Important Institutions and Its Headquarters in India

Education 
● Commission of Scientific and Technical Words Terminology—New Delhi
● Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages—Hyderabad
● Institute of National Sanskrit—New Delhi
● National Sanskrit Vidyapeeth—Tirupati
● Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit Vidyapeeth—New Delhi
● Rashtriya Bal Bhavan—New Delhi
● Institute of Central Indian Language—Mysore
● Indian Council of Higher Research—Shimla
● Indian Institute of Social Sciences and Research—New Delhi
● Council of Indian Philosophy Research—New Delhi and Lucknow
● Indian Institute of Science—Bengaluru
● Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management—Gwalior
● Central Hindi Institute—Agra

Environmental Institutes
● Arid Zone Research Institute—Jodhpur
● Central Pollution Control Board—Delhi
● Central Museum Authority—New Delhi
● Rehabilitation Institute of Social Forestry and Ecology—Allahabad
● G. B. Pant Himdoya Environment and Development Institute—Almora
● Himalayan Forest Research Centre—Shimla
● Indian Forest Research and Education Council—Dehradun
● Institute of Indian Forest Management—Bhopal
● Institute of Indian Plywood Industry and Research—Bengaluru
● Institute of Forest Genetic Tree Breeding—Coimbatore
● Forest Productive Centre—Ranchi
● Institute of Forest Research and Human Resource Development—Chindwara
● Institute of Rainforest—Jorhat
● Institute of Lumbering Science and Technology—Bengaluru
● Institute of National Science & Technology—Faridabad
● Indian Botanical Survey—Kolkata
● Indian Anthropology Survey—Kolkata
● Indian Forest Survey—Jorhat
● Tropical Institute—Jabalpur

Defence Institutes
● Air Force Academy—Hyderabad
● Air Force Technical College—Bengaluru
● College of Military Engineering—Pune
● Defence Management Institute—Sikandrabad
● Defence Services Staff College—Wellington
● Directorate General N.C.C.—New Delhi
● Electrical and Mechanical Engineering School—Baroda
● Hindustan Aeronatic Limited—Bengaluru
● Indian Air Force Training Centre—Chennai
● Indian Military Academy—Dehradun
● Institute of Armament Technology—Pune
● Military College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering—Sikandrabad
● Directorate of National Cadet Core—New Delhi
● National Defence Academy—Kharagwasala
● Naval College of Engineering—Lonavala
● Officers Training Academy—Chennai

Art and Culture
● Institute of National Museum History for Art Conservation and Science Museum—New Delhi
● Allahabad Museum—Allahabad
● Asiatic Society—Kolkata
● Indian Anthropology Survey—Kolkata
● Indian National Archives—New Delhi
● Central Buddh Education Institute—Leh
● Central High Tibetean Educational Institute—Varanasi
● Central Secretariat Library (1981)—New Delhi
● Cultural Institute and Training Centre (1979)—New Delhi
● Delhi Public Library—New Delhi
● Gandhian Recollection and Philosophy Recollection—New Delhi
● Institute of Indian Diamond—Surat
● Indian Museum—Kolkata
● Indira Gandhi National Art Centre—New Delhi
● Indira Gandhi National Human Museum—Bhopal
● Jawahar Lal Nehru Manipur Dance Academy (1954)—Imphal
● Kala Chitra Foundation—Chennai
● Khudabaksh Oriental Public Library—Patna
● Lalit Kala Academy (1954)—New Delhi
● Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad Asian Studies Institute—Kolkata
● National Drama Vidyalaya (1959)—New Delhi
● National Science Museum Parishad—Kolkata
● National Modern Art Technique (1954)—Kolkata
● National Library (1948)—Kolkata
● National Museum—New Delhi
● National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Heritage—Lucknow
● National School of Drama—New Delhi
● Nav-Nalanda Mahabihar—Bihar
● Nehru Memorial Museum and Library—New Delhi
● Raja Rammohan Rai Library Foundation—Kolkata
● Ram Krishan Mission Sanskrit Institute (1938)—Kolkata
● Rampur Raja Library—Rampur
● Sahitya Academy (1954)—New Delhi
● Salarjanj Museum—Hyderabad
● Sangeet Natak Academy—New Delhi
● Victoria Memorial Hall—Kolkata

Food and Civil Supply
● Indian Standard Bureau—Delhi
● Indian Examination House—Kolkata

Health and Family Welfare
● Central Health Education Bureau—New Delhi
● National Medical Science Academy—New Delhi
● National Ayurvedic Institute—Jaipur
● National Siddh Institute—Chennai
● National Yunani Institute—Bengaluru
● Morarji Desai National Yog Institute—New Delhi
● National Natural Medical Institute—Pune
● National Homeopathic Institute—Kolkata
● National Ayurvedic Vidyapeeth—New Delhi
● Hindustan Organic Chemicals Ltd.—Rasoyni (Maharashtra)

Industries
● South India Textile Research Association—Coimbatore
● North India Cloth Research Institute—Ghaziabad
● Silk and Art Silk Mills Research Association—Mumbai
● Indian Jute Industry Research Association—Kolkata
● Wool Research Institute—Thane
● National Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd.—Trombay
● Pesticide Technology Institute—Gurgaon
● Hindustan Antibiotic Ltd.—Pimpri, Pune
● Plastic Engineering and Technology Institute—(Sepate) Chennai
● Indian Bureau of Mines—Nagpur
● National Aluminium Co. Ltd.—Orissa
● Hindustan Zinc Ltd.—Udaipur

Law and Justice
● National Justice Academy—Bhopal
● Sardar Ballabh Bhai Patel National Police Academy—Hyderabad
● Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain National Crime and Justice Institute—New Delhi

Labour
● Labour Bureau Institute—Chandigarh and Shimla
● V. V. Giri National Labour Institute—Noida (U. P.)
● Central Labour Board—Nagpur
● Director General of Mines Security—Dhanbad
● Central Education Media Institute—Chennai
● Institute of Central government Training and Research—Kolkata

Mass Communication
● Publication Deptt.—New Delhi
● Film Department—Mumbai
● National Film Archieves—Pune
● Indian Committee of Children Film—Mumbai
● Directorate of Publications and Visual Publicity—Delhi
● Directorate of Regional Publicity—New Delhi
● Testimony Board of Central Movie—Mumbai
● Institute of Indian Film and Television—Pune
● Satyajeet Ray Film and Television Institute— Kolkata

Institute of Science and Technology
● Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science—Kolkata
● Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology—Pune
● Indian Astro-physics Institute—Bengaluru
● Jawahar Lal Nehru Developed Scientific Research Centre—Bengaluru
● Indian Institute of Geomagnetism—Mumbai
● Indian Science Academy—Bengaluru
● Indian National Science Academy—New Delhi
● Indian Science Congress Association—Kolkata
● Indian National Engineering Academy—New Delhi
● Indian National Oceanic Information Service Centre—Hyderabad
● Indian Oceanic Technical Institute—Chennai
● National Antarctic and Ocean Research Centre—Goa
● National Biological Science Centre—Bengaluru
● National Institute of Reservation—New Delhi
● Centre of National Cell Science—Pune
● Centre of National Mental Research—Manesar
● National Plant-Genome Research Centre—New Delhi
● National Earthquake Science Data Centre—New Delhi
● Indian Science Academy—Allahabad
● Survey Training Institute—Hyderabad (with the help of U.N.D.P.)
● Bose Institute—Kolkata
● Agarkar Research Institute—Pune
● Sri Chitra Triunal Medical Science and Technical Institute—Tiruvananthapuram
● Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology—Dehradun
● N. N. Bose National Fundamental Science Centre—Kolkata
● Birbal Sahani Institute of Paleo-botany—Lucknow
● Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council—New Delhi
● Science Expansion (Vigyan Prasar)—New Delhi
● Liquid Crystal Research Institute—Bengaluru
● Aryabhatta Research Observatory—Nainital
● Director of Atomic Mineral Investigation and Research—Hyderabad
● Indian Uranium Corporation Ltd.—Jaduguda
● Heavy Water Board—Mumbai
● Nuclear Fuel Campus—Hyderabad
● Bhabha Atomic Research Centre—Mumbai
● Shri Ram Institute of Chemical Research—New Delhi
● Institute for Plasma Research (I. P. R.)—Ahmedabad
● Harish Chand Research Institute—Chennai
● Physics Institute—Bhubaneshwar
● Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre—Kolkata
● Deptt. of Atomic Energy—Mumbai
● Project Directorate, Integrated Coastal and Sea Coast Management—Chennai
● Sea-biotic Resources and Ecology Centre—Cochin
● Hindustan Zinc Limited—Udaipur
● D. N. A. Finger Print and Centre—Hyderabad
● Biotic Resources and Continuous Development Centre—Imphal
● Life Science Institute—Bhubaneshwar
● Physical Research Laboratory—Ahmedabad (Gujarat)
● S. V. National Technical Institute—Surat
● Saha Nuclear Physics Institute—Kolkata (W. Bengal)
● Cosmic Rays Research Institute—Gauribidanow
● Shri Ram Chennai Research Institute—New Delhi
● Tata Institute of Fundamental Research—Mumbai
● Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology—Kocchi
● Institute of Mathematical Science—Chennai
● Institute of Physics—Bhubaneshwar
● National Biology Centre—Bengaluru
● Uranium Corporation of India Ltd.—Jaduguda (Jharkhand)
● Vishveshraiya National Technical Institute—Nagpur

Transport
● Diesel Locomotive Works—Varanasi
● Chitranjan Locomotive Works—Chitranjan
● Rail Coach Factory—Kapurthala
● Integral Coach Factory—Perambur, Kapurthala
● Rail Wheel Factory—Bengaluru
● Marine Engineering and Research Institute—Kolkata
● Marine Engineering and Research Institute—Mumbai
● Lal Bahadur Shastri Coastal Research and Higher Study Institute—Mumbai
● Indian Inland Waterways Authority—Noida
● Maritime Training Institute Powai—Mumbai
● Hindustan Shipyard Limited—Visakhapatnam
● Central Inland Water Transport Corporation—Kolkata
● Civil Aviation Security Bureau—Delhi
● National Aviation Management and Research Institute—Delhi
● Fire Training Centre—New Delhi
● Fire Service Training School—Narainpur (Kolkata)
● Indira Gandhi National Flying Academy—Furshatganj (U. P.)
● Indian Tourism and Travel Management Institute—Gwalior
● National Water Sporting Institute—Goa

Water Resources
● Central Soil and Material Research Centre—New Delhi
● Central Water and Electric Research Centre—Kharagwasala (Pune)
● National Project Construction Corporation Ltd.—New Delhi
● National Hydrology Institute—Roorkee (Uttarakhand)

Welfare
● National Blind Institute—Dehradun
● National Orthopedic Disabled Institute—Kolkata
● Aliyawarjung National Hard of Hearing Institute—Mumbai
● National Mental Disabled Institute—Sikandrabad
● National Rehabilitation Training and Research Institute—Cuttack
● Physically Disabled Institute—New Delhi
● Multi-disabled Strengthen Institute—Chennai
● National Public Cooperation and Child Development Institute—New Delhi

Youth Work and Play
● Rajeev Gandhi National Youth Development Institute—Perambur
● Laxmibai National Physical Education Institute (1957)—Gwalior

Energy
● National Thermal Power Corporation—New Delhi
● Electric Finance Corporation Ltd.—New Delhi

Communication
● Telecommunication Engineering Centre—New Delhi
● National Telecommunication Finance and Management Academy—Hyderabad
● High Level Telecommunication Training Centre—Ghaziabad
● Advance Level Telecommunication Training Centre—Ghaziabad
● Bharat Ratna Bhim Rao Ambedkar Telecommunication Training Institute—Jabalpur

Amazing Facts About Our World

● World population in 2011 – 6,988 million (3,523 million males and 3,465 million females)
● World population under 30 in 2011 – 3,649 million
● World population over 60 in 2011 – 785 million
● World population over 100 in 2011 – 532,000
● Number of births worldwide every day – 378,000
● Number of deaths worldwide everyday – 162,000
● World economic growth rate in 2010 – 5.0% (-0.6% in 2009)
● Number of illiterate adults – 796 million
● Number of unemployed people – 205 million
● Average world life expectancy – 70.8 years for females; 66.4 years for males
● Annual world population increase – 79.33 million people
● Number of people living outside country of birth – 214 million, or more than 3% of the world’s population
● Fertility rate – 2.5 births per woman
● Urban population – 50.5% of total population
● World trade in 2009 – US $ 25.2 billion
● Annual world defence expenditure – US $ 1,630 billion
● Number of TV sets – 1.4 billion
● Number of radio receivers – 2.2 billion
● Number of cigarettes smoked – 5,600 billion a year
● Number of internet users – 2.0 billion
● Number of mobile phone users – 4.7 billion
● Number of motor vehicles on the road – 790 million
● Number of people who cross international borders every day – 2 million
● Number of people living in extreme poverty – 1.4 billion
● Number of people living in urban slums – 828 million
● Number of undernourished people – 925 million
● Number of overweight adults – 1.6 billion
● Number of obese adults – 502 million
● Number of people dying of starvation – 24,000 every day
● Number of people lacking clean water – 1.1 billion
● Number of people lacking basic sanitation – 2.6 billion
● Number of recorded executions in 2008 – 2,390
● Number of people worldwide exposed to indoor 
air pollution that exceeds WHO guidelines – 1 billion
● Annual carbon dioxide emissions – 7.7 billion tonnes of carbon equivalent

Indian Railway at a Glance

1831-33 : A thought to create railway development for the transportation between Madras and Bangalore cropped up.

1844 : R. S. Stephenson thought of creating East India Railway.

1845-46  : Survey work for new rail line for Calcutta–Delhi.

1848-49  : Construction of Howrah and Raniganj rail line.

1850 : Construction of Indian Peninsular Railway company for rail line between Bombay thane and Calcutta–Mirzapur rail line began.

1853 : Inauguration of Indian Railway on 16 April, 1853 by running train between Boribundar (Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus) and Thane.

1854 : 24 miles railway line EIR, between Howrah Hoogely opened on 15 August.

1856 : Madras Railway company opened Madras Arkonam for passenger transportation.

1857 : Northern Railway began its first train between Allahabad and Kanpur on March.

1860 : Morse Telegraph Telecommunication started by Indian Railway.

1860-68 : Immediate Guarantee System began  East Indian Railway Great India Peninsula Bombay Baroda and Central India Railway and Madras states Railway participated in it.

1869-81 : Under new system state government were authorised to lay rail lines.

1890 : Indian Railway Act passed.

1905 : Formation of Railway Board.

1922 : Re organisation of Railway and more right were given.

1924 : Rail Budget was separated from General Budget.

1925 : E.I.R and GIPR were given separate place and right in railway management.

1925 : First rail electrification of Harbour branch of Bombay with 1500 volt DC.

1928 : Electrification of Bombay Suburban Section of  B.B. & C.I.R.

1931 : Electrification of Madras suburban section.

1937 : India got 3200 km long rail line on separation of Burma from India.

1939-42 : Security material for world war produced in railway workshops.

1942 : War transport established.

1947 : 11,200 km long rail line to Pakistan.

1950 : First steam engine manufactured by Chitranjan  locomotive.

1950 : Nationalization of Indian  Railway.

1953 : Railway centenary celebrated throughout the country.

1955 : First diesel locomotive plied on metre gauge in Neville and Gandhidham section.

1955 : Coach factory established in Perambur.

1957 : Bombay Madras rail line from 25 KVAC inaugurated, Railway security Force Act passed.

1958 : Electrification of Howrah–Vardhman section.

1961 : First electric engine Lokmanya was manufactured by Chitranjan Locomotive.

1962 : First electric train ran between Bombay and Pune.

1964 : Kunjaru Committee organised to bring reforms in Rail administration.

1964 : Production started in Diesel Locomotive works Varanasi.

1970 : First combined planning of Railway (1970-85) started.

1972 : Manufacturing of steam engines stopped in Chitranjan Rail Engine Factory from 5 February, Jammu appeared on Indian railway map.

1974 : Third class in railway banished.

1976 : IRCON established in April.

1977 : Railway Time Table ‘Train At a Glance’ launched.

1979 : Central organisation for modernisation of workshop established.

1978 : Double Decker train service ‘Panchvati Express’ began between Bombay–Pune on 12 April.

1982 : Palace on Wheel started.

1984 : Metro train inaugurated in Calcutta.

1985 : Nation's first computerised reservation center began in New Delhi on 15 November, 1985, second combined planning (1985–2000) began.

1986 : Indian Railway Finance Corporation established.

1987 : Center for Railway Information Service established in New Delhi.

1988 : Indian Rail Electricity Institute established in Nasik optical fiber Communication Service started between Churchgate–Virat in 1988. India’s first Shatabdi Express New Delhi–Jhansi) launched.

1989 : Formation of Railway Time Committee and Railway Dhaba Authority.

1990 : Goods passengers train service began between India and Bangladesh.

1991 : First train service in Mizoram from Bhai Rabi station began on 6 March ‘Palace on Wheels’ started with new decore.

1992 : RFFC established. ‘Apna Wagon’ scheme began. For the first time in the world first women special Train between Churchgate–Borivallie on 5 May started.

1993 : Sleeper class began on 1st April. Formation of Ojha Committee to solve the problems of Konkan railway

1994 : Rail passengers Insurance Scheme launched. First Rail Bus service began between Medata road and Medata city of Northern Railway.

1995 : Metro rail began between Tollyganj and Damdam on 27 September. 1995 was celebrated as ‘Rail Consumer year’.

1996 : 6 new regional rails formed in Hubali, Hajipur, Jaipur, Bhuvneshwar, Allahabad and Jabalpur. Formation of Delhi Metro Rail corporation Ltd. On 4 March, the name Mumbai VT changed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus.

1997 : Telephone service based on satellite started in August Kranti Express on 15 April.

1998 : Konkan railway fully in operation from 26 January. On 1 May Prime Minister dedicated to the nation. Walky–Talky communication between guards and drivers began. 3 phase Electric engines of 6000 HP began to be manufactured indigenously. ‘Fairy Queen’ got place in Guinness Book for having the oldest Steam engine in working condition.

1999 : At  Delhi railway station, worlds, biggest route relay interlinking began. Darjeeling Himalayan Railway declared world heritage by UNESCO. Nilgiri Mountain Railway celebrated its centenary.

2000 : Online rail information system started first time at the Church gate head office on 29 April. On 17 December at Kota station of western railway first time automatic charting system inaugurated.

2001 : 22-28 January. BNR Hotel, Puri celebrated its platinum jubilee. On 24 February, at Chennai station first time Internet Trade Center was opened. On 5 November, Western railway celebrated its golden jubilee

2002 : On the beginning of 150th year of Indian Railway on 15 April, in a special programme. Mascot Bholuguard and special monogram launched.

2003 : On 5 January Western Railway celebrated golden jubilee of its Electric Rail Service. On 15 February the name of ‘Wheel and Axil factory’ changed as Rail wheel factory. On 1 May for the first time RailTel began broadband in the moving train in the world.

2004 : UNESCO declared Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus as world heritage.

2005 : Nilgiri Mountain Rail was declared world heritage by UNESCO. E-ticketing began in all the trains.

2006 : ‘Anumati Yojna’ began to run passenger train from 26 January. A.C. facility for general public at lower prices began.

2007 : Throughout the country with 139 Telephones Extensive Railway Enquiry began.

2008 : First train service started in Kashmir Valley on 11, October.

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Latest Books and Authors

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

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.

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