HSTR GK - FAMOUS INDIAN AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS

FAMOUS INDIAN AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS

HSTR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PART 1

Amish Tripathi:

1. "The War of Lanka" (Part of the Ram Chandra Series)

2. "The War of Lanka" (Part of the Ram Chandra Series)

3. "Immortal India: Young India, Timeless Civilisation"

 

Anita Desai:

1. "Fire on the Mountain"

2. "Fasting, Feasting"

3. "Baumgartner's Bombay"

 

Aravind Adiga:

1. "Between the Assassinations"

2. "Selection Day"

3. "Amnesty"

 

Arundhati Roy:

1. "Field Notes on Democracy"

2. "Capitalism: A Ghost Story"

3. "My Seditious Heart"

 

Ashwin Sanghi:

1. "The Vault of Vishnu"

2. "13 Steps to Bloody Good Luck"

3. "The Sialkot Saga"

 

Bhisham Sahni:

1. "Tamas"

2. "Widows and Other Stories"

3. "Mango Toes"

 

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni:

1. "Sister of My Heart"

2. "The Mistress of Spices"

3. "Oleander Girl"

 

Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins:

1. "Is Paris Burning?"

2. "Or I'll Dress You in Mourning"

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald (Adapted into an Indian context by Chetan Bhagat):

1. "The Great Gatsby"

 

Gita Mehta:

1. "A River Sutra"

2. "Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East"

 

Haruki Murakami:

1. "Norwegian Wood"

2. "1Q84"

3. "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage"

 

Jhumpa Lahiri:

1. "Unaccustomed Earth"

2. "The Clothing of Books"

3. "Whereabouts"

 

Jawaharlal Nehru:

1. "Glimpses of World History"

2. "Letters from a Father to His Daughter"

 

Jeet Thayil:

1. "The Book of Chocolate Saints"

 

Khushwant Singh:

1. "Delhi: A Novel"

2. "I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale"

3. "The Company of Women"

 

Kiran Desai:

1. "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard"

 

M.G. Vassanji:

1. "The Gunny Sack"

2. "Amriika"

 

Mahatma Gandhi:

1. "Key to Health"

2. "Satyagraha in South Africa"

3. "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" (Autobiography)

 

Markus Zusak (Translated into Hindi by Triveni):

1. "The Book Thief"

 

Mulk Raj Anand:

1. "Coolie"

2. "Two Leaves and a Bud"

 

R.K. Narayan:

1. "Swami and Friends"

2. "The English Teacher"

3. "The Vendor of Sweets"

4. "A Tiger for Malgudi"

 

Rabindranath Tagore:

1. "Gitanjali" (Collection of Poems)

2. "The Post Office" (Play)

3. "Farewell Song" (Short Stories)

 

Ramachandra Guha:

1. "India After Gandhi"

2. "Gandhi Before India"

3. "Makers of Modern India"

 

Robin Sharma:

1. "The Leader Who Had No Title"

2. "The 5 AM Club"

3. "Family Wisdom"

 

Rohinton Mistry:

1. "Such a Long Journey"

2. "Family Matters"

 

Ruskin Bond:

1. "The Blue Umbrella"

2. "The Room on the Roof"

3. "The Ruskin Bond Children's Omnibus"