GK, BOOKS AND AUTHOURS
Books and
Authors
INTERNATIONAL
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Aesop
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Aesop’s Fables
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Jane
Austen
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Pride and
Prejudice,
Sense and
Sensibility
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Emily
Bronte
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John
Bunyan
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Pilgrim’s
Progress
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Lord
Byron
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Don Juan,
Childe Harold
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Pearl
S.Buck
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Good Earth,
House Divided, The Patriot
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Samuel
Butler
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Way of All
Fresh
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Richard
Burton
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Arabian Nights
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Thomas
Carlyle
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French
Revolution, Past and Present
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Lewis
Carroll
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Samuel
Coleridge
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The Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan
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Jim
Corbett
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Maneaters of
Kumaon
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Charles
Darwin
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The Origin of
Species, Descent of Man
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Daniel
Dafoe
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Robinson
Crusoe
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Charles
Dickens
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Oliver Twist,
Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Tale of Two cities
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Arthur
Conan Doyle
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Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes
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Alexander
Dumas
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Three
Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo
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George
Eliot
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Mill on the
Floss, Silas Marner, Adam Bede
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T
S Eliot
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Family
Reunion,
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Henry
Fielding
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Tom Jones
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E
M Forster
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A Passage to
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Oliver
Goldsmith
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The Vicar of
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Thomas
Gray
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Elegy Written
in a Country Churchyard.
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Maxim
Gorky
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Mother
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Thomas
Hardy
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Tess of The
D’Ubervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd, Mayor of Casterbridge, Return of
the Native
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Ernest
Hemingway
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The Old Man
and the Sea, For Whom the
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Victor
Hugo
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Les
Miserables, Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Adolf
Hilter
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Mein Kampf
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Homer
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Iliad, Odyssey
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Jerome
K Jerome
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Three Men in a
Boat
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Karl
Marx
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Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto
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John
Keats
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The Eve of St.
Agnes, Ode to Nightingale
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Rudyard Kipling
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Kim, Jungle
Book
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Charles
Lamb
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Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Elia
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D H
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers
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Christopher
Marlowe
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Dr. Faustus
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Razor’s Edge, Of Human Bondage
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Margaret
Mitchell
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Gone With the
Wind
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John
Milton
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Paradise Lost,
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Katherine
Mayo
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Mother India
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J
K Gailbraith
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Affluent
Society
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Omar
Khayyam
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The Rubaiyat
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George
Orwell
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Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty Four
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Alexander
Pope
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Rape of the
Lock
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J
J Rousseau
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Social
Contract
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John
Ruskin
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Unto this Last
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G.B.Shaw
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Apple Cart,
Pygmalion, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Candida
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R.L.Slevenson
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Jonathan
Swift
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Gulliver’s Travels, Tale of a Tub
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H.B.Stowe
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Uncle Tom’s
Cabin
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Leo
Tolstoy
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War and Peace,
Anna Karenina, Resurrection
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H.G.Wells
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Time Machine
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Lewis
Wallace
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Ben Hur
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Emile
Zola
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Nana
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Chaucer
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Dante
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Divine Comedy
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Moliere
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Misanthrope
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Plato
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The Republic
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Adam
Smith
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Wealth of
Nations
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Boris
Pasternak
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Dr. Zhivago
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Mark
Twain
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Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Hucklebury Finn
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Arthur
Haily
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Airport, Wheels,
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Leon
Uris
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Trinity,
Q.B.VII, Exodus
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Jules Verne
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Around the
World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Mario
Puzo
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Godfather,
Fools Die, Vallachi Papers
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Joy
Adamson
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Born Free,
Living Free, Forever Free
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Alvin
Toffler
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Future Shock,
Third Wave, Power Shift, War & Antiwar
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Sydney
Sheldon
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Other Side of
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Henry
Millar
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Tropic of
Cancer
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Bertrand
Russel
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Unpopular
Essays, Marriage and Morals
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Walter
Scott
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Lady of the
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Alfred
Tennyson
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In Memoriam,
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BOOKS
AND AUTHORS - INDIAN
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Abul
Fazal
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Ain-e-Akbari,
Akbar Namah
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Bharat
Muni
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Natya
Shastra
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Bana
Bhatt
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Kadambari
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Firdausi
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Shahnama
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Rishi
Ved Vyas
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Mahabharata
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Valmiki
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Ramayana
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Tulsidas
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Ram
Charit Manas
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R
N Tagore
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Gitanjali, Chitra, Gora, Gardener
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Dr.S Radhekrishnan
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Hindu
View of Life, Indian Philosophy
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Munshi
Prem Chand
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Godan, Rang Bhumi
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Jawahar
Lal Nehru
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Discovery
of
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Sarojini
Naidu
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The Song of
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R
K Narayan
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Mr.
Sampat, The Guide
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V
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Area
of Darkness
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Lajpat
Rai
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Unhappy
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Kautilya
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Arthashastra
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Kalhana
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Rajatarangini
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Kalidas
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Shakuntala,
Meghdoot
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Ved
Vyas
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Bhagwad
Geeta
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M
K Gandhi
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My
Experiments with Truth
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Bankim
C.Chatterjee
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Ananadmath,
Kapal Kundala
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N
C Choudhry
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Autobiography
of an Unknown Indian
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Toru
Dutt
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Poems
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K
A Abbass
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Bread,
Beauty and Revolution
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Abdul
Kalam Azad
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CONTEMPORARY
WRITERS
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Salman
Rushdie
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The Satanic
Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh,
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Vikram
Seth
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The Suitable
Boy,
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Shashi
Taroor
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Show Business,
The Great Indian Novel
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Amitav
Ghosh
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Circle of Reason, Shadow Lines
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Upamanyu
Chatterji
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English August
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Vikram
Chandra
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Red Earth,
Pouring Rain
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Anees
Jung
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Breaking the
Silence
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Shobha
De
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Sisters,
Starry Nights, Socialite Evenings, Surviving Men
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Arundhati
Roy
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God of Small
Things
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Prem
Bhatia
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All My
Yesterdays
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B
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The Chinese
Betrayal
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Amrita
Pritam
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Death of a
City
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S
C Chatterjee
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Devdas
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Maj.H
P
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Faces of the
Everest
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Kamala
Markandaya
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Handfull of
Rice
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K
P
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Memories and Musings, Many Words
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Katherine
Mayo
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Mother India
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E
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One More Over
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Sunil
Gavaskar
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Sunny Days
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V
V Giri
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Voice of
Conscience
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Piloo
Mody
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Zulfi My
Friend
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Mulk
Raj Anand
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Coolie
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KPS
Gill
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Arun
Shourie
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Worshipping
False Gods
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P
V Narsimha Rao
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The Insider
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Jagmohan
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My Frozen Turbulence in
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Romesh
Bhandari
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As I Saw
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A
B Vajpayee
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Meri Sansad
Yatra
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Kushwant
Singh
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A Train to
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CLASSICS
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1.
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Pride and
Prejudice
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Jane Austen
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2.
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David Copperfield
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Charles
Dickens
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3.
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Emile Bronte
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4.
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Middle March
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George Eliot
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5.
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Tess of D’Urbervilles
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Thomas Hardy
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6.
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The Power and
the Glory
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Graham Greene
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7.
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Lewis Carroll
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8.
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Crime and
Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Some more Books
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A
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V.S.
Naipaul
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A Secular Agenda
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Arun
Shourie
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A Suitable Boy
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Vikram
Seth
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A Bunch of Old Letters
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Jawaharlal
Nehru
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A Brief History of Time
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Stephen
Hawking
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A
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John
Kenneth Galbraith
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A Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel
Kant
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A Dolls House
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Ibsen
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A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest
Hemingway
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A Guide for the Perplexed
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E.
F. Shumacher
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A Handful of Dust
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Evelyn
Waugh
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A House for Mr .Biswas
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V.S.Naipaul
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A Million Mutinies Now
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V.S.
Naipaul
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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W.
Shakespeare
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A
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Jacques
Chirac
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A Passage to
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Nirad.C.Chaudhry
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A Passage to
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E.M.Foster
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A Prison’s Scrapbook
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L.K.
Advani
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A River Sutra
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Gita
Metha
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A Sense of Time
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Vatysayan
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A Strange and Sublime Address
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Amit
Chaudhry
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A Suitable Boy
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Vikram
Seth
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A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles
Dickens
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A Thousand Days
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Aurthur.M.Schlesinger
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A Thousand Suns
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Dominique
Lappierre
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A Village by the Sea
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Anita
Desai
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A Voice for Freedom
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Nayantara
Sehgal
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A Week with Gandhi
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Louis
Fisher
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A Women’s Life
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Guy
de Maupassant
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Absolute Power
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David
Baldacci
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Accident
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Daniel
Steel
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Adam Bede
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George
Eliot
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel
Defoe
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Adonis
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P.B.
Shelley
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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Mark
Twain
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Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Advice and Consent
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Allen
Drury
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Affluent Society
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J.K.
Galbraith
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After All These Years
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Susan
Issacs
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After Amensia
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Ganesh.N.Devy
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Afternoon Raag
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Amit
Chaudhry
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Against the Grain
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Boris
Yeltsin
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Ageless Body Timeless Mind
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Deepak
Chopra
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Agni Parkash
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Acharya
Tulsi
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Agni Veena
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Kazi
Nazrul Islam
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Ain-i-Akbari
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Abul
Fazal
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Airport
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Arthur
Hailey
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Akbarnama
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Abul
Fazal
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James
Michener
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Alexander the Great
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John
Gunther
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Alexander Quartet
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Lewis
Carroll
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Alien Nation
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Peter
Brimelow
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All Quiet On The Western Front
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E.M.Remarque
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All the Prime Minister’s Men
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Janardhan
Thakur
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All The President’s Men
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C.Berstein
& B.Woodward
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All Things Bright and Beautiful
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James
Harriot
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All’s Well That End’s Well
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William
Shakespeare
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An Autobiography
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Jawaharlal
Nehru
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An Idealist View of Life
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Dr.
S. Radhakrishnan
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Anandamath
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B.
C. Chatterjee
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Animal Farm, The
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George
Orwell
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Anna Karenina
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Count
Leo Tolstoy
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William
Shakespeare
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Arabian Nights
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Sir
Richard Burton
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Arion and the Dolphin
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Vikram
Seth
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Around the World in Eighty Days
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Jules
Verne
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Arthashastra
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Kautilya
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As You Like It
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William
Shakespeare
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Ashtadhyayi
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Panini
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Asian Drama
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Gunnar
Myrdal
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Autobiography of an Unknown
Indian
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Nirad
C. Choudhury
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A Backward Place
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Ruth
Pramer Jhabwala
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Bandicoot Run
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Nanohar
Malgonkar
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Beloved
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Toni
Morrison
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Charles
Berlitz
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Beyond Peace
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Richard
Nixon
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Bharat Bharati
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Maithili
Sharan Gupta
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Bharatiya Parampara ke Mool
Swar
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Govind
Chandra Pande
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Bleak House
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Charles
Dickens
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Blind Beauty
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Boris
Pasternak
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Bride’s Book of Beauty, The
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Mulk
Raj Anand
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Budha Charitam
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Ashvaghosha
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By God’s Decree
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Kapil
Dev
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Caesar and Cleopatra
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George
Bernard Shaw
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Candida
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George
Bernard Shaw
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Candide
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Voltaire
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Geoffery
Chaucer
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Chandalika
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Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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Childhood
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Maxim
Gorky
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Communist Manifesto
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Karl
Marx
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Confessions of a Lover
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Mulk
Raj Anand
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Continent of Circle
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Nirad
C. Choudhury
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Coolie
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Mulk
Raj Anand
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Cricket on the Hearth
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Charles
Dickens
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Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor
Dostoevsky
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Crisis in
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Ronald
Segal
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Culture in the Vanity Bag
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Nirad
C. Choudhury
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Curtain Raisers
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K.
Natwar Singh
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Damsel in Distress
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P.G.
Wodehouse
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Dark Room, The
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R.K.
Narayan
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Das Kapital
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Karl
Marx
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Daughter of the East
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Benazir
Bhutto
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David Copperfield
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Charles
Dickens
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Day in Shadow, The
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Nayantara
Sehgal
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Death and After
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Annie
Besant
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Death of a City
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Amrita
Pritam
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Death in
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Thomas
Mann
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Death of a Patroit
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R.E.Harrington
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Debacle
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Emile
Zola
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Decameroon
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Giovanni
Boccaccio
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Decline and Fall of Indira
Gandhi
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D.R.
Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
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Decline and Fall of
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Edward
Gibbon
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Democracy Means Bread and
Freedom
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Piloo
Mody
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Descent of Man
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Charles
Darwin
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Deserted Village
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Oliver
Goldsmith
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Devdas
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Sarat
Chandra Chatterjee
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Diana Vs Charls
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James
Whitaker
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Dillema of Our Time
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Harold
Joshef Laski
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Diplomacy
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Henry
Kissinger
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Diplomacy in Peace and War
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J.N.
Kaul
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Disclosure
|
Michael
Chrichton
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Discovery of
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Jawaharlal
Nehru
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Distant Drums
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Manohar
Malgonkar
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Distant Neighbours
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Kuldip
Nayar
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Divine Comedy
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A.
Dante
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Divine Life
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Swami
Sivananda
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Doctor Zhivago
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Boris
Pasternak
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Doctor’s Dilemma
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George
Bernard Shaw
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Don Juan
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Lord
Byron
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Drunkard
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Emile
Zola
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Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
|
R.L.Stevenson
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Dynamics of Social Change
|
Chandra
Shekhar
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Durgesh Nandani
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B.
Chandra Chatterjee
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Earth
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Emile
Zola
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Earth Mother, The
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Pupul
Jayakar
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East West
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Salman
Rushdie
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East Wind
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Pearl
S. Buck
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Economics of Peace and Laughter
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John
K. Galbraith
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Emile
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J.J.
Rousseau
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Emma
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Jane
Austen
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Enemies
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Maxim
Gorky
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Essays of Elia
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Charles
Lamb
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Eternal
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Major
H.P.S. Ahulwalia
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Ethics
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Aristotle
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Ethics for the New
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Mille
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Expanding Universe
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Arthur.S.
Eddington
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Faces of Everest
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Major
H.P.S. Ahluwalia
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Fall of a Sparrow, The
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Salim
Ali
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Family
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T.S.
Eliot
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Famished Road, The
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Ben
Okri
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Thomas
Hardy
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Far Pavilions, The
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M.M.
Kaye
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Farms House
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George
Orwell
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Fifth Column
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Ernest
Hemingway
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Fifth Horseman, The
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Larry
Collins & Dominique Lapierre
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Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
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For Whom the
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Ernest
Hemingway
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Forty-nine Days
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Amrita
Pritam
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Freedom at
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Larry
Collins and Dominique Lapierre
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Freedom from Fear
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Aung
San Suu Kyi
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French Leave
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P.G.
Wodehouse
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Friend, The
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Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
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Friends and Foes
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Sheikh
Mujibur Rehman
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From Raj to Rajiv
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Mark
Tully and Zaheer Masani
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Gandevate
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Tara
Shankar Bandopadhyaya
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Gandhi and Stalin
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Louis
Fisher
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Gardener
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Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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Gathering Storm
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Winston
Churchill
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Geet Govinda
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Jaya
Dev
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Ghasiram Kotwal
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Vijay
Tendulkar
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Gita Rahasya
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Bal
Gangadhar Tilak
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Gitanjali
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Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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Glimpses of World History
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Jawaharlal
Nehru
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Godan
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Munshi
Prem Chand
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Godfather, The
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Mario
Puzo
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Vikram
Seth
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Gone with the Wind
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Margaret
Mitchel
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Good Earth
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Pearl
S. Buck
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
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James
Hilton
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Gora
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Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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Great Challenge, The
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Louis
Fischer
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Great Tragedy
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Z.
A. Bhutto
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Guide
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R.K.
Narayan
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Gul-e-Naghma
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Raghupati
Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri
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Gulag Archipelago
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Alexander
Solzhenitsyn
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Gulliver’s Travels
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Jonathan
Swift
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Guide for the Perplexed
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E.F.
Schumacher
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Hamlet
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William
Shakespeare
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Hard Times
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Charles
Dickens
|
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Harsha Charita
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Bana
Bhatt
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Himalayan Blunder
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Brigadier
J.P. Dalvi
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Hind Swaraj
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M.K.
Gandhi
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Hindu View of Life
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Dr.
S. Radhakrishnan
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Hinduism
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Nirad
C. Choudhury
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House of the Dead
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Fyodor
Dostoevsky
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Human Knowledge
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Bertrand
Russell
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Humour
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Ben
Johnson
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Hungry Stones
|
Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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I follow the Mahatma
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K.M.
Munshi
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Idiot, The
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Fyodor
Dostoevsky
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Idols
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Sunil
Gavaskar
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If I am assassinated
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Z.A.
Bhutto
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Illiad
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Homer
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In Search of Gandhi
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Richard
Attenborough
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Indica
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Megasthenes
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V.S.
Naipaul
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Rajendra
Prasad
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Kuldip
Nayar
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Maulana
Abul Kalam Azad
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Indian Home rule
|
M.K.
Gandhi
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Indian Philosophy
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Dr.
S. Radhakrishnan
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Rajni
Palme Dutt
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Indian War of
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V.D.
Savarkar
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Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and
Style
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Nayantara
Sehgal
|
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Indira’s
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S.
Nihal Singh
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Inferno
|
Alighieri
Dante
|
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Intimacy
|
Jean
Paul Sartre
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Iron in the Soul
|
Jean
Paul Sartre
|
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Is
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Larry
Collins and Dominique Lapierre
|
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Isabella
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John
Keats
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Jazz
|
Toni
Morrison
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Judgement, The
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Kuldip
Nayar
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Julius Caesar
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Jungle Book
|
Rudyard
Kipling
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Michael Crichton
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Kadmabari
|
Bana
Bhatt
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Kagaz Te Kanwas
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Amrita
Pritam
|
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Kamasutra
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S.H.
Vatsyayan
|
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Kamayani
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Jai
Shankar Prasad
|
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Kanyadaan
|
Vijay
Tendulkar
|
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Kashmir-Behind the Vale
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M.J.
Akbar
|
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Killer Angels
|
Michael
Shaaru
|
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King Lear
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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King of Dark Chamber
|
Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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Kore Kagaz
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Amrita
Pritam
|
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Kumar Sambhava
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Kalidas
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Lajja
|
Taslima
Nasreen
|
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Life Divine
|
Aurobindo
Ghosh
|
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Light That Failed
|
Rudyard
Kipling
|
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Lolita
|
V.
Nabokov
|
|
Long Walk to Freedom
|
Nelson
Mandela
|
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Lost Child
|
Mulk
Raj Anand
|
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Love Story
|
Eric
Segal
|
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Macbeth
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Mahatma Gandhi
|
Romain
Rolland
|
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Man-eaters of Kumaon
|
Jim
Corbett
|
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Masters, The
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C.P.
Snow
|
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Meghdoot
|
Kalidas
|
|
Mein Kampf
|
Adolf
Hitler
|
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Men Who Killed Gandhi, The
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Manohar
Malgonkar
|
|
Merchant of
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
|
Salman
Rushdie
|
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Mistaken Identity
|
Nayantara
Sehgal
|
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Moor’s Last Sigh
|
Salman
Rushdie
|
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Mother
|
Maxim
Gorky
|
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Mother India
|
Katherine
Mayo
|
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Mountbatten and Independent
|
Larry
Collins and Dominique Lapierre
|
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Moutbatten and the Partition of
|
Larry
Collins and Dominique Lapierre
|
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Mritunjaya
|
Shivaji
Sawant
|
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Much
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Mudrarakshas
|
Vishakhadatta
|
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My Days
|
R.K.
Narayan
|
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My Early Life
|
M.K.
Gandhi
|
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My Experiments with Truth
|
M.K.
Gandhi
|
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My
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S.
Nihal Singh
|
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My Life and Times
|
V.V.
Giri
|
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My Music, My Love
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My Presidential Years
|
Ramaswamy
Venkataraman
|
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My South Block Years
|
J.N.
Dixit
|
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My Truth
|
Indira
Gandhi
|
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Naked Came the Stranger
|
Penelope
Ashe
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Naked Triangle, The
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Balwant
Gargi
|
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Nana
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Emile
Zola
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Natya Shastra
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Bharat
Muni
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Nirbanshita Narirkabata
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Taslima
Nasreen
|
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No Full Stops in
|
Mark
Tully
|
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Non-Violence in Peace and War
|
M.
K. Gandhi
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O’Jerusalem
|
Larry
Collins and Dominique Lapierre
|
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Odyssey
|
Homer
|
|
Oliver Twist
|
Charles
Dickens
|
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
|
Gabriel
Marquez
|
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One World and
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Operation Bluestar-The True
Story
|
Lt
Gen. K. S. Brar
|
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Our Films, Their Films
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Satyajit
Ray
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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
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:
Roddy Doyle
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David
Loshak
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D.
R. Mankekar
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Mani
Shankar Aiyer
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Benazir
Bhutto
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Panchatantra
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Vishnu
Sharma
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Alighieri
Dante
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John
Milton
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Past and present
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Thomas
Carlyle
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Pather Panchali
|
Bibhuti
Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya
|
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Perils of Democracy
|
P.
C. Alexander
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Prem Pachisi
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Munshi
Prem Chand
|
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Preparing for the Twentieth
Century
|
Paul
Kennedy
|
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Price of Power-Kissinger in the
Nixon White House
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|
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Pride and Prejudice
|
Jane
Austen
|
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Princes in Love
|
Ann
Pasternak
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Prithvi Raj Raso
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Chand
Bardai
|
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Radharani
|
Bankim
Chander Chatterjee
|
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Raghuvamsa
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Kalidas
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Rain King, The
|
Saul
Bellow
|
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Rainbow, The
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Pearl
S. Buck
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Rajtarangini
|
Kalhana
|
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Ram Charita Manas
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Tulsidas
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Ramamyana
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Maharishi
Valmiki
|
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Rangbhoomi
|
Munshi
Prem Chand
|
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Reminiscences of the Nehru Age
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M.O.
Mathai
|
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Republic
|
Plato
|
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Rich Like Us
|
Nayantara
Sehgal
|
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Robinson Crusoe
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Daniel
Defoe
|
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Romeo and Juliet
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Rubaiyat
|
Omar
Khayyam
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Saket
|
Maithili
Sharan Gupta
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Sakharam Binder
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Vijay
Tendulkar
|
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Savitri
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Aurobindo
Ghosh
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Sceptred Flute
|
Sarojini
Naidu
|
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Schindler’s List
|
Thomas
Keneally
|
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Second World War, The
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Winston
Churchill
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Shahnama
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Firdausi
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Shakuntala
|
Kalidas
|
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Shivaji, The Great Patriot
|
Lata
Lajpat Rai
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Siddharta
|
Hermann
Hess
|
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Socialite Evenings
|
Shobha
De
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Song of
|
Sarojini
Naidu
|
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Song of Solomon
|
Toni
Morrison
|
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Sonnets , The
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Story of My Life
|
Moshe
Dayan
|
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Struggle in My Life, The
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|
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Sunny Days
|
Sunil
Gavaskar
|
|
Tales from Shakespeare
|
Charles
Lmab
|
|
Tales of Sherlock Holmes
|
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
|
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Tehriq- e- Mujahideen
|
Dr.
Sadiq Hussain
|
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Tempest , The
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Thank You, Jeeves
|
P.G.
Wodehouse
|
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The Assassination
|
K.
Mohandas
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The Silent Cry
|
Kenzaburo
Oe
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Three Musketeers
|
Alexander
Dumas
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Time Machine
|
H.
G. Wells
|
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Time to be Happy
|
Nayantara
Sehgal
|
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To Live or Not to Live
|
Nirad
C. Choudhury
|
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Traveller, The
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Oliver
Goldsmith
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|
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Robert
Louis Stevenson
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Two Leaves and a Bud
|
Mulk
Raj Anand
|
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
|
H.B.
Stowe
|
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Under Western Eye
|
Joseph
Conrad
|
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Unhappy
|
Lala
Lajpat Rai
|
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Untold Story
|
General
B.M. Kaul
|
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Urvashi
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Ramdhari
Singh Dinker
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Utopia
|
Thomas
More
|
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Uttar Ramcharita
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Bhava
Bhuti
|
|
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Jacqueline
Susann
|
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Vanity Fair
|
William
Thackeray
|
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Vendor of Sweets, The
|
R.
K. Narayan
|
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Victory
|
Joseph
Conrad
|
|
View from the UN
|
U
Thant
|
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Village, The
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Mulk
Raj Anand
|
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Vinay Patrika
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Tulsidas
|
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Virangana
|
Maithili
Sharan Gupta
|
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Wake up
|
Annie
Besant
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War and Peace
|
Count
Leo Tolstoy
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War of Indian
|
Vir
Savarkar
|
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War of the Worlds, The
|
H.
G. Wells
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T.
S. Eliot
|
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We Indians
|
Khushwant
Singh
|
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Wealth of Nations
|
Adam
Smith
|
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Women and Men in My Life
|
Khushwant
Singh
|
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Wreck, The
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Rabindra
Nath Tagore
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Emile
Bronte
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Yama
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Mahadevi
Varma
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Yashodhara
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Maithili
Sharan Gupta
|
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Yayati
|
V.
S. Kandekar
|
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Year of the Upheaval
|
Henry
Kissinger
|
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Year of the Vulture, The
|
Amita
Malik
|
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Years of Pilgrimage
|
Dr.
Raja Ramana
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Yesterday and Today
|
K.
P. S. Menon
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Zhivago, Dr.
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Boris
Pasternak
|
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Zulfi, My Friend
|
Piloo
Mody
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CHARACTERS
AND THEIR CREATORS
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Lewis
Carroll
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Anna Karenina
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Leo
Tolstoy
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Bertie Wooster
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P.
G. Wodehouse
|
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Brutus
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Christian
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John
Bunyan
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Clare
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Thomas
Hardy
|
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Claudius
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Cleopatra
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
David
Copperfield
|
Charles
Dickens
|
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Desdemona
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Don Juan
|
Lord
Byron
|
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Don Quixote
|
Cervantes
|
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Dushyanta
|
Kalidas
|
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Eliza
Doolittle
|
George
Beranard Shaw
|
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Gora
|
Rabindra
Nath Tagore
|
|
Hamlet
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Hawkins
|
R.
L. Stevenson
|
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Hector
|
Homer
|
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Hercule Poirot
|
Agatha
Christie
|
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Hyde
|
R.
L. Stevenson
|
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Iago
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Ivanhoe
|
Sir
Walter Scott
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James Bond
|
Ian
Fleming
|
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Jacques
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William
Shakespeare
|
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Jeeves
|
P.
G. Wodehouse
|
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Juliet
|
William
Shakespeare
|
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Kim
|
Rudyard
Kipling
|
|
King Arthur
|
Tennyson
|
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Macbeth
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Man Friday
|
R.
L. Stevenson
|
|
Mephistopheles
|
J.
W. Von Goethe
|
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Micawber
|
Charles
Dickens
|
|
Miranda
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Oliver Twist
|
Charles
Dickens
|
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Perry Mason
|
Erle
Stanley
|
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Phantom
|
Lee
Falk
|
|
Pickwick
|
Charles
Dickens
|
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Pip
|
Chalres
Dickens
|
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Portia
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Sancho Penze
|
Cervantes
Saavedra
|
|
Shakuntala
|
Kalidas
|
|
Shelock Holmes
|
Arthur
Conan Doyle
|
|
Shylock
|
William
Shakespeare
|
|
Surpanakha
|
Valmiki
|
|
Tess
|
Thomas
Hardy
|
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Watson, Dr
|
Arthur
Conan Doyle
|
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Zhivago
|
Boris
Pasternak
|
INDIAN
AUTHORS
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Assamese
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Hem Chandra
Barua (Novelist)
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Bengali
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Bankim Chandra
Chatterji
Sarat Chandra
Chatterji
R.N. Tagore
Ashapoorna
Devi
|
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Gujarati
|
Mirabai
|
|
Hindi
|
Tulsidas, Surdas,
Bihari, Kabir, Guru Nanak, Jai Shankar Prasad, Maithilisharan Gupta,
Sumitranandan Pant (died in 1977) (Poets), Harish Chandra (Father of modern
Hindi prose) Munshi Prem Chand, Sudershan, Upendra Nath Ashk, Jainendra Kumar
Jain (Novelists)
|
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Kanada
|
Pampan (the
first poet), K.V.Puttappa, and Dr. K.S. Karanth
|
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Malayalam
|
Vallathol
Narayanan Menon, G. Shankar Karup (awarded Jnanpith prize) (Poets)
|
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Punjabi
|
Amrita Pritam,
Waris Shah (Poets), Nanak Singh (Novelist), Balwant Gargi (Dramatist)
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Tamil
|
Subramania
Bharati (Poet)
|
1. ROBINSON
CRUSOE BY DANIEL DEFOE
The book is
about the story of a lonely man who is marooned on an unknown Island
by vast limitless sea surrounding that island hoping against hope that a ship
would come to save him from his loneliness and take him back to his home but
for 30 years of his life this only proves a mirage.
2. THE THREE
MUSKETEERS BY ALEXANDER DUMAS
The book written
Alexander Dumas depicts the personality of a young man D. Artagan and his three
companions Athos, pathos and Aramis who are the three musketeers in the service
of a French king and also depicts the intrigue of a woman Milady who finally
murders the beloved of D, Artagan out of jealousy and on being proved guilty is
executed by his three friends Athos, Pathos and Aramis. The book not only
depicts the love story of D, Artagan but also gives a clear picture of the
conditions prevailing in France
3. DAVID COPPERFIELD
BY SIR CHARLES DICKENS
The book is the
story of an orphan boy who struggles in his life to makes a living for himself
and inspite of so many difficulties which he encounters in his life is unnerved
and wins over these difficulties with his patience, courage, hardwork,
sincerity, honesty and dedication to the attain
aim of his life. The book is an eye
opener for all those people who want to become in life a self made person.
4. ALICE
The book
although return specifically to look into imagination of children is also worth
reading and takes us into unknown realms of imagination by the story of a small
girl Alice. The book written in a very simple language as per the
tastes of the small children but it is also enjoyable for a person of higher
age group and some of its selected chapters has also been included in the text
book of English of class VI of CBSE Syllabus
5. TREASURE ISLAND
Book is the
story of adventure of a seventeen year old boy who leaves his mother with a
crew of the ship with many members including Long John Silver. But very soon
realises that Long John Silver and his associates are all from shady
backgrounds and are planning to set sail to an unknown island in the search of
a hidden treasure on that island by some pirates. So in order to make fortune.
He takes the risk of sailing with Long John Silver to an unknown island and
on reaching the island he and some of
its faithful companions take control of the ship and soon the boy meets a person
in dense forest of the island a man with the name of Bengun, who discloses him
where about of the hidden treasure Long John Silver soon has a change of heart
and becomes constant companion of the boy and promises to share the booty with
boy and his companions. However a small group breaks away from them but they
are left high and dry on the Island after a
long tussle between them and taking control the hidden treasure the Long John
Silver and the boy leaves the island with the ship laden with treasure leaving
the other group high and dry on the island.
6. ADVENTURE OF
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Adventure of
Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The novel written on the
adventures of a private detective Sherlock Holmes a character created by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle is not only very interesting to read but also takes us into a world
of human intelligence par excellence and focus on the solution of various crime
mysteries, which are solved by the sharp wit and intelligence of Sherlock
Holmes. The novel became so famous when it was published that it not only
brought fame and name to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle but even various police
officers use to come to the famous novelist for his expert advise to solve
various police cases.
7 IVAN HOE BY
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Ivan Hoe is one
of the most famous novel of Sir Walter Scott which depicts the chivalry of the
famous night Ivan Hoe who wins many face to face duels of sword fighting while
proving his courage to his teacher and is gradually taken into the service of the
king of England, where he proves his worth by commanding the army of the king
and bring laurels for his kingdom. The book also gives us a clear insight into
the culture of England
8 THE GUIDE BY
R. K. NARAYAN
The guide the
famous Novel written by R.K. Narayan is a story of a person Raju guide which
had also been made a movie starring Dev Anand and Wahida Rehman. The story
gives us a deep insight into the life of a common man Raju guide who initially
in order to become rich indulges in forgery and on being caught for forging the
signature on a cheque is sent to jail.. On being released from jail he decides
not to go back to his home and seeks refuge in a temple of an unknown village
and soon becomes popular as a saint, and makes a statement when there is famine
in his village and other villages that he is going to keep a fast and takes a
vow that he is not going to have even a morsel of food or drink even a drop of
water unless until there is rain in the village. His prayers are answered after
a long fast of a week and the country side is blessed with thundering rains but
on the same day he realises that his ego has also died and he looses the desire
to live any more and breathes his last and attains salvation. The novel written
by R.K. Narayan is an eye opener for every one who wants to seek the higher
values of life.
9 MOTHER INDIA
Mother India the
famous Novel written by Katherine Mayo has also been screened as a movie by
famous film director Mehboob Khan starring Nargis Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra
Kumar and Raj Kumar. The novel is the story of
peasant family and the vagaries of life faced by a mother whose husband
dies to raise his two children. The story reaches the most sensitive part when
his son who has become a dacoit on making an attempt to kidnap a young village
woman is shot dead by the mother. The novel written by Katherine Mayo was
appreciated all over the world when it was published and gave a clear picture
of evils of Zamindari system and Sahukari system of rural India
10 DISCOVERY OF INDIA
Discovery of India the famous book written by Pandit Nehru
when he was languishing in jail during the time of British Raj in India India
11 THE WONDER
THAT WAS INDIA
The book written
by Professor Basham after his fifty years of long research and constant
travelling in India
12 RUBIYATS OF
OMAR KHAYAM BY OMAR KHAYAM
Rubiyats of Omar
Khyayam is a very short book which contains the precepts of the famous
Philosopher Omar Khayam and is very enjoyable to read since it aims at teaching
a man the art of life and the art to remain happy and derive maximum nectars
while pursuing the journey of life.
13 SHORT STORIES
BY KHUSHWANT SINGH
The book
recently published is a collection of short stories collected by Khushwant
Singh from various sources and it gives a clear picture of the Indian society
Urban or rural as it exists today. Some stories are satire on middle class
values and repressed instincts of Urban Indians who inspite of modern education
has not been able to lead a truly authentic life and represses many of his
natural instincts in the name of civilisation.
14 FAMOUS FIVE
SERIES BOOKS – ENID BLYTON
The Famous five
series books written by Enid Blyton were specifically written for the enjoyment
of school going children since it is based on the stories of the adventures of
four children and their dog and how they solve the various mysteries and help police
in catching some hard core criminals by their sharp wit and intelligence. The
famous five series books are how ever so enjoyable, written in such a simple
language and supplemented with some very good pictures that once a person of
any age group starts reading it will become just impossible for him to leave
the book unless until it has been fully read.
15 THE HARDY
BOYS SERIES BOOKS – FRANKLIN W. DIXON
The Hardy boy
series books are also indispensable part for a teenagers reading habits since
the hero’s of this book Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy belongs to the age group of
seventeen and eighteen and are two adventures sons of famous detective Fenton
Hardy and helps not only their father in solving many cases but also solve many
mysteries of criminal nature and nab some hard core criminals operating in
United States of America by their sharp sense and intelligence. Some of the
books with the title like – while the clock ticked, are so interesting to read
that one really have a feeling while reading these books that as if some one is
watching some adventure movie of the famous Hollywood film star like Tom
Cruise, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford or Clint Eastwood.
16 KARAM BHUMI –
MUNSHI PREM CHAND
The book Karam
Bhumi written by one of the greatest Indian novelist Munshi Prem Chand during
his hey day of his struggle of life is an eye opener that what hard work can do
for a young man who struggles against all odd, inspite of the fact that he
belongs to a very well to do family to live his life according to his own principles.
He faces many obstructions on his path of life by his own brother and the so
called guardians of the society and he is helped by one of his close friend who
has left the Indian civil services since he wants to render his services for
Indian Independence struggle. The story Karam Bhumi has a political plot but at
the same time also gives a very fine picture of Indian society at the time of
Munshi Prem Chand.
17. THE OLD MAN
AND THE SEA – ERNEST HEMMING WAY
The famous novel
“The old man and the sea” by Ernest
Hemming Way
Books
– June 2008 Onwards
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Goodbye Shehzadi
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Biography
of Benazir Bhutto (Shyam Bhatia)
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Animal’s People
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Mr.
Indra Sinha (Adjudged Best Book of the year by Commonwealth 2008)
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