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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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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Books and Authors New Updates August -September 2010
Books and Authors New Updates August -September 2010 Celebrating Delhi,Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West, A Requiem For A Brand: Targeting The New-Age Consumer Update your GK 2010
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General Knowledge Question & Answers – Books and Authors (2-1-10)
Here are 20 MCQ Question on Books and Authors. Answers are marked in Bold. All The Best for your Exam Preparation
1. Who was in news recently for the book – ‘Branding India — An Incredible Story’ recently?
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| Waiting for Godot |
Samuel Beckett |
| Waiting for the Mahatma |
R.K. Narayan |
| Wake Up India |
Annie Besant |
| War and Peace |
Leo Tolstoy |
| Westward Ho |
Charles Kingsley |
| What they don’t teach you at Harvard Business School |
Mark H. Mc Cormack |
| Who is Kalam? |
R. Ramanathan |
| Who moved my cheese? |
Dr. Spencer Johnson |
| Wings of Fire |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| Winter Solstice |
Rosamunde Pilcher |
| Witness to an Era |
Frank Moraes |
| Women in Love |
D.H. Lawrence |
| World Within Worlds |
Stephen Spender |
| Wuthering Heights |
Emily Bronte |
| Yayati |
V.S. Khandekar |
| Year of the Upheaval |
Henry Kissinger |
| Yesterday and Today |
K.P.S. Menon |
| You Can Win |
Shiv Khera |
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| O’ Jerusalem |
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre |
| Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens |
| On the Threshold of Hope |
Pope John Paul II |
| One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| One World and India |
Arnold Toynbee |
| One World |
Wendelll Wilkie |
| Operation Bluestar: The True Story |
Lt. Gen. K.S. Brar |
| Operation Shylock |
Philip Roth |
| Othello |
William Shakespeare |
| Our Films, Their Films |
Satyajit Ray |
| Out of Africa |
Isak Dinesen |
| Painter of Signs |
R.K. Narayan |
| Pakistan Cut to Size |
D.R. Mankekar |
| Pakistan: The Gathering Storm |
Benazir Bhutto |
| Pale Blue Dot |
Carl Sagan |
| Panchatantra |
Vishnu Sharma |
| Paradise Lost |
John Milton |
| Pather Panchali |
Bibhuti Bhushan |
| People Like Us |
Pavan Varma |
| Plain Speaking |
N. Chandrababu Naidu |
| Pleading Guilty |
Scott Turow |
| Portrait of India |
Ved Mehta |
| Post Office |
Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Prelude |
William Wordsworth |
| Preoccupations |
Seamus Heaney |
| Present at the Creation |
Dean Acheson |
| Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
| Prince |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Prison Diary |
Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Private Lives |
Noel Coward |
| Profiles in Courage |
John F. Kennedy |
| Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw |
| Rabbit, Run |
John Updike |
| Rangbhoomi |
Prem Chand |
| Rape of Bangladesh |
Anthony Mascarenhas |
| Ravan and Eddie |
Kiran Nagarkar |
| Rebel, The |
Albert Camus |
| Red Badge of Courage |
Stephen Crane |
| Red Earth and Pouring Rain |
Vikram Chandra |
| Red Star Over China |
Edgar Snow |
| Reflections on the French Revolution |
Edmund Burke |
| Remembering Babylon |
David Malouf |
| Rendezvous with Rama |
Arthur C. Clark |
| Revolution from Within |
Gloria Steinem |
| Riding the Storm |
Harold MacMillan |
| Riot: A Novel |
Shashi Tharoor |
| Rise and Fall of the Third Reich |
William L. Shierer |
| Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Defoe |
| Romeo and Juliet |
William Shakespeare |
| Room at the Top |
John Brain |
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| Saket |
Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| Sanctuary |
William Faulkner |
| Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthome |
| Seven Lamps of Architecture |
John Ruskin |
| Seven Summers |
Mulk Raj Anand |
| Shadow from Ladakh |
Bhavani Bhattacharya |
| Shape of Things to Come |
H.G. Wells |
| She Stoops to Conquer |
Oliver Goldsmith |
| Siddharta |
Hermann Hesse |
| Silent Spring |
Rachel Carson |
| Snakes and Ladders: Essays on India |
Gita Mehta |
| Snow Country |
Yasunari Kawabata |
| Sohrab and Rustam |
Mathew Arnold |
| Sons and Lovers |
D.H. Lawrence |
| Stupid White Men |
Michael Moore |
| Sun Stone |
Octavio Paz |
| Sunny Days |
Sunil Gavaskar |
| Swami and Friends |
R.K. Narayan |
| Talisman |
Sir Walter Scott |
| Tarzan of the Apes |
Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| Tempest |
William Shakespeare |
| Thank You, Jeeves |
P.G. Wodehouse |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Affluent Society |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
| The Age of Reason |
Jean Paul Sartre |
| The Agenda |
Bob Woodward |
| The Agony and the Ecstasy |
Irving Stone |
| The Ambassadors |
Henry James |
| The Banyan Tree |
Hugh Tinker |
| The Best and the Brightest |
David Halberstam |
| The Better Man |
Anita Nair |
| The Bride’s Book of Beauty |
Mulk Raj Anand |
| The Cancer Ward |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| The Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
| The Canterbury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
| The Captive of the Caucasus |
Alexander Pushkin |
| The Cardinal |
Henry Morton Robinson |
| The Caretaker |
Harold Pinters |
| The Castle |
Franz Kafka |
| The Changing World of the Executive |
Peter Drucker |
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Shelby Foote |
| The Clown |
Heinrich Boll |
| The Coup |
John Updike |
| The Court Dancer |
Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| The Crucible |
Arthur Miller |
| The Death of Vishnu |
Manil Suri |
| The Degeneration of India |
T.N. Seshan |
| The Diary of a Young Girl |
Anne Frank |
| The Double Helix |
James D. Watson |
| The End of a Beautiful Era |
Joseph Brodsky |
| The End of History and the Last Man |
Francis Fukuyama |
| The Executioner’s Song |
Norman Mailer |
| The Eye of the Storm |
Patrick White |
| The Far Pavilions |
M.M. Kaye |
| The Feminine Mystique |
Betty Friedan |
| The Fifth Horseman |
Larry Collins and Domnique Lapierre |
| The Fire Next Time |
James Baldwin |
| The Forbidden Sea |
Tara Ali Baig |
| The Fury |
Salman Rushdie |
| The Ginger Man |
J.P. Donleavy |
| The Glass Palace |
Amitav Ghosh |
| The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy |
| The Godfather |
Mario Puzo |
| The Golden Gate |
Vikram Seth |
| The Grapes and the Wind |
Pablo Neruda |
| The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
| The Great Challenge |
Louis Fischer |
| The Great Indian Novel |
Shashi Tharoor |
| The Guns of August |
Barbara Tuchman |
| The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
Carson McCullers |
| The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
| The Horse Whisperer |
Nicholas Evans |
| The Green Knight |
Iris Murdoch |
| The Heart of the Matter |
Graham Greene |
| The Importance of Being Earnest |
Oscar Wilde |
| The Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
| The Interpreters |
Wole Soyinka |
| The Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
| The Judge |
Steve Martini |
| The Judgement |
Kuldip Nayar |
| The Last Temptation of Christ |
Kazant Zakis |
| The Legends of Khasak |
O.V. Vijayan |
| The Making of a Midsummer Night’s Dream |
David Selboume |
| The Mandarin |
Simon de Beauvoir |
| The Masters |
C.P. Snow |
| The Men Who killed Gandhi |
Manohar Malgaonkar |
| The Merchant of Venice |
William Shakespeare |
| The Middle Ground |
Margaret Drabble |
| The Mind of the C.E.O. |
Jeffrey E. Garten |
| The Minister’s Wife |
Amaresh Mishra |
| The Miser |
Moliere |
| The Moor’s Last Sigh |
Salman Rushdie |
| The Old Man and the Sea |
Ernest Hemingway |
| The Origin of Species |
Charles Darwin |
| The Pickwick Papers |
Charles Dickens |
| The Pilgrim’s Progress |
John Bunyan |
| The Power and the Glory |
Graham Greene |
| The Power of Positive Thinking |
Norman Vincent Peale |
| The Private Life of Chairman Mao |
Dr. Li Zhisui |
| The Proper Study of Mankind |
Isaiah Berlin |
| The Rain King |
Saul Bellow |
| The Rape of the Lock |
Alexander Pope |
| The Return of the Native |
Thomas Hardy |
| The Road Ahead |
Bill Gates |
| The Robe |
Lloyd C. Douglas |
| The Roots |
Alex Haley |
| The Satanic Verses |
Salman Rushdie |
| The Second World War |
Winston Churchill |
| The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success |
Deepak Chopra |
| The Social Contract |
Rousseau |
| The Songs of India |
Sarojini Naidu |
| The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
| The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
Mahatma Gandhi |
| The Strange and Sublime Address |
Amit Chaudhari |
| The Struggle and the Triumph |
Lech Walesa |
| The Struggle in My Life |
Nelson Mandela |
| The Sword and the Sickle |
Mulk Raj Anand |
| The Testament |
John Grisham |
| The Third Wave |
Alvin Tofler |
| The Total Zone |
Martina Navaratilova |
| The Tree of Man |
Patrick White |
| The Trial |
Franz Kafka |
| The Unfurnished Man |
Nizzim Ezekiel |
| The Vendor of Sweets |
R.K. Narayan |
| The Wasteland |
T.S. Eliot |
| The Wealth of Nations |
Adam Smith |
| Theory of War |
John Brady |
| Thirteenth Sun, The |
Amrita Pritam |
| Thorn Birds |
Collen McCullough |
| Thousand Cranes |
Yasunari Kawabata |
| Time Machine |
H.G. Wells |
| Tin Drum |
Gunther Grass |
| Tinker, Tailor Soldier |
John Le-Came |
| Tom Jones |
Henry Fielding |
| To the Lighthouse |
Virginia Woolf |
| Train to Pakistan |
Khushwant Singh |
| Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Tropic of Cancer |
Henry Miller |
| Tryst with Destiny |
S. Gopalan |
| Twelfth Night |
W. Shakespeare |
| Two Leaves and a Bud |
Mulk Raj Anand |
| Ulysses |
James Joyce |
| Under the Net |
Iris Murdoch |
| Unsafe at Any Speed |
Ralph Nader |
| Unto The Last |
John Ruskin |
| Untold Story |
General B.M. Kaul |
| Up from Slavery |
Booker T. Washington |
| Utopia |
Thomas Moore |
| Valley of the Dolls |
Jacqueline Susann |
| Vanity Fair |
William Thackeray |
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| Kamasutra |
Vatsyayana |
| Kane and Abel |
Jeffrey Archer |
| Kanthapura |
Raja Rao |
| Kashmir: A Tragedy of Erros |
Tavleen Singh |
| Kayar |
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
| Kenilworth |
Sir Walter Scott |
| Kidnapped |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
| King Lear |
William Shakespeare |
| Kubla Khan |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Ladies Coupe |
Anita Nair |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover |
D.H. Lawrence |
| Lajja |
Taslima Nasreen |
| Last Burden |
Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| Last Things |
C.P. Snow |
| Le Contract (Social Contract) |
J.J. Rousseau |
| Leaders |
Richard Nixon |
| Leaves of Grass |
Walt Whitman |
| Less Miserables |
Victor Hugo |
| Life Divine |
Sri Aurobindo |
| Life is Elsewhere |
Milan Kundera |
| Life of Samuel Johnson |
James Boswell |
| Living History |
Hillary Clinton |
| Lolita |
Vladimir Nobakov |
| Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner |
Allan Sillitoe |
| Long Day’s Journey into Night |
Eugene O’ Neill |
| Long Walk to Freedom |
Nelson Mandela |
| Look Back in Anger |
John Osborne |
| Lord of the Files |
William Golding |
| Love Story |
Erich Segal |
| Macbeth |
W. Shakespeare |
| Magic Mountain |
Thomas Mann |
| Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles |
Ved Mehta |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
Romain Rolland |
| Main Street |
Sinclair Lewis |
| Malgudi Days |
R.K. Narayan |
| Man and Superman |
George Bernard Shaw |
| Man of Property |
John Galsworthy |
| Man, Beast and Virtue |
Luigi Pirandello |
| Man-eaters of Kumaon |
Jim Corbett |
| Managing for the Future |
Peter Drucker |
| Managing for Results |
Peter Drucker |
| Mankind and Mother Earth |
Arnold Toynbee |
| Many Worlds |
K.P.S. Menon |
| Mayor of Casterbridge |
Thomas Hardy |
| Mein Kampf |
Adolf Hitler |
| Memories of Hope |
Gen. Charles de Gaulle |
| Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus |
John Gray |
| Middle March |
George Eliot |
| Midnight’s Children |
Salman Rushdie |
| Mill on the Floss |
George Eliot |
| Moby Dick |
Hermann Melville |
| Moonwalk |
Michael Jackson |
| Mother India |
Katherine Mayo |
| Mother |
Maxim Gorky |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
William Shakespeare |
| Murder in the Cathedral |
T.S. Eliot |
| My Days |
R.K. Narayan |
| My India |
S. Nihal Singh |
| My Life and Times |
V.V. Giri |
| My Music, My Life |
Pt. Ravi Shankar |
| My Own Boswell |
M. Hidayatullah |
| My Presidential Years |
R. Venkataraman |
| Mystic River |
Dennis Lehane |
| My Son’s Father |
Dom Moraes |
| My Truth |
Indira Gandhi |
| Nana |
Emile Zola |
| Never At Home |
Dom Moraes |
| New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy |
A.B. Vajpayee |
| Nice Guys Finish Second |
B.K. Nehru |
| Nineteen Eighty Four |
George Orwell |
| No Full Stops in India |
Mark Tully |
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Books and Authors G,H, I, J
| Ganadevata |
Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya |
| Gandhi and Stalin |
Louis Fisher |
| Gardener |
Robindra Nath Tagore |
| Gathering Storm |
Winston Churchill |
| Ghasiram Kotwal |
Vijay Tendulkar |
| Gitanjali |
Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Glimpses of World History |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Godan |
Prem Chand |
| Golden Threshold |
Sarojini Naidu |
| Gone With The Wind |
Margaret Mitchell |
| Good Earth |
Pearl S. Buck |
| Good Times, Bad Times |
Harold Evans |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips |
James Hilton |
| Grammar of Politics |
Harold Joseph Laski |
| Great Expectations |
Charles Dickens |
| Guide |
R.K. Narayan |
| Gulliver’s Travels |
Janathan Swift |
| Gypsi Masala |
Preeth Nair |
| Half a Life |
V.S. Naipaul |
| Hamlet |
W. Shakespeare |
| Harvest |
Manjula Padmanabhan |
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
J.K. Rowling |
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
J.K. Rowling |
| Heritage |
Anthony West |
| Heroes and Hero Worship |
Thomas Carlyle |
| Himalayan Blunder |
Brigadier J.P. Dalvi |
| Hindu View of Life |
Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| Hinduism |
Nirad C. Choudhury |
| Homage to Catalonia |
George Orwell |
| How to know God |
Deepak Chopra |
| Human Factor |
Graham Green |
| Hungry Stones |
Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Ideas and Opinions |
Albert Einstein |
| I follow the Mahatma |
K.M. Munshi |
| Idols |
Sunil Gavaskar |
| If I am Assassinated |
Z.A. Bhutto |
| If Only |
Geri Halliwell |
| Ignited Minds |
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam |
| In Evil Hour |
Gabriel Garcia Marques |
| In Memoriam |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| In Search of Gandhi |
Richard Attenborough |
| India in the New Millennium |
Dr. P.C. Alexander |
| India Changes |
Taya Zinkin |
| India Discovered |
John Keay |
| India Divided |
Rajendra Prasad |
| India Emerging power |
Stephen Philip Cohen |
| India-Another Millennium |
Romila Thapar |
| India Unbound |
Gurcharan Das |
| India of Our Dreams |
M.V. Kamath |
| India Remembered |
Percival and Margaret Spear |
| India Wins Freedom |
Abul Kalam Azad |
| India’s Priceless Heritage |
N.A. Palkhivala |
| Indian Philosophy |
Dr. S. Radhakrishanan |
| Indira: The Life of India Nehru Gandhi |
Katherine Frank |
| Inscrutable Americans |
Anurag Mathur |
| Inside Asia, Inside Europe, Inside Africa, etc |
John Gunther |
| Interpreter of Maladies |
Jhumpa Lahiri |
| Intimacy |
Jean Paul Sartre |
| Invisible Man |
H.G. Wells |
| Is Paris Burning |
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre |
| Isabella |
John Keats |
| Islamic Bomb |
Stev Weissman and Herbert Krouney |
| It was Five Past Midnight in Bhopal |
Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro |
| Jai Somnath |
K.M. Munshi |
| Julius Caeser |
William Shakespeare |
| Jungle Book |
Rudyard Kipling |
| Junglee Girl |
Ginu Kamani |
| Jurassic Park |
Michael Crichton |
| Jalpana Chawla – A Life |
Anil Padmanabhan |
| Kamasutra |
Vatsyayana |
| Kane and Abel |
Jeffrey Archer |
| Kanthapura |
Raja Rao |
| Kashmir: A Tragedy of Erros |
Tavleen Singh |
| Kayar |
Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
| Kenilworth |
Sir Walter Scott |
| Kidnapped |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Kim |
Rudyard Kipling |
| King Lear |
William Shakespeare |
| Kubla Khan |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| Darkness at Noon |
Arthur Koestler |
| Das Kapital |
Karl Marx |
| David Copperfield |
Charles Dickens |
| Days of Grace |
Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad |
| Death in Venice |
Thomas Mann |
| Death of a City |
Amrita Pritam |
| Death of a Patriot |
R.E. Harrington |
| Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
| Debacle |
Emile Zola |
| Descent of Man |
Charles Darwin |
| Devdas |
Sharat Chandra Chatterjee |
| Dilemma of Our Time |
Harold Joseph Laski |
| Diplomacy |
Henry Kissinger |
| Discovery of India |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Distant Drums |
Manohar Malgaonkar |
| Divine Comedy |
Dante Alighieri |
| Divine Life |
Swami Sivananda |
| Doctor Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
| Doctor’s Dilemma |
George Bernard Shaw |
| Don Juan |
Lord Byron |
| Don Quixote |
Miguel de Cervantes |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Durgesh Nandini |
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Down Under |
Bill Bryson |
| Earth |
Emile Zola |
| Eminent Victorians |
Lytton Strachey |
| Emma |
Jane Austen |
| Ends and Means |
Aldous Huxley |
| English August |
Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| Envoy to Nehru |
Escott Reid |
| Essays of Elia |
Charles Lamb |
| Essays on Gita |
Sri Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Eternal Himalayas |
Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia |
| Ethics for New Millennium |
The Dalai Lama |
| Expanding Universe |
Arthur Stanley Eddington |
| Faces of Everest |
Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia |
| Family Matters |
Rohinton Mistry |
| Family Reunion |
T.S. Eliot |
| Far from the Madding Crowd |
Thomas Hardy |
| Farewell the Trumpets |
James Morris |
| Farewell to Arms |
Ernest Hemingway |
| Fasting Feasting |
Anita Desai |
| Father and Sons |
Ivan Turgenev |
| Final Days, The |
Bob Woodward and Carl Bemstein |
| First Circle |
Alexander Solzhernitsyn |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls |
Ernest Hemingway |
| Forsyth Saga |
John Galsworthy |
| Fortynine Days |
Amrita Pritam |
| Freedom at Midnight |
Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre |
| French Revolution |
Thomas Carlyle |
| Friends and Foes |
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman |
| From Here to Eternity |
James Jones |
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