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1. Chetan Bhagat

• Half Girlfriend

• What young India wants

• 3 Mistakes of my life

• Five point someone

• Revolution 2020

• 2 States: The story of My Marriage

• One night at call centre

• Making India awesome

2. Arundhati Roy

• The God of small things

• An ordinary person’s guide to empire

• The algebra of infinite justice

• War Talk

• Broken Republic 3 Essays

• Power Politics

• Capitalism – A Ghost Story

• Listening to grass hoppers

•  The cost of living Kashmir the case of Freedom

•  Public power in age of empire

•  Shape of the Beast

•  The End of Imagination

3. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

• Wings of Fire

• Ignited Minds

• India 2020

• Indomitable Spirit

• Beyond 2020: A Vision for Tomorrow

• The Scientific Indian

• Turning Points

• Guiding Soul

• Spirit of India

• Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swami Ji

Wings of Fire

4. Vikram Seth

• A suitable boy

• The Golden Gate

• Two lives

• From Heaven Lake

• An equal music

• A suitable girl

• At evening

• All you who sleeps at tonight

• Three Chinese poets

• Mappings

• Humble Administrator’s Garden

• Beastly Tales from here & there

• The frog & the nightingale

• The Eagle and the beetle

5. K. Narayan

• Malgudi Days

• Talkative Man

• The Dark Room

• My Dateless Diary

• Waiting for a Mahatma

• The Emerald Route

• The World of Nagaraj

• The Guide

• Next Sunday

• Swami & Friend

• A Writer’s Night Mare

6. Khushwant Singh

• Train to Pakistan

• The company of women

• Portrait of lady

• The end of India

• Burial at the sea

• Truth, love & a little malice

• The sunset club

• Land of five rivers

• India an Introduction

• We Indians

• Maharaja in Denims

7. Salman Rushdie

• Midnight’s Children

• Luka & the fire of life

• A fine pickle

• The jaguar smile

• Imagine there is no heaven

• Fury

• Ground beneath her feet

• Enchantress of Florence

• Mohandas Gandhi

• In Good faith

• The Sanatic Verse

• Moor’s last sigh

• Joseph Anton: A memoir

• Two Years Eight Months & Twenty Eight • 

• Nights

8. Shobhaa De

• Starry Nights

• Socialite Evenings

• Second Thoughts

• Shooting from the Hip

• Spouse

• Strange Obsession

• Surviving Men

• Selective Memory

• Speed Post

• Superstar India

• Snapshots

9. Ruskin Bond

• An island of trees

• Dust on Mountains

• Cherry tree

• A tiger in the house

• Handful of Nuts

• Oliver’s diary

• School days

• Angry river

• A flight of pigeons

• Blue umbrella

• Rusty the Boy from Hills

• Four feathers

• All roads lead to Ganga

10. Rabindranath Tagore

• King of dark chamber

• Spirit of Japan

• The cycle of spring

• The Sacrifice

• The waterfall

• The immovable

• The broken nest

• The crescent moon

• The post office

• Kabuliwala

• Gitanjali

• The home & the world

• The hungry stones

• Nationalism

11. Jhumpa Lahiri

• The name sake

• This blessed house

• Unaccustomed earth

• Once in a lifetime

• Year’s end

• A choice of accommodations

• The lowland

• Interpreters of Maladies

12. Amartya Sen

• The idea of Justice

• The Argumendve Indian

• Identity & violence

• Development as freedom

• Poverty & Famines

• Economic theory of Famines

• On Economic Inequality

• Commodities & capabilities

• Indian development & participation

• On Ethics & Economics

• Inequality re-examined

• The country of first boys

• On Economic Inequality

• Commodities & capabilities

• Indian development & participation

• On Ethics & Economics

• Inequality re-examined

• The country of first boys

13. S. Naipaul

• A House for Mr. Biswas

• A bend in River

• An area in Darkness

• Among the believers

• The enigma of Arrival

• In a free state

• Half a life

• A flag on an Island

• A way in the world

• Guerrillas

• The mimic men

• Magic seeds

• Among the believers

• A turn in the South

• Beyond belief

• India: A million mutinies now

• The mosque of Africa

• India – A wounded civilization

14. Taslima Nasrin

• French lovers

• Lajja

• Shame

• All about women

• The Game in Reverse

• Wild Wind

15. Kuldip Nayar

• Beyond the lines

• India house

• Tragedy of Punjab

• The Judgement

• Without fear

• The Martyr

16. Vijay Tendulkar

• Five plays

• Threshold

• The last year of Sardar Patel

• Kanyadan

17. Prem Chand

• Godan

• Nirmala

• Gaban

• Rangbhumi

• Soje Vatan

• A handful of wheat

• Kayakalp

• Karbala

18. Kiran Desai

• The inheritance of loss

• Hullabaloo in the Guava orchard

19. Kamala Das

• The descendants

• Padmawati

• Only the soul knows how to sing

• A childhood in Malabar

• Alphabet of lust

20. Anita Desai

• In custody

• The village by the sea

• Clear light the day

• Cat on a houseboat

• Games at Twilight

• The zig zag way

• The peacock garden

• Diamond dust

• The scholar Gypsey

• Peasant struggles in India

• Fire on mountain

• Fasting & feasting

21. Mulk Raj Anand

• Untouchable

• Across the black waters

• The India theatre

• Seven Summer

• Golden breath

• Coolies

• The Hindu view of art

• The Indian theater

• Little plays of Mahatma Gandhi

• The lost child

22. Amrita Pritam

• Pinjar

• A Revenue Stamp

• Nagmani

• Shadows of words

23. Vikas Swarup

• Slumdog Millionaire

• The Accidental apprentice

• Six suspects

24. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

• Anandamath

• Dharmatattva

• Dawn over India

• Essentials of Dharma

25. Charles Dickens

• A tale of two cities

• Oliver Twist

• Three ghost stories

• The cricket of the hearth

• The battle of life

26. Robin Sharma

• The monk who sold his Ferrari

• Discover your destiny

• Daily Inspiration

• Leadership Wisdom

• The saint, the surfer and die CEO

• The Greatness Guide