Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Books and Authors

Books and Authors

A Backward Place : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
A Bend in the Ganges : Manohar Malgonkar
A Bend in the River : V. S. Naipaul
A Billion is Enough : Ashok Gupta
A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories : Khushwant Singh
A Brief History of Time : Stephen Hawking
A Brush with Life : Satish Gujral
A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru
A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back : B. G. Deshmukh .
A Call To Honour-In Service of Emergent India : Jaswant Singh
A Captain's Diary : Alec Stewart
A China Passage : John Kenneth Galbraith
A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Gtanth Sahib : S. S. Kohli
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy : Karl Marx
A Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant
A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrick Moynihan
A Doctor's Story of Life and Death : Dr. Kakkana Subbarao & Arun K. Tiwari
A Doll's House : Henrik Ibsen
A Dream in Hawaii : Bhabani Bhattacharya
A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway
A Fine Balance : Rohinton Mistry
A Foreign Policy for India : I. K. Gujral
A Gift of Wings : Shanthi Gopalan
A Handful of Dust : Evelyn Waugh
A Himalayan Love Story : Namita Gokhale
A House Divided : Pearl S. .Buck
A Judge's Miscellany : M. Hidayatullah
A Last Leap South : Vladimir Zhirinovsky
A Long Way : P. V. Narasimha Rao
A Man for All Seasons : Robert Bolt
A Midsummer Night's Dream : William Shakespeare
A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul
A New World : Amit Chaudhuri
A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy
A Passage to England : Nirad C. Chaudhuri
A Passage to India : E. M. Forster
A Peep into the Past : Vasant Navrekar
A Personal Adventure : Theodore H. White
A Possible India : Partha Chatterjee
A Prisoner's Scrapbook : L. K. Advani
A Revolutionary Life : Laxmi Sehgal
A Ridge Too Far : Captain Amarinder Singh
A River Sutra  : Gita Mehta
A Royal Duty : Paul Burrel
A Search for Home : Sasthi Brata
A Secular Agenda : Arun Shourie
A Sense of Time : S. H. Vatsyayan
A Simple Path : Lucinda Vardey
A Sin of Colour : Sunetra Gupta
A Spaniard in the Works : John Lennon
A Speaker's Diary : Manohar Joshi
A Stream of Windows–Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Imigration and Democracy : Jagdish Bhagwati
A. Study of History : Arnold Toynbee
A. Sudden Change of Hearts : Barbara Taylor
A Suitable Boy  : Vikram Seth
A Tale of a Tub : Jonathan Swift
A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Gardens : Octavio Paz
A Thousand Days : Arthur M. Schlesinger
A Thousand Suns  : Dominique Lapierre
A Time of Coalitions : Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman
A Tribute to People's Princess–Diana : Peter Donelli
A Tryst With Destiny : Stanley Wolfer
A TunnelofTime-AnAutobiography : R. K. Laxman
A View from Delhi : Chester Bowles
A View from Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everybody : P. Chidambaram
A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai
A Voice of Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal
A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer
A Woman's Life : Guy de Maupassant
Aasman Aur Bhi Hain  : Mridula Halan
Abhigyana Shakuntalam  : Kalidasa
Adam Bede  : George Eliot
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adversary in the House : Irving Stone
Advice and Consent : Allen Drury
Afghanistan & Asian Stability : V D. Chopra
After All These Years : Susan Issacs
After the Dark Night : S. M. Ali
Against the Grain : Boris Yeltsin
Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre
Ageless Body; Timeless Mind : Deepak Chopra
Agni Pariksha  : Acharya Tulsi
Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ain-i-Akbari  : Abul Fazal
Airport : Arthur Hailey
Ajatshatru  : Jai Shankar Prasad
Akbarnama  : Abul Fazal
Alexander the Great : John Gunther
Algebra of Infinite Justice : Arundhati Roy
Alice in Wonderland : Lewis Carroll
All for Love : John Dryden
All Is Well That Ends Well : William Shakespeare
All Quiet on the Western Front : Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men : Robert Penn Warren
All the President's Men : Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
All the Prime Minister's Men : Janardhan Thakur
All Things Bright and Beautiful : James HerrQit
All Under Heaven : Pearl S. Buck
Along the Road : Aldous Huxley
Ambassador's Journal : J. K. Galbraith
Ambassador's Report  : Chester Bowles
Amelia : Henry Fielding
American Capitalism : J. K. Galbraith
An Admiral's Fall : Wilson John
An American Dilemma : Gunnar Myrdal
An American in Khadi  : Asha Sharma
An American Tragedy : Theodore Dreiser
An Area of Darkness : V. S. Naipaul
An Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : David Hume
An Equal Music : Vikram Seth
An Eye to China : David Selbourne
An Idealist View of Life : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith
An Unfinished Dream : Dr. Verghese Kurien
Anandmath  : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
And Quiet Flows the Don : Mikbail A. Sholokhov
And Through the Looking Glass : Lewis Carroll
Angry Letters : Willem Doevenduin
Anguish of Deprived : Lakshmidhar Mishra
Anna Karenina  : Leo Tolstoy
Another Life : Derek Walcott
Answer to History : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Antic Hay : Aldous Huxley
Antony and Cleopatra : William Shakespeare
Ape and Essence : Aldous Huxley
Apple Cart : George Bernard Shaw
Arabian Nights : Sir Richard Burton
Arion and the Dolphin : Vikram Seth
Arms and the Man : George Bernard Shaw
Around the World in Eighty Days : Jules Verne
Arrival and Departure : Arthur Koestler
Arrow in the Blue : Arthur Koestler
Arrow of Gold : Joseph Conrad
Arthashastra  : Kautilya
As I See : Kiran Bedi
As You Like It  : William Shakespeare
Ascent of the Everest : Sir John Hunt
Ashtadhyayi  : Panini
Asia and Western Dominance : K. M. Panikkar
Asian Drama : Gunnar Myrdal
Aspects of the Novel : E. M. Forster
Assassination of a Prime Minister : S. Anandram
Assignment Colombo : J. N. Dixit
Athenian Constitution : Aristotle
Atoms of Hope : Mohan Sundara Rajan
August 1914  : .Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Author's Farce : Henry Fielding
Autumn Leaves : O. Pulla Reddi
Ayodhya–6 December 1992  : P.V. Narasimha Rao
Back to Methuselah : George Bernard Shaw
Bandicoot Run : Manohar Malgonkar
Bang-i-Dara : Mohammad Iqbal
Beach Boy : Ardesher Vakil
Bearders–My Life in Cricket : Bill Frindall
Beast and Man : Murry NIidgley
Beginning of the Beginning : Acharya Rajneesh
Being Digital : Nicholas Negroponte
Being Freddie : Andrew Flintoff
Being Indian : Pawan Varma
Believe–Achieve : Paul Hanna
Beloved : Toni Morrison
Ben Hur : Lewis Wallace
Bermuda Triangle : Charles Berlitz
Betrayal of Pearl Harbour : James Rusbridger and Eric Nave
Between Hope and History  : Bill Clinton
Between the Lines : Kuldip Nayar
Bewilderedlndia–Identity, Pluralism, Discord : Rasheeduddin Khan
Beyond Autonomy-Roots of India's Foreign Policy : A. K. Damodaran
Beyond Belief : V. S. Naipaul
Beyond Boundaries-A Memoire  : Swraj Paul
Beyond Good and Evil : Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self  : Sisir Kumar Ghose
Beyond Peace : Richard Nixon
Beyond the Horizons : Eugene O'Neill
Beyond the Veil, Indian Women in the Raj  : Pran Nevile
Beyond the Walls of Silence : Lalini Rajasuriya
Bhagvad Gita  : S. Radhakrishnan
Bharat Aur Europe : Nirmal Verma
Bharat Bharati  : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Bharatiya Parampara Ke Mool Swar  : Govind Chandra Pande
Big Money : P. G. Wodehouse
Bin Laden–The Man Who Declared War on America : Yossef Bodansky
Birds and Beasts : Mark Twain
Birth and Death of the Sun : George Gamow
Birth and Evolution of the Soul : Annie Besant
Bisarjan  : Rabindranath Tagore
Black Holes and Baby Universes : Stephen Hawking
Black Sheep : Honore de Balzac
Bleak House : Charles Dickens
Blind Ambitions : John Dean
Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak
Blind Men of Hindoostan–Indo–Pak Nuclear War : Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji
Bliss was it in that Dawn : Minoo Masani
Blood Brothers : M. J. Akbar
Blood Sport : James Stewart
Blue Bird : Maurice Macterlink
Bofors The Ambassador's Evidence : B. M. Oza
Book of the Sword : Sir Richard Burton
Borders & Boundaries; Women in India's Partition : Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Born Free : Joy Adamson
Branded by Law : Dilip D'Souza
Bread, Beauty and Revolution : Khwaja Ahmed Abbas
Breaking the Silence : Anees Jung
Breakthrough : Gen. Moshe Dayan
Brick Lane : Monica Ali
Brideless in Wembley  : Sanjay Suri
Bishbriksha : Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Britain's True History :Prem Bhatia
Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu
Buddha Charitam  : Ashvaghosha
Buddha's Warriors : Mikel Dunham
Bureaucrazy  : M. K. Kaw
Burial At Sea : Khushwant Singh
Business at the Speed of Thought : Bill Gates
Business Legends : Gita Piramal
By God's Decree : Kapil Dev
Caesar and Cleopatra: George Bernard Shaw
Can India Grow Without Bharat : Shankar Acharya
Cancer Ward: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Candida: George Bernard Shaw
Candide: Voltaire
Candle in the Wind: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Canvas of Life : Sheila Gujral
Caravans: James A. Michener
Carnage By Angels: Y P. Singh
CBK : Graeme Wilson
Cell: Stephen King
Centennial: James lvIichener
Chaitali : R. N. Tagore
Chakori : Chandrasekhar Kamba
Chance: Joseph Conrad
Chandalika : Rabindranath Tagore
Charisma & Cannon–Essays on the Religious History of Subcontinent: Vasudha Dalmia, Angelika Malinar and Marcin Christ
Chemmeen : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
Chikaveera Rajendra : Masci Venkatesh Iyengar
Child and Law in India: K. Chandru, Geeta Ramaseshan and Chandra Thanikachalam
Child Who Never Grew: Pearl S. Buck
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: George Byron
Childhood: Maxim Gorky
Children and Human Rights: S. K. Pachuri
Children in Globalising India– Challenging Our Conscience: Enkashi Ganguly Thukral
Children of Gebelawi : Naquib Mahfouz
Children of the Sun: Maxim Gorky
China, the World and India: Mira Sinha Bhattacharjee
China's Watergate: Leo Goodstadt
China–Past and Present: Pearl S. Buck
Chinese Betrayal: B. N. Mullick
Chithirappaavai : P. V. Akilandam
Chithrangada: R. N. Tagore
Chitra: Rabindranath Tagore
Choma's Drum: K. Shivaram Karanth
Christabel : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Christmas Tales: Charles Dickens
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Circle of Reason: Amitav Ghosh
City of Joy: Dominique Lapierre
City of Saints: Sir Richard Burton
City of the Yellow Devil: Maxim Gorky
Clear Light of Day: Anita Desai
Climate of Treason: Andrew Boyle
Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess
Cold Street: Paul Carson
Colonel Sun: Kingsley Amis
Comedy of Errors: William Shakespeare
Common Sense: Thomas Paine
Communalism-Handled with a Difference: Daniel Steel
Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx
Comus : John Milton
Confessions: J. J. Rousseau
Confessions of a Lover: Mulk Raj Anand
Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer–My Years as Finance Minister :Yashwant Sinha
Confrontation with Pakistan: Gen. B. M. Kaul
Conquest of Happiness: Bertrand Russell
Conquest of Self: M. K. Gandhi
Considerations on Representative Government: John Stuart Mill
Continent of Circe: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms & Development: Darryl Reed and Sanjoy Mukherjee
Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch: Arindam Chaudhuri
Court Dancer: Rabindranath Tagore
Courts and Their Judgements: Arun Shourie
Coverly Papers: Joseph Addison
Creation: Gore Vidal
Crescent Moon: Rabindranath Tagore
Crescent Over Kashmir: Anil Maheshwari
Cricket on the Hearth: Charles Dickens
Crime & Money Laundering: Jyoti Trehan
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Crisis into Chaos :E.M.S. Narnboodiripad
Critical Mass: William E. Burrows
Crossing the River: Caryl Phillips
Crossing the Rubicon : C. Raja Mohan
Crossing the Threshold of Hope: Pope John Paul II
Cry, My Beloved Country: Alan Paton
Cuckold: Kiran Nagar Kar
Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold
Culture in the Vanity Bag: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Curtain Raisers: K. Natwar Singh
Damsel in Distress: P G. Wodehouse
Dancing with the Devil: Rod Barker
Dangling Man: Saul Bellow
Daniel Deronda : George Eliot
Dark Debts: Karen Hall
Dark Home Coming: Eric Lustbader
Dark Side of Camelot: Seymour Hersh
Darkness at Noon: Arthur Koestler
Das Kapital : Karl Marx
Dashkumar Charitam : Dandi
Dateline Kargil : Gaurav C. Samant
Daughter of the East: Benazir Bhutto
David Copperfield: Charles Dickens
Days of Grace: Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad
Days of His Grace: Eyvind Johnson
Days of My Years: H. P. Nanda
De Profundis : Oscar Wilde
Dean's December: Saul Bellow
Death and Mter : Annie Besant
Death Be Not Proud: John Gunther
Death in the Casde : Pearl S. Buck
Death in Venice: Thomas Maim
Death of a City: Amrita Pritam
Death of a Patriot: R. E. Harrington
Death of a President: William Manchester
Death on the Nile: Agatha Christie
Death Under Sail: C. P. Snow
Death–The Supreme Friend: Kakasaheb Kalelkar
Debacle : Emile Zola
Decameron : Giovanni Boccaccio
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi : D. R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon
Decline of the West: O' Spengler
Democracy Means Bread and Freedom: Piloo Mody
Democracy Redeemed: V. K. Narsimhan
Democratic Governance in India–Challenges of Poverty, Development & Identity: Nirja Gopal Jayal & Sudha Pai
Descent of Man: Charks Darwin
Deserted Village: Oliver Goldsmith
Detective: Arthur Hailey
Devdas : Sharat Chandra Chatterjee
Development and Nationhood–Essays in the Political Economy of South Asia: Meghnad Desai
Development As Freedom: Amartya Sen
Development Banks-Infrastructure and Industrial Output: Prakash Salvi
Development with Dignity-A Case for Full Employment: Amit Bhaduri
Devi–The Great Goddess: Vidya Dahejia
Dharamashastra : Manu
Dialogue With Death: Arthur Koestler
Dialogue With Pakistan: S. G. Kashika
Diana Versus Charles: James Whitaker
Diana–Her Time Story in Her Own Words: Andrew Martin
Diana–Princess of Wales: A Tribute: Tim Graham
Diana–The Story So Far: Julia Donelli
Diana–The True Story: Andrew Morton
Die Blendung : Elias Canetti
Differentiate or Die: Jack Trout & Steve Rivkin .
Difficult Daughters: Manju Kapoor
Dilemma of Our Time: Harold Joseph La ski
Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger
Diplomacy and Disillusion: George Urbans
Diplomacy for the Next Century: Abba Eban
Diplomacy in Peace and War: J. N. Kaul
Disappearing Acts: Terry McMillan
Discovery of India : Jawahadal Nehru
Disgrace: J. M. Coetzee
Distant Drums: Manohar Malgonkar
Distant Neighbours : Kuldip Nayar
Divine Comedy: A. Dante
Divine Life: Swami Sivananda
Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe
Doctor's Dilemma: George Bernard Shaw
Dolly–The Birth of a Clone: Jina Kolata
Don Juan: George Byrqn
Don Quixote: Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes
Don't Laugh–We are Police: Bishan Lal Vohra
Double Betrayal: Paula R. Newburg
Double Tongue: William Golding
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Zhivago : Boris Pasternak
Dragon's Teeth: U. B. Sinclair
Dream of Fair to Middling Women: Samuel Beckett
Dreams,Roses and Fire :Eyvind Johnson
Drogon's Seed: Pearl S. Buck
Drunkard: Emile Zola
Dude, Where's My Country? : Michael Moore
Durgesh Nandini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Dust to Dust: Tami Hoag
Dynamics of Social Change: Chandra Shekhar
Dynasties of India and Beyond–Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh: lnder Malhotra
Earth: Emile Zola
Earth in the Balance–Forging a New Common Purpose: Al Gore
East West: Salman Rushdie
East Wind: Pearl S. Buck
Echoes from Old Calcutta: H. E. Busteed
Economic Planning of India: Ashok Mehta
Economics of Peace and Laughter : John K. Galbraith
Economics of Public Purpose: John K. Galbraith
Economics of the Third World: S. K. Ray
Educational Reforms in India–For the 21st Century:J. C. Aggarwal
Edwina and Nehru: Catherine Clement
Egmont :J. W. Von Goethe
Eight Lives: Rajmohan Gandhi
Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard: Thomas Gray
Emile: J. J. Rousseau
Eminent Churchillians : Andrew Roberts
Eminent Victorians: Lytton Strachey
Emma: Jane Austen
Empire of the Soul–Some Journeys in India : Paul William Roberts
End of an Era: C. S. Pandit
End of the Chapter: John Forsyte
End of the Line: Neelesh IvIishra
Ends and Means: Aldous Huxley
Enemies: Maxim Gorky
Engaging India–Diplomacy, Democracy & the Bomb: Strobe Talbott
Environmental Economics–An Indian Perspective: Rabindra N. Bhattacharya
Envoy to Nehru: Escott Reid
Erewhon : Samuel Butler
Escape: John Forsyte
Escape the Night: Richard North Patterson
Essay on Life: Samuel Butler
Essays for Poor to the Rich: John Kenneth Galbraith
Essays in Criticism: Matthew Arnold
Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb
Essays on Gita : Aurobindo Ghosh
Estranged Democracies: Dennis Kux
Eternal Himalayas: Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia
Eternity: Anwar Shaikh
Ethics: Aristotle
Ethics for New Millennium: Dalai Lama
Ethics Incorporated: Dipankar Gupta
Eugenie Grandet : Honore de Balzac
Europa: Time Parks
Everest Hotel: Allan Sealey
Every Man a Tiger : Tom Clancy
Executioner's Song: Norman Mailer
Exile and the Kingdom: Albert Camus
Expanding Universe: Arthur Stanley Eddington
Eyeless in Gaza : Aldous Huxley
50 Years of India's Independence: D. S. Subramaniam
Faces of Everest: Maj. H. P. S. Ahluwalia
Facing Up: Bear Grylls
Facts are Facts: Khan Abdul Wali Khan
Failing Slowly: Anita Brookner
Faith & Compassion: Navin Chawla
Faith & Fire: A Way Within: Madhu Tandon
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: Adeline Yen Man
False Witness: Dexter Dias
Family Matters: Rohinton :Mistry
Family Moskat : Issac Bashevis Singer
Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy
Farewell the Trumpets: James Morris
Farewell to a Ghost: Manoj Das
Farm House: George Orwell
Fasting, Feasting: Anita Desai
Father and Sons.: Ivan Turgenev
Faust: J. W Von Goethe
Fidelio : L. Beethoven
Fiesta: Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Column: Ernest Hemingway
Fifth Elephant: Terry Pratchett
Fifty Years of Indian Management–An Insider's View: Arabinda Roy
Fights Into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan
Final Passage: Caryl Phillips
Finding a Voice–Asian Women in Britain: Amrit Wilson
Fire in the East–The Rise in Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age : Paul Bracker
Firefly–A Fairytale : Ritu Beri
First Circle: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Flags in the Dust: William Faulkner
Flames from the Ashes: P. D. Tandon
Flash Point: Mainank Dhar
Flight into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan & Srijoy Chowdhury
Flight to Parliament: Rajesh Pilot
Follywood Flashback: Bwmy Reuben
Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India: V. K. R. V. Rao
For the Love of India: Russi M. Lala
For the President's Eyes Only: Christopher Andrew
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway
Fortynine Days: Amrita Pritam
Franklin's Tale: Geoffrey Chaucer
Fraternity: John Forsyte
Free Man's Worship: Bertrand Russell
Freedom at Midnight: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Freedom Behind Bars: Tarsem Kumar
Freedom from Fear: Atmg San Suu Kyi
Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama
Freedom Song: Amit Chaudhuri
French Leave: P. G. Wodehouse
French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle
Friends and Foes: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman
Friends, Not Masters: Ayub Khan
From Here to Eternity: James Jones
From India to America: S. Chandrashekhar
From Raj to Rajiv : Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani
From Raj to the Republic–A Political History of India: Jean Alphonse Bernard
From Rajpath to Lokpath : Vijaya Raje Scindia
Frozen Assets: P. G. Wodehouse
Fun Moon: P. G. Wodehouse
Fury: Salman Rushdie
Future of NPT : Savita Pande
Ganadevata : Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya
Gandhi and Stalin: Louis Fisher
Gandhi–A Sublime Failure : S. S. Gill
Ganganvani : Ram Karan Sharma
Gardener: Rabindranath Tagore
Garrick Year: Margaret Drabble
Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill
Geet Govinda : Jaya Dev
General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money: Keynes
Ghosts in the Machine: Arthur Koestler
Girl in Blue: P. G. Wodehouse
Girl On the Boat: P. G. Wodehouse
Gita Govinda : Jaydev
Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Gitanjali : Rabindranath Tagore
Gladiators: Arthur Koestler
Glass Palace: Amitabha Ghosh
Glimpses of Indian Ocean: Z. A. Quasim
Glimpses of Some Great Indians: M. L. Ahuja
Glimpses of World History: Jawaharlal Nehru
Global Crises-Global Solutions: Bjorn Lombarg
Go Down Moses: William Faulkner
God and the Bible: Matthew Arnold
God as Political Philosopher–Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism : Dr. Kanchan Illaiah
God's Little Soldier: Kiran Nagarkar
Godaan : Munshi Prem Chand
Godrej–A Hundred Years: B. K. Karanjia
Golden Threshold: Sarojini Naidu
Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck
Goodbye, Mr. Chips : James Hilton
Gora : Rabindranath Tagore
Governance and the Sclerosis that has set in :Arun Shourie
Government@net: New Governance, New Opportunities for India : Kiran Bedi, Parminder Jeet Singh & Sandeep Srivastava
Grace Notes: Bernard Mac Lavarto
Grammar of Politics: Harold Joseph Laski
Granny Dan : Danielle Steel
Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Great Illusion: Norman Angell
Great One-Day Internationals: Gulu Ezekiel
Great Tragedy: Z. A. Bhutto
Grey Eminence: Aldous Huxley
Ground Beneath Her Feet: Salman Rushdie
Growing Old In India–Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak: Ashish Bose & Mala Kapur Shanker Dass
Growing up in Anglo-India: Eric Stracey
Grub Street: Henry Fielding
Guide for the Perplexed: E. F. Schumacher
Guiding Souls-Dialogues on the Purpose of Life. : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun K. Tiwari
Gulag Archipelago: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Gul-e-N aghma: Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri
Gulistan Bostan : Sheikh Saadi
Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift
Gulzari Lal Nanda : A Peep in the Service of the People: Promilla Kalhan
Guns & Yellow Roses-Essays on Kargil War: Pamela Constable
Gurusagaram : O. V. Vijayan


100 Best Parliamentary Speeches–1947-97  :  Dr. Subhash C. Kashyap
Hacks And Headlines : Raslune Sehgal
Half a Life : V. S. Naipaul
Halfway to Freedom : Margaret Bourke-White
Hamlet : William Shakespeare
Hamsters : C. P. Snow
Hannibal : Thomas Harris
Happy Death : Albert Camus
Hard Times : Charles Dickens
Harlot High and Low : Honore de Balzac
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows : J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire  : J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince : J. K. Rowling
Harsha Charita : Bana Bhatt
Harvest : Manjula Padmanabhan
Havana Bay : Martin Cruz Smith
Hayavadana  : Girish Karnad
Headlong : .Michael Frayen
Heart of Darkness : Joseph Conrad
Heat and Dust : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala
Heaven Has No Favourites  : Eric Maria Remarque
Heavy Weather : P G. Wodehouse
Heir Apparent : Dr. Karan Singh
Henderson the Rain King : Saul Bellow
Henry Esmond : William M. Thackeray
Heritage : Anthony West
Hero of Our Times : Richard Hough
Heroes and tIero Worship : Thomas Carlyle
Hidden Iran–Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic : Ray Takeyh
Higher than Hope : Fatima Meer
Himalayan Blunder:J. P. Dalvi
Hind Swaraj  : M. K. Gandhi
Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas  : R. S. Chaturvedi
Hindu Civilisation  : J. M. Barrie
Hinduism : Nirad C. Choudhuri
Hindu-Muslim Unity : Ian Bryant Wells
His Excellency : Emile Zola
Hold Back the Night : Adam Baran
Home Comings : C. P. Snow
Honest Thief and Other Stories : Pyodor Dostoevsky
Horizons–The Tata India Century  : Aman Nath, Jay Vithalani, Tulsi Vatsal
Hornet's Nest : Patricia Cornwell
Hot Water : P. G. Wodehouse
House of the Dead : Fyodor Dostoevsky
How India Votes–Election Laws, Practice and Procedure : Rama Devi and S. K. Mendirata
How Late It .Was, How Late : James Kelman
How to Win Friends and Influence People : Dale Carnegie
Human Factor : Graham Greene
Human Knowledge : Bertrand Russell
Humour : Ben Johnson
Hungry Stones : Rabindranath Tagore
Husband of a Fanatic : Amitava Kumar
I am Not an Island : K. A. Abbas
I Dare : Parmesh Dangwal
I Follow the Mahatma : K. M. Munshi
I Muse; Therefore I Am  : V. N. Narayanan
I Too Had A Dream:Dr. Verghese Kurien
I Will Lie Down in Peace : Usha Jesudasan
IC 814 Hijacked : Anil Jaggia & Saurabh Shukla
Ideology and Social Science : Andre Beteille
Identity and Violence–The Illusion of Destiny : Prof. Amartya Sen
Idols : Sunil Gavaskar
Idylls of the King : Lord Alfred Tennyson
If I Am Assassinated : Z. A. Bhutto
Imperial Woman : Pearl S. Buck
Importance of Being Earnest : Oscar Wilde
Impossible Allies : C. Raja Mohan
In Mghanistan's Shadow : Salig S. Harrison
In Confidence : Anatolyu Dobrynin
In Defence Qf Globalisation  : Jagdish Bhagwaci
In Evil Hour : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In Light of India : Octavio Paz
In Memoriam : Lord Alfred Tennyson
In Retrospect–The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam : Robert S. McNamara
In Search of Gandhi : Richard Attenborough
In Search of Identity : Anwar el-Sadat
In the Mternqon of Time : Dr. Rupert Snell
In the Bluest Eye  : Toni Morrison
In the City by the Sea : Kamilla Shamsie
In the Company of Women : Khushwant Singh
In the Light of the Black Sun : Rohit Manchanda
In the Shadow of Pines : Mandeep Rai
In the Stream of History–Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era : Warren Christopher
Inconceivable : Ben Elton
India Mter Gandhi–The History of World's Largest Democracy : Ram Chandra Guha
India Betrayed : The Role of Nehru : B. N. Sharma
India Changes : Taya Zinkin
India Discovered :John Keay
India Divided : Rajendra Prasad
India First : K. R. Malkani
India in Mind : Pankaj Mishra
India in Slow Motion : Sir Mark Tully
India in Transition–Freeing the Economy : Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati
India is for Sale : Chitra Subramaniam
India of Our Dreams : M. V. Kamath
India Remembered : Percival & Margaret Spear
India Remembered–A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power  : Pamela Mountbatten and India Hicks
Imdia Today  : Rajni Palme Dutt
India Unbound : Gurcharan Das
India We Left : Hymphry Trevelyan
India Wins Freedom : Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
India's China Perspective : Subramanian Swamy
India's China War : Neville Maxwell
India's Culture, the State, the Arts & Beyond : B. P. Singh
India's Development As Knowledge Society : K. Venkatasubramanian
India's Economic Crisis : Dr. Bimal Jalan
India's Economic Reforms and Development Essays for Manmohan Singh : I. J. Ahluwalia & I. M. D. Little
India's March to Freedom; The Nehru Epoch; The Post Nehru Era : D. P. Mishra
India's Neighbours–Problems And Prospects : Ayanjit Sen
India's Politics–A View From the Backbench  : Bimal Jalan
India's Priceless Heritage : N. A. Palkhivala
India's Rise to Power in the Twentieth Century & Beyond : Sandy Gordon
India's Unending Journey-How its Future will Affect Us All  : Mark Tully
India–A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul
India–A Wounded Civilisation  : V S. Naipaul
India–Facing the Twenty–First Century : Barbara Crossette
India–From Curzon to Nehru and Mter  : Durga Dass
India–From Midnight to the Millennium : Shashi Tharoor
India–Independence Festival (1947­1997) ~ Raghu Rai
Indian Arms Bazaar : Maj-Gen. Pratap Narain
Indian Economy–Essay on Money and Finance : Dr. C. Rangarajan
Indian Home Rule : M. K. Gandhi
Indian Judiciary–A Tribute : Poornima Advani .
Indian Mansions  : Sarah Tillotson
Indian Philosophy : Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Indian Summer–The Secret History of the end of an Empire  : Alex Von
Tunzelmann Indian Summers : John Wright
India-Pakistan–History of Unsolved Conflicts : Lars Blinkenberg
India–The Critical Years : Kuldip Nayar
Indica : Megasthenes
Indira Gandhi's Emergence and Style : Nayantara Sehgal
Indira Gandhi-The "Emergency" And Indian Democracy : P. N. Dhar
Indira's India : S. Nihal Singh
Indira–The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi : Katherine Frank
Indomitable Spirit : Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Inferno : Alighieri Dante
Ink : John Preston
Inside Asia (also Inside Europe and Inside Mrica)  : John Gunther
Inside the CBI  : Joginder Singh
Inside the Olympics : Dick Pound
Inside the Third Reich : Albert Spencer
Insulted and the Injured : Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Intelligence Services  : Dr. Bhashyam Kasturi
Internet–The Rough Guide : Angus J. Kennedy
Intimacy : Jean Paul Sartre
Intruder in the Dust : William Faulkner
Iran Awakening–A Memoir of Revolution and Hope : Shirin Ebadi
Iron Harvest : C. P. Surendran
Iron in the Soul : Jean Paul Sartre
Ironhand  : J. W. Von Goethe
Is New York Burning?  : Dominique Lapierre & Larry Collins
Is Paris Burning?  : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Isabella : John Keats Islamic Bomb : Stev Weissman and Herbert Krousney
Islamic Seal on India's Independence : Abul Kalam Azad–A Fresh Look : Syede Saiyiadan Hameed
Island in Chains : Indres Naidoo
Islands in the Streams : Ernest Hemingway
It's Always Possible : Kiran Bedi
Ivanhoe : Sir Walter Scott
Ivanov  : Anton Chekhov
J. K.-Biography of J. K. Rowling  : Seen Smith
Jack and Jackie–Portrait of an American Marriage : Christopher Anderson
Jaguar Smile : Salman Rushdie
Jai Somnath  : K. M. Munshi
Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronte
Jankijeevanam  : Prof. Rajendra Mishra
Japan–South Asia Security and Economic Perspectives : K. V Kesvan
Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman : B. R. N anda
Jawaharlal Nehru–A Communicator & Democratic Leader : A. K. Damodran
Jazz : Toni Morrison
Jean Christopher : Romain Rolland
Jewel : Danielle Steel
JFK–An Unfinished Life : Robert Dallek
Jobs for Millions : V. V. Giri
Julius Caesar : William Shakespeare
Jungle Book : Rildyard Kipling
Jungle Girl : Ginu Karnani
Jurassic Park : Michael Crichton
 
Kabeer Aur Eesaayee Chintan : M. D. Thomas
Kadambari : Bana Bhatt
Kagaz Te Kanwas : Amrita Pritam
Kailasb Mansarovar : Lt. Col. A. S. Berar (Retd.)
Kaleidoscope of India: Tomoji Muto
Kali Aandhi : Kamleshwar
Kamadhenu : Kubernath Ray
Kamasutra : S. H. Vatsyayan
Kamayani : Jai Shankar Prasad
Kanyadaan : Vijay Tendulkar
Kanya–Exploitation of Little Angels: Ms. V. Mohini Giri
Kapal Kundala : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Kargil War–Past, Present & Future: Colonel (Rtd.) Bhaskar Sarkar
Kargil–Cross Border Terrorism: M. K. Akbar
Kargil–From Surprise to Victory : Gen. V. P. Malik
Kashmir Diary–Psychology of Militancy: Gen. Arjun Ray
Kashmir in the Crossfire :Victoria Shaffield
Kashmir Underground  : Sati Sahni
Kashmir, the Untold Story : Humra Qureshi
Kashmir–A Tale of Shame : Hari Jaisingh
Kashmir–A Tragedy of Errors : Tavleen Singh
Kashmir–Behind the Vale : M. J. Akbar
Kashmir–The Wounded Valley : Ajit Bhattacharjee
Kasturba–A Life : Amn Gandhi
Katghare Main : Ram Sharan Joshi
Kayakalp  : Munshi Prem Chand
Kenilworth  : Sir Walter Scott
Khak-i-Dil  : Jan Nissar Akhtar
Khushwant Singh...In the Name of the Father : Rahul Singh
Khushwant Singh–An Icon of Our Age : Kaamna Prasad
Kidnapped : Robert Louis Stevenson
Killer Angels : :Michael Shaara
Kim  : Rudyard Kipling
King Lear : Wilham Shakespeare
King of Dark Chamber : Rabindranath Tagore
Kipps  : H. G. Wells
Kiran Bedi–The Kindly Baton : Meenakshi Saxena
Kiss of God : Marshall Stewart Bell
Kohima to Kashmir–On Terrorist Trail : Prakash Singh
Koraner Nari  : Taslima Nasreen
Kore Kagaz  : Amrita Pritam
Kshuditta Pashan (Hungry Stone)  : Rabindranath Tagore
Kubla Khan : Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kulliyat  : Ghalib
Kumar Sambhava  : Kalidas
L'Allegro  : John Milton
La Divine Comedia  : A. Dante
La Peste : Albert Camus
Lady Chatterley's Lover : D. H. Lawrence
Lady of the Lake : Sir Walter Scott
Lady with the Lapdog : Anton Chekhov
Lajja  : Taslima Nasreen
Lal Bahadur Shastri : C. P. Srivastava
Last Analysis : Saru Bellow
Last Burden : Upamanyu Chatterjee
Last Days of Pompeii : Edward George Lytton
Last Orders : Graham Swift
Last Things : C. P. Snow
Law, Lawyers & Judges : H. R. Bhardwaj
Laws Versus Justice : V. R. Krishna lyer
Laws, Ideas and Ideology in Politics–Perspective of an Activist : Ashwani Kumar
Le Contract Social (The Social Contract)  : J. J. Rousseau
Lead Kindly Light : Cardinal Newman
Leaders : Richard Nixon
Learning to Forget–The Anti­Memoirs of Modernity : Dipankar Gupta
Leaves of Grass : Walt Whitman
Legacy of a Divided Nation : Mushirul Hasan
Les Miserables  : Victor Hugo
Lest We Forget : Amarinder Singh
Letter from Peking : Pearl S. Buck
Letters Between a Father and Son : V. S. Naipaul
Letters From the Field : Margaret Mead
Leviathan : Thomas Hobbes
Liberty & Death : Patrick French
Life and Death of Mr. Badman : John Bunyan
Life and Times of Michael K  : J. M. Coetzee
Life Divine : Aurobindo Ghosh
Life is Elsewhere : Milan Kundera
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee  : Meera Syal
Life of Pi  : Yann Martel
Light That Failed  : Rudyard Kipling
Lighting : Danielie Steel
Like Water for Chocolate : Laura Esquivel
Line of Control : Tom Clancy & Steve Pieceznik
Lines of Fate : Mark Kharitonov
Lipika  : Rabindranath Tagore
Listening Now : Anjana Apachana
Little Angels : Ms. V. Mohini Giri
Living History–An Autobiography of Hillary Rodham Clinton : Simon & Schuster
Living Room : Graham Greene
Lolita : V. Nabokov
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner : Allan Sillitoe
Long Day's Journey into Night : Eugene O'Neill
Long Road Home : Danielle Steel
Long Shadow–Inside Stalin's Family : Svetlana Allilyuyeva
Long Walk to Freedom : Nelson Mandela
Look Back in Anger : John Osborne
Lord Jim : Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies : William Golding
Lost Child : Mulk Raj Anand
Lost Honour : John Dean
Lost Illusion : Honore de Balzac
Lotus Eaters : A. Tennvson
Love and Longing in Bombay : Vikram Chandra
Love in a Blue Time : Hanif Khureshi
Love in a Dead Language : Lee Seigel
Love Story : Eric Segal
Love, Truth and a Little Malice : Khushwant Singh
Lycidas  : John Milton
M.A. Jinnah  : Ayesha Jalal
Macbeth : William Shakespeare
Madame Secretary–A Memoir : Madeleine Albright
Magic Mountain : Maharishi Ved Vyas
Magic Seeds : V. S. Naipaul
Mahabhashya  : Patanjali
Mahatma Gandhi : Romain Rolland
Main Street : Sinclair Lewis
Main Waqt Ke Hoon Samane  : Girija Kumar Mathur
Major Barbara : George Bernard Shaw
Making Peace With Pakistan : Radha Kumar
Making Sense of Chindia–Reflections on China & India : Jairam Ramesh
Malavikagnimitra  : Kalidas
Malgudi Days : R, K Narayan
Malti Madhav  : Bhavabhuti
Mama : Terry McMillan
Man and Superman : George Bernard Shaw
Man for Moscow : G Wynne
Man of Destiny : George Bernard
Shaw Man of Property  : John Galsworthy
Man Who Changed China : Pearl S. Buck
Man, Beast and Virtue : Luigi Pirandello
Man, The Unknown : Lewis Carroll
Management and Cultural Values : Henry S. R. Kao
Managing for Results : Peter F. Drucker
Managing for the Future : Peter F. Drucker
Mandela–The Authorised Biography  : Anthony Sampson
Maneaters of Kumaon  : Jim Corbett
Mangal Pandey : Brave Martyr or Accidental Hero?  : Rudrangashu Mukherjee
Mankind and Mother Earth : Arnold Toynbee
Mansfield Park : Jane Austen
Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam  : Prof. Raghuvansh
Many Worlds : K. P. S. Menon
Mao, the Unknown Story : Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
Marriage and Morals : Bertrand Russell
Mars & Venus–A Match In Heaven?  : John Gray
Mass Media in Contemporary Society : P. B. Sawant
Mati Matal  : Gopinath Mohanty
Maurice : E. M. Forster
Maximum City : Suketu Mehta
Meditations on First Philosophy : Rene Descrates
Meghdoot  : Kalidas
Mein Kampf : Adolf Hitler
Memoirs of a Bystander–Life in Diplomacy : Iqbal Akhund
Memories of Hope : Charles de Gaulle
Memory and Identity–Conversations Spanning
Millenniums : Pope John Paul II
Men from Stone Age to Clone Age  : Bob Beale
Men Who Kept the Secrets : Thomas Powers
Meri Rahen Meri Manzil  : Krishna Puri
Metaphysics : Aristotle
Middle March : George Eliot
Midnight Diaries : Boris Yeltsin
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil  : John Berendt
Miguel Street : V. S. Naipaul
Mill on the Floss  : George Eliot
MirrorImage  : Danielle Steel
Mirror of the Sea : Joseph Conrad
Missed Opportunities  : Indo-Pak War 1965  : Major General Lakshman Singh
Mistaken Identity : Nayantara Sehgal
Moby Dick : Herman Melville
Mod Classics : Joseph Conrad
Modern Jihad : Loretta Napuleoni
Modern Painters : John Ruskin
Modern South Asia–History, Culture, Political Economy : Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Modernity, Morality And The Mahatma : MadhuriSanthanam Sondhi
Mohandas  : A True Story of a Man, His People and an Empire : Rajmohan Gandhi
Mondays on Dark Night of Moon : Kirin Narayan
Monsoon : Wilbur Smith
Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu  : K. Shivram Karanth
Moon and Six Pence : W Somerset Maugham
Moonlight Sonata : L Beethoven
Moonwalk  : Michael Jackson
Mortal Fea! :  : Greg Iles
Mother : Maxim Gorky
Mother India : Katherine Mayo
Mountbatten and Independent India : Larry Collirs and Dominique Lapierre
Mountbatten and tne Partition of India : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Mrichchhakatikam  : Shudraka
Mrinalini  : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Mrityunjaya  : Shivaji Sawant
Mrs. De Winter : Susan Hill
Mrs. Gandhi's Second Reign : Arun Shourie
Much Ado About Nothing : William Shakespeare
Mudrarakshasa  : Vishakhadatta
Mughal Maharajas and the Mahatma  : K. R. N. Swami
Murder in the Cathedral : T. S. Eliot
Murder on the Orient Express : Agatha Christie
Murky Business  : Honore de Balzac
Muslim Law and the Constitution : A M.Bhattacharjea
My Days:R. K. Narayan
My Early Life  : M. K. Gandhi
My Expetiments with Truth :M. K. Gandhi
My Father, Deng Xiaoping  : Xiao Rong
My God Died Young : Sasthi Brata
My India : S. Nihal Singh
My Life : Bill Clinton
My Life and Times : V. V. Giri
My Music, My Love : Ravi Shankar
My Own Boswell : M. Hidayatullah
My Own Witness : Mrinal Pande
My Presidential Years : Ramaswamy Venkataraman
My Several Worlds : Pearl S. Buck
My Side : David Beckham
My Son's Father : Dom Moraes
My South Block Years : J. N. Dixit
My Struggles : E. K. Nayanar
My Truth  : Indira Gandhi
Mysterious Universe : James Jeans
Myth of Sisyphus : Albert Camus
9-11: Noam Chomsky
Naari: Humavun Azad
Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Path or Ki Dewar: .Ali Sardar Jafri
Naivedyam (The Offering) :  N. Balamai Amma
Naked Came the Stranger: Penelope Ashe
Naku Thanthi: D R. Bendre
Nana: Emile Zola
Natya Shastra: Bharat Muni
Neela Chand: Shiv Prasad Singh
Nehru and the Language Politics of India: Robert D. King
Nehru Family and Sikhs: Harbans Singh
Nehru–A Political Life: Prof. Judith Brown
Neither Here Nor There ~ Bill Bryson
Nelson Mandela–A Biography: Martin Meredith
Netaji Subhash–Ideology & Doctrine: Amlendu Guha
Netaji–Dead or Alive: Samar Guha
Never At Home: Dom Moraes
New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy: Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Nice Guys Finish Second: B.K Nehru
Nicholas Nickelby :  Charles Dickens
Nile Basin: Sir Richard Burton
Nine Days' Wonder: John Mansfield
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) :  George Orwell
1999–Victory Without War: Richard Nixon
Nirbashita Narir Kabita :  Taslima Nasreen
NirmaJa :  Prem Chand
Nisheeth :  Uma Shankar Joshi
Niti-Sataka :  .Bhartrihari
Nixon and Kissinger–Partners in Power: Robert Dallek
No Full Stops in India: Mark Tully
Non-Violence in Peace and War: M. K. Gandhi
North: Seamus Heaney
Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen
Nostromo :  Joseph Conrad
Notebook of a Foot Soldier: Randhir Khare
Notes from a Big. Country: Bill Bryson
Notes from a Small Island: Bill Bryson
Nothing Like The sun :  Anthony Bugess
Nuclear Deterrence in Southern Asia–China, India & Pakistan: Arpit Rajan
Nuclear India: G. G. Mirchandani and P. K S. Namboodari
Numbered Account: Christopher Reich
Nursery Alice: Lewis Carroll
Nurturing Development: Ismail Serageldin

173 Hours in Captivity  : Neelesh Mishra
O is for Outlaw  : Sue Grafion
O'Jerusalem   : Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Occasion for Loving : Nadine Gordimer
Oddakkuzal  : G. Shankara Kurup
Odyssey : Homer
Of Human Bondage : W Somerset Maugham
Of Some Consequence–A Soldier Remembers : General K. Sundarji
Old Curiosity Shop : Charles Dickens
Old Goriot  : Honore de Balzac
Old Path–White Clouds : Thich Nht Hanh
Oliver Twist : Charles Dickens
Oliver's Story : Erich Segal
Omeros  : Derek Walcott
On History : Eric Hobsbawm
On the Edge of a Century : Amlan Datta
One Day Cricket–The Indian Challenge : Ashis Roy
Once was Bombay : Pinki Virani One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Hundred Years of Solitude : Gabriel Marquez
One World  : Wendell Wilkie
One World and India : Arnold Toynbee
One World to Share : Sridath Ramphal
One-eyed Uncle : Laxmikant Mahapatra
Open Secrets–Indian Intelligence Unveiled : M. K. Dhar
Operation Black Thunder : Sarbjit Singh
Operation Bluestar–The True Story  : Lt. Gen. K. S. Brar
Operation Parakaram–The War Unfinished : Lt. Gen. V. K. Sood and Pravin Sawhney
Operation Shylock : Philip Roth
Origin of Species : Charles Darwin
Oru Desathinte Katha  : S. K. Pottekkatt
Oscar and Lucinda : Peter Carey
Othello : William Shakespeare
Other People's Children : Joanna Trollope
Our Fathers : Andrew O'Hagan
Our Films, Their Films : Satyajit Ray
Out of My Comfort Zone  : Steve Waugh
Paddy Clarke Ha, Ha, Ha : Roddy Doyle
Painted Veil : W Somerset Maugham
Painter of Signs : R. K. Narayan
Pak Proxy War : Vijay Karan
Pakistan Between Mosque and Military : Hussain Haqqani
Pakistan Crisis : David Loshak
Pakistan Cut to Size : D. R. Mankekar
Pakistan in the 20th Century–A Political History : Lawrence Ziring
Pakistan Leadership Challenge : Lt. Gen. (Rtd.) Jahan Dad Khan
Pakistan Papers : ¥ani Shankar Aiyer
Pakistan's Failed Gamble : Col. (Retd.) Anil Shourie
Pakistan–The Gathering Storm : Benazir Bhutto
Panchatantra  : Vishnu Sharma
Paradise : Alighieri Dante
Paradise Lost : John Milton
Paradise Regained : John Milton
Param Vir–Our Heroes in Battle : Major Gen. Ian Cardozo
Past and Present : Thomas Carlyle
Past Forward : G. R. Narayanan
Path to Power : Margaret Thatcher
Pavilion of Women : Pearl S. Buck
Pay the Devil : Jack Higgins
Peculiar Music  :Emily Bronte
People Like Us : Pawan Kumar Verma
Perceptions, Emotions Sensibilities : Tapan Raychaudhuri
Perfect Hostage–A Life of Aung San
Suu Kyi : Justin Wintle
Perils of Democracy : P. C. Alexander
Personal Injuries : Scot Turow
Perspectives on Indian National Movement; Selected Corres­pondence of Lala Lajpat Rai  :
Dr. Joginder Singh Dhanki
Persuasion : Jane Austen
Peter Pan : J. M. Barrie
Philosophical Investigations : Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pickwick Papers : Charles Dickens
Pillow Problems and the Tangled Tale : Lewis Carroll
Pinjar : Amrita Pritam
Plans for Departure : Nayantata Sehgal
Platform : Michael Houellebecq
Platform No. Chaar : Dr. Himanshi Shelat
Pleading Guilty : Scott Turow
PMO Diary-I, Prelude Emergency : B. N. Tandon
Point of Origin : Patricia Cornwell
Poison Belt : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Politics : Aristotle
Portrait of India : Ved Mehta
Post Office : Rabindranath Tagore
Power and Glory : Graham Greene
Power of Movement in Plants : Charles Darwin
Power That Be : David Halberstan
Prateeksha : Harivansh Rai Bachchan
Pratham Pratishruti  : .Ashapurna Devi
Prelude : William Wordsworth
Prem Pachisi : Munshi Prem Chand
Premonitions : P. N. Haksar
Preparing for the Twentieth Century : Paul Kennedy
Press Freedom–The Indian Story : K. G. Joglekar
Price of Partition : Rafiq Zakaria
Price of Power–Kissingerin the Nixon White House : Seymour M. Hersh
Pride and Prejudice : Jane Austen
Princess in Love : Ann Pasternak
Principia : Isaac Newton
Prison and Chocolate Cake : Nayantara Sehgal
Prison Diary : Jayaprakash Narayan
Prithviraj Raso  : Chandra Bardai
Profiles & Letters : K. Natwar Singh
Promises to Keep : Chester Bowels'
Prospects for Democracy in Asia : Tatu Vanhanen
Pulsating Presence of a Painful Past : Taisha Abraham
Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood : K. P. S. Gill
Purgatory : Alighieri Dante
Pygmalion : George Bernard Shaw
Pyramids of Sacrifice : Peter L. Berger
Quarantene : Jim Crass
Quest for Conscience : Madhu Dandvate
Rabbit, Run : John Updika
Radharani : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Raga Mala–Autobiography of Ravi Shankar : George Harrison
Rage of Angels : Sydney Sheldon
Raghuvamsa : Kalidas
Rags to Riches : M. G. Muthu
Ragtime : E. L. Doctorow
Rahul Dravid–A Biography : Vedam Jaishankar
Rains Came : Louis Bromefieid
Raj Kapoor Speaks : Ritu Nanda
Rajtarangini  : Kalhana
Raj–The Making & Unmaking of British India : Lawrence James
Ram Charita Manas : Twsidas
Ramanujar  : Dr. Indira Parthasarathy
Ramayana : Maharishi Valmiki
Rangbhoomi : Munshi Prem Chand
Rang-e-Shairi : Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri
Rape of Bangladesh : Anthony Mascarenhas
Rape of Nanking (Nanjing)–An Undeniable History of Photographs : SIll Young
Ratnavali : Harsha Vardhan
Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi)  : Gulzar
Razor's Edge : W Somerset Maugham
Real Time : Amit Chaudhuri
Rebirth : Leonid Brezhnev
Red and Black : Stendhal
Red Star Over China : Edgar Snow
Rediscovering Asia : Prakash Nanda
Rediscovering Dharavi  : Kalpana Sharma
Rediscovering Gandhi : Yogesh Chadha
Reflections on the French Revolution : Edmund Burke
Regional Security in South Asia–The Ethno-Sectarian Dimensions : Muchkund Dubey & Nancy Jetly
Remembering Babylon : David Malouf
Reminiscences : Thomas Carlyle
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age : M. O. Mathai
Remorseful Day : Colin Dexter
Rendezvous with Rama  : Arthur C. Clark
Reprieve : Jean Paul Sartre
Republic : Plato
Resurrection : Leo Tolstoy
Rethinking Early Modern India : Richard B. Barnett (Ed.)
Return of the Aryans : Bhagwan S. Gidwani
Returning to the Source : Acharya Rajneesh
Revenge and Reconciliation–Understanding South Asian History : Rajmohan Gandhi
Reverse Sweep–Confessions of a Cricket Junkie : Gautam Bhimani
Revolutionary Wealth : Alvin and Heidi Toffler
Rich Like Us : Nayantara Sehgal
Riding the Nuclear Tiger : N. Ram
Riding the Storm : Harold MacMillan
Rights of Man : Thomas Paine
Rise and Fall of the Great Powers : Paul Kennedy
Ritu Ka Pehla Phool : Vijendra
Ritu Samhara  : Kalidas
Road to Folly : Leslie Ford
Road to Freedom : K. K. Khullar
Romantics : Pankaj Mishra
Romeo and Juliet : William Shakespeare
Room at the Top : John Braine Roots
Routine Violence : Gyanendra Pandey
Rubaiyat : Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat-i-Omar Khayyam : Edward Fitzgerald
Rukh Te Rishi : Harbhajan Singh
Runaway Jury : John Grisham
Saaket : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Sacked or Sunk ? Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat : Brigadier R. P. Singh & Comdre Ranjit B. Rao
Sacred Games: Vikram Chandra
Sadar-i-Riyasat : Karan Singh
Saddam's Bomb : Shyam Bhatia and Daniel McGrory
Saket : Maithili Sharan Gupt
Sakharam Binder : Vijay Tendulkar
Samler's Planet : Saul Bellow
Sanctuary : William Faulkner
Sands of Time : Sidney Sheldon
Santa Evita  : Tomas Eloymartinez
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims : Rafiq Zakaria
Satanic Verses : Salman Rushdie
Satyartha Prakash : Swami Dayanand
Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists : Raghuram G. Rajan and Luigi Zingales
Saving Faith : David Baldacci
Savitri : Aurobindo Ghosh
Scarred–Experiments with Violence in Gujarat : Dionne Bunsha
Scenes from a Writer's Life : Ruskin Bond
Sceptred Flute : Sarojini Naidu
Schindler's List : Thomas Keneally
Scholar Extraordinary : Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Second Wind : Dick Francis
Secret Agent : Joseph Conrad
Sense and Sensibility : Jane Austen
Sesame and Lilies : John Ruskin
Seshan–An Intimate Story : K. Govindan Kutty
Seven Lamps of Architecture : John Ruskin
Seven Summers : Mulk Raj Anand
Sex, Art and American Culture : Camille Paglia
Shadow from Ladakh : Bhabani Bhattacharya
Shadow Line : Joseph Conrad
Shadow of a Princess : Patrick Jephson
Shahnama : Firdausi
Shakuntala : Kalidas
Shalimar : Manohar Malgonkar
Shalimar The Clown : Salman Rushdie
Shall We Tell the President ? : Jeffrey Archer
Shame : Salman Rushdie
Shape of Things to Come : H. G. Wells
She Stoops to Conquer : Oliver Goldsmith
Sher-e-Shor Angez  : Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Ship of Fools : Katherine Anne Porter
Shivaji, The Great Patriot : Lala Lajpat Rai
Shivaji–Hindu King of Islamic India : James Laine
Siddharta : Hermann Hesse
Silas Marner : George Eliot
Silent Spring : Rachel Carson
Single & Single : John Le Carre
Single in the City–The Independent Woman's Handbook : Sunny Singh
Six Characters in Search of an Author : Luigi Pirandello
Slaughter House Five : Kurt Vanuegut
Slumming India : Gita Dewan Verma
Small Island : Andrea Levy
Small Land : Leonid Brezhnev
Small Remedies : Shashi Deshpande
Smell : Radhika Jha
Snakes & Ladders–A View of Modern India : Gita Mehta
Snow Country : Yasunari Kawabata
Social Justice & the Constitution  : Ajit Bhattacharjea
Socialite Evenings : Shobhaa De
Sohrab and Rustam  : Matthew Arnold
Sole Survivor : Derek Hansen
Something Barely Remembered : Susan Visvanathan
Song of Solomon : Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers : D. H. Lawrence
Soul And Structure of Governance in India : Jagmohan
Soul Mountain : Gao Xingjian Mabel Lee
South Asia on a Nuclear Fuse : Praful Bidwai & Achin Vanaik
South from the Limpopo; Travels Through South Africa : Dervla Murphy
South-East Asia on a Shoestring : Hugh Finlay
Soz-i-Watan : Munshi Prem Chand
Special Tests–The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness–A Soviet Spymaster : Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov
Speed Post : Shobhaa De
Spirit of the Age  : William Hazlitt
Spouse : Shobhaa De
Spy Catcher : Peter Wright
St. Cyril Road : Amit Chaudhuri
St. Joan : George Bernard Shaw
Stability in South Asia : Ashley J. Tellis
Stalin : Edvard Radzinsky
Starry Nights : Shobhaa De
Stars of New Curfew : Ben Okri
Stolen Harvest : Vandana Shiva
Stopping by Woods : Robert Frost
Storm in the Sea Wind–Ambani Vs Ambani : Alam Srinivas
Story of My Life : Moshe Dayan
Story of Real Man : Nikolayev Polevoi
Straight From Heart : Kapil Dev
Strangers and Brothers Omnibus : C. P. Snow
Street Lawyer : John Grisham
Strife : John Galsworthy
Stripped Steel : N. K. Singh
Struggles of Indian Federalism : Bonica Aleaz
Studies in the Psychology of Sex : Havelock Ellis
Subsidies–A Bottomless Bucket : K. S. Ramachandran
Sula : Toni Morrison
Sultry Days : Shobhaa De
Summa Theologica : Thomas Aquinas
Summer Sisters : Judy Bloom
Sun Stone : Octavio Paz
Sunny Days : Sunil Gavaskar
Surrender at Dacca : Lt. Gen. J. F.R. Jacob
Surviving Men : Shobhaa De
Surviving Women : Jerry Pinto
Swapnavasvadatta : Bhasa
2003 World Cup Cricket–Action Replay1983 : Rahul Sehgal
Tahqiq-i-Hind : Alberuni
Tales from Shakespeare : Charles Lamb
Tales of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Taliban-Islam-Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia : Ahmed Rashid
Talisman : Sir Walter Scott
Tar Baby : Toni Morrison
Tarkash  : Javed Akhtar
Tarzan of the Apes : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tears of Renewal : Henry Kissinger
Tehriq-e-Mujahideen  : Dr. Sadiq Hussain
Temple Tiger : Jim Corbett
Temptations of the West–How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond : Pankaj Mishra
Tess of D'Urbervilles : Thomas Hardy
Thank You, Jeeves : P. G. Wodehouse
The 21st Century Ambassador : Kishan S. Rana
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer : Mark Twain
The Affairs  : C. P. Snow
The Affluent Society : J. K. Galbraith
The Afghan Turmoil–Changing Equations : Sreedhar & Mahendra Dev
The Age of Extremes : Eric Hobsbawm
The Agenda–Inside the Clinton White House : Bob Woodward
The Agony and the Ecstasy : Irving Stone
The Alchemy of Desire : Tarun J. Tejpal
The Animal Farm : George Orwell
The Argumentative Indian : Dr. Amartya Sen
The Asian Elephant-A Natural
History : J. C. Daniel
The Assassination : K. Mohandas
The August Coup : Mikhail S. Gorbachev
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian : Nirad C. Chaudhuri
The A-Z of Bradman : Alan Eason
The Banyan Tree : Hugh Tinker
The Beach Tree : Pearl S. Buck
The Beauty of These Present
Things : Avtar Singh.
The Believers : Abdul Sultan P. P.
The Betrayal of East Pakistan : Lt. General A. A. K. Niazi
The Big Fisherman : Lloyd C. Douglas
The Big Idea : Robert Jones
The Birth of Europe : Robert S. Lopez
The Black Arrow : Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Economy in India : Arun Kumar
The Black Pharaoh : Christian Jacq
The Blackwater Lightship : Colm Toibin
The Blessing : Jude Deveraux
The Blind Assasin : Margaret Atwood
The Blue Bedspread : Raj Kamal Jha
The Book I Won't Be Writing And Other Essays : H. Y. Sharda Prasad
The Book of Shadows : Namita Gokhale
The Brethren : John Grisham
The Bride's Book of Beauty : Mulk Raj Anand
The British Conquest and Dominion of India : Penderal Moon
The Bubble : Mulk Raj Anand
The Buddha & The Terrorist : Satish Kumar
The Butcher of Amritsar; Nigel Collett
The Calcutta Chromosome : Amitav Ghosh
The Canterbury Tales : Geoffery Chaucer
The Cardinal : Henry Morton Robinson
The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama  : Sanjay Submmanyam
The Castle : Franz Kafka
The Changing Global Order : World Leaders Reflect : Nathan Gardels
The Changing World of the Executive : Peter Drucker
The Cinemas of India : Yves Thoraval
The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order : Samuel Huntington
The Class : Erich Segal
The Clown : Heinrich Boll
The Cocktail Party : T. S. Eliot
The Commitments : Roddy Doyle
The Company of Women : Khushwant Singh
The Confessions of an English Opium Eater : Thomas De Quincy
The Confidential Clerk : T. S. Eliot
The Conservationist : Nadine Gordimer
The Contemporary Conservative : Dhiren Bhagat
The Corrupt Society : Chandan Mitra
The Count of Monte Cristo : Alexander Dumas
The Coup : John Updike
The Crisis in India : Ronald Segal
The Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant
The Crown and the Loincloth : Chaman Nahal
The Crown of Wild Olive : John Ruskin
The Cutting Edge : Javed Miandad
The Dangerous Summer : Ernest Hemingway
The Dark Room : R. K. Narayan
The Dark Side of Camelot : Seymore Hersh
The Day in Shadow : Nayantara Sehgal
The Day of the Jackal : Frederick Forsyth

Ulysses : James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin : H. B. Stowe
Under Western Eye : Joseph Conrad
Understanding Partition : Yuvraj Krishan
Unhappy India : Lala Lajpat Rai
Until Darkness : Parvin Ghaffari
Unto This Last : John Ruskin
Untouchable : Mulk Raj Anand
Urvashi : Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Utopia : Thomas More
Uttara Ramcharitam : Bhava Bhuti
Vairagya Shataka : Bhartri Hari
Vajpayee's Foreign Policy–Daring the Irreversible : Prof. M. L. Sondhi & Prakash Nanda
Valley of Dolls : Jacqueline Susann
Value Reporting & Global Comparative Advantage–Banking and Finance : Vipin Malik
Vanity Fair : William Thackeray
Vector : Robin Cook
Vernon God Little : D. B. C. Pierre (peter Finlay)
Very Old Bones : William Kennedy
Victory : Joseph Conrad
Video Nights in Kathmandu : Pico lyer
View from the UN : U. Thant
Vikram and the Vampire : Sir Richard Burton
Vikram Sarabhai–A Life : Amrita Shah
Vinay Patrika : Tulsidas
Virangana : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Vish Vriksha : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Voice of Conscience : V. V. Giri
Voice of the Voiceless : Ruth Harring
Waiting for Godot : Samuel Barclay Beckett
Waiting for the Mahatma : R. K. Narayan
Waiting to Exhale : Terry McMillan
Wake up India : Annie Besant
Wall at Wagah–India-Pakistan Relationship : Kuldip Nayar
War and No Peace Over Kashmir : Maroof Raza
War and Peace : Leo Tolstoy
War at the Top of the World–The Clash for Mystery of Asia : Eric S. Margolis
War Minus the Shooting : Mike Marquesec
Way of All Flesh : Samuel Butler
We, Indians : Khushwant Singh
We, the People : N. A. Palkhivala
We'll Meet Again : Mary Higgins Clark
Weight Loss : Upamanyu Chatterjee
West Wind : Pearl S. Buck
Westward Ho : Charles Kingsley
What the Body Remembers : Shauna Singh Baldwin
What Went Wrong : Dr. Kiran Bedi
When Men & Mountains Meet–The Explorers of Western Himalayas : John Keay .
When the Wind Blows : James Patterson
Where the Grass is Greener : David M. Smith
While England' Sleeps : David Leavitt
Whispers of the Desert : Fatima Bhutto
White House Years : Henry Kissinger
White Moghuls : William Dalrymple
Who is Kalam ? : R. Ramanathan
Why America Slept : Gerald Posner
Widening Divide : Rafiq Zakaria
Wild Ass's Skin : Honore de Balzac
Wilhelm Meister : J. W. Von Goethe
Wings of Fire : A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Winston Churchill : Clive Ponting
Without Fear or Favour : Neelam Sanjiva Reddy
Witness to an Era : Frank Moraes
Witness to History : Prem Bhatia
Women and Men in My Life : Khushwant Singh
Women Reborn–An Exploration of the Spirituality of Urban Indian Women : Renuka Singh
Working a Democratic Constitution–The Indian Experience : Granville Austin
World Commitment and India-Pak Relations : Verender Grover & Ranjana Arora
Worshipping False Gods : Arun Shourie
Worthy It Is : Odysseus Elytis
Wuthering Heights : Emile Bronte
Yajnaseni : Pratibha Ray
Yama : Mahadevi Varma
Yashodhara : Maithili Sharan Gupta
Yayati : V. S. Khandekar
Year of the Upheaval : Henry Kissinger
Years of Pilgrimage : Dr. Raja Ramana
Yesterday and Today : K. P. S. Menon
Yoga Sutta : Patanjali
You Can Do It : Paul Hanna
You Can Win : Shiv Khera
Young Husband–Troubled Campaign : Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Shubi Sood
Zafarnama : Gurli Gobind Singh
Zool–The Final Odyssey : Arthur C. Clarke
Zulfi, My Friend : Piloo Mody
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan : Rafi Raz

Some Famous Characters in Literature

Some Famous Characters in Literature


Adam : A character in the Bible, also in `Paradise Lost' by Milton.

Aladdin : A well-known character in the `Arabian Nights', in possession of the magic ring and lamp.

Alice : A little girl in `Alice in Wonderland' and `Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carrol.

Ariel : In `The Tempest' by William Shakespeare, an airy Spirit which is controlled by Prospero.

Anna Karenina : The heroine of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy.

Ancient Mariner : A character in the poem of the same name by S. T. Coleridge, who describes his supernatural experiences to the wedding guests.

Antonio : A character in `The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare. Shylock the cruel money lender, is bent on taking one pound of flesh from his body.

Bassanio : A friend of Antonio in `The Merchant of Venice'.

Beatrix : Heroine in W. M. Thackeray's novel `Henry Esmond'.

Beatrice : Heroine of Shakespeare's `Much Ado About Nothing'. She plays a delightful role and is famous for her witty dialogues.

Brutus Mercus : The historic character in `Julius Caesar' of Shakespeare. He assassinates his friend Julius Caesar, the Emperor of Rome.

Christian : An allegorical character and hero of `The Pilgrim's Progress' of John Bunyan.

Clare : Hero of `Tess' by Thomas Hardy.

Cleopatra : The heroine of `Antony and Cleopatra' of Shakespeare. She was the beautiful queen of Egypt. G. B. Shaw also has dramatised her in his `Caesar and Cleopatra.'

Cordelia : The faithful and youngest daughter of Lear in Shakespeare's play `King Lear'.

Desdemona : Faithful wife of Othello in Shakespeare's drama `Othello'.

Don Quixote : A famous character in Cervente's novel of the same name. He is an eccentric figure striking at a windmill taking it for a giant.

Don Juan : A character in the poem of the same name by Lord Byron.

Dushyanta : Husband of Shakuntala and the hero of the play in Kalidasa's Abhigyan Shakuntlam'.

Famous Indian Authors

Famous Indian Authors



Assamese:
Hem Chandra Barua, Madhav Kondali, Hem Chand Goswami, Birendra Kumar  Bhattacharya(Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1979), Nilmani Phukan (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award for 2000). Apoorva Sharma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Indira Goswami(Winner of the Jnanpith Award for 2000), Mahima Bora (Recipient of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001), Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2002). Bireshwar Barua(Winner of Sahitya Academy award, 2003). Hirendra Nath Dutt (Winner of Sahitya Aeademy Award, 2004)

Bangla:
B. B. Bandhopadhyay, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Tara Shankar Bandhopadhyaya (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1966), Sarat Chandra, R. C. Dutt, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Machel Madhusudan Datt, Premendra Mitra, Vishnu Dey (Recipient of Jnanpith Award of 1971), Ashapoorna Devi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1976), Subhash Mukhopadhyaya and Smt. Mahasweta Devi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award 1996), Jai Goswami(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Atin Bandhyopadhyay (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). Roy Prafull (Winner of Sahitya Academy award, 2003). Sudhir Chakravorty (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004).

Gujarati :
Mirabai, Narsingh, Mehta, K. M. Munshi, Uma Shankar Joshi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1967), Govardhan Ram Parmanand, Narmada Sagar, Panna Lal Patel (Winner of the 1985 Jnanpith Award), Vinesh Ataani (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Dhiruben Patel (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001­2002), Dhruv Bhatt (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002), Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Honoured with Jnanpith Award, 2001). Bindu Bhatt (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Amrit Lal Vegad (Winner of Sahitya Academy award, 2004)

Hindi:
 Shree Lal Shukla, Nirmal Verma (Recipient of Jnanpith Award for 1999). Dr. Ram Vilas Shanna. Krishna Sobti and Giriraj Kishore, Manglesh Dabral (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000). P.C.K. Prem. Ramdarsh Misra, Alka Saraogi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Dr. Ram Murthy Tripathy (Winner of Shankar Puruskar, 2001), Rajesh Joshi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002), Kamleshwar (Winner of Shlaka Samman 2002-03 and Sahitya Akademi Award 2003), S. R. Harnot, Dr. Biswambha Pahi, Rajendra Yadav. Viren Dangwal. (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)
 
Kannada :
Masti Venkatesh Iyengar (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1983), Prof. V. R. Anandmurti (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1994), Girish Karnad (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1998), Shanti Nath Desai(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), S. Narayan Shetty Sujan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002) K. B. Subanna (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Geeta Nagbhushan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)
 

Malayalam:
Q. Chandu Menon, K. V. Raman Pillai, G. Shanker Kurup (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1965, author of Odakhugal), Kumaran Asan, Narayan Menon, Mohd. Basheer Vallathol, S. K. Pottekkat (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpitn Award, 1980). Takshi Shivshanker Pillai (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1984), M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1995), Dr. M. Lilavati (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), R. Ram Chandran (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Attoor Ravivarma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001-2002), K. G. Shanker Pillai (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). Sara Joseph (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Paul Jakaria (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Marathi :
Hari Narayan Apte, Tukarani Mahaya, V. S. Khandekar (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1974), Shirwadkar (Jnanpith Award, 1987), Binda Karandikar (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 200), N. D. Mahanore (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Rajan Gavas(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001), Mahesh Elkunchwar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). T.V. Sardeshmukh (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Sadanand Deshmukh (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Oriya :
Gopalabandhudas, Radha Nath Roy, Gopi Nath Mohanti (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1973), Dr. Saachchidanand Raut Rai (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1986), Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1993), M. Neelmani Sahu (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), Pratibha Rai (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2000), Manoj Das (Winner of Saraswati Samman for 2000), Pratibha Satpathy (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Sharat. Kumar Mohanti (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). Jatindar Mohanty (Winner of Sahitya Acagemy Award, 2003). Profull Mohanti. (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004).
 
Punjabi :
Dhani Ram Chatrik, Bhai Vir Singh, Amrita. Preetam, Waris Shah, Balwant Gargi, Nanak Singh, Gurudayal Singh (Recipient of 1999 Jnanpith Award), Surjit Fattar, Varyam Singh Sandhu(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2000), Dev (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana (Recipient of Saraswati Samman, 2001), Harbhajan Halwarvi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). Charandas Sidhu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Satindra Singh Noor (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)
 
Sanskrit:
Bhasa, Kalidas, Bana Bhatt, Bhartrihari, Bhavbhutj, Kalhan, Valmiki, Prof. Rasik Behari Joshi(Recipient of Vachaspati Purushkar, 1999), Prof. Ram Chandra Narayan Dandekar, Ramanujtatacharya, Psriramachandrudu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Dr. Gajanan Balkrishna Palsule, Kashinath Misra (Winner of Sahitya Acaderily Award 2002), Pt. Mohan Lal Sharma, Vijaydan Detha. Bhaskaracharya Tripathi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Kala Nath Shastri (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)
 
Tamil :
Subramaniam Bharati, Ramalingam Navakhal, P. V. Akilandam (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1975), Dr. Indira Parathasarathi (Recipient of Saraswati Samman for 1999), T. G. Shivshankarn (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), C. S. Chellappa (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001), Sirpi Balasubramanian (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). R. Vairmatu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Tamilban (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)
 
Telgu :
Vishwanatha Satya Narayan, Tirupati, Lakshmi Narasimhan, C. N. Reddy, Dr. Vasireddy Sita Devi, N. Gopi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Tirumala Ramchandra (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001), Chekuri Ram Rao (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). Utpal Satyanaraincharya (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Naveen (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)
 
Urdu:
Mohd. Iqbal, Mirza Galib, Raghupati Sahay Firaq (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1969), Altaf Hussain, Josh Malihabadi, Gyan Chandra Jain (Author of  Tafseer-a­Ghalib), Sikander Ali Waid, Ms. Qurratul Hyder (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1989), Ali Sardar Jafri (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1997), Ibrahim Yusuf and Joginder Pal, Amber Bahraichi (Winner of Sahitya Academy for 2000), Nayyar Masood (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Prof. Gopi Chand Narang(Winner of Majlis Faroge Urdu Adab Award in 2002), Kaifi Azmi, Gulzar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). Sayyad Mohd. Ashraf (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Salam Bin Razaq (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

India's Best Books Since Independence

India's Best Books Since Independence

No.BookAuthor
1.A House For Mr. BiswasV.S. Naipaul
2.Aag Ka DariyaQurratulain Hyder
3.Adha GaonRahi Masoom Reza
4.Adhe AdhureMohan Rakesh
5.All About H. HatterrGV Desani
6.Aranyer Din RatriSunil Gangopadhyay
7.Charandas ChorHabib Tanvir
8.ChidamabaraSumitranandan Pant
9.CoolieMulk Raj Anand
10.DipshikhaMahadevi Verma
11.English AugustUpamanyu Chatterjee
12.Family MattersRohinton Mistry
13.Ghasiram KotwalVijay Tendulkar
14.God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
15.Golden GateVikram Seth
16.Hajar Churashir MaMahasweta Devi
17.IndulekhaO. Chandu Menon
18.Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
19.KanthapuraRaja Rao
20.KayarThakazhi Sivasankara Pillai
21.Khasakinte IthihaasamO.V. Vijayan
22.Kitne Pakistan Kamleshwar
23.Kitni Navon Men Kitni BarAjneya
24.KrishnakaliShivani
25.KurukkuFaustina Barna
26.KutiyozhikkalVailoppilli Sreedhara Menon
27.MadhushalaHarivansh Rai Bachchan
28.Marali MannigeKota Shivaram Karanth
29.Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie
30.Nilkanthi BrojaIndira Goswami
31.ParajaGopinath Molianty
32.ParimalSuryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'
33.Pather PanchaliBibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
34.Pathummayude AaduVaikom Mohammed Basheer
35.Raag DarbariShrilal Shukla
36.RandamuzhamM. T. Vasudevan
37.Rasidi TicketAmrita Pritam
38.Sabdar AkashSitakant Mohapatra
39.SamskaraU. R. Ananthamurthy
40.Shadow LinesAmitav Ghosh
41.Swami and FriendsR. K. Narayan
42.TamasBhisham Sahni
43.Terhi LakeerIsmat Chugtai
44.The Flight of PigeonsRuskin Bond
45.Train To PakistanKhushwant Singh
46.TughlaqGirish Karnad
47.ZindaginamaKrishna Sobti

Monday, April 11, 2011

Republic Day Honours and Awards

Republic Day Honours and Awards


Gallantry Awards
Param Vir Chakra : The highest decoration for valour is the Param Vir Chakra which is awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice in the. presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air.

The decoration is made of bronze and is circular in shape. It has, on the obverse, four replicas of "Indra's Vajra" embossed round the State emblem in the centre. On the reverse, the words "Param Vir Chakra" are embossed both in Hindi and English with two lotus flowers in the middle.

The decoration is worn on the left breast with a plain, purple coloured riband about 3.2 cm in width.

Mahavir Chakra : Mahavir Chakra is the second highest decoration for valour and is awarded for acts of conspicuous gallantry in the presence of enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air.

It is made of standard silver and is circular in shape. Embossed on the obverse is a five pointed heraldic star with domed centre-piece bearing the gilded State emblem in the centre, The words "Mahavir Chakra" are embossed both in Hindi and English on the reverse with two lotus flowers in the middle. The decoration is worn on the left breast with a half-white and half-orange riband about 3.2 cm in width, the orange being near the left shoulder.

Vir Chakra : Vir Chakra is third in the order of awards given for the act of gallantry in the presence of the enemy, whether on land, at sea or in the air.

The decoration is made of standard silver and is circular in shape. Embossed on the obverse is a five pointed heraldic star which has an Ashoka Chakra in the centre. Within this chakra, there is a domed centre-piece bearing gilded State emblem. On the reverse, the words "Vir Chakra" are embossed, both in Hindi and English, with two lotus flowers in the middle. The Chakra is worn on the left breast with a half-blue and half­orange riband, about 3.2 cm in width, the orange being nearer the left shoulder.

Ashok Chakra : Ashok Chakra is the highest award for gallantry during peacetime. Three Army personnel were awarded the Ashok Chakra on August 14, 2007, on the eve of the country's 60th Independence Day. The awardees included Col. Vasanth Venugopal, Captain R. Harshan and Naib Subedar Chunni Lal. .All of them were awarded posthumously.

Kirti Chakra : The decoration is the nation's second highest award for gallantry during peacetime. It is made of standard silver and is circular in shape. The obverse and the reverse are exactly the same as in Ashok Chakra.

The Chakra is worn on the left breast with a green silk riband, about 3.2 cm in width and divided into equal segments by two orange vertical lines.

Kirti Chakras for 2007 were awarded on August 14, 2007, to six people including three Army officers and as many civilians. The recipients were Captain Abhinav Handa of 9 Maratha Light Infantry, Lt. Pankaj Kumar of 7/11 Gorkha Rifles, Naik Radhakrishnan of 10 Madras regiment, Dayanand Pandey (posthumously), Mohammad Shan Ahmad (posthumously) and Tarun Kumar Dutta (posthumously).

Shaurya Chakra : The decoration is awarded for an act of gallantry. It is exactly like Ashok Chakra, except that it is made of bronze.

The Chakra is worn on the left breast with a green silk riband, about 3.2 cm in width and divided into four equal segments by three orange vertical lines.

Of the 20 personnel who were awarded Shaurya Chakras in 2007, 19 belonged to the Army and one to the Air Force. Nine of them got the award posthumously.

Param Vishisht Seva Medal, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, Vishisht Seva Medal : The Vishisht Seva (Distinguished Service) Medals are awarded to personnel of all the three services in recognition of distinguished service of the "most exceptional", "exceptional" and "high" order, respectively. Param Vishisht Seva Medal is made of gold, Ati Vishisht Seva Medal of standard silver and Vishisht Seva Medal of bronze, all circular in shape and 3.5 cm in diameter. Each medal has on its obverse five pointed stars and on its reverse the Lion Capitol. Its riband is golden with one dark-blue stripe down the centre for Param Vishisht Seva Medal, two dark-blue stripes dividing it into three equal parts for Ati Vishisht Seva Medal and three dark-blue stripes dividing it into four equal parts for Vishisht Seva Medal.

On January 26, 2007, 19 Senior Army Officers were decorated with Param Vishisht Seva Medals (PVSM). Besides these officers, other military personnel were also given gallantry awards on the nation's 57th Republic Day. The then President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam approved four Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry), one Bar to Ati Vishisht Seva Medal, 52 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals, one Yudh Seva Medal, four Bar to Vishisht Seva Medals, 123 Vishisht Seva Medals, two Bar to Sena Medals, 41 Sena Medals;12 Nao Sena Medals and 15 Vayu Sena Medals.

Other National Awards

Other National Awards



Adiseshiah Award
The 2007 Dr. Malcolm Adiseshiah Award was given to Dr. Ramachandra Guha, Bengaluru-based social scientist and writer. The announcement was made by Mr. H.B.N. Shetty, Executive officer of the Malcolm and Elizabeth Adiseshiah Trust and Prof. A. Vydhianathan, a trust Member in Chennai on April 18, 2007.

Asian Young Scientist Award
Mr. S.K. Satheesh of Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, has won the Asian Young Scientist Award 2007 of the Asian Research Assembly in aerosol research. The award would be presented to him at a function in Taiwan.

Banarsi Das Gupta Rashtra Gaurav Puraskar
Ms. Nirmala Deshpande won the first Banarsi Das Gupta Rashtra Gaurav Puraskar in New Delhi on November 5, 2007.

Basava Award
The Karnataka Government has honoured the former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with the 2006-07 Basava Award in recognition of his services to the country. The award comprises Rs. 10 lakh, a memento and a citation.

Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award
The Bharat Bhushan Agrawal Award for the best Hindi poem of the year has been conferred on Mr. Geet Chaturvedi from Jalandhar for his poem Mother India published in the October 2006 issue of journal Vagarth.

Bharatiya Shiromani Puraskar
Gandhian and former US Ambassador, Mr. Phillips Talbot has been presented the 'Bharatiya Shiromani Puraskar' in New Delhi for his outstanding service to the cause of the promotion of Indo­US relations. The award was presented to mark the 76th anniversary of the historic Dandi March. Mr. R.K. Sinha, SE (E&M) of Bharat Coking Coal Limited, New Delhi, was also awarded 'Bharatiya Shiromani Puraskar' for excellent performance on July 26, 2007.

BHEL Bage Excellence Award
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has been conferred the prestigious Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India National Award for Excellence in Cost Management 2006 in New Delhi on July 3, 2007.

Background of Nobel Foundation

Background of Nobel Foundation

Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Nobel was born on October 21, 1833 in Stockholm, Sweden. Nobel, who invented dynamite, endowed a $9 million fund in his will. The interest on this endowment was to be used as awards for people whose work most benefited humanity. He wanted the profit from his invention to be used to reward human ingenuity. First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize ,is still the. most honoured in the world.

In 1842 Nobel's family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia where he obtained his education. He travelled widely as a young man, becoming fluent in five languages. Nobel was interested in literature and wrote novels, poetry and plays in his spare time. In the 1860s he began experiments with nitroglycerin in his father's factory. He tried many ways to stabilise this highly volatile material. Nobel discovered that a mix of
nitroglycerin and a fine porous powder called kieselguhr was most effective. He named this mixture as dynamite, and received a patent in 1867.

He set up factories around the world to manufacture dynamite and other explosives. Construction and mining companies, and the military ordered large quantities of this relatively safe explosive. Sales of dynamite brought Nobel great wealth. His other chemical research provided valuable information on the development. of artificial rubber, leather, silk and precious stones.
 
Background and Establishment of the Nobel Foundation
Alfred Nobel died on Dec. 10, 1 896. The provisions of his will and their unusual purpose, as well as their partly incomplete form, attracted great attention and soon led to skepticism and criticism, also aimed at the testator due to his international spirit. Only after several years of negotiations and often rather bitter conflicts, and after various obstacles had been circumvented or overcome, could the fundamental concepts presented in the will assume solid form with the establishment of the Nobel Foundation.

On. June 29, 1900, after series of alterations, suggestions, modifications, the Statutes of the newly created legatee, the Nobel Foundation, and special regulations for the Swedish Prize-Awarding Institutions were promulgated by the King in Council (Oscar II). The same year as the political union between Sweden and Norway was dissolved in 1905, special regulations were adopted on April 10, 1905, by the Nobel Committee of the Storting (known since January 1, 1977 as the Norwegian Nobel Committee), the awarder of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Premises : To create a worthy framework around the prizes, the Board decided at an early stage that it would erect its own building in Stockholm, which would include a hall for the Prize Award Ceremony and Banquet as well as its own administrative offices. Ferdinand Boberg was selected as the architect. He presented an ambitious proposal for a Nobel Palace, which generated extensive publicity but also led to doubts and questions. On Dee. 19, 1918, a building at Sturegatan 14 was bought for this purpose. After years of renovation there, the Foundation finally left its cramped premises at Norrlandsgatan 6 in 1926 and moved to Sturegatan, 14, where the Foundation has been housed ever since.

Objectives of the Foundation : The Nobel Foundation is a private institution. It is entrusted with protecting the common interests of the Prize Awarding Institutions named in the will, as well as representing the Nobel institutions externally. This includes informational activities as well as arrangements related to the presentation of the Nobel Prizes. The Foundation is not, however, involved in the selection process and the final choice of the Laureates (as Nobel Prize winners are also called). In this work, the Prize-Awarding Institutions are not only entirely independent of all government agencies and organisations, but also of the Nobel Foundation. Their autonomy is of crucial importance to the objectivity and quality of their prize decisions. One vital task of the Foundation is to manage its assets in such a way as to safeguard the financial base of the prizes themselves and of the prize selection process.

Statutes and Significant Amendments during 100 Years : The Statutes, as revised in 2000, assign roles to the different bodies or individuals in the Nobel Foundation's activities.

The first Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation was elected by the Trustees on September 27, 1900 (Hans Forsell, Ragrar Tornebladh, Henrik Santesson, and Ragnar Sdhlman, with Mauritz Salin and Oscar Montelius as Deputies). On the following day, former Prime Minister Erik Gustaf Bostrom was appointed Chairman of the Board by the King in Council with the Justice of the Supreme Court C. G. Hernmarck as Deputy. On October 3, 1900 the Board elected Assistant Circuit Judge Henrik Santesson as the first Executive Director of the Foundation. Effective on January 1, 1901 the Board assumed management of the Foundation's assets.

Financial Management : The main task of the Nobel Foundation is to safeguard the financial base of the Nobel Prizes and of the work connected to the selection of the Nobel Laureates.

In its role as a financial manager, the Nobel Foundation resembles an investment company. The investment policy of the Foundation is naturally of the greatest importance in preserving and increasing its funds, thereby ensuring the size of the Nobel Prizes.

Then, in 1953, the Government approved a radical liberalisation of the investment rules. The Foundation was granted a more extensive freedom to manage its capital independently, as well as the opportunity to invest in stocks and real estate. Freedom of investment, coupled with tax-exemption and the financial expertise of the Board, led to a transformation from passive to active management. This can be regarded as a landmark change in the role of the Foundation's Board. During the 1960s and I 970s, the value of the Nobel Prizes multiplied in Swedish krona terms but rapid inflation meanwhile undermined their real value, leaving each prize largely unchanged. The same was true of the Foundation's capital.

The first Nobel Prize in 1901 amounted to SEK 150,000, equivalent to SEK 7.4 million in 2006 money.

By 1991, the Foundation had restored the Nobel Prizes to their 1901 real value. Today the nominal fund capital of the Nobel Foundation is about SEK 3.6 billion. In 2006 each of the five Nobel Prizes as well as the Economics Prize was worth SEK 10 million (about USD 1.45 million). This is well above the nominal value of the entire original fund, and higher than the real value of the original prizes. Since January I, 2000, the Nobel Foundation has also been permitted to apply the capital gains from the sale of assets toward the prize amounts.

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel : On the occasion of its 300th anniversary in 1968, the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) made a large donation to the Nobel Foundation. A Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded since 1969. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is entrusted with the role of Prize Awarding-Institution, in accordance with Nobel Prize rules. The Board of the Nobel Foundation has subsequently decided that it will allow no further new prizes.

Nobel Symposia : An important addition to the activities of the Nobel Foundation is its Symposium program, which was initiated in 1965 and has achieved a high international standing. Approximately
135 Nobel Symposia, dealing with topics at the frontiers of science and culture and related to the Prize categories, have taken place.

Nobel Festivities : The Nobel Foundation is an "investment company" with rather unusual facets. Every year this investment company moves into show business by organising the Nobel Festivities and numerous related arrangements that take place in December. The Nobel Foundation is responsible for organising the Nobel Festivities in Stockholm, while in Norway the Norwegian Nobel Committee is in 'Charge of the corresponding arrangements. On December 10, 1901, the Nobel Prizes were awarded for the first time in Stockholm and in Christiania (now Oslo) respectively.

Christiania / Oslo
The King of Norway is present, but it is the Chairman of the Nobel Committee who hands over the Prize to the Laureate or Laureates. The Nobel Banquet in Norway is a dignified formal occasion, but much less pretentious than the Banquet in Stockholm. It takes place at the Grand Hotel in Oslo, with approximately 250 guests.

A New Century : After more than a hundred years of existence, the Nobel Prizes - as well as the centenarian Nobel Foundation - have become solid institutions, based on a great tradition since their beginning. The original criticisms aimed at the whole idea of the Nobel Prizes have faded into oblivion. Both in Sweden and in Norway, the awarding of the prizes is regarded as an event of national importance. The Nobel Foundation has now entered a new century, with museum and exhibition projects, while being able to look back at its past successes in many fields.

83rd Annual Academy Award Winners

83rd Annual Academy Award Winners

List of the 83rd Annual Academy Award Winners announced Sunday 27 February, 2011:

1. Best Picture: "The King's Speech."

2. Actor: Colin Firth, "The King's Speech."

3. Actress: Natalie Portman, "Black Swan."

4. Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, "The Fighter."

5. Supporting Actress: Melissa Leo, "The Fighter."

6. Directing: Tom Hooper, "The King's Speech."

7. Foreign Language Film: "In a Better World," Denmark.

8. Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, "The Social Network."

9. Original Screenplay: David Seidler, "The King's Speech."

10. Animated Feature Film: "Toy Story 3."

11. Art Direction: "Alice in Wonderland."

12. Cinematography: "Inception."

13. Sound Mixing: "Inception."

14. Sound Editing: "Inception."

15. Original Score: "The Social Network," Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

16. Original Song: "We Belong Together" from "Toy Story 3," Randy Newman.

17. Costume Design: "Alice in Wonderland."

18. Documentary Feature: "Inside Job."

19. Documentary (short subject): "Strangers No More."

20. Film Editing: "The Social Network."

21. Makeup: "The Wolfman."

22. Animated Short Film: "The Lost Thing."

23. Live Action Short Film: "God of Love."

24. Visual Effects: "Inception."