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‘Imperfect’ is an autobiography of: Sanjay Manjrekar

‘The nice guy who finished first’ a biography of: Rahul Dravid

‘The test of my life’ is an autobiography of: Yuvraj Singh

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‘Playing it my way’ is an autobiography of: Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Majumdar
(co-author)

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‘A century is not enough’ is an autobiography of: Saurav Ganguly

‘Straight Drive’ is an autobiography of: Sunil Gavaskar

‘No spin’ is an autobiography of: Shane Warne

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Manimekalai describes story of: Kovalan and Madhavi’s daughter
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‘History of British India’ by: James Mill in 1817, a massive three volume book

‘Amar Jiban’ is an autobiography of: Rassundari Devi


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‘I am no Messiah’ is an autobiography of: Sonu Sood

Rushkin Bond books: The room on the roof, The blue Umbrella, Roads to Mussoorie

Midnight’s children is a book by: Salman Rushdie


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‘Main D
Ae Kampf’ by Adolf Hitler was originally written in: Germany

‘Dollar Bahu’ is written by: Sudha Murthy

‘A train to Pakistan’ by: Khushwant Singh

‘The race of my life’ is an autobiography of: Milkha Singh


‘The autobiography of an Unknown Indian’ is an autobiography of: Nirad C Chaudhari

‘The Godfather of soul’ is an autobiography of: James Brown (one of the greatest
singer)
Other books:
The three mistakes of my life

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‘A suitable boy’ is written by: Vikram Seth
Revolution 2020
What young India wants
‘Unsuitable boy’ is written by: Karan Johar
400 days

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Books by Chetan Bhagat: Half girlfriend, One Indian girl, One night at the call centre

‘The God of small things’ is written by: Arundhati Roy

Other books:
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‘Malgudi Days’ is written by: RK Narayan
Other books: The guide
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Books by Amitav Ghosh: Sea of poppies, The living mountain, River of smoke, The
Hungary
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‘Test of the d’Urbesvilles’


Alr was written by: Thomas Hardy

‘The great Gatsby’ is written by: F Scott Fitzgerald


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‘Courage and Commitment: An Autobiography’ by: Margaret Alva (Indian Politician)

‘Living History’ is written by: Laura Bush

‘The Hidden Hindu’ is written by: Akshay Gupta (first in the series of the trilogy)

Amish Tripathi books: Scion of Ikshvaku, The immortals of ⑭


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Anish Mehula
Meluha
‘Secrets of the Goddess’ is written by: Devdutt Patnaik

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‘Selection Day’ is written by: Aravind Adiga Other books: The white tiger

‘A handful of nuts’ is written by: Rushkin Bond

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‘Modi Government: New surge of Communalism’ is written by: Sitaram Yechury

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‘Dreams from my father: A story of race and inheritance’ is an autobiography of: Barack
Obama

‘Gone Girl’ written by: Gillian Flynn

‘Total recall: My unbelievable true life story’ is an autobiography of: Arnold


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‘The diary of a young girl’ is an autobiography of: Anne Frank

‘Anna Karenina’ is written by: Leo Tolstoy


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Autobiography: ‘My Confession’

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‘The kiss of my life’ is an autobiography of: Emraan Hashmi

- ‘The great Indian novel’ is written by: Shashi Tharoor (politician)


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Other books:
An era of darkness
Paradoxical Prime Minister
Minister of State for
Ambedkar: A life
Road and Transport
‘Courage and Conviction: An Autobiography’ of: General VK Singh

‘Outlaw: India’s bandit Queen and me’ is a novel on Phoolan Devi written by: Roy Moxham
‘Fearless Governance’ is a book by: Kiran Bedi
1st lady IPS Officer of India
Governor of Puducherry

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‘A passage to India’ is written by: EM Foster

‘Khullam Khulla’ is an autobiography of: Rishi Kapoor

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‘Khamosh’
‘Anything butisKhamosh’
an autobiography of: Shatrughan
is an autobiography of ShatrughanSinha
Sinha

‘Ace against odds’ is an autobiography of: Sania Mirza

‘Cracking the code: My journey to Bollywood’ is an autobiography of: Ayushmann Khurrana


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‘Stripurushtulna’ is written by: Tarabai Shinde
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‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is written by: Vikas Swarup
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‘Ignited minds’ is written by: APJ Abdul Kalam

Autobiography: Wings of Fire

‘Abhinaya Darpan’ is written by: Nandikeshwar


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‘Raseedi Ticket’ is written by: Amrita Pritam

‘Defending India’ is written by: Jaswant Singh

‘Think like a Monk’ is written by: Jay Shetty

‘Playing to win’ is an autobiography of: Saina Nehwal

‘Lajja’ is written by: Taslima Nasrin


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‘Majya Jalmachi Chittarkartha’
tha is an autobiography of: Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble

‘Romancing with life’ is written by: Dev Anand (memoirs of Hindi films)

‘The road ahead’ is by: Bill Gates

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‘The unauthorised autobiography’ is written by: Elon Musk

‘The inheritance of loss’ is written by: Kiran Desai

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‘Why an
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I AmI an Atheist’ is written by: Bhagat Singh

‘Set the boy free’ is written by: Johnny Marr

‘A shot All
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in history’ is an autobiography of: Abhinav Bindra (the Olympics medalist)
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‘An Autobiography’ is written by: Jawaharlal Nehru


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‘All from Memory: An Autobiography’ is written by: BV Acharya
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‘Fasting feasting’ is written by: Anita Desai

‘The Year of the Runways’ is by: Sunjeev Sahota

‘The afternoon of time: An autobiography’ was written by: Harivansh Rai Bachchan
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Other novels: Madhushala

‘Mrityunjay’ (Marathi novel) written by: Shivaji Sawant

‘Godan’ (Hindi novel) written by: Munshi Premchand

Other writings: Gaban, Kaphan, Nirmala, Namak


ka Daroga, Idgah, Mansarovar
‘Before memory fades: An autobiography’ of Constitutional jurist: Fali S Nariman

‘I, Me, Mine’ is an autobiography of: George Harrison

‘The man who made the Elephant dance by Kurein’ is autobiography of: Dr. Varghese
Kurien

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Increase of milk production in India

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‘Atmakatha’ is an autobiography of: Anna Chandy

‘Boys Don’t Cry’ is written by: Meghna Pant

‘Undisputed truth: My autobiography’ is an autobiography of: Mike Tyson

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‘Alice’s adventures in Wonderland’ is written by: Lewis Carroll

‘Truth, Love & A little malice’ is an autobiography of: Khushwant Singh


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‘Sleeping on Jupiter’ is written by: Anuradha Roy
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‘Sense and sensibility’, ‘Mansfield park’ and ‘Emma’ is written by: Jane Austen

‘Devil’s advocate’ is an autobiography of: Karan Thapar

‘A nation in making’ is an autobiography of: Surendranath Banerjee


Also known as ‘Indian Home Rule’
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‘Hind Swaraj’ was written by: Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography: The story of my
experiment with truth
‘Young India’ was written by: Lala Lajpat Rai

‘New India’, ‘Common wheel’ is written by: Anne Besant

‘Anand Math’ was originally written in: Bengali by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Wrote Indian National Song: Vande Mataram


‘Sangeet Kala Prakash’ written by: Ramakrishnabuva Vaze

‘In the afternoon of time: An autobiography’ written by: Harivansh Rai Bachchan

‘Faster than Lightning: My autobiography’ is story of: Usain Bolt

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‘Sultry Days’ is written by: Shobha De

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‘Half Story’ is an autobiography of: Banarasi Das Jain

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‘When
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‘The adventures of Huckleberry Finn’ is written by: Mark Twain

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‘My life, My music’ is an autobiography of: Pt. Ravi Shankar


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‘The coward and the sword’ is written by: Jugal Hansraj
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‘Pride and Prejudice’ written by: Jane Austen

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novel

‘Revenue stamp: An autobiography’ written by: Amrita Pritam


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‘Untouchable’ is written by: Mulk Raj (based on cruelty of caste system)

Other books:
Coolie
Sword and sickle
The village
Across the Black waters
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‘The tunnel of time’ written by: RK Laxman (Indian cartoonist)

‘Sangita Ratnakar’ is written by: Sharngadeva

‘Daughter of destiny: An autobiography is an autobiography of: Benazir Bhutto

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‘India wins freedom’ is an autobiography of: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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‘Jakhan choto chilam’ is an autobiography of: Satyajit Ray

‘GOAL’ is an autobiography of: Major Dhyan Chand

‘Unstoppable: My life so far’ is an autobiography of: Mariah Sharapova

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‘My life in full: Work, family and our future’ is a memoir of: Indra Nooyi
CEO of PepsiCo
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‘The king within’ is a novel by: Nandini Sengupta
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‘My times’ written by: JB Kripalani

‘The palace of illusions’ is written by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (award-wining novel
that re-tells Mahabharata from the perspective of Draupadi’

‘Finding my way’ is an autobiography by: Venkat Raman Singh Shyam (Gond artists)
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and Mukul S Anand Set in background of life in New Delhi after


declaration of Emergency in 1970s
‘The Heart has its reasons’ was originally published as ‘Dilo-Danish’ by: Krishna Sobti

Chetan Bhagat’s debut novel: Five Point Someone (based on movie: Three idiots)

‘Narcopolis’ is written by: Jeet Thayil

‘Mind master: Winning lessons from a champion’s life’ is an autobiography of:


Viswanathan Anand First Major Dhyan Chand awardee
Chess grandmaster
‘To kill a mockingbird’ is written by: Harper Lee

‘Born in India Made in England’ is an autobiography of: Balraj Khanna (known for
painting)

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‘Twilight in Delhi’ written by: Ahmed Ali

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‘Journey with a Hundred strings: My life in Music’ is an autobiography of: Shiv Kumar
Sharma in 2002

‘Kashi ka Assi’ is written by: Kashi Nath Singh

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‘Long walk to freedom’ is written by: Nelson Mandela

‘Freedom in exile’ is written by: 14th Dalai Lama


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‘Drawing from the city’ is a visual autobiography by: Teju Behun
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‘Living shadows’ is written by: Aribam Sharma

‘My country My life’ is written by: LK Advani

‘Mrignayani’ is written by: Vrindavan Lal Verma


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‘A movable feast’ is written by: Ernst Hemingway

The author of novel ‘Tamas’ is Bhisham Sahni

: ‘If God was a Banker’ is written by: Ravi Subramaniam

The author of novel ‘Maila Anchal’ is: Phanishwar Nath Renu

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‘The Last Song of Dusk’ is debut novel of: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ is written by: Viktor E. Frankl



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‘My Side’ is an autobiography of: David Beckham (English Footballer) published in 2003

‘The secret of Veda’ is written by: Sri Aurobindo


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- Books written by Swami Vivekananda: Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga

‘Poverty and Un-British Rule in India’ written by: Dadabhai Naoroji

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Talks about drain of wealth from India
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‘Social harmony’ written by: Narendra Modi

& ‘Burnt sugar’ written by: Avni Doshi


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‘Myth = Mithya : Decoding Hindi Mythology’ written by: Devdutt Pattanaik

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Other books: Secret of Shiva, Devlok

- ‘Kamayani’ an epic poem written by: Jaishankar Prasad


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Books by Jawaharlal Nehru: Discovery, Glimpses of world history, An autobiography

- ‘Ashtadhyayi’ written by Sanskrit scholar Panini, is a book on: Grammar

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‘Indica’ is written by: Megasthenes
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‘2001: A space Odyssey’ is a popular science fiction written by: Arthur C Clarke

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‘Mrs Funnybones’ written by: Twinkle Khanna

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‘Mimamsasutras’ safes of ancient India is written by: Jaimini

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‘The coalition years’ written by: Pranab Mukherjee
‘A bunch of old letters’ written by: Jawaharlal Nehru

Books by Ambedkar: Riddles in Hinduism, Ranade, Gandhi and Jinnah, Waiting for a
visa: Autobiographical notes

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‘My journey transforming dreams into actions’ an autobiography of: APJ Abdul Kalam

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‘My truth’ written by: Indira Gandhi (former PM of India)

Books by Rudyard Kipling: Rikki-Tikku-Tavi, The man who would be king, The jungle
book

‘The golden threshold’ written by: Sarojini Naidu


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‘Rughavamsha’ and ‘Kumarasambhava’ are works of: Kalidas
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Other works: Meghaduta, Abhijnana Shakuntalam
‘The best thing about you is you’ written by: Anupam Kher
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‘The testaments’ written by: Margaret Atwood

‘Boy: Tales of childhood’ is an autobiography of: Roald Bond

‘Girl, Women, Other’ written by: Bernardin Evaristo


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‘The tales of beedle the bard’ written by: JK Rowling

‘Speaking truth to power: My alternative view’ written by P Chidambaram

‘Kundalini: The mother of the Universe’ which includes an English translation of ‘Lalita
Sahasranama’ is written by: Rishi Singh Gherwal
‘Beyond the lines’ is written by: Kuldip Nayar

‘Kanthapura’ is written by: Raja Rao

‘Chheelate Hue Apne Ko’ is a Hindi poet by: Nand Kishore Acharya

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‘Gitanjali’ is written by: Rabindranath Tagore

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‘150 years of celebrating the Mahatma - the South African legacy’ written by:
Fakir Hussen

‘A woman is no man’ is written by: Etaf Rum

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‘Being Gandhi’ written by: Paro Anand

‘Bhavartha Dipika’ and ‘Amritanubhava’ are sacred books of people of:


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Maharashtra

‘Ramacharitmanas’ by Tulsidas was published from: Culcutta/Kolkata


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Willy Wonka is a fictional character from the children’s book: Charlie and the
chocolate factory

‘The anarchy: The relentless rise of the East India Company’ written by: William
Dalrymple
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‘Vishesh: Code to win’ written by: Nirupama Yadav

‘Kitab-ul-Hind’ written by: Al-Biruni (this book gave an incisive description of


early 11th Century in India

‘Democrats and dissenters’ written by: Ramchandra Guha


‘Interpreter of Maladies’ is written by: Jhumpa Lahiri

Other books: Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth

‘The quest for equity in development’ written by: Manmohan Singh

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‘The light of Asia: The poem that defined the Buddha’ that narrates the phenomenal
poem ‘The light of Asia’ is written by: Jairam Ramesh

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‘Men in white- A book of cricket’ is written by Mukul Kesavan

‘The English teacher’ is written by: RK Narayan

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‘The hitman: The Rohit Sharma story’ is written by: G Krishnan

‘Reporting India: My seventy-year journey as a journalist’ written by: Prem Prakash


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‘Hit refresh’ written by: Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft)
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‘A fine balance’ written by: Rohinton Mistry

‘Cross connection: The big circus adventure’ is written by: Jugal Hansraj

‘Indian Parliamentary speaker’s perspective’ is diplomacy authored by: Meira Kumar


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‘Night of the restless spirits: Stories from 1984’ written by: Sarbpreet Singh

‘My master’ written by: Swami Vivekananda

‘The Brahma Sutra: The philosophy of spiritual life’ is written by: Sarvepalli
Radhakrishnan
‘Poskem’ is written by: Wendell Rodricks

‘Buddha Gaya: The hermitage of Sakya Muni’ is written by: Rajendralala Mitra

‘Manucharitra’ is an epic story written by: Allasani Peddana

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‘A better India: A better world’ is written by: NR Narayana Murthy

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‘The life divine’ written by: Sri Aurobindo

‘We are displaced’ written by: Malala Yousafzai

Kamban wrote Ramayana in: Tamil

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‘Annihilation of caste’ is written by: BR Ambedkar

Other books: The Buddha


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and his Dhamma
‘Crossed swords: Pakistan, its army and the war within’ written by: Shaju Nawaz
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‘Those days’ written by: Sunil Gangopadhyay (translated version of a Sahitya Akademi
winning historical novel)

‘Aatish-I-Chinar’ (‘Flames of Chinar’) is the autobiography of: Sheikh Muhammad


Abdullah (politician)
PA

‘Bridgital nation solving technology’s people problem’ written by: N Chandrasekaran

‘The Razmnama’ (Book of wars) written during the reign of Akbar by: Mahabharata

‘The judgement: Inside story of the emergency in India’ written by: Kuldip Nayar
‘India: A million mutinies now’ and ‘role in history’ written by: Vidiadhar Surajprasad
Naipaul

‘Hazara chaurasi ki maa’ written by: Mahasweta Devi

‘The anarchy: The East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire’

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is written by: William Darlymple

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‘The free voice: On democracy culture and the nation’ written by: Ravish Kumar

‘Swami Vivekananda in the West: New discoveries’ written by: Marie Louise Burke

‘What happened’ written by: Hilary Clinton

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‘Bridgital nation: Solving technology’s people problem’ is co-authored by: N
Chandrasekaran’
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‘Pakkaki Ottigilite’ has been composed by: K Shiva Reddy
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‘Arctic home of the Veda’ written by: Bal Gangadhar Tilak

‘The reluctant family man: Shivaji in everyday family life’ written by: Neelima Chirag
Opekar

‘Becoming’ written by: Michelle Obama


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‘The silent cry’ is written by: Kenzaburo O A

‘A wild sheep chase’ written by: Haruki Murakami

‘A Prime Minister to remember memories of a military chief’ is authored by: Sushil


Kumar (Ex Chief Naval Admiral)
‘A brief history of time’ written by: Stephan Hawking

‘Every child matters’ written by: Kailash Satyarthi

‘Neel Darpan’ written by: Dina Bandhu Mitra

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Based on Indigo Revolt in Bengal’s Nadia district

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Books by Amish Tripathi: The secret of Nagas, Sita - Warrior of Mithila, The immortals
of Meluha

‘Michael Madhusudan Dutt’ is a writer by occupation

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‘Anandmath’ written by: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

‘My life, my mission’ is an autobiography of: Baba Ramdev


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‘An inquiry into the nature’ written by Adam Smith
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Other books:
Wealth of Nations
Sentiments

‘Lessons life taught me unknowingly’ is an autobiography of actor: Anupam Kher


PA

‘Panchatantra’ the famous collection of animal fables is composed by: Vishnu Sharma

‘A comparison between women and man’ written by: Tarabai Shinde

‘Black beauty’ written by: Anna Sewell

‘Timeless Laxman’ based on the life of: R.K. Laxman


‘Cricket World Cup: The Indian challenge’ written by: Ashish Ray

‘Pinjar’ written by: Amrita Pritam

Books by Mahakavi Kalidas: Shakuntala, Ritusamhara, Malavikagnimitram

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‘Malati Madhava ’ written by: Bhavabhuti

‘Every vote counts the story of India’s elections’ written by: Navin Chawla

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‘The origin of Species’ written by: Charles Darwin

‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ play is written by: George Bernard Shaw

In Marathi
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‘Gulamgiri’ is written by: Jyotibha Phule

Also wrote: Sarvajanik


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Marathi)
‘The Google story’ written by: David A Vise
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‘Capital and growth’ is written by: John Hicks

‘Unbreakable’ written by: Mary Kom


2nd Chinese traveller
‘Si-yu-ki’ written by: Hiuen Tsiang
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‘Reset: Regaining India’s Economic Legacy’ is written by: Subramanian Swamy

‘Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and role in History’ is written by: Ishtiaq Ahmed

“The general theory of employment, interest and money’ (1936) was written by: John
Maynard Keynes
‘The Mountain of Light’ is written by: Indu Sundaresan

· ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ is an autobiography of: Maya Angelou

/ ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ is written by: J. K Rowling


‘The Moor’s Last Sigh’ is written by: Salman Rushdie

‘Before We Visit the Goddess’ is a novel by: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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‘On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft’ is written by: Stephen King

‘A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time’ is an autobiography of Indian Politician: Arjun Singh

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‘Childhood Days - A Memoir by Satyajit Ray is written in: Bengali

- ‘The Dark Room’ that presents an Indian woman stiff opposition to male domination is written by: R K Narayan

- ‘The Soul of Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey’ is written by: Muhammad Ali

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‘Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel’ is written by: Vikram Chandra

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‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ is the autobiography of: Paramhansa Yogananda
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‘Memoirs of My Life and Time in the Days of My Youth’ is an autobiography by: Bipin Chandra Pal
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‘Unfinished: A Memoir’ is written by: Priyanka Chopra

‘The Fall of a Sparrow’ is an autobiography of: Salim Ali

‘The Zoya Factor’ is a book by: Anuja Chauhan

‘The Gopi Dairies’ and ‘Wise and Otherwise’ are books by: Sudha Murthy
PA

‘The Story of My Experiments with Truth’ is an autobiography of: Mahatma Gandhi

The author of ‘animal farm’ is: George Orwell

The author of Hindi novel ‘Raag Darbari’ is Shrila Shukla

‘The Economic History of India’ is written by: RC Dutt

The author of ‘The 7 Sins of Being a Mother’ is: Tahira Kashyap Khurrana

‘2G Saga Unfolds’ is written by: Andimuthu Raja


- ‘Narendra Modi: A Politician Biography’ is written by: Andy Marino


Author of book ‘The Buddha and his Dhamma’ that appeared in 1957 after the death of its author is written
by: BR Ambedkar

I The book ‘Six Machine: I Don’t Like Cricket….I Love it’s is written by: Chris Gayle

- ‘Moonwalk’ a memoir written by: Michael Jackson

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‘The Paradise of Food’ book that won the 2022 JCB Prize for Literature is written by: Khalid Jawed

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The autobiography ‘Raga Mala’ is an autobiography of Indian musician: Ravi Shankar

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‘Meri Filmy Atmakatha’ is an autobiography written by: Balraj Sahni

In 1984, Kamala Das was nominated for Nobel Prize for Literature for his autobiography: My Story

‘Vikramarjuna - Vinaya’ composed by Pampa was written in: Telugu

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‘A Life of a Genius: The Man who Knew Infinity’ is a biography of Indian Mathematician: Srinivasa Ramanujan

‘Galpaguchchha’ written by Rabindranath Tagore is a collection of: Short Stories


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‘In the Afrternoon of Time’ is an autobiography by: Harivansh Rai Bachchan
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‘Asura: Tale of the Vanquished’ is the first novel of: Anand Neelakantan

I The author of the the book ‘An autobiography: Toward Freedom’ is: Jawaharlal Nehru

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Author of epic poem ‘Padmavat’ is: Malik Muhammad Jayasi

↑ Ritusamhara or the Six Seasons is a classic of Sanskrit literature written by: Kalidasa
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↑ ‘Wide Angle’ is an autobiography of: Anil Kumble

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‘Karmayodha Granth’ was released by politicians: Amit Shah

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The author of book ‘Kama Sutra’ is: Vatsyayana
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