Books & Authors
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| The Idea of Justice |
Amartya Sen |
| Losing Control |
Stephen King |
| Luka and the Fire |
Salman Rushdie |
| Makers of Modern India |
Ramchandra Guha |
| Saraswati Park |
Anjali Joseph |
| The Lost Symbol |
Dan Brown |
| Restoring Values |
E.Sreedharan & Bharat Wakhlu |
| The Museum of Innocence |
Orphan Pamuk |
| Corporate Chanakya |
Radhakrishnan Pillai |
| The Masque of Africa |
V.S. Nagpal |
| The Rediscovery of India |
Meghanad Desai |
| A Journey: An Autobiography |
Tony Blair |
| Convenient Action |
Narendra Modi |
| True Colors |
Adam Gilchrist |
| Conversations with Myself |
Nelson Mandela |
| The Sunset Club |
Khushwant Singh |
| Broom & Groom |
Kiran Bedi & Pavan Chaudhary |
| The Grand Design |
Shephen Hawkins |
| India in Turmoil |
Ved Marwah |
| The winner stands Alone |
Paulo Coelho |
| Listening to Grasshoppers |
Arundhati Roy |
| Two States |
Chetan Bhagat |
| River of Smoke |
Amitav Ghosh |
| Last man in the Tower |
Arvind Adiga |
| My country, My Life |
L.K. Advani |
| Indian War of Independence |
V D Savarkar |
| Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography |
I.K. Gujaral |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
| Decision Point |
George W.Bush |
| Fault Lines |
Raghuram Rajan |
| To the Point |
Herschelle Gibbs |
| A shot at History-My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold |
Autobiography of Abhinav Bindra co-authored by Rohit Brijnath |
| Wular Kinarey |
Autobiography of Syed Ali Geelani |
| In No Higher Honour |
Condoleezza Rice |
| Autobiography of a Yogi |
Paramhansa Yogananda |
| Sonia Gandhi-An Extraordinary Life, An Indian Destiny |
Autobiography of Sonia Gandhi by Rani Singh |
| Sea of Poppies |
Amitav Ghosh |
| The Habit of Wining |
Prakash Iyer |
| Idea Man |
Paul Allen |
| Troubled Man |
Henning Mankel |
| Harappa Files |
Orhan Pamuk |
| Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
| The vault of Shiva |
Andy McDermott |
| Beyond the Invisible hand |
Kaushik Basu |
| The Tenth parallel |
Eliza Grisworld |
| The Good Muslim |
Tahmima Anam |
| Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru |
Aditya & Mridula Mukherji |
| Ethics for Our Times |
M.V. Nadkarni |
| The Stranger’s child |
Alan Hollinghurst |
| The Sense of an Ending |
Julian Barnes |
| Our lady of Alice Bhatti |
Mohd. Hanif |
| Growth & Finance |
Sameer Kochhar |
| Water: Asia’s New Battleground |
Brahma Chellany |
| Pakistan: A Personal History |
Imran Khan |
| Evil is Evil, Good is God |
Amit Upadhyay |
| A case of Exploding Mangoes |
Mohd. Hanif |
| Revolution 2020- Love, Corruption, Ambition |
Chetan Bhagat |
| “Steve Jobs” |
Walter Isaacson |
| Does He know a mother’s Heart |
Arun Shourie |
| The Valley of Masks |
Tarun J. Tejpal |
| Rebirth |
Jahnavi Barua |
| The Folded Earth |
Anuradha Roy |
| The sly company of People who care |
Rahul Bhattacharya |
| The colonel |
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi |
| 1Q84 |
Haruki Murakami |
| A Madras Miscellany-A decade of people, place and potpourri |
S. Muthiah |
| Broken Mirrors – The Dowry problem in India |
Robin Wyatt |
| His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhash Chandra Bose |
Sugata Bose |
| A Dance with Dragons |
George R.R. Martin |
| Girish karnard’s plays |
Bhagabat Nayak |
| Man’s Fate and God’s choice |
Bhimeswara Challa |
| Fierce Focus |
Greg Chappell |
| The Age of Deception |
Md. Elbaradei |
| Controversially Yours |
Shoaib Akhtar |
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Washington, Two Indians and two persons of Indian origin figure among Top 35 Innovators under 35 in the latest list of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Technology Review, the world’s oldest Technology Magazine established in 1899.
Ajit Narayanan, Invention Labs, Chennai and Aishwarya Ratan, Yale University, who were part of TR35 India Winners announced in March 2011, have made it to the annual list of people who exemplify the spirit of innovation in business and technology.
The honourees are blazing new paths in a wide range of fields, including medicine, energy, communications, IT, consumer technology, entertainment, and robotics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, based institution announced Wednesday.
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Anna inspires sale of Vivekananda’s books
Shimla, The man who is galvanising an entire nation against graft was himself inspired by a Hindu monk who preached the message of Indian spirituality to the world. Books on Swami Vivekanada are flying off the shelves in Himachal Pradesh after Anna Hazare repeatedly referred to the philosopher-saint as the guiding light of his life.
“I have specially purchased the book, ‘Vivekananda: A Biography’ by Swami Nikhilananda to understand the ultimate motives of human life,” Parul Sood, a management student at Himachal Pradesh University, told IANS.
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Scientists give India strategic edge: Ashwani Kumar
New Delhi, Aug 12 Scientists provide the country its strategic parity with world powers and innovations define 21st century India, says Ashwani Kumar, minister of state for science and technology.
“To perceive and execute an idea is the genius of India,” he said at the release of “The India Idea”, a coffee table book on Indian scientific innovations, at Lodi Gardens here late Thursday.
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Mumbai, Aug 11 He calls himself an atheist, but author Amish Tripathi says he was blessed with the bestseller, “The Immortals of Meluha”, by none other than Lord Shiva. Now its sequel promises to make many revelations.
“Interesting revelations will be made about the characters; in fact new facets of the characters will be revealed. Addition of new characters is another given,” Tripathi told about the upcoming book “The Secret of the Nagas”.
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Mumbai, Aug 11 Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan feels the purity of written and spoken language is subsiding in these times of quick communication but hopes to restore the charm of literature by opening a museum to store his father and noted writer Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s works.
“I do believe that the richness of our language is getting lost. We used to spend a lot of thought and lot of energy behind what was written and spoken. Perhaps, it was a lot richer in earlier times,” Amitabh told IANS in an interview.
“I don’t want to blame today’s generation. The time has changed, communication has become very rapid and very quick,” he added.
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Book on women’s cricket released
International Cricket Council (ICC) President Sharad Pawar and Sports Minister Ajay Maken released a coffee table book on women’s cricket, ‘Women’s Cricket World,’ in New Delhi on February 8, 2011.
The book, written by prominent woman cricketer Anjum Chopra and Sunil Yash Kalra, relives the journey of women’s cricket from 1745, the year in which the first recorded match was played.
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Book on Sachin Tendulkar released
‘Sachin – Genius Unplugged’, an anthology of essays on Sachin Tendulkar edited by journalist Suresh Menon, was released on February 8, 2011. The book features articles on Tendulkar written by eminent writers and players like Peter Roebuck, Mike Coward, Kumble and Dravid.
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Ques. Rail Bandhu is the _________ being launched by Indian Railways.
(a) tourist information service
(b) mobile reservation service
(c) hotel
(d) magazine
(e) hospital
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Ques. Who among the following Nobel Laureate in Literature was in news for the launch his new book “The Naive and The Sentimental Novelist” recently?
(a) Elfriede Jelinek
(b) Günter Grass
(c) J. M. Coetzee
(d) V. S. Naipaul
(e) Orhan Pamuk
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