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List Of 400 Famous Books and Authors
Famous Books and Authors
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List Of 400 Famous Books and Authors
Author’s Name Start with A
| A | |
| Author | Book |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
| Arundhati Roy | Listening to Grasshopper |
| Arundhati Roy | Broken Republic |
| Arundhati Roy | The Shape of the Beast |
| Amit Chaudhary | A strange and subline address |
| Amit Chaudhari | Afternoon Raag |
| Amit Choudhary | The Immortals |
| Amartya Sen | An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions |
| Andy Marino | Narendra Modi : A Political Biography |
| Aribam Syam Sharma | Living Shadows |
| Andre Agassi | Open |
| Abhinav Bindra | A Shot at History |
| Anna Chandy | Atmakatha |
| Arjun Singh | A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time |
| Amitav Ghosh | Shadow Lines |
| Anil K. Rajvanshi | A Life of an ordinary Indian – An exercise in self-importance |
| Anne Frank | The Diary of a Young Girl |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf |
| Amitav Ghosh | The Living Mountain |
| Anant Vijay’s | Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph |
| Aakash Ranison | Climate Change Explained – For One and All |
| Anindya Dutta | Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis |
| Alfredo Covelli | Vahana Masterclass |
| Andy Marino | Narendra Modi: A Political Biography |
| Alexander Bard | Syntheism – Creating God in The Internet Age |
| Arundhati Roy | The God of Small Things |
| Adam Gilchrist | True Colours |
| Arunima Sinha | Born Again on the Mountain |
| Amitav Ghosh | Flood of Fire |
| Anuj Dhar | What Happened to Netaji |
| Amitav Ghosh | Flood of Fire |
| Akhil Sharma | Family Life |
| Amitav Ghosh | Flood of fire |
| Amiya Chandra | “India Central Asia Relations”: The Economic Dimension |
| AS Dulat and Aditya Sinha | Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years |
| Aamer Hussein | 37 Bridges and Other Stories |
| Aseem Chhabra | Shashi Kapoor |
| Amitav Ghosh | The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable |
| Aishwarya Dhanush | Standing on An Apple Box |
| Arundhati Roy | The Ministry of Utmost Happiness |
| Anita Nair | Alphabet Soup for Lovers |
| Arjan Nath Chaku | The Story of Kashmir through the Ages |
| Amitav Ghosh | The Ibis Trilogy |
| Aravind Adiga | Selection day |
| Amitav Ghosh | The Great Derangement: Climate Change and The Unthinkable |
| Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze | An Uncertain Glory: India and its contradictions |
| Amartya Sen | The Country of First Boys |
| Amish | Scion of Ikshvaku |
| Amish | Sita: Warrior of Mithila |
| Abul Fazal | Ain-i-Akbari |
| Amar Singh | Amar Kosh |
| Amrit Lal Nagar | Amrit Aur Vish |
| Arun Sinha | Nitish Kumar and the Rise of Bihar |
| Anita Desai | A village by the sea |
| Aung San Syu Ki | Freedom from Fear |
| Arvind Adiga | The White Tiger |
| Arnab Ray | The Mine |
Author’s Name Start with B
| B | |
| Author | Book |
| Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | Anandmath |
| Bill Gates | The Road ahead |
| Bill Gates | Business @ the Speed of Thought |
| Barak Obama | Dream of My Father |
| Barak Obama | The Audacity of Hope |
| Babur | Baburnama |
| Barack Obama | The Audacity Of hope |
| Bhagat Singh | Why I Am An Atheist |
| B.V.Acharya, Justice | All from Memory |
| Bhim Singh | Delhi to Islamabad |
| Barack Obama | Dreams from My Father |
| Booker T. Washington | Up From Slavery |
| Bharat Sundaresan- Suresh Raina | Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me |
| Bette Dam | A Man and A Motorcycle, How Hamid Karzai Came to Power |
| Brahma Chellaney Ambedkar | Water, Peace, and War – Confronting the Global Water Crisis |
| Biography of Allama Muhammad Iqbal | Iqbal: The Life of a Poet, Philosopher and Politician |
| Ben S. Bernanke | The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath |
| Ben S. Bernanke | The Courage to Act – A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath |
| Bharathi S Pradhan | Anything But Khamosh: The Shatrughan Sinha Biography |
| BG Verghese | A State in Denial |
| Bibek Debroy | Getting India Back on Track |
| Benazir Bhutto | Daughter of the East |
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Author’s Name Start with C
| C | |
| Author | Book |
| Chetan Bhagat | 3 Mistakes of My Life |
| Chetan Bhagat | Revolution 2020 |
| Chetan Bhagat | 5 Point Some One |
| Chetan Bhagat | 2 States, the Story of My Marriage |
| Carlotta Gall | The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001‐ 2014 |
| Chetan Bhagat | Half Girlfriend |
| Chetan Bhagat | Making India Awesome |
| Chetan Bhagat | Making India Awesome |
| CH Vidyasagar Rao | Uniki |
| C.R. Pakrashi | A Stamp is Born |
Author’s Name Start with D
| D | |
| Author | Book |
| Dan Brown | The Da Vinci Code |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Ignited Minds |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam and Y.S. Rajan | The Scientific India |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Wings of Fire |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | My Journey: Transforming Dreams into Actions |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | A Manifesto for Change |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Advantage India: From Challenge to Opportunity |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow’s India |
| Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam | Pathways to Greatness |
| David McCullough | The Wright Brothers |
| Dr Shailendra Joshi | Suparipalana |
| Dalai Lama | The Little Book of Encouragement |
| Dalai Lama | Freedom in Exile |
| Deepak Nayyar | Faces and Places Professor |
| Dr. R L Bhat | Rationalized Roman for Kashmiri |
| Daman Singh | Strictly Personal, Manmohan and Gursharan |
| Dr. Narendra Jadhav | Awakening India’s Social Conscience |
| Dr Indu Anand | Akbar – The Aesthete |
| Dr UD Choubey | Untold Story of the Indian Public Sector |
| Dilip D’Souza | Final Test: Exit Sachin Tendulkar |
| Dr. Mool Chand Sharma | Globalisation, Democratization and Distributive Justice |
| Duvvuri Subbarao | Who Moved My Interest Rate |
| Dr. KP Mathur | The Unseen Indira Gandhi |
| Derek O’Brien | Inside Parliament: Views from the front row |
| David Grossman | A horse walks into a bar |
| Deepak Chopra | Timeless Mind |
| Dr. R.K. Dubey | The Hero of Changing World- Barak Obama |
| DP Yadav | Munger through the Ages |
| Dr. S. Radhakrishan | An Idealist View of life |
Author’s Name Start with E
| E | |
| Author | Book |
| Edmund Morris | The Rise Of Theodore Roosevelt |
| Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights |
| Emraan Hashmi | The Kiss of Life |
| Easterine Kire | Son of Thundercloud |
| E.L. James | Fifty Shades Series |
Author Name Start with F
| F | |
| Author | Book |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald | The Great Gatsby |
| Faraz Ahmad | Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi: An Inside Job? |
Author’s Name Start with G
| G | |
| Author | Book |
| Gulzar | Half a Rupee Stories |
| General Vijay Kumar Singh | Courage and Conviction |
| George Orwell | Homage to Catalonia |
| G. Ramachandran | Walking with Giants |
| Garik Israelien, Brian May and David J Eicher | 50 years of man in space |
| Gautam Chintamani | Dark Star: The Loneliness of Being Rajesh Khanna |
| Govind Pansare | Who was Shivaji |
| George Saunders | Lincoln in the Bardo |
| Gita Mehra | A River Sutra |
| George Bush | Decision Point |
Author’s Name Start with H
| H | |
| Author | Book |
| Helen Keller | The Story of My Life |
| Henry David Thoreau | Walden |
| Hillary Clinton | Hard Choices |
| Hunter Biden | Beautiful Things |
| H.S.Vatsyayan | A sense of time |
Author’s Name Start with I
| I | |
| Author | Book |
| Inder Kumar Gujral | Matters of Discretion |
| Irwin Allan Sealy’s | ASOCA: A Sutra |
Author’s Name Start with J
| J | |
| Author | Book |
| Jaswant Singh | India at Risk |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice |
| Jawahar Lal Nehru | An Autobiography |
| Jawahar Lal Nehru | An Autobiography |
| John Green | The fault in our stars |
| Jung Chang | Wild Swans |
| John Lahr | Tennessee Williams |
| Jahangir | Tuzk-e-Jahangiri |
| J.B.Kripalani | My Times |
| Jeet Thayil | Names of the Women |
| JK Rowling | The Christmas Pig |
| Javier Moro | The Red Sari |
| Jaswant Singh | India at Risk |
| Jairam Ramesh | Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India |
| Jairam Ramesh | To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story |
| Jairam Ramesh | To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story |
| Jairam Ramesh | Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, Democracy in India |
| James Cross Giblin | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler |
| Jagadish Bhagawati | Why Growth Matters |
| Jagadish Bhagawati | India’s Tryst with Destiny |
| Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| Jubin Mehta | The Score of My Life |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Lowland |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Interpreter of Maladies |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Whereabouts |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The Lowland |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | Unaccustomed Earth |
| Jhumpa Lahiri | The NameSake |
| John Green | The fault in our stars |
| Jung Chang | Wild Swans |
| John Lahr | Tennessee Williams |
| Jahangir | Tuzk-e-Jahangiri |
| J.B.Kripalani | My Times |
| Jeet Thayil | Names of the Women |
| Javier Moro | The Red Sari |
| Jaswant Singh | India at Risk |
| Jairam Ramesh | Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India |
| Jairam Ramesh | To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story |
| Jairam Ramesh | To the Brink and Back: India’s 1991 Story |
| Jairam Ramesh | Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, Democracy in India |
| James Cross Giblin | The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler |
| Jagadish Bhagawati | Why Growth Matters |
| Jagadish Bhagawati | India’s Tryst with Destiny |
| Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| Jubin Mehta | The Score of My Life |
Author’s Name Start with K
| K | |
| Author | Book |
| Khushwant Singh | A Train to Pakistan |
| Khushwant Singh | Songs of Gurus |
| Khushwant Singh | Train to Pakistan |
| Khushwant Singh | Truth, Love & a Little Malice |
| Khushwant Singh | Khushwantnama ‐The Lessons of My Life |
| Kautilya | Arthashastra |
| Kiran Desai | Affluent Society |
| Kiran Desai | The Inheritance of Loss |
| Kiran Bedi | I Dare |
| Kiran Bedi | What When Wrong |
| Kiran Bedi | Kiran Bedi : Kaise Bani Top Cop (Comic Book) |
| Kamala Surayya | Ente Katha |
| K.Natwar Singh | One Life Is Not Enough |
| K. Natwar Singh | My China Diary |
| Kapil Dev | Straight from the Heart |
| Khurshid M Kasuri | Neither a Hawk nor a Dove |
| Kalki Koechlin | Elephant in the Womb |
| Kabir Bedi | Stories I Must Tell: An Actor’s Emotional Journey |
| Khurshid M Kasuari | Neither a hawk nor a dove |
| Kapil Isapuari | Farishta |
| Khagesh Dev Burman | R.D. Burman: The Prince of Music |
| Kishlay Bhattacharjee | Blood on my Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounter |
| Kartar Lalvani | The making of India |
| K. Mishra | Flying in High Winds: A Memoir |
| Khaled Hosseini | And the Mountains Echoed |
| Kapil Dev | Straight from My Heart |
| K.R. Narayanan | In The Name Of the People |
| Kazi Nazrul Islam | Agni Veena |
| Kuldip Nayyar | Between the Lines |
Author’s Name Start with L
| L | |
| Author | Book |
| Lal Krishna Adwani | My Country My Life |
| Lal Krishna Adwani | A Prisoner’s Scrapbook |
| Lt. General Konsam Himalaya Singh | Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo |
| Leon Panetta and Jim Newton | Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace |
| Leo Tolstoy | War & Peace |
Author’s Name Start with M
| M | |
| Author | Book |
| Milkha Singh | The Race of My Life |
| Mahatma Gandhi | The Story of My Experiments with Truth |
| Mark Twain | The adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| M.C. Mary Kom | Unbreakable |
| Michael Jackson | Moonwalk |
| Malala Yousafzai | I am Malala |
| Meghna Pant | The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News |
| M Hamid Ansari | By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life |
| Meira Kumar | Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy |
| Mamata Banerjee | My Unforgettable Memories |
| Malala Yousufzai and Christina Lamb | I am Malala |
| Mary Kom | Unbreakable (Autobiography of Mary Kom) |
| Meira Kumar | Indian Parliamentary Diplomacy- Speaker’s Perspective |
| Maharajakrishna Rasgotra | A Life in Diplomacy |
| Manju Lodha | Param Vir: A War Diary |
| Margaret Alva | Courage & Commitment |
| Mohammad Aamir Khan | Framed As a Terrorist: My 14-Year Old Struggle to Prove My Innocence |
| Marlon James | A brief history of Seven killings |
| Mamata Banerjee | My Unforgettable Memories |
| Mark Tully | Non-Stop India |
| M. S. Swaminathan | Towards A Hunger Free World |
Author’s Name Start with N
| N | |
| Author | Book |
| Nirad C. Chaudhuri | The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian |
| Nelson Mandela | Long Walk To Freedom |
| Nelson Mandela | Conversations with Myself |
| Nelson Mandela | Long Walk to Freedom |
| Nitin Gokhale | Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life |
| Natwar Singh | One Life is Not Enough |
| Neel Mukherjee | The Lives of Others |
| Naina Lal Kidwai | 30 Women in Power: Their Voices, Their Stories |
| Nathuram Godse and Gopal Godse | Why I Assassinated Gandhi |
| Nandan Nilekani and Viral Shah | ‘Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations |
| Nitin Gokhale | Beyond NJ 9842: The Siachen Saga |
| Naveen Chawlaa | Mother Teresa |
| Nirad C.Chodhury | A Passage to England |
| Nayantara Sehgal | A voice for freedom |
| N. R. Narayan Murti | A Better World |
| Nasiruddin Shah | And then One Day: A Memoir |
Author’s Name Start with O
| O | |
| Author | Book |
Author’s Name Start with P
| P | |
| Author | Book |
| Paulo Coelho | The Alchemist |
| Paramahansa Yogananda | Autobiography of a Yogi |
| Phoolan Devi | The Bandit Queen of India |
| Prakash Tandon | Punjabi Century 1857-1947 |
| P.C.Parakh | Crusader or Conspirator |
| Peter Mukherjea | Startstruck: Confessions of a TV Executive |
| Priyanka Chopra Jonas | Unfinished: A Memoir |
| Poonam Surie | China: Confucius in the Shadow |
| Pavan Choudary | Lal Bahadur Shastri: Lessons in Leadership |
| PC Parakh | Crusader or Conspirator? Coalgate and other Truths |
| Parimarjan Negi | Grandmaster Repertoire ‐ 1.e4 vs The French, Caro‐Kann, and Philidor |
| Professor JS Rajput | Education of Muslims |
| Pradeep Baijal | Complete Story of Indian Reforms: 2G, Power & Private Enterprise |
| Prof Bhim Singh | Unbelievable – Delhi to Islamabad |
| Prof. Deepak Nayyar | Faces and Places |
| Pavithra Ramesh | No Time to Pause |
| Perumal Murugan | One Part Woman |
| Pramod Kapoor | Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography |
| P Chidambaram | Standing Guard— A year in Opposition |
| PM Narendra Modi | The Birds of Banni Grassland – Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology |
| Pankaj Mishra | Age of Anger: A history of the Present |
| Paul Beatty | The Sellout |
| Pranab Mukherjee | The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Decade |
| Pranab Mukherjee | The Turbulent Years: 1980 – 1996 |
| Pranab Mukherjee | Thoughts and Reflections |
| Paula Hawkins | The Girl on the Train |
| Pranab Mukherjee | The Dramatic Decade |
| Parwez Musharraf | In the Line of Fire – Autobiography |
| P. C. Alexander | India in the Near Millennium |
| P. T. Usha | Golden Girl |
| Pt Ravi Shankar | My Music My Life |
Author’s Name Start with Q
| Q | |
| Author | Book |
Author’s Name Start with R
| R | ||
| Author | Book | |
| RD Pradhan | My Years with Rajiv and Sonia | |
| Ruskin Bond | The Blue Umbrella | |
| Rajendra Prasad | Atmakatha | |
| R K Narayan | The Guide | |
| Ruskin Bond | The Night train at Deoli | |
| Ramesh Kandula | Maveric Messiah | |
| R Giridharan | Right Under our Nose | |
| R. Kaushik | India’s 71 Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia | |
| Ramchandra Guha’s | The Commonwealth of Cricket | |
| Ruskin Bond | My Favourite Nature Stories | |
| Raghav Bahal | Super Economies | |
| R.D.Pradhan | My Years with Rajiv and Sonia | |
| Richard Flanagan | The Narrow Road to the Deep North | |
| Rajdeep Sardesai | Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years ‐ Pranab Mukherjee 2014: The Election That Changed India | |
| Ravinder Singh | Your Dreams Are Mine Now: She Showed him What Love | |
| Raghav Bahl | Super Economies | |
| Radha Kant Bharati | ‘Interlinking of Indian Rivers | |
| Rudraneil Sengupta | Ringside with Vijender | |
| Raghuram Rajan | I Do What I Do | |
| Ruskin Bond | Death under the Deodars | |
| Ramachandra Guha | Democrats and Dissenters | |
| Rick Riordan | Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series | |
| Ramachandra Guha | Gandhi before India | |
| R. K. Narayanan | My Day | |
| Robin Blake | A Dark Anatomy | |
| Rani Singh | Sonia Gandhi: An Extraordinary Life, an Indian Destiny | |
Author’s Name Start with S
| S | |
| Author | Book |
| Sachin Tendulkar | Playing It My Way |
| Sachin Tendulkar and Boria Mazumder | Playing It My Way |
| S Y Quraishi | The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India |
| Salman Rushdie | Midnight’s children |
| Salman Rushdie | Joseph Anton |
| Salman Rushdie | Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights |
| Sadruddin Hashwani | Truth Always Prevails |
| Sagarika Ghose | Indira: India’s most powerful Prime Minister |
| Saina Nehwal | Playing to Win |
| Sam Pitroda, David Chanoff | Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India |
| Stephen Hawkins | The Grand Design |
| Stephen Hawkins | A Brief History of Time |
| Swati Pandy – Orchida Mukherjee | Dawn Under the Dome |
| Sangeet Paul Choudhary | Platform Scale: For a Post-Pandemic World |
| Sanjaya Baru | The Accidental Prime Minister: the making and unmaking of Manmohan Singh |
| Sarinder Joshua | Enoch, I am a British Indian |
| Sameer Kochar | Duroch ModiNomics |
| Sunil Gavaskar | Runs in Ruins |
| Sandeep Unnithan | Black Tornado: The Three Sieges of Mumbai 26/11 |
| Sebastian Ortiz | Ghosts of Calcutta |
| Shiv Brat Lal | Ramcharitmanas (105-year-old Urdu copy) |
| SK Rath | Fragile Frontiers: The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks |
| Sharad Pawar | Life on My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power |
| Saptarshi Sarkar | Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy |
| Saptarshi Sarkar | Sourav Ganguly: Cricket, Captaincy and Controversy |
| Sania Mirza | Ace against Odds |
| Shashi Deshpande | That Long Silence |
| Shantanu Guha Ray | Fixed! Cash and Corruption in Cricket |
| Subhash Chandra | The Z Factor |
| Shashi Tharoor | An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India |
| Shashi Tharoor | India Shastra: Reflections of the Nation in our time |
| Sudha Murthy | The Mother I Never Knew |
| Sudha Murthy | Serpent’s Revenge |
| Satish Gujral | A brush with life |
| Shobha Dey | The Nights of Star |
| Shobha Dey | Snapshots |
| Shiv Khera | You Can Win |
| Shiv Khera | U Can Sell |
| Shyam Bhatia | Goodbye Shahzadi |
| Shyam Bhatia | Contemporary Afghanistan |
| Shantabai Kamble | Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha |
| Sita Ram Goel | How I Became a Hindu |
| Shashi Tharoor | The Great Indian Novel |
| Satyajit Ray | Jakhan Choto Chilam |
| Sharad Pawar | On my Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power |
| Sania Mirza | Ace Against Odds |
| Saurabh Duggal | Akhada |
| Sanjaya Baru | The Accidental Prime Minister |
| Shakoor Rather | Life in the Clock Tower Valley |
Author’s Name Start with T
| T | |
| Author | Book |
| TV Paul | Warrior State Pakistan in the Contemporary World |
| Tade Ipadeola | The Sahara Testaments |
| Tarun Khanna | The Kumbh Mela: Mapping the Ephemeral Megacity |
| Twinkle Khanna | Mrs Funnybones |
| Teesta Setalvad | Beyond Doubt: A Dossier on Gandhi’s Assassination |
| Tarun Vijay | Modi – Incredible emergence of a star (in the Chinese language) |
| T.J.S. George | MS: A life in Music |
| Tarun Vijay | India Battles to Win |
Author’s Name Start with U
| U | |
| Author | Book |
| U.V.Swaminatha Iyer | En Sarithiram |
| Uday Tara Nayar | The Substance and the Shadow |
| Uma Lele | Food for All |
| U.R. Ananthamurthy | Hindutva or Hind Swaraj |
Author’s Name Start with V
| V | |
| Author | Book |
| Ved Vyas | Bhagvad Gita |
| Vikram Seth | The Rivered Earth |
| Vikram Seth | Golden Gate |
| Vikram Seth | A Suitable Boy |
| Vikram Seth | An Equal Music |
| V.S. Naipal | Area of Darkness |
| V.S. Naipal | A House of Mr. Biswar |
| V.S. Naipal | A Million Mutinies Now |
| V. S. Naipal | A Bend in the River |
| V. S. Naipal | In a Free State |
| Vinod Rai | Not Just an Accountant |
| V.R.Krishna Iyer | Wandering in Many Worlds |
| Verghese Kurien | The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance |
| Vijay Darda | Public Issues Before Parliament |
| V.S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River |
| Vinod Mehta | Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me |
Author’s Name Start with W
| W | |
| Author | Book |
| William Golding | Lord of flies |
| Walter Isaacson | Steve Jobs |
| Waman Subha Prabhu | Manohar Parrikar – Off the Record |
Author’s Name Start with X
| X | |
| Author | Book |
Author’s Name Start with Y
| Y | |
| Author | Book |
| Yuvraj Singh | The Test of My Life |
| Yashvardhan Shukla | God of Antarctica |
| Y Quraishi | The Making of the Great Indian Election |
| Y. V. Reddy | Indian and the Golden Financial Crisis |
Author’s Name Start with Z
| Z | |
| Author | Book |
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100+ Famous Discoveries and Inventions
Famous Discoveries and Inventions
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We have compiled the list of 100+ famous discoveries and inventions. We have added life changing invention and their inventors with the Country and Year of the inventions on this page. Please check below for the Discoveries and Invention’s list –
List Of 100 Famous Discoveries and Inventions
| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Thermometer | Galileo | Italy | 1593 |
| Knitting Machine | William Lee | England | 1589 |
| Telescope | Hans Lippershey | Netherland | 1608 |
| Calculating Machine | Blaise Pascal | France | 1642 |
| Pendulum Clock | Christian Huygens | Netherland | 1656 |
| Pressure Cooker | Denis Papin | France | 1675 |
| Steam Engine | Thomas Newcomen | England | 1712 |
| Mercury Thermometer | Gabriel Fahrenheit | Germany | 1714 |
| Parachute | Louis Lenormand | France | 1783 |
| Power Loom | Edmund Cartwright | England | 1785 |
| Sewing Machine | Thomas Saint | England | 1790 |
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| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Electric Battery | Count Alessandro Volta | Italy | 1800 |
| Steam Locomotive | Richard Trevithick | England | 1804 |
| Bicycle | Karl von Sauerbronn | Germany | 1816 |
| Camera | Joseph Niepce | France | 1822 |
| Digital Calculator | Charles Babbage | England | 1823 |
| Electromagnet | William Sturgeon | England | 1825 |
| Photograph (permanent) | Joseph Niepce | France | 1826 |
| Match | John Walker | England | 1827 |
| Blast Furnace | James Neilson | Scotland | 1828 |
| Revolver | Samuel Colt | USA | 1836 |
| Telegraph | Samuel F.B.Morse | USA | 1837 |
| Vulcanized Rubber | Charles Goodyear | USA | 1839 |
| Safety Match | Gustave Pasch | Sweden | 1844 |
| Sewing Machine | Elias Howe | USA | 1846 |
| Safety Pin | Walter Hunt | USA | 1849 |
| Bunsen Burner | Robert Bunsen | Germany | 1855 |
| Refrigerator | Ferdinand Carre | France | 1858 |
| Washing Machine | Hamilton Smith | USA | 1858 |
| Rapid fire Gun | Richard Gatling | USA | 1862 |
| Dynamite | Alfred Nobel | Sweden | 1866 |
| Typewriter | Christoper Sholes | (USA | 1867 |
| Telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | Scotland | 1876 |
| Phonograph | Thomas Edison | USA | 1877 |
| Microphone | David Edward Hughes | USA | 1878 |
| Fountain Pen | Lewis Waterman | USA | 1884 |
| Motorcycle | Edward Butler | (England | 1885 |
| Vacuum Flask | William Stanley | USA | 1885 |
| Electric Transformer | Schuyler Wheeler | USA | 1886 |
| Gramophone | Emile Berliner | Germany/USA | 1887 |
| Motor-car engine | Gottlieb Daimler & Karl Benz | Germany | 1887 |
| Kodak Camera | George Eastman | USA | 1888 |
| Zip fastener | Whitcomb Judson | USA | 1892 |
| Wireless | Guglielmo Marconi | Italy | 1895 |
| Safety Razor | King C. Gillette | USA | 1895 |
| Diesel Engine | Rudolf Diesel | Germany | 1897 |
| Submarine | John P. Holland | Ireland/USA | 1898 |
| Tape Recorder | Waldemar Poulsen | Denmark | 1899 |
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| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Aeroplane | Wilbur & Orville Wright | USA | 1903 |
| Tank | Ernest Swinton | England | 1914 |
| Automatic Rifle | John Browning | USA | 1918 |
| Television | John Logie Baird | Scotland | 1925 |
| Rocket (liquid fuel) | Robert H. Goddard | USA | 1926 |
| Jet Engine | Frank Whittle | England | 1930 |
| Nylon | Wallace Carothers | USA | 1935 |
| Radar | Robert Watson Watt | Scotland | 1935 |
| Auto-digital Computer | Howard Aiken | USA | 1944 |
| Microwave oven, | Percy Spencer | 1946 | |
| Electronic Computer | J. Presper Eckert & John W. Mauchly | USA | 1946 |
| Transistor | John Bardeen, Walter Brattain & William Shockley | USA | 1948 |
| Long Playing Record | Chester Carlson | USA | 1948 |
| Solar Battery | D. Pearson, C. Fuller & G. Pearson | USA | 1954 |
| Contraceptive pill | Gregory Pincus & others | USA | 1955 |
| Videotape recording | A. Poniatoff | USA | 1956 |
| Laser | Theodore Maiman | USA | 1960 |
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| Invention | Inventor | Country | Year |
| Radium | Marie and Pierrie Curie | ||
| Adhesive Tape | Richard G. Drew | ||
| Blue Jeans | Levi Strauss | ||
| Basketball Game | James Naismith | ||
| Barometer | Torricelli | ||
| Bismuth | Valentine | ||
| Celluloid | A.Parker | ||
| Cement | Joseph Aspdin | ||
| Chronometer | John Harrison | ||
| Crescograph | J.C.Bose | ||
| CAT-Scans ( Diagnostic X-Ray systems ) | Robert Ledley | ||
| Dynamo | Michael Faraday | ||
| Electric Lamp | Thomas alva Edison | ||
| Electric razor | Jacob Schick | ||
| Electro-cardiograph | William Einthoven | ||
| Existence of isotopes | Frederick Soddy | ||
| Four blood groups | Karl Landsteiner | ||
| Glider | Sir George Caley | ||
| Law of gravitation | Sir Isaac Newton | ||
| Laws of floating bodies | Archimedes | ||
| Manganese | Gahn | ||
| Microscope | Aaton Van Leewen Hock | ||
| Nickel | Cronstledt | ||
| Nuclear reactor | Enrico Ferni | ||
| Nylon | Dr.Wallace H.Carors | ||
| Ory of relativity | Albert Einstein | ||
| Radio valve | Sir J.A.Fleming | ||
| Radioactivity | Henry Bacquerel | ||
| Rayon | Sir Joseph Swann | ||
| Refrigerator | J.Perkins | ||
| Safety matches | J.E.Lundstrom | ||
| Sodium | Sir Humphry Davy | ||
| Spinning frame | Sir Richard Arkwright | ||
| Steam engine | James Watt | ||
| Stethoscope | William Stockes | ||
| Vulcanised rubber | Charles Goodyear | ||
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List of Indian President
List of Indian President
The President of India is regarded as the supreme head of the state who exercises the whole executive power of the union.
By the 42nd Amendment Act, it was made compulsory that the President should always work under the advice of the Council of Ministers headed by the Prime Minister. Again, under the 44th Amendment Act, the President was given power to ask the Cabinet to reconsider its advice. But after reconsideration of the advice he must act according to that.
The President of India is elected by an “Electoral college” consisting of the elected members of the Lok Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and the State Legislative Assemblies. He is paid a salary of Rs. 5 lakh p.m. He is provided with an official residence and he is entitled to many other perks and many more facilities.
The president of India is treated as the head of the executive. He is also the commander-in-chief of the Indian Armed Forces.
Friends, We have compiled the list of President of India. Please check below for the president’s list –
List of Indian President
| Sl.No. | Name | Period |
| 1 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad | 1950 – 1962 |
| 2 | Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | 1962 – 1967 |
| 3 | Dr.Zakir Hussain | 1967 – 1969 |
| Mr. Varahagiri Venkata Giri | 1969 – 1969 | |
| Mr. Md. Hidayatullah | 1969 – 1969 | |
| 4 | Mr. Varahagiri Venkata Giri | 1969 – 1974 |
| 5 | Mr. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | 1974 – 1977 |
| Mr. Basappa Danappa Jatti | 1977 – 1977 | |
| 6 | Mr. Neelam Sanjiva Reddy | 1977 – 1982 |
| 7 | Mr. Giani Zail Singh | 1982 – 1987 |
| 8 | Mr. Ramaswamy Venkataraman | 1987 – 1992 |
| 9 | Mr. Shankar Dayal Sharma | 1992 – 1997 |
| 10 | Mr. Kocheril Raman Narayanan | 1997 – 2002 |
| 11 | Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam | 2002 – 2007 |
| 12 | Mrs. Pratibha Patil | 2007 – 2012 |
| 13 | Mr. Pranab Mukherjee | 2012 -2017 |
| 14 | Shri Ram Nath Kovind | 2017 – current |
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List of Indian Vice President
List of Indian Vice President – The Vice-President of India is the second highest constitutional office in the country after The President of India. He serves for a five-year term.
Article 63 of The Indian Constitution states that there shall be a Vice-President. Article 66 of The Indian Constitution states the process of election of Vice-President of India.
The Vice-President is elected by members indirectly, of an electoral college insisting members of both the Houses of Parliament.
Vice President of India also act as chairperson of Rajya Sabha. He receives his salary as chairman of Rajya Sabha not as vice- president. Below is the list of Vice President in India
Friends, We have compiled the list of Vice Presidents of India. Please check below for the vice-president’s list –
List of Indian Vice President
| Sl. | Name | Period |
| 1 | Dr. S RadhaKrishnan | 1952 – 1957, 1957 – 1962 |
| 2 | Dr. Zakir Hussain | 1962 – 1967 |
| 3 | Varahagiri Venkata Giri | 1967 – 1969 |
| 4 | Gopal Swarup Pathak | 1969 – 1974 |
| 5 | Basappa Danappa Jatti | 1974 – 1979 |
| 6 | Muhammad Hidayat Ullah | 1979 – 1984 |
| 7 | Ramaswamy Venkataraman | 1984 – 1987 |
| 8 | Shankar Dayal Sharma | 1987 – 1992 |
| 9 | Kocheril Raman Narayanan | 1992 – 1997 |
| 10 | Krishan Kant | 1997 – 2002 |
| 11 | Bhairon Singh Shekhawat | 2002 – 2007 |
| 12 | Mohammad Hamid Ansari | 2007 —2017 |
| 13 | Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu | 2017- Current |
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