True Colours — Adam Gilchrist
Storm Over the Sutlej–Akali Politics — A.M. Narang
My Life Struggle — Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Asking for Trouble — Amreek Singh
Sandy Storms — Sandeep Patil
Runs in Ruins — Sunil Gavaskar
Assam-A Valley Divided — Shekhar Gupta
Speaking for My Life — Cherry Blair
The Things About Thugs — Tabish Nair
The Heritage of Sikhs — Harbans Singh
Secular Perception in Sikh Faith — K.M. Duggal
Basanti — Bhishma Sahani
Rich Like Us — Nayantara Sehgal
Reflection on our Time — P.N. Haksar
Hinduism — Nirad C. Chaudhari
Bliss was in that Dawn — Minoo Masani
Netaji and Gandhi — Shashi Ahluwalia
Survivors — Randheer Khare
Alone in the Multitude — Amrita Pritam
Swami and Friends — R.K. Narain
Terrorism in India — Shaileshwar Jha
Struggle For Change — K.B. Lal
The Indian Epics Retold — R. K. Narayan
Indian Drama — Chelapati Rao
The Last Hero — Mihir Bose
You cannot Please every one — Kavita Sarkar
Mrs. Gandhi’s Second Regime — Arun Shourie
The Emerging Developing Countries — P.G. Salve
Pakistan-The Gathering Storms — Benazir Bhutto
The Morarji Papers — Arun Gandhi
The Lord of the Flies — William Goldings
Agnigarbha — Amrat Lal Nagar
World Power — Jonathan Steel
M.N. Roy-The Man — J.B.H. Wadia
We the People — Nani Palkiwala
The Islamic Bomb — Steave Baseman & Herber Cronsne
Portrait of a Lady — Henry James
My India — S. Nihal Singh
View from the U.N. — U. Thant
Inside Third World — V. Harrison
India’s Nuclear Status — Dhirendra Sharma
Indian Women’s Battle for Freedom — Kamala Devi Chattopadhyaya
Indian Cinema — Feeroz Rangoonwala
Cricket My Style — Kapil Dev
Sunny Days — Sunil Gavaskar
By God’s Decree — The Autobiography of Kapil Dev
The Famished Road — Ben Okri
Scarlett — Alexandra Ripley
Freedom from Fear — Aung San Suu Kyi
The Power and the Glory — Graham Green
Against the Grain — Boris Yeltsin
My Childhood Days — Taslima Nasreen
Myth of Mahatma — Michael Edwards
The City of Joy — Dominique Lapierre
God of Small Things — Arundhati Rai
The Tin Drum — Guentar Grass
Development as Freedom — Amartya Sen
Disgrace — J.M. Coetzee
Speed Post — Shobha De
My Century — Guentar Grass
A New World — Amit Chaudhury
Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri
Soul Mountain — Gao Xingjian
The Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
The Transparent Mind — Ingram Smith
The True History of the Kelly Gang — Peter Carey
Bradman’s Best — Rolland Perry
Living History — Hillary Rodham Clinton
Business at the Speed of Thought — Bill Gates
The Impressionist — Hari Kunzru
Ignited Minds — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Wings of Fire — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Life of Pi — Yann Martel
Long Walk to Freedom — Nelson Mandela
The Writer and the World — V. N. Naipaul
Two Lives — Vikram Seth
The Family and the Nation — Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Acharya Mahapragya
Curfewed Night — Basharat Peer
Sustaining India’s Growth Miracle — Jagdish N. Bhagawati
The Namesake — Jhumpa Lahiri
Straight From the Heart — Kapil Dev
My Life — Bill Clinton
Magic Seeds — V. S. Naipaul
To a Hunger Free World — Dr. M. S. Swaminathan
The Line of Beauty — Alan Hollinghurst
The Piano Teacher — Elfriede Jelinek
Shalimar, the Clown — Salman Rushdie
The Sea — John Banville
Guiding Souls : Dialogues on the — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Purpose of Life — with Arun K. Tiwari
Identity and Violence : The Illusion of Destiny — Prof. Amartya Sen
The Last Moghul — William Darlymple
In the Line of Fire : A Memoire — Parvez Musharraf
Mohandas : A True Story of a Man, Once Upon a Time in the Soviet Union —
Dominique Lapierre
My Country My Life — L. K. Advani
Jinnah : India-Partition-Independence — Jaswant Singh
Humbling — Philip Roth
The Museum of Innocence — Orphan Pamuk
Arming the Indian Arsenal — Deb Mohanty
The Year of the Flood — Margaret Atwood
The Post American World — Farid Zakaria
Yours Sincerely — Natwar Singh
The British, the Bandits and the Bordermen — P.V. Rajgopal
After the Ice : Life, Death and Geopolitics in the New Arctic — Alun Anderson
A Tale of Two Revolts : India 1857 and the American Civil War — Rajmohan Gandhi
The Red Sari — Javier Moro
The Fragrance of Forgotten Years — Bilkees Latif
Securing the State — David Omand
Before Memory Fades — Autobiography : Fali S. Nariman
Obama’s Wars — Bob Woodward
Convenient Action : Gujarat’s Response to Challenges of Climate Change —
Narendra Modi
Decision Points — George W. Bush
Civil Disobedience — L. C. Jain
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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Indian States And Their Folk Dances
| Jharkhand | Chhau, Sarahul, Jat-Jatin, Karma, Danga, Bidesia, Sohrai. |
| Uttarakhand | Gadhwali, Kumayuni, Kajari, Jhora, Raslila, Chappeli |
| Andhra Pradesh | Kuchipudi (Classical), Ghantamardala, Ottam Thedal, Mohiniattam, Kummi, Siddhi Madhuri, Chhadi. |
| Chhattisgarh | Goudi, Karma, Jhumar, Dagla, Pali, Tapali, Navrani, Diwari, Mundari. |
| Arunachal Pradesh | Mask dance, War dance etc. |
| Himachal Pradesh | Jhora, Jhali, Chharhi, Dhaman, Chhapeli, Mahasu, Nati, Dangi, Chamba, Thali, Jhainta, Daf, Stick dance etc. |
| Goa | Mandi, Jhagor, Khol, Dakni, etc. |
| Assam | Bihu, Bichhua, Natpuja, Maharas, Kaligopal, Bagurumba, Naga dance, Khel Gopal Tabal Chongli, Canoe, Jhumura Hobjanai etc. |
| West Bengal | Kathi, Gambhira, Dhali, Jatra, Baul, Marasia, Mahal, Keertan, etc. |
| Kerala | Kathakali (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc. |
| Meghalaya | Laho, Baagla, etc. |
| Manipur | Manipuri (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat, etc. |
| Nagaland | Chong, Khaiva, Lim, Nuralim, etc. |
| Orissa | Odissi (Classical), Rakhal, Nat Rash, Maha Rash, Raukhat etc. |
| Maharashtra | Lavani, Nakata, Koli, Lezim, Gafa, Dahikala Dasavtar or Bohada, Tamasha, Mauni, Powara, Gouricha etc. |
| Karnataka | Yakshagan, Huttari, Suggi, Kunitha, Karga, Lambi etc. |
| Gujarat | Garba, Dandiya Ras, Tippani Juriun, Bhavai, etc. |
| Punjab | Bhangra, Giddha, Daff, Dhaman etc. |
| Rajasthan | Ghumar, Chakri, Ganagor, Jhulan Leela, Jhuma, Suisini, Ghapal, Panihari, Ginad etc. |
| Mizoram | Khanatm, Pakhupila, Cherokan etc. |
| Jammu & Kashmir | Rauf, Hikat, Mandjas, Kud Dandi Nach, Damali. |
| Tamil Nadu | Bharatnatyam, Kumi, Kolattam, Kavadi |
| Uttar Pradesh | Nautanki, Raslila, Kajri, Jhora, Chappeli, Jaita. |
| Bihar | Jata-Jatin, Bakho-Bakhain, Panwariya, Sama-Chakwa, Bidesia, Jatra, etc. |
| Haryana | Jhumar, Phag Dance, Daph, Dhamal, Loor, Gugga, Khor, Gagor etc. |
Saturday, September 10, 2011
Geographical Epithets
World's Bread Basket Prairies of N.America
Windy City Chicago, U.S.A.
White Man's Grave Guinea Coast
White City Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Venice of the North Stockholm, Sweden
Venice of the East Alappuzha, India
Sugar Bowl of the World Cuba
Spice Garden of India Kerala
Sickman of Europe Turkey
Saint of the Gutters Mother Teresa
Roof of the World Pamirs, Central Asia
Queen of the Adriatic Venice, Italy
Queen of Arabian Sea Kochi
Quaker City Philadelphia, U.S.A.
Playground of India Kashmir
Playground of Europe Switzerland
Pink City Jaipur
Pillar of Hercules Gibraltar
Pearl of the Pacific Guayaquil Port of Ecuador
Pearl of the Antilles Cuba
Never Never Land Prairies of N. Australia
Manchester of Tamil Nadu Coimbatore
Manchester of India Mumbai
Land of White Elephant Thailand
Land of Thunderbolt Bhutan
Land of Thousand Lakes Finland
Land of Rising Sun Japan
Land of Morning Calm Korea
Land of Midnight Sun Norway
Land of Maples Canada
Land of Lilies Canada
Land of Lakes Scotland
Land of Kangaroo Australia
Land of Golden Pagoda Myanmar
Land of Golden Fleece Australia
Land of Five Rivers Punjab, India
Lady with a lamp Florence Nightingale
Key to Mediterranean Gibraltar
Island of Pearls Bahrain
Island of Cloves Zanzibar
Island Continent Australia
Holy Land Palestine
Hermit Kingdom Korea
Hearing Pond Atlantic Ocean
Great Whiteway Broadway, New York
Granite City Aberdeen, Scotland
Granary of South India Tanjore
Gift of the Nile Egypt
Gateway of India Mumbai
Gate of Tears Bab - el - mandeb, Jerusalem
Garden of England Kent, England
Garden City Chicago
Forbidden City Lhasa, Tibet
Eternal City Rome
Empire City New York, U.S.A.
Emerald Island Ireland
Dark Continent Africa
Cockpit of Europe Belgium
City of the Golden Gate San Francisco (USA)
City of Sky - Scrapers New York
Big Apple New York
City of Seven Hills Rome
City of Palaces Kolkata
City of Magnificent Distance Washington, DC, USA
China's Sorrow Howang - Ho
Britain of the South New Zealand
Blue Mountains Nilgiri Hills
Bengal's Sorrow Damodar River
Mosquito Coast Nicargua
City of Kings Lima
Friday, August 19, 2011
Biosphere Reserves in India
Sl. No. | Name | Date of Estbl. | Area (in km2) | Location |
| 1 | Achanakamar - Amarkantak | 2005 | 3835.51 | Covers parts of Anupur and Dindori districts of Madhya Pradesh and parts of Bilaspur Districts of Chhattisgarh State |
| 2 | Agasthyamalai | 12.11.2001 | 1828 | Neyyar, Peppara and Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuaries and their adjoining areas in Kerala |
| 3 | Dehang-Dibang | 02.09.98 | 5111.5 | Part of Siang and Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh |
| 4 | Dibru-Saikhowa | 28.07.97 | 765 | Part of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia Districts (Assam) |
| 5 | Great Nicobar | 06.01.89 | 885 | Southern most islands of Andaman and Nicobar (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) |
| 6 | Gulf of Mannar | 18.02.89 | 10,500 | Indian part of Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka (Tamil Nadu) |
| 7 | Khangchendzonga | 07.02.2000 | 2619.92 | Parts of Khangchendzonga Hills and Sikkim |
| 8 | Manas | 14.03.89 | 2837 | Part of Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Barpeta, Nalbari, Kamprup and Darang Districts (Assam) |
| 9 | Nanda Devi | 18.01.88 | 5860.69 | Part of Chamoli, Pithoragarh, and Bageshwar Districts (Uttarakhand) |
| 10 | Nilgiri | 01.09.86 | 5520 | Part of Wayanad, Nagarhole, Bandipur and Madumalai, Nilambur, Silent Valley and Siruvani Hills (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka) |
| 11 | Nokrek | 01.09.88 | 820 | Part of Garo Hills (Meghalaya) |
| 12 | Pachmarhi | 03.03.99 | 4926 | Parts of Betul, Hoshangabad and Chindwara Districts of Madhya Pradesh |
| 13 | Simlipal | 21.06.94 | 4374 | Part of Mayurbhanj District (Orissa) |
| 14 | Sunderbans | 29.03.89 | 9630 | Part of delta of Ganga and Brahamaputra river system (West Bengal) |
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Trophies in Indian Sports
| TROPHY | SPORTS |
| Agarwal Cup | Badminton |
| Agha Khan Cup | Hockey |
| All-India Women’s Guru Nanak Championship | Hockey |
| Bandodkar Trophy | Football |
| Bangalore Blues Challenge Cup | Basketball |
| Barna-Bellack Cup | Table Tennis |
| Beighton Cup | Hockey |
| Bombay Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Burdwan Trophy | Weight-lifting |
| Charminar Trophy | Athletics |
| Chadha Cup | Badminton |
| C. K. Naydu Trophy | Cricket |
| Chakoia Gold Trophy | Football |
| Divan Cup | Badminton |
| Deodhar Trophy | Cricket |
| Duleep Trophy | Cricket |
| D. C. M. Cup | Football |
| Durand Cup | Football |
| Dhyan Chand Trophy | Hockey |
| Dr. B. C. Roy Trophy (Junior) | Football |
| Ezra Cup | Polo |
| F. A. Cup | Football |
| G. D. Birla Trophy | Cricket |
| Ghulam Ahmed Trophy | Cricket |
| Gurmeet Trophy | Hockey |
| Gura Nanak Cup | Hockey |
| Gyanuati Devi Trophy | Hockey |
| Holkar Trophy | Bridge |
| lrani Trophy | Cricket |
| I. F. A. Shield | Football |
| lndira Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Jawaharlal Challenge | Air Racing |
| Jaswant Singh Trophy | Best Services Sportsman |
| Kuppuswamy Naidu Trophy | Hockey |
| Lady Rattan Tata Trophy | Hockey |
| MCC Trophy | Hockey |
| Moinuddaula Gold Cup | Cricket |
| Murugappa Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Modi Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Narang Cup | Badminton |
| Nehru Trophy | Hockey |
| Nixan Gold Cup | Football |
| Obaid Ullah Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Prithi Singh Cup | Polo |
| Rani Jhansi Trophy | Cricket |
| Ranjit Trophy | Cricket |
| Rangaswami Cup | Hockey |
| Ranjit Singh Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Rajendra Prasad Cup | Tennis |
| Ramanujan Trophy | Table Tennis |
| Rene Frank Trophy | Hockey |
| Radha Mohan Cup | Polo |
| Raghbir Singh Memorial | Football |
| Rohinton Baria Trophy | Cricket |
| Rovers Cup | Football |
| Sanjay Gold Cup | Football |
| Santosh Trophy | Football |
| Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee | Football |
| Subroto Cup | Football |
| Scindia Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Sahni Trophy | Hockey |
| Sheesh Mahal Trophy | Cricket |
| Todd Memorial Trophy | Football |
| Tommy Eman Gold Cup | Hockey |
| Vittal Trophy | Football |
| Vizzy Trophy | Cricket |
| Vijay Merchant Trophy | Cricket |
| Wellington Trophy | Rowing |
Famous Books by Indian Authors
Books | Author |
| A Bend in the river | V S Naipaul |
| A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral |
| A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S S Kohli |
| A Foreign Policy for India | I K Gujral |
| A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale |
| A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History | P N Chopra |
| A Peep into the Past | Vasant Navrekar |
| A Possible India | Partha Chatterjee |
| A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets | Abdulla Kamal |
| A Reveolutionary Life | Laxmi Sehgal |
| A Secular Agenda | Arun Shourie |
| A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
| Acoession to Extinction | D R Mankekar |
| Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy | J N Dixit |
| Adhe Adhure | Mohan Rakesh |
| After the Dark Night | S M Ali |
| Agni Pariksha | Acharya Tulsi |
| Agni Veena | Kazi Nazrul Islam |
| Ain-i-Akbari | Abul Fazal |
| Ajatshatru | Jai Shankar Prasad |
| Akbarnama | Abul Fazal |
| Amar Kosh | Amar Singh |
| An Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| An idealist View of Life | Dr S Radhakrishnan |
| Anandmath | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance | J N Dixit |
| Anguish of Deprived | Lakshmidhar Mishra |
| Answer to History | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Area of Darkness | V S Naipaul |
| Arion and the Dolphin | Vikram Seth |
| Arthashastra | Kautilya |
| Ashtadhyayi | Panini |
| Asia and Western Dominance | K M Panikkar |
| Assassination of a Prime Minister | S Anandram |
| Assignment Colombo | J N Dixit |
| Atoms of Hope | Mohan Sundara Rajan |
| Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
| Backward Place | Ruth Prawer Jhabwala |
| Bandicoot Run | Manohar Malgonkar |
| Bang-i-Dara | Mohammad lqbal |
| Beginning of the Beginning | Acharya Rajneesh |
| Bend in the Ganges | Manohar Malgonkar |
| Between the Lines | Kuldip Nayar |
| Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord | Rasheedud-din Khan |
| Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire | Swaraj Paul |
| Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self | Sisir Kumar Ghose |
| Bhagwat Gita | Veda Vyas |
| Bharal Aur Europe | Nirmal Verma |
| Bharat Bharati | Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar | Govind Chandra Pande |
| Bisarjan | R N Tagore |
| Blind Men of Hindoostan-indo-Pak Nuclear War | Gen Krishnaswamy Sundarji |
| Bliss was it in that Dawn | Minoo Masani |
| Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition | Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin |
| Bostaan | Sheikh Saadi |
| Bread, Beauty and Revolution | Khwaja Ahmed Abbas |
| Breaking the Silence | Anees Jung |
| Breakthrough | Gen Moshe Dayan |
| Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories | Khushwant Singh |
| Bridge’s Book of Beauty | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Brishbikkha | Bankim Chandra Chatterji |
| Britain’s True History | Prem Bhatia |
| Broken Wings | Sarojini Naidu |
| Bubble | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Buddha Charitam | Ashvaghosha |
| Bunch of Old Letters | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| By God’s Decree | Kapil Dev |
| Canvass of Life | Sheila Gujral |
| Chandalika | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Chemmeen | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
| Chidambara | Sumitranandan Pant |
| Chikaveera Rajendra | Masti Venkatesh lyengar |
| Chinese Betrayal | B N Mullick |
| Chitra | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Choma’s Drum | K Shivaram Karanath |
| Chithirappaavai | P V Akilandam |
| Confessions of a Lover | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Confrontation with Pakistan | Gen B M Kaul |
| Conquest of Self | Mahatma Gandhi |
| Continent of Circle | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
| Coolie | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Court Dancer | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Crescent Moon | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Crescent Over Kashmir | Anil Maheshwari |
| Crisis into Chaos | E M S Namboodiripad |
| Crossing the Sacred Line-Women’s | Abhilasha Kumari, Sabina |
| Search for Political Power | Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai |
| Crown and the Loincloth | Chaman Nahal |
| Cuckold | Kiran Nagar Kar |
| Culture in the Vanity Bag | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
| Curtain Raisers | K Natwar Singh |
| Dark Room | R K Narayan |
| Dashkumar Charitam | Dandi |
| Daughter of the East | Benazir Bhutto |
| Day in Shadow | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Days of My Yers | H P Nanda |
| Death of a City | Amrita Pritam |
| Death-The Supreme Friend | Kakasaheb Kalelkar |
| Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi | D R Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar |
| Democracy Redeemed | V K Narsimhan |
| Devadas | Sarat Chandra Chatterjee |
| Dharmashastra | Manu |
| Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Distant Drums | Manohar Malgonkar |
| Distant Neighbours | Kuldip Nayar |
| Divine Comedy | A Dante |
| Divine Life | Swami Sivananda |
| Don’t Laugh-We are Police | Bishan Lal Vohra |
| Dream in Hawaii | Bhabani Bhattacharya |
| Durgesh Nandini | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Dynamics of Social Change | Chandra Shekhar |
| Earth in the Balance: Forging a New | Albert Gore |
| East of Eden | B N Mullick |
| East West | Salman Rushdie |
| Economic Planning of India | Ashok Mehta |
| Economics of the Third World | S K Ray |
| Eight Lives | Rajmohan Gandhi |
| End of an Era | C S Pandit |
| English August | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| Essays On Gita | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Eternal Himalayas | Major H P S Ahluwalia |
| Eternal India | Indira Gandhi |
| Eternity | Anwar Shaikh |
| Faces to Everest | Maj H P S Ahluwalia |
| Facts are Facts | Khan Abdul Wali Khan |
| Faith & Fire: A Way Within | Madhu Tandon |
| Fall of a Sparrow | Salim Ali |
| Farewell to a Ghost | Manoj Das |
| Fasana-i-Azad | Ratan Nath Sarkar |
| Flames from the Ashes | P D Tandon |
| Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India | V K R V Rao |
| Forbidden Sea | Tara Ali Baig |
| Fortynine Days | Amrita Pritam |
| Freedom Behind Bars | Sheikh Mohd Abdullah |
| Friends and Foes | Sheikh Mujibur Rehman |
| Friends, Not Masters | Ayub Khan |
| From india to America | S Chandrashekhar |
| From Rajpath to Lokpath | Vijaya Raja Scindia |
| Future of NPT | Savita Pande |
| Ganadevata | Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya |
| Gardener | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Geeta Govind | Jaya Dev |
| Ghasiram Kotwal | Vijay Tendulkar |
| Gita Rahasya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| Gitanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Glimpses of Indian Ocean | Z A Quasim |
| Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| Goa | Asif Currimbhoy |
| Godan | Munshi Prem Chand |
| Godrej: A Hundred Years | B K Karanjia |
| Golden Gate | Vikram Seth |
| Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
| Gora | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Great Depression of 1990 | Ravi Batra |
| Guide | R K Narayan |
| Gul-e-Naghma | Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri |
| Gulistan Boston | Sheikh Saadi |
| Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep | Promilla Kalhan |
| in the Service of the People | Promilla Kalhan |
| Gurusagaram | O V Vijayan |
| Harsha Charita | Bana Bhatt |
| Harvest | Majula Padmanabhan |
| Heat and Dust | Ruth Prawer Jhabwala |
| Heavy Weather | P G Wodehouse |
| Henry Esmond | Thackeray |
| Heir Apparent | Dr Karan Singh |
| Higher than Hope | Fatima Meer |
| Himalayan Blunder | Brig J P Dalvi |
| Hindu View of Life | Dr S Radhakrishnan |
| History of Hindu Chemistry | Sir P C Ray |
| Hitopadesh | R K Narayan |
| Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas | R S Chaturvedi |
| Hind Swaraj | M K Gandhi |
| Hindu Civilisation | J M Barrie |
| Hinduism | Nirad C Chaudhary |
| Hungry Stones | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| 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 |
| Idols | Sunil Gavaskar |
| In the Light of the Black Sun | Rohit Manchanda |
| In the Shadow of Pines | Mandeep Rai |
| India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium | Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & Dr Y S Rajan |
| India-A Wounded Civilisation | V S Naipaul |
| India-From Curzon to Nehru and After | Durga Dass |
| India-From Midnight to the Millennium | Shashi Tharoor |
| India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) | Raghu Rai |
| India in Transition | Prof Jagdish Bhagwati |
| India is for Sale | Chitra Subramaniam |
| India of Our Dreams | M V Kamath |
| India Today | Rajni Palme Dutt |
| Indian Home Rule | M K Gandhi |
| Indian Philosophy | Dr S Radhakrishnan |
| India’s Culture the State the Arts & Beyond | B P Singh |
| India’s Economic Crisis | Dr Bimal Jalan |
| Essay’s for Manmohan Singh | I J Ahluwalia & M D Little |
| Indian Arms Bazaar | Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain |
| India Divided | Rajendra Prasad |
| India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| Indian Muslims | Prof Mohd Mujeeb |
| India, the Critial Years | Kuldip Nayar |
| Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Indira’s India | S Nihal Singh |
| Inside the CBI | Joginder Singh |
| Insider | P V Narsimha Rao |
| Intelligence Services | Dr Bhashyam Kasturi |
| It is Always Possible | Kiran Bedi |
| Jai Somnath | K M Munshi |
| Jaguar Smile | Salman Rushdie |
| Jajar, Churashir Maa | Mahashweta Devi |
| Jankijeevanam | Prof Rajendra Mishra |
| Jawaharlal Nehru-A Communicator | Damodaran, A. K. |
| & Democratic Leader | A K Damodran |
| Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman | B R Nanda |
| Junglee Girl | Ginu Kamani |
| Kadambari | Bana Bhatt |
| Kamadhenu | Kubernath Ray |
| Kamasutra | Vatsyayan |
| Kagaz Te Kanwas | Amrita Pritam |
| Kamayani | Jai Shankar Pandit |
| Kali Aandhi | Kamleshwar |
| Kanthapura | Raja Rao |
| Kanyadaan | Vijay Tendulkar |
| Kapal Kundala | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Kashmir-A Tale of Shame | Hari Jaisingh |
| Kashmir-Behind the Vale | M J Akbar |
| Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy | Gen Arjun Ray |
| Kashmir-The Wounded Valley | Ajit Bhattacharjee |
| Kashmir in the Crossfire | Victoria Shaffield |
| Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors | Tavleen Singh |
| Katghare Main | Ram Sharan Joshi |
| Kayakalp | Munshi Prem Chand |
| Kayar | Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai |
| Keepers of the Keys | Milan Kundera |
| King of Dark Chamber | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Kiratarjuniya | Bharavi |
| Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar | S H Vatsyayan |
| Koraner Nari | Taslima Nasreen |
| Kore Kagaz | Amrita Pritam |
| Kulliyat | Ghalib |
| Kumar Sambhava | Kalidas |
| Lajja | Taslima Nasreen |
| Lal Bahadur Shastri | C P Srivastava |
| Last Phase | Pyare Lal |
| Law, Lawyers & Judges | H R Bhardwaj |
| Laws Versus Justice | V R Krishna Iyer |
| Legacy of a Divided Nation | Prof Mushirul Hasan |
| Life Divine | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Life is Elsewhere | Milan Kundera |
| Lipika | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Lost Child | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Love and Longing in Bombay | Vikram Chandra |
| Love in A Blue Time | Hanif Khureshi |
| Love, Truth and A Little Malice | Khushwant Singh |
| Mahabharata | Vyasa |
| Malati Madhav | Bhavabhuti |
| Magnificent Maharaja | K Natwar Singh |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Girija Kumar Mathur |
| Malavikagnimitra | Kalidas |
| Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam | Prof Raghuvansh |
| Many Worlds | K P S Menon |
| Mati Matal | Gopinath Mohanty |
| Meghdoot | Kalidas |
| Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy | lqbal Akhund |
| Men Who Killed Gandhi | Manohar Malgonkar |
| Meri Rehen Meri Manzil | Krishna Puri |
| Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
| Million Mutinies Now | V S Naipaul |
| Missed Oppertunites: Indo-Pak War 1965 | Maj-Gen, Lakshman Singh |
| Mistaken identity | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Modern South Asia: History, Culture, | Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal |
| Political Economy | Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal |
| Modernity Morality And The Mahatma | Madhuri Santhanam Sondhi |
| Mondays on Dark Night of Moon | Kirin Narayan |
| Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu | K Shivram Karanth |
| Moor’s Last Sigh | Salman Rushdie |
| Mrinalini | Bankim Chandra Charrerjee |
| Mritunjaya | Shivaji Sawant |
| Mrs Gandhi’s Second Reign | Arun Shourie |
| Mudra rakshasa | Vishakhadatta |
| Mughal Maharajas And The Mahatma | K R N Swami |
| Muslim Law and the Constitution | A M Bhattacharjea |
| My Days | R K Narayan |
| My Early Life | M K Gandhi |
| My Experiment With Truth | M K Gandhi |
| My Life and Times | V V Giri |
| My Own Boswell | M Hidayatullah |
| My India | S Nihal Singh |
| My Music, My Love | Ravi Shankar |
| My Presidential Years | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
| My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
| My South Block Years | J N Dixit |
| My Struggles | E K Nayanar |
| My Prison Diary | J P Narayan |
| Naari | Humayun Azad |
| Naganandan | Harsha Vardhana |
| Naku Thanthi | D R Bendre |
| Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Pathor Ki Dewar | Ali Sardar Jafri |
| Naivedyam (The Offering) | N Balamani Amma |
| Naked Triangle | Balwant Gargi |
| Nehru Family and Sikhs | Harbans Singh |
| Netaji-Dead or Alive | Samar Guha |
| New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy | Atal Behari Vajpayee |
| Nice Guys Finish Second | B K Nehru |
| Nisheeth | Uma Shankar Joshi |
| Niti-Sataka | Bhartrihari |
| Nirbashita Narir Kabita | Taslima Nasreen |
| Non-Violence in Peace and War | M K Gandhi |
| Nuclear India | G G Mirchandani and P K S |
| Nurturing Development | Ismail Serageldin |
| Odakkuzal | G Shankara Kurup |
| One-eyed Uncle | Laxmikant Mahapatra |
| One World to Share | Sridath Ramphal |
| Operation Bluestar-the True Story | Lt-Gen K S Brar |
| Our Films, Their Films | Satyajit Ray |
| Our India | Minoo Masani |
| Out of Dust | F D Karaka |
| Padmavati | Malik Mohammed Jayasi |
| Painter of Signs | R K Narayan |
| Pakistan in the 20th Century | Lawrence Ziring |
| Pakistan Papers | Mani Shankar Aiyer |
| Panchagram | Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya |
| Panchtantra | Vishnu Sharma |
| Pakistan Cut to Size | D R Mankekar |
| Passage to England | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
| Past Forward | G R Narayanan |
| Pather Panchali | Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya |
| Pinjar | Amrita Pritam |
| Plans for Departure | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Portrait of India | Ved Mehta |
| Post Office | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Prathama Pratishruti | Ashapurna Devi |
| Prem Pachisi | Prem Chand |
| Premonitions | P N Haksar |
| Price of Partition | Rafiq Zakaria |
| Prison and Chocolate Cake | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Prison Diary | Jayaprakash Narayan |
| Prisoner’s Scrapbook | L K Advani |
| Prithviraj Raso | Chand Bardai |
| Profiles & Letters | K Natwar Singh |
| Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood | K P S Gill |
| Quest for Conscience | Madhu Dandavate |
| Radharani | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Raghuvamsa | Kalidas |
| Rajtarangini | Kalhana |
| Ram Charit Manas | Tulsidas |
| Ramayana | Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit) |
| Ramayana Dharshanam | K V Puttappa |
| Rangbhoomi | Prem Chand |
| Rang-e-Shairi | Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri |
| Ratnavali | Harsha Vardhan |
| Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) | Gulzar |
| Rediscovering Gandhi | Yogesh Chadha |
| Reminiscences of the Nehru Age | M O Mathai |
| Return of the Aryans | Bhagwan S Gidwani |
| Returning to the Source | Acharya Rajneesh |
| Revenue Stamp | Amrita Pritam |
| Rich Like Us | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Ritu Ka Pehla Phool | Vijendra |
| Ritu Samhara | Kalidas |
| River Sutra | Gita Mehta |
| Road to Freedom | K K Khullar |
| Rukh Te Rishi | Harbhajan Singh |
| Sader-i-Riyasat | Karan Singh |
| Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims | Rafiq Zakaria |
| Sakharam Binder | Vijay Tendulkar |
| Saket | Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| Satyartha Prakash | Swami Dayanand |
| Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
| Savitri | Aurobindo Ghosh |
| Sceptred Flute | Sarojini Naidu |
| Scholar Extraordinary | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
| Scope of Happiness | Vijayalakshmi Pandit |
| Search for Home | Sasthi Brata |
| Sense of Time | S H Vatsyayan |
| Seven Summers | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Tamas | Bhisham Sahni |
| Tarkash | Javed Akhtar |
| Tehriq-e-Mujahideen | Dr Sadiq Hussain |
| The Assassination | K Mohandas |
| The Betrayal of East Pakistan | Lt Gen A A K |
| The Calcutta Chromosome | Amitav Ghosh |
| The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama | Sanjay Subramanyam |
| The Chinese Betrayal | B N Mullick |
| The Congress Splits | R P Rao |
| The Defeat or Distant Drumbeats | Bhaskar Roy |
| Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| Until Darkness | Parvin Ghaffari |
| Utouchable | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Urvashi | Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’ |
| Uttar Ramcharita | Bhava Bhuti |
| Untold Story | Gen B M Kaul |
| Vanity Fair | Thackeray |
| Vendor of Sweets | R K Narayan |
| Venisamhara | Narayana Bhatt |
| Village by the Sea | Anita Desai |
| Village | Mulk Raj Anand |
| Vinay Patrika | Tulsidas |
| Virangana | Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| Vish Vriksha | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
| Voice of Conscience | V V Giri |
| Voice of Freedom | Nayantara Sehgal |
| Waiting for the Mahatma | R K Narayan |
| Walls of Glass | K A Abbas |
| War and No Peace Over Kashmir | Maroof Raza |
| War of Indian Independence | Vir Savarkar |
| We, Indians | Khushwant Singh |
| We, the People | N A Palkhivala |
| Widening Divide | Rafiq Zakaria |
| Wings of fire, an Autobiography | Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & A. Tiwari |
| Witness to History | Prem Bhatia |
| Without Fear or Favour | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
| Women and Men in My Life | Khushwant Singh |
| Worshipping False Gods | Arun Shourie |
| Wreck | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
| Yajnaseni | Dr Pratibha Roy |
| Yama | Mahadevi Verma |
| Yashodhara | Maithili Sharan Gupta |
| Yayati | V S Khandekar |
| Year of the Vulture | Amita Malik |
| Years of Pilgrimage | Dr Raja Ramanna |
| Yesterday and Today | K P S Menon |
| Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan | Rafi Raza |
Monday, July 25, 2011
National Emblem of Different Countries
The National Emblems of Different Countries are Given here:
| COUNTRY | EMBLEM | COUNTRY | EMBLEM |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Kangaroo | Bangladesh | Water Lily |
| Barbados | Head of a Trident | Belgium | Lion |
| Canada | White Lily | Chile | Candor & Huemul |
| Denmark | Beach | Dominica | Sisserou Parrot |
| France | Lily | Germany | Corn Flower |
| Guyana | Canje Pheasant | Hong Kong | Bauhinia (Orchid Tree) |
| India | Lioned Capital | Iran | Rose |
| Ireland | Shamrock | Israel | Candelabrum |
| Italy | White Lily | Ivory Coast | Elephant |
| Japan | Chrysanthemum | Lebanon | Cedar Tree |
| Luxenbourg | Lion with Crown | Mongolia | The Soyombo |
| Netherlands | Lion | New Zealand | Southern Cross, Kiwi, Fern |
| Norway | Lion | Pakistan | Crescent |
| Papua New Guinea | Bird of paradise | Spain | Eagle |
| Senegal | Bhobab Tree | Sierra Leone | Lion |
| Sri Lanka | Lion | Sudan | Secretary Bird |
| Syria | Eagle | Turkey | Crescent & Star |
| U.K. | Rose | U.S.A. | Golden Rod |
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Green Revolution
| The Green Revolution came in India, in 1965. It introduced high-yielding varieties of Indian seeds and increased the use of fertilizers and irrigation in India. This provided the increase in production of crops to make India self-sufficient in food grains. The program was based on high-yielding varieties of wheat, rice and other grains. It was started with the help of the United States-based Rockefeller Foundation. Of the high yielding seeds wheat produced the best results. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In between of 1965 and 1980, the north and northwestern India has the major benefits of the Green Revolution. This program resulted in a substantial increase in the production of food grains, mainly wheat and rice. In 1980, almost 75 percent of the total cropped area under wheat was sown with high-yielding varieties. For rice the comparable figure was 45 percent. In the 1980s, the area under high-yielding varieties continued to increase, but the rate of growth overall was slower. The eighth plan aimed at making high-yielding varieties available to the whole country and developing more productive strains of other crops. The Green Revolution in India also increased higher income growth and reduced poverty in the states where yields increased the most. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In 2006, Dr Norman Borlaug, which is also known as the 'Father of India's Green Revolution' get the India's second highest civilian honour, the Padma Vibhushan by India's ambassador in Mexico City. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
INDIAN INDUSTRIES
Industry | ||
| Cotton Textiles | Mumbai, Sholapur, Nagpur, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Indore; Chennai, Madurai and Coimbatore, Kanpur and Kolkata. | |
| Jute Textiles | West Bengal, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, U.P. and M.P. | |
| Silk Textiles | Asom, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Orissa, U.P., M.P., W. Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra and Punjab. | |
| Woollen Textile | The chief centres of woollen textiles are Punjab, U.P., Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, West Bengal. | |
| Sugar Industry | U.P., Bihar and some centres are there in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal and Punjab | |
| Cement Industry | Jharkhand, M.P., Chattisgarh, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Haryana, U.P. and Orissa have some factories also. | |
| Paper Industry | West Bengal, Maharashtra, U.P., Bihar, Orissa, Punjab, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. | |
| Iron and Steel Industry | Jamshedpur, Bokaro (Jharkhand), Bhilai (Chattisgarh), Durgapur, Hirapur, Kulti, Burnpur (West Bengal), Rourkela (Orissa), Bhadrawati (Karnataka), Rourkela (Orissa) and Neyveli (Tamil Nadu). | |
| Leather Industry | Chennai, Agra, Kolkata, Delhi, Kanpur, Mumbai, Deonaar, Deevaghat. | |
| Aluminium | Alwaye (Kerala), Muri (Jharkhand), Hirakud (Orissa), Renukoot (U.P.), Bailur (W. Bengal), Koyna Mettur (Tamilnadu) and Hirakud (Orissa). | |
| Matches | Bareilly, Kolkata, Chennai, Gwalior and Hyderabad. | |
| Photo Film Industry | Ootacamund (Tamil Nadu) | |
| Glass | Ferozabad, Shikohabad, Bahjoi, Naini, Haorah, Bangalore and Belgaon. | |
| Chemical Industry | Delhi, Pimpri, Pune, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Rishikesh, Bangalore and Amritsar. | |
| Rubber-Goods Industry | Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ballabhgarh, Shahaganj, Chamanacheri and Ambatoor. | |
| Locomotive Industry | Chittaranjan (West Bengal), Varanasi in U.P., Perambur (Tamil Nadu) | |
| Automobile Industry | Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Jamshedpur, Pune and Gurgaon | |
| Antibiotic Industry | Rishikesh, Pimpri and Delhi | |
| Aircraft Manufacturing Industry | Bangalore, Kanpur, Nasik, Koraput and Hyderabad | |
| Fertilizers Industry | Durgapur, Kanpur, Foolpur (Uttar Pradesh), Haldia, Namrup, Rourkela, Vadodara, Barauni,Vishakhapatnam, Gorakhpur, etc. | |
| Plastic Industry | Mumbai, Kolkata, Amritsar, Kanpur, Hyderabad and Coimbatore. | |
| Petro-Chemical Industry | Vadodara and Mumbai, Bongaigoan, Asom |
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