Geographical Epithets

    World's Loneliest Island                Tristanda Cuntra
    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

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)

Source: National Biodiversity Action Plan, 2008, MoEF

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

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

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.

List of some other Revolutions: Revolution            Area     Blue Revolution         Fish       Brown Revolution     Non-conventional energy resources       Grey Revolution        Wool       Golden Revolution     Horticulture       Pink Revolution        Shrimp/Meat       White Revolution      Milk       Yellow Revolution     Oil seeds Rainbow Revolution    Agriculture Sector Black Revolution        Petroleum/Crude Oil

INDIAN INDUSTRIES

Industry		Place
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

Countries Independence Days

January

Camaroon - January 1
Haiti - January 1
Western Samoa - January 1
Sudan - January 1
Burma - January 4
Chad - January 11
Australia - January 26
Nauru - January 31

February

Ceylon/Sri Lanka - February 4
New Zealand - February 6
Grenada - February 7
Iran - February 11
Gambia - February 18
Saint Lucia - February 22
Dominican Republic - February 27

March

Wales - March 1
Morocco - March 3
Mauritius - March 12
Ireland - March 17
Liechtenstein - March 19
Pakistan - March 23
Greece - March 25
Bangladesh - March 26

April

Hungary - April 4
Senegal - April 4
Denmark - April 16
Syria - April 17
Zimbabwe - April 18
Austria - April 27
Sierra Leone - April 27
Togo - April 27
Japan - April 29
The Netherlands - April 30
Israel - April or May

May

Czechoslovakia - May 9
Laos - May 11
Paraguay - May 14
Israel - May 15
Norway - May 17
Cuba - May 20
Argentina - May 25
Jordan - May 25
Guyana - May 26

June

Tunisia - June 1
Italy - June 2
Seychelles - June 5
Sweden - June 6
Portugal - June 10
Philippines - Independence Day June 12
Iceland - June 17
Kuwait - June 19
Luxembourg - June 23
Croatia - June 25
Mozambique - June 25
Madagascar - June 26
Djibouti - June 27
Republic of Congo - June 30
Zaire - June 30

July
Burundi - July 1
Canada - July 1
Rwanda - July 1
Somalia - July 1
United States of America - July 4
Venezuela - July 5
Malawi - July 6
Argentina - July 9
Bahamas - July 10
Mongolia - July 11
Sao Tome and Principe - July 12
France - July 14
Iraq - July 14
South Korea - July 17
Colombia - July 20
Belgium - July 21
Poland - July 22
Egypt - July 23
Ethiopia - July 23
Liberia - July 26
Maldive Islands - July 26
Peru - July 28

August

Dahomey - August 1
Switzerland - August 1
Upper Volta - August 5
Bolivia - August 6
Jamaica - First Monday in August
Ivory Coast - August 7
Singapore - August 9
Ecuador - August 10
Pakistan - August 14
Republic of Congo - August 15
India - August 15
Cyprus - August 16
Gabon - August 17
Indonesia - August 17
Afghanistan - August 18
Rumania - August 23
Uruguay - August 25
Trinidad and Tobago - August 31
Malaysia - August 31

September

Libya - September 1
Vietnam - September 2
Qatar - September 3
San Marino - September 3
Swaziland - September 6
Brazil - September 7
Andorra - September 8
North Korea - September 9
Bulgaria - September 9
Costa Rica - September 15
El Salvador - September 15
Guatemala - September 15
Honduras - September 15
Nicaragua - September 15
Mexico - September 16
Papua New Guinea - September 16
Chile - September 18
Belize - September 21
Malta - September 21
Mali - September 22
Saudi Arabia - September 23
Yemen - September 26
Botswana - September 30

October

People's Republic of China - October 1-2
Nigeria - October 1
Guinea - October 2
Lesotho October 4
Fiji - October 7
Germany - October 3 1990
Uganda - October 9
Republic of China/Taiwan - October 10
Spain - October 12
Zambia - October 24
Iran - October 26
South Vietnam - October 26
St Vincent and Grenadines - October 27
Turkey - October 29

November

Algeria - November 1
Panama - November 3
Dominica - November 3
Soviet Union - November 7
Cambodia - November 9
Angola - November 11
Rhodesia - November 11
Saudi Arabia - November 12
Comoros - November 12
Monaco - November 19
Lebanon - November 22
Suriname - November 25
Albania - November 28
Mauritania - November 28
Southern Yemen - November 29
Yugoslavia - November 29-30
Barbados - November 30

December

Central African Republic - December 1
Thailand - December 5
Finland - December 6
Tanzania - December 9
Upper Volta - December 11
Kenya - December 12
Niger - December 18
Nepal - December 21