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Books and AuthorsFamous 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 IndiaRamachandraGuha 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 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

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Authors BooksMahatma 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 FreedomAnnie Besant Wake up IndiaAravindAdiga The White Tiger

The Last Man in Tower Between The Assassination

AurobindoGhosh Life DivingAmish Tripathi The Secret of the Nagas, The Oath of the Vayuputhras

The Immortals of MeluhaBR Ambedkar What Congress and Gandhi have done to

Untouchables, Annihilation of CasteC. Rangarajan Growth and FinanceDadabhaiNaoroji Poverty and Un-British Rule in IndiaPN Bhagwati My Tryst with JusticeDr. Radha Krishnan Hindu View of LifeDr. Rajendra Prasad India DividedVD Savarkar India War of IndependenceEdited by Pranab Mukherjee

The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation

Hamid Ansari Travelling Through ConflictIK Gujral Matters of Discretion (Autobiography)Indira Gandhi My TruthJaswant Singh Jinnah – India, Partition, IndependenceKapilDev Straight from the HeartKapilSibal I Witness : Partial ObservationKuldipNayar The JudgementKR Narayanan In the Name of the People : Reflections of

Democracy Freedom and Development

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Authors BooksLal Krishna Advani My Country My LifeLalaLajpatRai Unhappy IndiaManoharMalgaonkar A Bend in the GangesMeghnad Desai The Rediscovery of IndiaM. VeerappaMoily Shree Ramayana MahanveshanamNandanNilekani Imaging India : Ideas for a New CenturyNarendraModi Convenient ActionNatwar Singh Walking with LionsNirad C Choudhary An Autobiography of Unknown IndiaRajmohan Gandhi The Good Boat Man : A Portrait of GandhiRuskin Bond Our Trees Still Grow in DehraRavi Shankar My Music My LifeRussi M Lala For the Love of India : The life and Time of

Jamsitji TataRohintonMistry Such a Long JourneyRaghuran G Rajan Saving Capitalism from CapitalistsSC Bose The Indian StruggleShobha De Superstar India : From Incredible to Unstoppable,

SethjiSainaNehwal Playing to WinSubramanian Swamy Electronic Voting Machines

- Unconstitutional and TamperableSunil Gavasmar Sunny DaysSurjit Singh Barnala My Other Two DaughtersSwami Dayanand SatyarthPrakashTarunTejpal The Valley of MasksTS Krishnamurthy The Miracle of Democracy : India’s Amazing

JourneyV VGiri Voice of ConscienceVeerappaMoily Unleashing EarthVinita Kamte To the Last BulletYV Reddy Glogal Crisis Recession and Uneven RecoveryYuvraj Singh The Test of My LifeZoyaHasan Congress After Indira

Award Winning Authors of Indian Origin and their Writings

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Authors BooksSalman 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

LATEST BOOKS

Authors BooksShatrughanSinha Anything But KhamoshJain 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 FactorMamata Banerjee TolerancePranab Mukherjee The Turbulent Years – 1980-1996 –

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APJ Abdul Kalam TransendenceVani Mahesh and Shinie Antony A Kingdom for his LoveRazack Indian Paper MoneySri GovindPansare Who was Shivaji?P.S. NagiLoktus The Culture Heritage of Trans

Himalayas – KinnaurPramodKapoor Gandhi : An Illustrated BiographyBilal Siddiqui The Kiss of Life How a Superhero and

my son defeatedBG Verghese A State in Denial – Pakistan’s

Misguided and DangerousScott Kelly Endurance: My year in Space and

Our Journey to MarsKartarLalvani The Making of India : The Untold

Story of BritishRanaAyyub Gujarat Files : Anatomy of a Cover

UpManjuLodha Book on ParamVir Chakra WinnersPavithra Ramesh No Time to Pause – bookShashiKapoor ShashiKapoor – The Householder,

The StarHusain Haqqani India Vs. Pakistan : Why Can’t we

just be FriendsRuskind Bond My Favourite Nature StoriesBinodChaudhary Making it BigM.K. Rasgotra A Life in DiplomacyHarinder S. Kohili The World in 2050 – Striving for a

More Just, Prosperous and Harmonious Global Community

Dr. KP. Mathur The Unseen Indira GandhiRudraneilSengupta Ringside with VijenderSaniaMirza 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 WomenJK Rowling Harry Potter and the Cursed ChildProf. Anil K Gupta Grassroots InnovationChetanBhagat One Indian Girl

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SanjeevSanyal The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

AB De Villiers AB: The AutobiographyJosue Saenz The Grolier CodexChris Gayle Six MachineMohd Hamid Ansari Citizen and SocietySurendra Kumar Modi’s Midas Touch in Foreign PolicyArundhati Roy The Ministry of Utmost HappinessGandhi Serve India Mahatma – Gandhi’s Life in

ColourUntouchability No MoreShailesh Gandhi e-book on RTITwinkle Khanna The Legend of Lakshmi PrasadDhrubajyoti Borah The Sleepwalker’s DreamVijay Lokapally Driven : The ViratKohli StoryArunJaitley Andhere se UjalekiAurPa Ekalaivan Rajiv Gandhi Assasin, hidden truths,

Priyanka Meeting NaliniDr. ShashiTharoor An Era of Darkness : The British

Empire in IndiaShri Ram Naik Charaiveti, CharaivetiSamar 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

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 PathshalaRishi Kapoor KhullamKhulla : Rishi Kapoor

UncensoredShri Vijay Kumar Veerappan, Chasing the BrigandPrepared 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 GirlKhushwant Sing Amarinder Singh’s Biography ‘ The

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People’s Maharaja’Cricketer Aakash Chopra Number Do LieFormer Australia Captain Michael Clarke

Autobiography My Story

VeerappaMoily Flaming Tresses of DraupadiDr. Ashwani Kumar Hope in a Challenged Democracy –

An India NarativeSumitraMahajan MatoshreeKhalid Mohamed Asha Parekh’s Autobiography ‘The

Hit Girl’ArjunGaind Building the Land of five RiversAnand Sharma India’s Indira – a Centennial TributeAmal Kumar Mukhopadhyay Metaphysics, Morals and PoliticsMS Swaminathan M.S. Swaminathan: The Quest for a

world without hungerWorld’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 – AnalysingNarendraModi’s Government at Midterm’

Dr. Prafulbali& Lanka Mahesh Colour Atlas of Oral ImplantologyDr. RK Bali & Cr. Mazoomdar

Conservative Dentistry – basis

J.R.R. Tolkien Beren And LuthienProf. MuchkundDubey Lalan Shah Fakir KeGeetGanesh Devy The Crisis WithinJairam Ramesh India Gandhi – A Life in NatureRamesh PokhriyalNishank YugPurush, Bharat Ratna, AtalJiSurya Prakash The Emergency – Indian

Democracy’s Darkest Hour

COMMITTEES & COMMISSIONS Chairpersons Committees Working for

ShyamBenegal Committee For Holistic Interpretation of the Provisions of the Cinematograph Act/Rules

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

Justice R M Lodha Committee For reforms in BCCIArvindPanagariya Committee To fast – track bullet trainsP.K. Sinha Committee To process the recommendations of the 7th

Pay Commission

R V Easwar Committee To simplify Income Tax Act,1961Tapan Roy Committee To examining and making recommendations

on changing of the Companies Act,2013

Deepak Naik Committee To revive GodavariT.S.R. Subramanian Committee

To evolve the New Education Policy

AmitMitra Committee CST ActMahesh Kumar Singla Committee

To recommend the modalities for Granting of SC statusto six OBC communities in Assam

AkhileshRanjan Committee To examine the Business Models for e-B BTandon Committee Guidelines set for Government

advertisementsS N Jha Committee To probe the sequence of events leading to

violence during the Jat agitation for reservation in February

Ashok Lahiri Committee To interact with the trade and industry on the imposition of central Excise duty on jewelry

Ashok Dalwai Committee To make a blueprint for doubling farmer’s income by 2022

ShyamBenegal Committee To suggest measures to help Board members understand the distinctions of film certification of the censor board

T S R Subramanian Committee

To give evolution to the Education system

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

To relook defence expenditure

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

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Anand Desai Committee To examine Specific Relief Act,1963

Ratan P. Watal Committee To boost digital payment system in IndiaA.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

Justice BN Srikrishna Committee

To make arbitration a preferred mode for settlement of commercial disputes and review the present system of arbitration mechanism in India and make it strong.

SS MundraCommitte To speed up the process of recalcibrations of ATM to dispense the new demonetization notes

Chandrababu Naidu Committee

To deal with the situation arising out of Rs.500 and Rs.1000 demonetised notes

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.

Amitabh Kant Committee Digital payments

Mata Prasad Committee To overhaul in transmission planning to facilitate transfer of power on economic principles

Justice L Narasimmha Reddy Committee

To look in to the anomalies, if any arising out of implementation of OROP

MadhusudhanSahoo Committee

To regulate the functioning of insolvency professionals,insolvency professional agencies and information utilities under Insolvency and Bankruptcy code 2016

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 subsidized pulses

VinodZutshi Committee For the ‘SwadheshDharshan”SchemeP Chidhamabaram Committee

To review border issues and border security

VeerappaMoily Committee 1.To review disinvestment policy, banking sector

2.To review all budgetary reformsTVSN Prasadh Committee Regarding alternatives of Pellet GunsShriMadhukar Gupta Committee

For strengthening border protection and addressing the issue of gaps and vulnerability

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in border fencing along Indo-Pakistan border.Pradeep Kumar Sinha Committee

To develop PAN –India roadmap for trade facilitation

Amitabh Kant Committee To review e-commerce rules on foreign direct investment norms

SudarshenSen Committee To study regulatory issues relating to financial

technology and digital banking in IndiaMadhavChitale Committee To gear up the guidelines for the

desiltation(clearing odd the silts)of the river Ganga

Aravind Subramanian Committee

To consider reasonable increase in minimum support

price (MSP) for pulses and bonus for farmersBimalJalan Committee To suggest amendments to Stock Exchange

and Clearing Corporations (SECC) Regulations

RaoInderjith Singh Committee

International Paralympic has recognized the Paralympic of India

Justice A.K.Mathur Committee

To recommend substantial raise to the salaries and

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 situationInjetiSrinivas 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

Anil Baijal Committee To review the decision taken by the Delhi Police and other departments regarding women’s safety

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

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

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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 educationDr. 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 managementJustice ShriGirdharMalviya Committee

Draft Ganga Act

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

Kewal Kumar Sharma Committee

To review UGC recommendations of 7th Pay commission in education institutes

Mr. Ashok Dalwai Committee Wholesale Agri-DR. R.B. Barman Committee Technical Standards of Core ServicesArvindPanagariya Committee To compute timely data on employment

situation in the country

Maa Committee To Check mid-day meal quality in UP schoolsMadhavChitale Committee To recommends measure for desiltation of

river Ganga

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MHA Panel Committee To examine the rules which allows free movement of Indian and Myanmarese citizens within 16 Kmsof the border.

KrishnaswamyKasturirangan Committee

To draft the National Education Policy

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