUTHORS

A bend in the river                                                      V.S. Naipal
A brush with life                                                         Satish Gujral
A House of Mr. Biswas                                              V.S. Naipal
A Million Mutinies Now                                             V.S. Naipal
A Passage to England                                                 Nirad C.Chodhury
A Prisoner's Scrapbook                                               L.K. Advani
A River Sutra                                                              Gita Mehra
A sense of time                                                           H.S.Vatsyayan
A strange and subline address                                    Amit Chaudhary
A Suitable Boy                                                           Vikram Seth   
A village by the sea                                                     Anita Desai
A voice for freedom                                                   Nayantara Sehgal
Aansoo                                                                        Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Afternoon Raag                                                          Amit Chaudhari
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind                                    Deepak Chopra
Agni Veena                                                                 Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ain-i-Akbari                                                                Abul Fazal
Akbarnama                                                                  Adbul Fazal
Amar Kosh                                                                  Amar Singh
Amrit Aur Vish                                                           Amrit Lal Nagar
An autobiography                                                       Jawaharlal Nehru
An Equal Music                                                          Vikram Seth
An Idealist View of life                                              Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Anamika                                                                      Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
Anandmath                                                                 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Areas of Darkness                                                       V.S. Naipal
Arthashastra                                                                Kautilya
Ashtadhyayi                                                                Panini
Autobiography of an Unknown India                        Nirad C. Choudhury
Bandicoot Run                                                            Manohar Malgonkar
Beginning of the Beginning                                        Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh
Between the Lines                                                      Kuldip Nayyar
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self                         Sisirkumar Ghose
Bhagvad Gita                                                              Ved Vyas
Bharat Bharati                                                             Maithili Saran Gupt
Bharat Durdasha                                                         Bhartendu Harischandra
Bitter Sweet                                                                Noel Coward
Border and Boundaries: women in India's Partition  Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Breaking the Silence                                                   Anees Jung
Bride and the Sahib and the other stories                   Khushwant Singh
Broken Wings                                                             Sarojini Naidu
Bubble, The                                                                 Mulk Raj Anand
Buddha Charitam                                                       Ashwaghosh
By God's Decree                                                         Kapil Dev
Ceasar & Cleopatra                                                     G. B. Shaw    
Chandalika                                                                  Rabindra Nath Tagore
Chandrakanta Santati                                                 Devkinandan Khatri
Chemmen: Thakazhi                                                   Sivasankara Pillai
Children Ask Kalam                                                   A P J Abdul Kalam
Chitra                                                                          Rabindranath Tagore
Chitralekha                                                                  Bhagwati Charan Verma
Chitrangada                                                                Rabindra Nath Tagore
Circle of Reason                                                         Amitav Ghosh
Clear Light of Day                                                      Anita Desai
Confessions of a Lower                                              Mulk Raj Anand
Confrontation with Pakistan                                       B. M. Kaul
Conquest of Self                                                         Mahatma Ghandhi
Continent of Crime                                                     Nirad C Chaudhary
Coolie                                                                          Mulk Raj Anand
Court Dancer                                                              Rabindranath Tagore
Culture in the Vanity Bag                                           Nirad C Chaudhury
Das Kapital                                                                 Karl Marx
David Copperfield                                                      Charles Dickens
Daybhag                                                                      Jeemootwahan
Days of My Years                                                       H.P. Nanda
Death of a City                                                           Amrita Pritam
Devdas                                                                        Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Discovery of India                                                      Jawaharlal Nehru
Distant Drums                                                             Manohar Malgonkar
Distint Neighbours: India                                           Kuldip Nayar
Divine Life                                                                  Swami Shivananda
Don Quixote                                                               Miguel de Carvantes
Durgesh Nandini                                                         Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dynamics of Social Change                                        Chandra Shekhar
Eight Lives                                                                  Rajmohan Gandhi
End of an Era                                                              C. S. Pandit
English August                                                           Upamanyu Chatterjee
Envisioning an Empowered Nation                            A P J Abdul Kalam
Essays on Gita                                                            Sri Aurobindo Ghosh
Eternal Himalayas                                                       Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Eternal India                                                               Mrs Indira Gandhi
Experiments with Untruth                                          Michael Anderson
Faces of Everest                                                          Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia
Five Point Someone                                                    Chetan Bhagat
Foreign Policy of India                                               I.K. Gujral
Forty Nine Days                                                         Amrita Pritam
Frankenstein                                                                Mary Shelley
Freedom from fear                                                      Aung San Suu Kyi
From Rajpath to Lokpath                                           Vijaya Raje Scindia
Gaban                                                                          Munsi Premchand
Ganadevata                                                                 Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gardener                                                                     Rabindra Nath Tagore
Geet Govind                                                               Jayadev
Ghasiram Kotwal                                                        Vijay Tendulkar
Gita Rahasya                                                               Bal Gangadhar Tilak                                      
Gitanjali                                                                      Rabindranath Tagore
Glimpses of World History                                         Jawaharlal Nehru
Godan                                                                         Prem Chand
Golden Threshold                                                       Sarojini Naidu
Gora                                                                            Rabindra Nath Tagore
Guide                                                                          R.K. Narayan
Guiding Souls                                                             A P J Abdul Kalam
Harry Potter                                                                J.K. Rowling
Harsha Charita                                                            Bana Bhatta
Harvest                                                                        Manjula Padmanabhan
Heir Apparent                                                             Dr. Karan Singh
Himalayan Blunder                                                     Brigadier J.P. Dalvi
Hind Swaraj                                                                M.K. Gandhi
Hindu View of Life                                                    Dr. S. Radhakrishan
Hinduism                                                                    Nirad C. Choudhury
History of India                                                          Romila Thapar
Hullabaloo in a Guava Orchard                                  Kiran Desai
Humanyunama                                                            Gulbadan Beghum
Hungary Stones                                                          Rabindranath Tagore
I follow the Mahatma                                                 K.M. Munshi
Idols                                                                            Sunil Gavaskar
Ignited Minds/Wings of Fire                                      A P J Abdul Kalam
Importance of Being Earnest                                      Oscar Wilde
India 2020                                                                   A P J Abdul Kalam
India after Nehru                                                        Kuldip Nayyar
India Divided                                                             Rajendra Prasad
India of Our Dreams                                                   M.V. Kamath
India Unbound                                                           Gurcharan Das
India Wins Freedom                                                   Abdul Kalam Azad
India-my-dream                                                          A P J Abdul Kalam
Indian Philosophy                                                       Dr. S. Radhakrishan
India's Priceless Heritage                                            N. A. Palkhivala
Indira Gandhi Returns                                                Khushwant Singh
Indira Gandhi: Badhate Kadam                                 Khushwant Singh
Indomitable Spirit                                                       A P J Abdul Kalam
Inscrutable Americans                                                Anurag Mathur
Interpreter of Maladies                                               Jhumpa Lahiri
It's Always Possible                                                    Kiran Bedi
Jai Somnath                                                                 K.M. Munshi
Jet City Women                                                          Ankush Saikia
Jhansi Ki Rani                                                             Vrindavanlal Verma
Jurassic Park                                                                Michael Crichton
Kadambari                                                                  Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanvas                                                        Amrita Pritam
Kamsutra                                                                     Vatsayayan S H
Kanthapura                                                                 Raja Rao
Kapala Kundala                                                          Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Karmabhumi                                                               Munsi Premchand
Kashmir: A Tale of Shame                                          Hari Jaisingh
Kashmr: A Tragedy of Errors Kayar                          Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Kitab-ul-Hind                                                             Al-Beruni
Kitni Nawon Kitni Bar                                               S.H. Vatsyayan
Kulliyat                                                                       Ghalib
Kumar Sambhava                                                        Kalidas
Kurukshetra                                                                Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Last Burden                                                                Upamanyu Chatterjee
Les Miserables                                                            Victor Hugo
Let's Kill Gandhi                                                        Tushar A. Gandhi
Life Divine                                                                  Aurobindo Ghosh
Lipika                                                                          Rabindranath Tagore
Lost Child                                                                   Mulk Raj Anand
Mahabharta                                                                 Ved Vyas
Mahatma Gandhi and his Apolstles                            Ved Mehta
Malati Madhav                                                            Bhavabhuti
Malgudi Days                                                             R.K. Narayanan
Management                                                               Elizabeth
Meghdootam                                                               Kalidasa
Mein Kampf                                                                Adolf Hitler
Midnight's Children                                                    Salman Rushdie
Mill on the Floss                                                         George Eliot
Mitakshara                                                                  Vigyaneshwar
Mrichhakatikam                                                          Shudrak
Mudra Rakshas                                                           Vishakhadatta
My Days                                                                     R.K. Narayanan
My India                                                                     S. Nihal Singh
My Journey                                                                 A P J Abdul Kalam
My Life and Times                                                     V.V. Giri
My Music, My Life                                                     Pt. Ravi Shankar
My Presidential Years                                                 R. Venkatraman
My Truth                                                                     Indira Gandhi
Natural History                                                           Plini
Natya Shastra                                                              Bharat Muni
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy                A.B. Vajpayee
Nisheeth                                                                      Uma Shankar Joshi
Non-violence in Peace & War                                     M.K. Gandhi
Odyssey                                                                      Homer
Oliver Twist                                                                Charles Dickens
Operation Blue star: The True Story                           Lt. Gen K.S. Brar
Our Films, Their Films                                                Satyajit Ray
Padmavat                                                                    Malik Mohammed Jayasi
Painter of Signs                                                           R.K. Narayan
Panchatantra                                                               Vishnu Sharma
Paradise lost                                                                John Milton
Parineeta                                                                     Sharat Chandra Chatterji
Past Forward                                                               G.R. Narayanan
Pather Panchali                                                           Bibhuti Bhushan
Plain Speaking                                                            N. Chandrababu Naidu
Portrait of India                                                          Ved Mehta
Post Office                                                                  Rabindranath Tagore
Prem Pachisi                                                                Munsi Prem Chand
Prem Vatika                                                                Raskhan
Raghuvansa                                                                 Kalidas
Rajatarangini                                                               Kalhana
Ram Charita Manas                                                    Tulsidas
Ramayana                                                                   Valmiki (Maharishi)
Ramcharitamanas                                                        Tulsidas
Ranghbhommi                                                             Munsi Premchand
Ratnavali                                                                     Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the River)                                      Gulzar
Red Earth and Pouring Rain                                       Vikram Chandra
Ritu Sambhara                                                            Kalidas
Saket                                                                           Maithili Sharan Gupta
Sakharam Binder                                                        Vijay Tendulkar
Satya Harischandra                                                     Bhartendu Harischandra
Scientist to President                                                  A P J Abdul Kalam
Secular Agenda                                                           Arun Shourie
Seven Summers                                                           Mulk Raj Anand
Shadow from Ladakh                                                 Bhabani Bhattacharya
Shahnama                                                                    Firdausi
Shakuntala                                                                  Kalidas
Shrikant                                                                       Sharat Chandra Chatterji
Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India                        Gita Mehta
Social Change in Modern India                                  M.N. Srinivas
Stutichintamani                                                           Bhima Bhoi
Sultry Days                                                                 Shobha De
Sunny Days                                                                 Sunil Gavaskar
Sursagar                                                                      Kabir Das
Swami and Friends                                                     R.K. Narayanan
The Bride's Book of Beauty                                       Mulk Raj Anand
The Cat and Shakespeare                                            Raja Rao
The Company of Women                                            Khushwant Singh
The Critical Years: In Jail                                           Kuldip Nayyar
The Dark Room                                                          R.K. Narayanan
The Degeneration of India                                          T.N. Seshan
The Glass Palace                                                         Amitav Ghosh
The God of Small Things                                            Arundhati Roy
The Golden Gate                                                        Vikram Seth
The Inheritance of Loss                                              Kiran Desai
The Judgment                                                            Kuldip Nayyar
The Men Who Killed Gandhi                                     Manohar Malgonkar
The Merchant of Venice                                             William Shakespeare
The Namesake                                                             Jhumpa Leheri
The Scientific Indian                                                  A P J Abdul Kalam
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success                         Deepak Chopra
The Song of India                                                       Sarojini Naidu
The Story of My Experiments with Truth                  Mahatma Gandhi
The Strange and Subline Address                              Amit Chaudhuri
The Sword and the Sickle                                           Mulk Raj Anand
The vendor of Sweets                                                 R.K. Narayanan
The way of the Wizard                                               Deepak Chopra
The White Tiger                                                          Aravind Adiga
The Wreck                                                                   Rabindranath Tagore
The Wreck                                                                   Rabindra Nath Tagore
Time Machine                                                             H.G. Wells
Train to Pakistan                                                         Khushwant Singh
Two Leaves and a Bud                                               Mulk Raj Anand
Unhappy India                                                            Lala Lajpat Rai
Untold Story                                                               B. M. Kaul
Urvashi                                                                        Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Visarjana                                                                     Rabindra Nath Tagore
Vish Vriksha                                                               Bankim C. Chatterjee
Voice of conscience                                                    V.V. Giri
Waiting for the Mahatma                                            R.K. Narayanan
Wake up India                                                            Annie Besant
War and Peace                                                            Leo Tolstoy
We Indians                                                                  Khushwant Singh
Why England Slept                                                     John F. Kennedy
Wings of Fire                                                              A P J Abdul Kalam
Yama                                                                           Mahadevi Verma
Yashodhara                                                                 Maithili Sharan Gupt
Years of Pilgrimage                                                    Dr. Raja Ramana

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