101 Great Indian Authors and Poets

101 Great Indian Authors and Poets

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAF095
Author: Shyam Dua
Publisher: Tiny Tot Publications
Language: English
Edition: 2007
ISBN: 9788175736593
Pages: 108 (Throughout Color Illustrations)
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 9.5 inch x 7.0 inch
Weight 440 gm

Book Description

Back of the book

‘Famous Great Indians’ is a collection of books made to recognize the work and achievements of famous Indian personalities from all walks of life. It states the life and history of India’s most famous sons and daughters. It also acknowledges historical and cultural significance of the nation. The aim of designing the series is to basically create awareness about India’s famed culture and achievements among the present generation.

About the Series

‘Famous Great Indians’ is a collection of various volumes recognizing the fame and glory associated with Indian personalities, history and culture. The series briefly describes the accomplishments and famous incidences of India’s famed heroes, their invaluable works and India’s glorious past and present. The sole purpose of the series is to familiarize the young generation with famous Indians from all walks of life, and to create awareness about the festivals and the architectural wonders that have imprinted India’s name in golden letters in the global scenario.

India has been a land of famous and talented personalities who have raised their level to reach the pinnacle in their respective fields. India has produced people of amazing capabilities in form of leaders, Poets, writers, scientists, saints, film personalities and sportsmen, who have been highlighted in the series, as it is necessary to acknowledge their contribution time and again.

India is also by and large known as the land of festivals, which are no more confined to the boundaries of our nation but are also being celebrated by the different communities around the world. The pomp and show and the historical relevance is described briefly for the convenience of the readers.

‘Famous Great Indians’, taken as a whole, is a great a great pool of knowledge and information, and a tribute to its great citizens and culture, which swells the heart of every Indian with pride.

About the Volume

‘Famous Great Indian Authors and Poets’ showcases some of the most creative and talented proponents of the written word in India. The book cites their achievements in the field of prose and verse literature. Indian literature has woven its way into the hearts of people everywhere.

Indian writers have shown their proficiency, not just in the regional languages but also in the universal English. The Vedas, the Ramayana, the Bhagawad Gita, the verses of Rabindranath Tagore and Kabir, the writings of Tulsidas, Valmiki, Aurobindo Ghose, Vivekanand a, the Midnight’s Children, the God of Small Things, the Interpreter of Maladies, all have had roots in the Indian soil.

Many gifted writers like Mahadevi Verma, Ramabai Ranade, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala, Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, Munshi Premchand, Amrita Pritam have written in the regional Indian languages.

Celebrated authors and poets like R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, Khushwant Singh, Kuldip Nayyar, Vikram Seth, Anita Desai, Shashi Tharoor, Arundati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri have popularised and brought fame to Indian writing in English.

Overall, ‘Famous Great Indian Authors and Poets’ is a collection of imaginative and artistic people who have brought glory to India and have contributed greatly to the recognition of Indian writing all over the world.

Contents

1 A. Parthasarthy - Swamiji 8
2 Aayoratt Chantumenon 9
3 Abanindrananth Tagore 10
4 Acharya Narendra Dev 11
5 Acharya Ram Chandra Shukla 12
6 Amartya Sen 13
7 Amrita Pritam 14
8 Anita Desai 15
9 Annasaheb Kirloskar 16
10 Annie Besant 17
11 Arundhati Roy 18
12 Atal Bihari Vajpayee 19
13 Aurobindo Ghose 20
14 Babu Ramananda Chatterjee 21
15 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee 22
16 Bhagini Nivedita 23
17 Bhartendu Harishchandra 24
18 Bhikhari Thakur 25
19 C.Y. Chintamani 26
20 Deepak Chopra 27
21 Fakir Mohan senapati 28
22 Firaq Gorakhpuri 29
23 G. Sankara Kurup 30
24 Gangadhar Meher 31
25 Githa Hariharan 32
26 Govardhan Ram Tripathi 33
27 Gulzar 34
28 Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao 35
29 H.K. Dua 36
30 Hari Narayana Apte 37
31 Harivansh Rai Bachchan 38
32 Hazari Prasad Dwivedi 39
33 J. Krishnamurti 40
34 J.B. Kirpalani 41
35 J.C. Bose 42
36 Javed Akhtar 43
37 Jawaharlal Nehru 44
38 Jayant Vishnu Narlikar 45
39 Jhumpa Lahiri 46
40 Kaka Hathrasi 47
41 Kalidasa 48
42 Kavi Pradeep 49
43 Khushwant Singh 50
44 Krishnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar 51
45 Kuldip Nayyar 52
46 Lala Lajpat Rai 53
47 Lakshminath Bezbaruah 54
48 M.J. Akbar 55
49 M. Venkatesh Iyyengar 56
50 Madhu Kishwar 57
51 Madhusudan Rao 58
52 Mahadevi Verma 59
53 Mahakavi Muddan 60
54 Mahasweta Devi 61
55 Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi 62
56 Maithili Sharan Gupt 63
57 Maulana Hasrat Mohani 64
58 Michael Madhusudan Dutta 65
59 Mirza Ghalib 66
60 Mohammad Iqbal 67
61 Mohan Rakesh 68
62 Mulk Raj Anand 69
63 Munshi Premchand 70
64 Muthuswami Iyer 71
65 Nagarjun 72
66 Pandit Pratap Narain Mishra 73
67 Pankaj Mishra 74
68 Pupul Jayakar 75
69 R.K. Laxman 76
70 R.K. Narayan 77
71 Rabindranath Tagore 78
72 Rahul Sankrityayan 79
73 Ramabai Ranade 80
74 Ramdhari Singh Dinkar 81
75 Romesh Chunder Dutt 82
76 Salman Rushdie 83
77 Shankaracharya 84
78 Sarojini Naidu 85
79 Shashi Tharoor 86
80 Shripad Damodar Satvalekar 87
81 Shobha De 88
82 Sir Jadunath Sarkar 89
83 Sohanlal Dwivedi 90
84 Subhadra Kumari Chauhan 91
85 Subramania Bharati 92
86 Sumitranandan Pant 93
87 Surdas 94
88 Suryakant Tripathi Nirala 95
89 Swami ramtirth 96
90 T.L. Vasvani 97
91 Toru Dutt 98
92 Tulsidas 99
93 V.S. Khandekar 100
94 Vallathol 101
95 Vemana 102
96 Vikram Seth 103
97 Vimla Patil 104
98 Vinod Mehta 105
99 Vir Sanghvi 106
100 Viswanatha Satya Narayana 107
101 Vivekananda 108
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