Famous Indian Authors and Books

S.No.	Name of Author	Books/Novels	Award/Achievements
1.	Aravind Adiga	The White Tiger Between the Assassinations	Won Man Booker Prize 2008 for the Novel “The White Tiger”
2.	Arundhati Roy	The God of Small Things Listening To Grass Hoppers: Field Notes on Democracy	Won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel “The God of Small Things”. Awarded Sydney Peace Prize in 2004
3.	Anita Desai	Village by the Sea The Peacock Voices of the City Fire on the Mountain Clear Light of Day In Custody Fasting Feasting	Awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for “Fire on the Mountain”.  The “Village by the Sea” won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award.
4.	Bankim Chandra Chatterjee	Anand Math Brishbikkha Kapalkundala Nandini Mrinalini Vishbriksha Chandrasekhar Rajani Rajsimha Devi Chaudhurani	Author of Vande Mataram, the national song of India.  Anand Math contained the song “Bande Mataram”, which was later adopted as National Song.
5.	Jhumpa Lahiri	The Namesake Interpreter Of Maladies Unaccustomed Earth	Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book “Interpreter Of Maladies”. In February 2010, she was appointed a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities,appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama
6.	Khushwant Singh	We, Indians Train to Pakistan Women and Men in My Life Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories Love, Truth and A Little Malice	Rajya Sabha member from 1980 to 1986  Padma Bhushan award in the year 1974 Padma Vibhushan in the year 2007
7.	Kiran Desai	The Inheritance of Loss Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny	Won 2006 Man Booker Prize and 2006 National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award for “The Inheritance of Loss”
8.	Mulk Raj Anand	Bubble Coolie Prince Utouchable The Village Lost Child Morning Face Seven Summers Across the Black Waters The Sword and the Sickle The Private Life of an Indian Bridge’s Book of Beauty Confessions of a Lover	International Peace Prize from World Peace Council  Sahitya Akademi award Mulk Raj Anand was hailed as India’s Charles Dickens for first novel, “Untouchable”, (1935).
9.	R.K. Narayan	Malgudi Days The Guide The Dark Room The Bachelor of Arts The English Teacher The Financial Expert The Man-Eater of Malgudi The Vendor of Sweets The Grandmother’s Tale	Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide in 1958  Padma Bhushan in 1964 Nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1989
10.	Rabindranath Tagore  (well known as “Gurudev”)	Lipika Chitra Chandalika Court Dancer Crescent Moon Gitanjali Kabi Kahini Post Office	First Asian who won Nobel Prize for his collection of poems, Gitanjali, in 1913  Composer of India’ s national anthem “Jana Gana Mana” Composer of Bangladesh’s national anthem “Amar Shonar Bangla”
11.	Salman Rushdie	Shame East West Jaguar Smile Moor’s Last Sigh The Satanic Verses Midnight’s  Children Shalimar The Clown	Awarded the ‘Booker of Bookers’ prize in 1993 for his novel “Midnight’s Children”
12.	Shobha De  (often known as India’s Jackie Collins)	Sisters Spouse Snapshots Sultry Days Starry Nights Surviving Men Small betrayals Second Thoughts Socialite Evenings Selective Memory	working as a columnist and writes for a fortnight magazine “The Week”
13.	Premchand / Munshi Premchand  (Real Name: Dhanpat Rai Srivastava)	Idgah Kafan Gaban Godaan Nirmala Poos Ki Raat Udhar Ki Ghadi Soz-e-Watan Shatranj Ke Khiladi Bade Ghar Ki Beti Panch Parameshvar Namak Ka Daroga	Great contribution in highlighting the realistic issues of the day-communalism, corruption, zamindari, debt, poverty, colonialism etc.
14.	V.S. Naipaul  (Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul)	Beyond Belief Guerrillas Half a Life A Bend In the River Magic Seeds An Area Of Darkness A Way In the World A House For Mr Biswas Among the Believers The Mystic Masseur The Mimic Men The Loss Of El Dorado In a Free State The Middle Passage Finding the Center India – a Million Mutinies Now India – a Wounded Civilization	Won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001  Won the Booker Prize in 1971 for the book “In a Free State”  and became the first person of Indian origin do so
15.	Vikram Seth	The Golden Gate A Suitable Boy Arion and The Dolphin An Equal Music From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet Two Lives	Won Thomas Cook Travel Book Award for “From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet”  Won the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for his novel, A Suitable Boy.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF RURAL WOMEN 15TH OCTOBER

International day of rural women

Rural women are active agents of economic and social change and environmental protection who are, in many ways and to various degrees, constrained in their roles as farmers, producers, investors, caregivers and consumers. They play crucial roles ensuring food and nutrition security, eradicating rural poverty and improving the well-being of their families yet continue to face serious challenges as a result of gender-based stereotypes and discrimination that deny them equitable access to opportunities, resources, assets and services.

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES IN OCTOBER 2018

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES IN OCTOBER  23.10.2018- 31.10.2018

CLASS VI- PARTS OF THE BOOK (PPT)

CLASS VII- READING HABITS (PPT)

CLASS VIII- QUIZ ON BOOKS AND AUTHORS (PPT)

CLASS IX- BOOK REVIEW WRITING IN LIBRARY

CLASS X- BEING VEGETARIAN IS HEALTHY
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"ME TOO"

Dr. Abdul Kalam’s Letter to Every Indian

Dr. Abdul Kalam’s Letter to Every Indian !!!

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit.. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is.. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.

..
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don’t work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say.. What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name – ‘YOURS’. Give him a face – ‘YOURS’. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don’t throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay $5 (approx. Rs.. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don’t say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn’t dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs..650) a month to, ‘see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.’YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, ‘Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so’s son. Take your two bucks and get lost.’ YOU wouldn’t chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand ..
Why don’t YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don’t YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan ..
Will the Indian citizen do that here?’ He’s right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? ‘It’s the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons’ rights to a dowry.’ So who’s going to change the system?
What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one’s conscience too….. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy’s words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..

‘ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY’

Lets do what India needs from us.

Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.

Thank you,

Dr.. Abdul Kalam

I humbly request you to forward this to every Indian

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सामान्य ज्ञान प्रश्नोत्तरी IX

सामान्य ज्ञान प्रश्नोत्तरी

१. गीत गोविन्द के रचयिता कौन हैं ?
१. जयदेव
२. बाणभट्ट
३. सूरदास
४.. चैतन्य
उत्तर. १ जयदेव

२.नॅान-स्टिक रसोई के बर्तन पर परत चढ़ाई जाती है ?
      १. सिल्वर
       २. टेफलॅान
      ३. प्लास्टिक
       ४. जिंक
उत्तर. २. टेफलॅान

३. बेलिंगटन ट्रॅाफी किस खेल से सम्बन्धित    है ?
           १. नौकादौड़
            २. क्रिकेट
            ३. कुश्ती
           ४. बैडमिंटन
उत्तर १. नौकादौड़

४. आधुनिक युग की मीरा किसे कहा जाता है ?
  १. इंदिरा गाँधी
     २. महादेवी वर्मा
     ३. अमृता प्रीतम
     ४. सरोजनी नायडू
उत्तर २. महादेवी 

५.शाहजहां ने निम्न में से किस शहर में मोती मस्जिद बनवाई थी?

   १. दिल्ली
   २. जयपुर
   ३. आगरा
  ४. अमरकोट

  उत्तर ३. आगरा

६.मौलिक अधिकारों का संरक्षक है-
       १.सर्वोच्च न्यायालय
          २.संसद
         ३.राष्ट्रपति
         ४.प्रधानमंत्री

   उत्तर १ सर्वोच्च न्यायालय

७.खुसरो किस मुगल बादशाह का पुत्र था ?
   १. अकबर
   २. जहाँगीर
   ३. शाहजहाँ

   ४. बहादुरशाह प्रथम

  उत्तर २. जहाँगीर

७. ‘स्वर्ण कमल पुरस्कार किस क्षेत्र में
       दिया जाता है?
        १. साहित्य
        २. सिनेमा
     ३. शास्त्रीय संगीत
        ४. थिएटर

      उत्तर. ७. सिनेमा

९. मायोपिया किस अंग का दोष है ?
   १. हृदय
   २. कर्ण
   ३. नेत्र
   ४. वृक्क

  उत्तर ३. नेत्र

१०. स्वामी विवेकानंद का जन्म के समय
      क्या नाम था ?

   1. नरेन्द्र नाथ दत्त
      2. दयानंद नाथ
     3. सोमेन्द्र मुखर्जी
     4. सुरेन्द्र नाथ दत्त

 उत्तर १. नरेन्द्र नाथ दत्त

 ११. सूंघने के लिए सांप किसका इस्तेमाल
        करता है ?

        1. जीभ
        2. नाक
        3. कान
        4. पैर

      उत्तर. १. जीभ

१२. जिम कार्बेट पार्क कहाँ स्थित है?
      1. उत्तरप्रदेश
       2. मध्यप्रदेश
      3. उत्तराखंड
      4. छत्तीसगढ़

उत्तर ३. उत्तराखंड

१३. ‘मधुबनी’ पेन्टिंग किस राज्य से
     सम्बन्धित है ?

   1. उत्तर प्रदेश
     2. बिहार
     3. केरल
   4. तमिलनाडु

 उत्तर २. बिहार

१४. ‘नौका दौड़’ किस पर्व से सम्बन्धित है ?
         1. पोंगल
         2. ओणम
          3. बिहु
         4. नवरात्रि

   उत्तर २. ओणम

१५. इंदिरा गाँधी- ए लाइफ इन नेचर
     पुस्तक के लेखक कौन है?
         1. मेघा पाटकर
         2. जयराम रमेश
         3. राकेश शर्मा
         4. किरण खेर

 उत्तर २. जयराम रमेश

१६. भारत का कौन सा राज्य “चीनी
   का कटोरा” के नाम से जाना जाता है?

       1. उत्तरांचल
       2. उत्तर प्रदेश
      3. हिमाचल प्रदेश
       4. बिहार

  उत्तर 2. उत्तर प्रदेश

१७. खजुराहो के मन्दिर किस जिले में
     स्थित हैं

      1. मण्डला
      2. छतरपुर
       3. बालाघाट
       4. रीवा

 उत्तर 2. छतरपुर

१८. संस्कृत साहित्य का प्रादुर्भाव किस वेद
     द्वारा हुआ ?

        1. यजुर्वेद
        2. अथर्ववेद
        3. सामवेद
        4. ऋग्वेद

 उत्तर 4. ऋग्वेद

१९. सुब्रतो कप निम्नलिखित में से किससे
     सम्बन्धित है ?

        1. फुटबॉल
         2. क्रिकेट
        3. शतरंज
        4. बैडमिन्टन

  उत्तर १. फुटबॉल

२०. भारतीय टाइगरों को बचIने के लिए
       ‘प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर’ किस वर्ष प्रारम्भ
      किया गया था ?

          1. 1971
          2. 1973
          3. 1977
          4. 1991

उत्तर २. 1973

सामान्य ज्ञान प्रश्नोत्तरी

कक्षा IX

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