CURRENT AFFAIRS - 2009

CURRENT AFFAIRS - 2009

 Published by Aburafey azmi
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1. Twenty-20 World Cup Cricket, 2007 has been won by—
(A) Pakistan
(B) India
(C) Australia
(D) England
Ans: B
2. Who among the following is placed fourth on the Forbes 2007 Midas
list including the top 100 tech dealmakers of the world ?
(A) Michael Moritz
(B) L. John Doerr
(C) Ram Shriram
(D) Arjun Gupta
Ans: C

3. The General Assembly of U. N. proclaimed 2008 as a year of—
(A) International Year of Language
(B) International Year of Dolphin
(C) International Year of Culture
(D) International Press Freedom Year
Ans: A

4. Who among the following won the UK reality T.V. show 'Big
Brother' ?
(A) Shilpa Shetty
(B) Ken Russell
(C) Jade Goody
(D) Dirk Benedict
Ans: A

5. Who is the present Chief Justice of Supreme Court of India ?
(A) Justice Ramesh Chandra Lahoti
(B) Justice V. N. Khare
(C) Justice K. G. Balakrishnan
(D) Justice Y. K. Sabharwal
Ans: C
6. Who among the following is the Governor of Jammu & Kashmir ?
(A) N. N. Vohra
(B) K. Shankaranarayan
(C) K. M. Seth
(D) Shyamal Dutta
Ans: A
7. The book 'A View from the Outside (Why good economics works for
everyone) has been written by—
(A) Prof. Amartya Sen
(B) K. G. Joglekar
(C) P. Chidambaram
(D) Edmund S. Phelps
Ans: C
8. Which of the following satellites has been successfully launched on
22nd October, 2008 ?
(A) CHANDRAYAAN-1
(B) LAPAN-TUBSAT
(C) Space Capsule Recovery Experiment (SRE-1)
(D) HAMSAT
Ans: A
9. India has signed an MoU for Petrochemical in May 2008 with which
among the following countries ?
(A) U.S.A.
(B) Germany
(C) Iran
(D) China
Ans: C
10. Who among the following won the little of Business India's
Business Man of the Year 2008 ?
(A) Mukesh Ambani
(B) Prithvi Raj Singh
(C) Ratan Tata
(D) Ajim Premji
Ans: B
11. The UN Deputy Secretary- General is—
(A) Dr. Asha Rose Mtengeti Migiro
(B) Mark Malloch Brown
(C) Shashi Tharoor
(D) Louise Frechette
Ans: A
12. According to the latest Supreme Court decision, Priests and Nuns
have been allowed to practise as—
(A) Doctors
(B) Advocates
(C) Scientists
(D) None of these
Ans: B
13. The novel 'The Second Wife' is the English translated version of
which among the following novels of Premchand ?
(A) Godan
(B) Karma Bhumi
(C) Nirmala
(D) Gaban
Ans: C
14. The Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding for
2007 has been awarded to—
(A) Olafur Ragnar Grimson
(B) Gohchok Tong
(C) Aung San Suu Kyi
(D) Nelson Mandela
Ans: A
15. It was decided to observe Mahatma Gandhi's birth day October 2 as
the International Nonviolence Day at—
(A) International Indology Conference
(B) Satyagraha Centenary Conference
(C) Congress Foundation Day Celebrations
(D) None of these
Ans: B
16. The 2008-09 Ranji Trophy has been won by—
(A) Mumbai
(B) Bengal
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Tamil Nadu
Ans: A
17. On which among the following film actresses was Kalpana Chawla
excellence award 2007 for women conferred ?
(A) Shilpa Shetty
(B) Nandita Das
(C) Sushmita Sen
(D) Konkana Sen
Ans: B
18. In May 2009, Shashi Tharoor becomes member of which of the
following—
(A) UNESCO
(B) ADB
(C) Lok Sabha, India
(D) None of these
Ans: C
19. The Raghvan Committee is related to looking into the issue of—
(A) Ragging and suggest means of prevention in educational
institutions
(B) Status of Muslim community in India
(C) Reservation of OBCs in admissions to higher educational
institutions
(D) None of these
Ans: A
20. The 7th Aero India show was held in—
(A) 2008, Bangaluru
(B) 2009, Bangaluru (Yelahanka)
(C) 2008, Delhi
(D) 2009, Delhi
Ans: B
21. The controversial movie 'Black Friday' is based on the—
(A) 1993 Mumbai Bomb Blasts
(B) Best Bakery Case
(C) Godhra Train Fire Conspiracy
(D) Fire at Meerut's Victoria Park
Ans: A
22. 'THEMIS' is an acronym for—
(A) Time History of Events and Meteors in Space
(B) Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during
Substorms
(C) Thermal Interactions in Space
(D) None of these
Ans: B
23. The telecommunication network group Hutchison Essar has been taken
over by—
(A) Reliance Communications
(B) Verizon
(C) Vodafone
(D) Hinduja
Ans: C
24. Which among the following tennis players has been recently named
as a goodwill ambassador for the UN development agency, UNDP ?
(A) Sania Mirza
(B) Kim Clijsters
(C) Maxim Mirnyi
(D) Maria Sharapova
Ans: D
25. Which among the following tennis players won the 2008 U.S. Open
men's title ?
(A) Juan Carlos Ferrero
(B) Lars Burgsmuller
(C) Roger Federer
(D) Feliciano Lopez
Ans: C
26. 'Aam Admi Bima Yojana' is an insurance scheme for rural landless
households introduced by—
(A) National Insurance Co.
(B) Life Insurance Co.
(C) UTI
(D) ICICI Life Prudential Co.
Ans: B
27. Revenue Deficit as a per cent of GDP in Budget 2009-10 has been
estimated at—
(A) 2•6%
(B) 2•1%
(C) 2•0%
(D) 4•4%
Ans: D
28. Dada Sahib Phalke Ratna Award for 2008 has been awarded to—
(A) Mrinal Sen
(B) Adoor Gopalkrishnan
(C) Dev Anand
(D) B. R. Chopra
Ans: D
29. Fiscal deficit as a per cent of GDP in Budget 2009-10 has been
estimated at—
(A) 5•5%
(B) 2•9%
(C) 3•1%
(D) 4•5%
Ans:A
30. How many new Garib Rath Trains have been introduced in Railway
Budget 2008-09 ?
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 6
(D) 10
Ans: D
31. For senior citizens, income tax exemption slab in Budget 2008-09
has been raised from—
(A) Rs. 1•5 lakh to Rs. 1•75 lakh
(B) Rs. 1•75 lakh to Rs. 1•85 lakh
(C) Rs. 1•95 lakh to Rs. 2•25 lakh
(D) Rs. 1•95 lakh to Rs. 2•25 lakh
Ans: C
32. Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2007 will replace—
(A) MRTPC
(B) VAT
(C) Electricity Act, 2003
(D) Securities Contracts (Regulation) Bill, 2005
Ans: A
33. The theme for the 21st National Science Day 2007 was—
(A) More Water Drop by Drop
(B) More Crop per Drop
(C) 50 years of DNA and 25 years of IVF
(D) None of these
Ans: B
34. Bangladesh's Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has launched
his political party named—
(A) Islamic Unity Front
(B) Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh
(C) Nagorik Shakti (Citizens' power)
(D) Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Dal
Ans: C
35. The book 'Unaccustomed Earth' has been written by—
(A) Jhumpa Lahiri
(B) P. Chidambaram
(C) Zahid Hussain
(D) Scott Ritter
Ans: A
36. Which among the following movie was given the Best Picture Award
at 81st Oscar Awards- 2008 ?
(A) Slumdog Millionaire
(B) The Last King of Scotland
(C) The Queen
(D) Happy Feet
Ans: A
37. The Best Actor Award at the 54th National Filmfare Awards was
given to—
(A) Aamir Khan
(B) Soumitra Chatterjee
(C) Saif Ali Khan
(D) Abhishek Bachchan
Ans: B
38. The 75th Senior National Snooker Championship Men's Title has been
won by—
(A) Pankaj Advani
(B) Rupesh Shah
(C) Alok Kumar
(D) Yasin Merchant
Ans: A
39. Which among the following statements regarding India's BrahMos
Supersonic Cruise Missile test fired in March 2007 is incorrect ?
(A) It was test fired on February 4, 2007
(B) It is named after the river Brahmaputra and Mahanadi
(C) It is a two stage missile with a speed faster than that of sound
(D) It is jointly manufactured by DRDO, India and Russia's NPO
Mashnistroyemia
Ans: B
40. 'Ramadorai Sujatha' who was recently in news is a—
(A) Writer
(B) Mathematician
(C) Historian
(D) Artist
Ans: B
41. Which among the following is the largest Power Station in India ?
(A) NTPC's Vindhyachal Power Station
(B) NTPC's Talcher Power Station
(C) BHEL, Haridwar
(D) None of these
Ans: A
42. The International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-08 is which among the
following IPY ?
(A) 2nd
(B) 3rd
(C) 4th
(D) 1st
Ans: C
43. The Governor of Goa is—
(A) Ibobi Singh
(B) S. S. Sidhu
(C) Prakash Singh Badal
(D) D. D. Lapang
Ans: B
44. Which among the following satellite has been successfully launched
in October 2008 by ISRO ?
(A) CHANDRAYAAN-1
(B) INSAT-4A
(C) INSAT-3E
(D) INSAT-4C
Ans: A
45. Who among the following has been nominated for the Jnanpith Award
for 2006 ?
(A) Ravindra Kelekar
(B) Satyavrat Shastri
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) Rajendra Keshavlal Shah
Ans: C
46. The XIX Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held at Delhi in—
(A) October 2009
(B) October 2008
(C) October 2010
(D) November 2010
Ans: C
47. Which among the following countries hosted the world's largest
tourism fair—International Tourism Bourse at Berlin ?
(A) India
(B) France
(C) Germany
(D) Sri Lanka
Ans: C
48. SAARC car rally began from which among the following countries ?
(A) India
(B) Bangladesh
(C) Nepal
(D) Pakistan
Ans: B
49. Which of the following is the pesent Prime Minister of Pakistan ?
(A) Yusuf Raza Gillani
(B) Justice Rana Bhagwandas
(C) Justice Nazim Siddiqui
(D) Justice Javaid Iqbal
Ans: A
50. The death of the cricket coach of which among the following
countries during the 2007 world cup has created a suspicion ?
(A) Sri Lanka
(B) Pakistan
(C) India
(D) Bangladesh
Ans:B
51. Who among the following has been awarded the highest Mexican
civilian award, the Aztec Eagle ?
(A) Lord Swaraj Paul
(B) Bill Gates
(C) Amitabh Bachchan
(D) Ratan Tata
Ans:B
52. Most powerful woman in the world according to the, 2008 published
Forbes Magazine list ?
(A) Angela Markel
(B) Condoleeza Rice
(C) Sonia Gandhi
(D) Wu Yi
Ans:A
53. 'Agile' is—
(A) A mission to Mars
(B) India's first foreign satellite to be launched from Satish Dhawan
Space Centre, Sriharikota
(C) A mission to Saturn
(D) None of these
Ans:B
54. The present Chairman of Bombay Stock Exchange—
(A) Jagdish Kapoor
(B) Justice S. D. Agarwala
(C) Justice Chittatosh Mookherjee
(D) Mr. Sudhir Narain
Ans:A
55. Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar is given by—
(A) Pt. Ravishankar University of Music
(B) Bhatkhande Music University
(C) Indira Kala Sangeet University
(D) Sangeet Natak Akademi
Ans:D
56. Morelia-Linares Chess Tournament, 2008 has been won by—
(A) Viswanathan Anand
(B) Vessily Ivanchuk
(C) Alexander Morozevich
(D) Levon Aronian
Ans:A
57. After merger, Tata-Corus has become the …… largest steel producer
in the World.
(A) 3rd
(B) 4th
(C) 5th
(D) 6th
Ans:C
58. 'Pure Banking, Nothing Else' is a slogan raised by—
(A) ICICI Bank
(B) HDFC Bank
(C) SBI
(D) UTI Bank
Ans:C
59. 'Smart Money' is a term used for—
(A) Internet Banking
(B) Credit Card
(C) Cash with Bank
(D) Cash with Public
Ans:D
60. Which one of the following stands at first rank in the list of top
10 steel producers in the world ?
(A) Nippon Steels
(B) Tata-Corus
(C) Arcelor-Mittal
(D) Bao Steel
Ans:C
61. Which of the following country has decided not to print its king's
photo on national currency ?
(A) Nepal
(B) Japan
(C) Denmark
(D) None of the above
Ans:A
62. Who is the present Chairman of Central Board of Direct Taxes
(CBDT) ?
(A) Jyoti Krishna Dutt
(B) Kiran Mazumdar
(C) S. S. N. Moorthy
(D) Arun Balkrishnan
Ans:C
63. Rastogi Panel was set up by Finance Ministry to review issues
related with—
(A) Service tax
(B) Sales tax
(C) Income tax
(D) None of these
Ans:A
64. What is the title of the seventh book of Harry Potter Series ?
(A) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
(B) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
(C) Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(D) None of these
Ans:B
65. 'India : Issues in Development' is a book written by—
(A) Judith Rodriguez
(B) Nilanjana S. Roy
(C) M. Guruswamy
(D) None of these
Ans:C
66. The book 'Indomitable Spirit' is written by—
(A) Tushar Gandhi
(B) Khushwant Singh
(C) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(D) Dilip Kumar
Ans:C
67. The former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was executed in Baghdad
on December 30, 2006. He was held guilty of—
(A) The Dujail killings
(B) The Kuwait invasion
(C) Killings of US troops
(D) None of these
Ans:A
68. Bhopal is being renamed to—
(A) Bhojpal
(B) Bhogpal
(C) Bhupal
(D) None of these
Ans:A
69. The second woman of Indian origin to go into space after (Kalpana
Chawla) is—
(A) Anoushah Ansari
(B) Sunita Williams
(C) Anita Williams
(D) None of them
Ans:B
70. The 35th National Games will be organized at—
(A) Imphal
(B) Chennai
(C) Kerala
(D) Pune
Ans:C
71. The Pravasi Bhartiya Diwas 2009 was held in—
(A) Jaipur
(B) Hyderabad
(C) Chennai
(D) Chandigarh
Ans:C
72. The PSLV-C12 was successfully launched into space from t h e
Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota on 28 April, 2009. PSLV
stands for—
(A) Polar Space Light Vehicle
(B) Polar Space Launch Vehicle
(C) Polar Satellite Light Vehicle
(D) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle
Ans:D
73. 'SAFMA' is associated with—
(A) ASEAN
(B) G–8
(C) SAARC
(D) BIMSTEK
Ans:C
74. Guantanamo is—
(A) An atomic energy centre of North Korea
(B) A military prison of U.S.A.
(C) A satellite of China
(D) A new agency of Brazil
Ans:B
75. Jian-10 is—
(A) Japan's news agency
(B) China's home-made fighter aircraft
(C) South Korea's anti-aircraft gun
(D) Japan's Tsunami alert system
Ans:B
76. Who is the present Chairperson of the National Human Rights
Commission (NHRC) ?
(A) Justice Shivraj V. Patil
(B) Justice Y. Bhaskar Rao
(C) Justice S. Rajendra Babu
(D) P. C. Sharma
Ans:C
77. 'France 24' is—
(A) France's Oil Company
(B) Commerce and Trade Union of France
(C) An Atomic Energy Centre of France
(D) France's International News Channel
Ans:D
78. BrahMos Missile is a joint venture of—
(A) Russia and India
(B) China and India
(C) U.S.A. and India
(D) France and India
Ans:A
79. The APEC Summit 2008 was held in Nov. 2008 at—
(A) Peru
(B) Manila
(C) Seoul
(D) Hanoi
Ans:A
80. Mullaperiyar dam is a disputable issue between—
(A) Kerala and Tamil Nadu States
(B) Kerala and Karnataka States
(C) Karnataka and Tamil Nadu States
(D) None of these
Ans:A
81. CARTOSAT-2A is—
(A) A comet
(B) A tank of Indian army
(C) Earth observing satellite in a sunsynchronous orbit
(D) An army communication network
Ans:C
82. Margaret Chan was appointed as the Director General of—
(A) World Health Organisation (WHO)
(B) World Trade Organisation (WTO)
(C) Asian Development Bank (ADB)
(D) Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
Ans:A
83. Which among the following countries has joined World Trade
Organisation as the 153rd member ?
(A) Nepal
(B) Cape Verde
(C) Singapore
(D) Iran
Ans:B
84. At present what is the percentage of Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) ?
(A) 5•50%
(B) 5•25%
(C) 5•0%
(D) 5•75%
Ans:C
85. For attaining 9% growth rate during 11th plan, investment level
has been estimated to be—
(A) 20% of GDP
(B) 25% of GDP
(C) 30% of GDP
(D) 35% of GDP
Ans:D
86. How many companies from India found place in 'Global-500' list ?
(A) 4
(B) 5
(C) 8
(D) 10
Ans:C
87. For 2009, World Bank has projected India's GDP growth at—
(A) below 7%
(B) 4%
(C) 8•5%
(D) 9•6%
Ans:B
88. Which of the following Indian company has been listed at the top
in Global-500 list ?
(A) ONGC
(B) Reliance Industries
(C) TCS
(D) Infosys Tech
Ans:A
89. "Beyond Scarcity : Power, Poverty and Global Water Crisis" is the
theme of—
(A) Human Development Report 2005
(B) Human Development Report 2006
(C) World Development Report 2005
(D) World Development Report 2006
Ans:B
90. Koneru Humpy is related with which among the following games?
(A) Chess
(B) Badminton
(C) Tennis
(D) Table Tennis
Ans:A
91. The film that won the Best Film Award at 39th International Film
Festival of India (IFFI) is—
(A) Tulpan
(B) A Short Life
(C) Nirontor (Forever Flows)
(D) Sonam
Ans:A
92. Report of the Sachar Committee is related with—
(A) Social, economic and educational status of the Muslim community
(B) Status of the Scheduled Castes in India
(C) Economic status of Backward Classes in India
(D) None of these
Ans:A
93. Who among the following has been named as Impact Person of the
year for 2007 by Impact Magazine?
(A) Vijay Malya
(B) Anil Ambani
(C) Azim Premji
(D) Mukesh Ambani
Ans:A
94. Who among the following has been won the title of Miss India
Universe 2009?
(A) Amruta Patki
(B) Ekta Chaudhury
(C) Catherine Untalan
(D) Marianne Puglia
Ans:A
95. The present Chief Election Commissioner is—
(A) B. B. Tandon
(B) Navin B. Chawala
(C) S. Y. Quraishi
(D) N. Gopalaswami
Ans:B
96. Who among the following won gold medal in shooting at 15th Asian
Games?
(A) Jaspal Rana
(B) Liu Guohui
(C) Jakkrit Panichpatikum
(D) None of these
Ans:A
97. Delhi University has conferred an honorary doctorate degree for
the first time on a film personality. Who is that film personality?
(A) Dileep Kumar
(B) Amitabh Bachchan
(C) Shabana Azmi
(D) Dev Anand
Ans:B
98. World Golf Championship, 2007 has been won by—
(A) Henrik Stenson
(B) Tigerwoods
(C) Geoff Ogilvy
(D) David Toms
Ans:B
99. The ICC World Cup Cricket-2007 has been won by—
(A) Australia
(B) West Indies
(C) South Africa
(D) New Zealand
Ans:A
100. 'Deep Fritz' is—
(A) A technique of refrigeration
(B) A commercially available ches computer program
(C) A laptop computer
(D) A car launched by Hyundai
Ans:B
101. Sanskriti Award 2006 for Literature has been awarded to—
(A) Mitul Dutta
(B) Chandrakanta
(C) Vinda Karandikar
(D) Mridula Garg
Ans:A
102. The recipient of Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and
Development for 2008 is—
(A) Hamid Karzai
(B) Maha Chakri Sirindhorn
(C) Kofi Annan
(D) Mohamed El Baradei
Ans:D
103. Life imprisonment has been awarded to the former Union Minister
and Chief of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Shibu Soren for kidnapping
and murder of his secretary—
(A) Madhumita
(B) Shashinath Jha
(C) Nitish Katara
(D) None of these
Ans:B
104. International Children's Peace Prize for 2008 has been awarded to
—
(A) Mayra Avellar
(B) Nkosi Johnson
(C) Vaclav Jirsa
(D) None of these
Ans:A
105. The newly formed 21st district of Haryana is—
(A) Mohali
(B) Palwal
(C) Mewat
(D) None of these
Ans:B
106. According to the Human Development Report 2006, India has
acquired 126th place in HDI ranking which is……than that of last year.
(A) Two ranks up
(B) One rank up
(C) Two ranks down
(D) One rank down
Ans:B
107. Which sector of the economy became the largest job recruiter in
2006-07?
(A) Private Sector Banks
(B) Garment Exports
(C) Broking Services
(D) Software IT Companies
Ans:D
108. 'Sensitive sector' as defined by RBI include(s)—
(A) Capital Market
(B) Real Estate
(C) Commodities
(D) All the above
Ans:D
109. At what place Indian economy stands in the world on the basis of
PPP rating ?
(A) Second
(B) Fourth
(C) Sixth
(D) Tenth
Ans:B
110. IRDA in India regulates—
(A) Banking business
(B) Insurance business
(C) Capital business
(D) Public issue of shares
Ans:B
111. Which Indian group of business houses has made a space in top 20
global firms in Forbes list of world's most reputed companies?
(A) Tata Group
(B) Maruti Suzuki
(C) Infosys
(D) Hero Honda Motors
Ans:A
112. In which fuel, the government has decided to mix 'marker' for
identifying adulteration ?
(A) Kerosene
(B) Diesel
(C) Petrol
(D) All of these
Ans:A
113. Who among the following has started a new enterprise named
'blogevery where.com' ?
(A) Ratan Tata
(B) Narayan Murti
(C) Azim Premji
(D) Sabeer Bhatia
Ans:D
114. Tata Steel has recently acquired which among the following steel
producer company ?
(A) Mittal Steel
(B) Corus
(C) Arcelor
(D) Nippon Steel
Ans:B
115. The fourth Asian Film Festival was held in—
(A) Pune
(B) Mumbai
(C) Nagpur
(D) Goa
Ans:A
116. Tshwane Declaration has been signed between—
(A) India and China
(B) India and South Africa
(C) India and Nepal
(D) India and Russia
Ans:B
117. The book 'Falling Over Backwards' is written by—
(A) Arun Shourie
(B) Ninan Koshi
(C) Arundhati Roy
(D) R. K. Narayan
Ans:A
118. 'Sakshat' is—
(A) An educational website
(B) A missile
(C) An artificial satellite
(D) A railway project
Ans:A
119. Gandhi Peace Prize for 2007 has been awarded to—
(A) Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(B) Javed Akhtar
(C) Dalai Lama
(D) Shabana Azmi
Ans:A
120. The present Governor of Bihar is—
(A) G. K. Gandhi
(B) Buta Singh
(C) R. L. Bhatia
(D) None of these
Ans:C
121. 'Sabse Pahale Pakistan' is an Urdu translated version of which
among the following books?
(A) Pakistan Eye of the Storm
(B) In the Line of Fire
(C) Pakistan Today
(D) Passage to Pakistan
Ans:B
122. The 2008 C. K. Nayadu Life Time Achievement Award of the year has
been won by—
(A) Gundappa Vishwanath
(B) Kapil Dev
(C) Mohinder Amarnath
(D) Madan Lal
Ans:A
123. 'Rainbow' is—
(A) An ice-cream
(B) Prasar Bharti's FM Channel
(C) A suitcase
(D) A musical group
Ans:B
124. The 2007 ICC Women's Cricketer of the year award has been won by—
(A) Lisa Sthalekar
(B) Claire Taylor
(C) Anju Banerjee
(D) Jhulan Goswami
Ans:D
125. 'Garib Rath' is—
(A) The first AC train for the poor
(B) A portal
(C) A project launched by Ministry of HRD
(D) A low price car
Ans:A
126. Which among the following countries has not been elected recently
as a non-permanent member of the Security Council?
(A) South Africa
(B) Italy
(C) Belgium
(D) Japan
Ans:D
127. Who among the following won the UEFA European Under-17 Football
Championship 2008?
(A) Belgium
(B) France
(C) England
(D) Spain
Ans:D
128. Solar-B satellite to study the sun was launched by—
(A) Japan
(B) China
(C) Russia
(D) America
Ans:A
129. Which among the following national parks is celebrated its 70th
anniversary in 2006?
(A) Corbett National Park
(B) Kaziranga National Park
(C) Gir National Park
(D) Ghana Wildlife Sanctuary
Ans:A
130. Saina Nehwal is related with which among the following sports?
(A) Badminton
(B) Tennis
(C) Chess
(D) Table Tennis
Ans:A
131. 'GLONASS' is—
(A) Global Navigational Satellite System
(B) Global Navigational Space System
(C) Geostationary Launch of Artificial Space System
(D) Global New Astronomical Space System
Ans:A
132. India has signed first bilateral agreement on social security
with which among the following countries?
(A) Belgium
(B) Holland
(C) France
(D) Germany
Ans:A
133. Nishan-e-Pakistan, the highest civilian award of Pakistan has
been recently awarded to—
(A) Hu Jintao
(B) Dilip Kumar
(C) King Abdullah
(D) Khuswant Singh
Ans:A
134. 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded to—
(A) Osamu Shimomura
(B) Martin Chalfie
(C) Roger Y. Tsien
(D) All of these
Ans:D
135. 'Miss Universe 2008' is—
(A) Ioana Valentina Boitor
(B) Dayana Mendoza
(C) Sabrina Houssami
(D) Natasha Suri
Ans:B
136. The present Prime Minister of Japan is—
(A) Junichiro Koizumi
(B) Mori Yoshiro
(C) Taro Aso
(D) Hashimoto Ryutaro
Ans:C
137. Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration- 2006 has been
awarded to—
(A) J. S. Bandukwalla
(B) President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(C) Acharya Mahaprajna
(D) M.S. Subbulakshmi
Ans:A
138. Which among the following has been reelected to the United
Nations Human Rights Committee for the fourth time ?
(A) Nisuke Ando
(B) Michael O' Flaherty
(C) Justice P.N. Bhagwati
(D) Ivan Shearer
Ans:C
139. The UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for 2006 for the promotion of
tolerance and nonviolence has been awarded to—
(A) V. Anandasagree
(B) Taslima Nasreen
(C) Narayan Desai
(D) Pope Shenouda-III
Ans:A
140. Who among the following is the winner of US Open 2008 women's
single title ?
(A) Mary Pierce
(B) Maria Sharapova
(C) Svetlana Kuznetsova
(D) Serena Williams
Ans:D
141. The present Foreign Secretary of India is—
(A) Romesh Bhandari
(B) Shyam Saran
(C) Shivshankar Menon
(D) Shashank
Ans:C
142. In China's EAST fusion reactor, EAST stands for—
(A) Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak
(B) Experimental Advanced Solar Tool
(C) Electronically Advanced Scientific Technology
(D) Experimental Artificial Sun Tokamak
Ans:A
143. "A Passage to Hope : Women and International Migration" is—
(A) A book written on the theme of upliftment of women
(B) The theme of the new released 'State of World Population
Report-2006' by UNFPA
(C) A documentary film on global migration of women
(D) A report on the status of women in the world
Ans:B
144. Where are the headquarters of National Fisheries Development
Board situated?
(A) New Delhi
(B) Hyderabad
(C) Chennai
(D) Bangalore
Ans:B
145. The book Guiding Souls : Dialogues on the purpose of life of
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has been translated into—
(A) Japanese
(B) Chinese
(C) German
(D) Portuguese
Ans:B
146. Who was the Chairman of the Sixth Central Pay Commission?
(A) Justice B. N. Srikrishna
(B) Prof. Ravindra Dholakia
(C) J. S. Mathur
(D) Sushma Nath
Ans:A
147. Swasraya Bharat-2006 week was organised—
(A) In honour of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(B) In honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
(C) In honour of Vice-President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat
(D) For the promotion of religious and cultural unity of India
Ans:A
148. Who among the following is the present High Commissioner of India
to Pakistan?
(A) Satyabrata Pal
(B) Shiv Shankar Menon
(C) Vijay K. Nambiar
(D) None of these
Ans:A
149. Who among the following is the World Chess Champion of 2007?
(A) Vishwanathan Anand
(B) Veselin Tapalov
(C) Viktor Kramnik
(D) Rustam Kasimdzhanov
Ans:A
150. Which among the following Indian is the first Vice-Chancellor of
Westminster University?
(A) Lord Swaraj Paul
(B) Amartya Sen
(C) Subhramaniam Swami
(D) Sujatha Bose
Ans:A
151. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been honoured with a degree of
Doctor of Law by which among the following Universities ?
(A) Cambridge University
(B) Oxford University
(C) Westminster University
(D) Havard University
Ans:A
152. Nobel Prize for Peace-2008 has been awarded to—
(A) Martti Ahtisaari
(B) World Bank
(C) Urban Bank
(D) NABARD
Ans:A
153. Ban Ki-Moon from South Korea has been elected as the Secretary-
General of UN. He is the—
(A) Seventh Secretary-General
(B) Eighth Secretary-General
(C) Sixth Secretary-General
(D) Fifth Secretary-General
Ans:B
154. The books 'Snow' and 'My Name is Red' have been written by—
(A) Orhun Pamuk
(B) Harold Pinter
(C) J.M. Coetzee
(D) V.S. Naipaul
Ans:A
155. Which among the following match of the book and its year of
receiving the Man Booker Prize is incorrect ?
(A) The Sea-2005
(B) The Gathering-Anne Enright
(C) Vernon God Little-2002
(D) The Inheritance of Loss-2006
Ans:C
156. Which among the following Indian women is not included in the
Fortune magazine's list of 50 most powerful business–women?
(A) Chanda Kochar, ICICI Bank
(B) Naina Lal Kidwai, HSBC India
(C) Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Biocon India
(D) Shehnaz Hussain, Shehnaz Hussain Herbals
Ans:D
157. Which among the following has become the first online District
Court in India ?
(A) Jodhpur District Court
(B) Ajmer District Court
(C) Jaipur District Court
(D) Jaisalmer District Court
Ans:A
158. G. M. Modi Award for Innovative Science and Technology for the
year 2007 has been conferred upon—
(A) Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
(B) Dr. K. Kasturirangan
(C) Prof. Goverdhan Mehta
(D) Dr. Y. S. Rajan
Ans:C
159. The winner of the 2008 US Open Tennis men's singles title is—
(A) Roger Federer
(B) Rafael Nadal
(C) Andy Roddick
(D) Novak Djokovic
Ans:A
160. Which among the following has been removed from the UNESCO's list
of World Heritage sites in danger?
(A) Hampi
(B) Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
(C) Kathmandu Valley
(D) Fort and Shalamar Gardens
Ans:A
161. The Sangeet Ratna Award has been instituted in memory of—
(A) Ustad Rashid Ahmed
(B) Ustad Nissar Hussain Khan
(C) Ustad Bismillah Khan
(D) Pt. Ravishankar
Ans:C
162. IBSA is—
(A) India Brazil—South Africa Trilateral Co-operation Forum
(B) India Brazil South Africa Agreement
(C) India Britain South America Agreement
(D) None of these
Ans:A
163. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, 2007 has been won by—
(A) Pankaj Advani
(B) Mahendra Singh Dhoni
(C) Anju Bobby George
(D) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Ans:B
164. Where will the 15th NAM summit be held?
(A) Durban
(B) Egypt
(C) Cuba
(D) Cartagena
Ans:B
165. Which among the following has become the Third Tiger Reserve of
Assam?
(A) Manas Wildlife Sanctuary
(B) Kaziranga National Park
(C) Nameri National Park
(D) None of these
Ans:B
166. Who among the following is the most powerful women in the world
according to the Forbes magazine's list of 100 most powerful women?
(A) Indra Nooyi
(B) Sonia Gandhi
(C) Angela Merkel
(D) Condoleeza Rice
Ans:C
167. The statue of which among the following literary luminaries has
been unveiled at Shanghai?
(A) Kalidasa
(B) Kalhana
(C) Bharavi
(D) Vishakha Dutta
Ans:A
168. Shijian–8 is—
(A) India's newly created artificial satellite
(B) China's seed-breeding satellite
(C) Japan's seed-breeding satellite
(D) Russia's remote sensing satellite
Ans:B
169. Who among the following has awarded UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World
Press Freedom Award 2009?
(A) Maj Chidiac
(B) Raul Rivero
(C) Lasantha Wickrematunga
(D) Amira Hass
Ans:C
170. Which among the following tennis players has recently bid his
retirement?
(A) Andre Agassi
(B) Roger Federer
(C) Carlos Moya
(D) Andy Raddick
Ans:A
171. The new addition to the Commonwealth Games 2010 is—
(A) Shooting
(B) Hockey
(C) Wrestling
(D) Football
Ans:C
172. 'Deoria to Dadri Nyaya Yatra' was launched by—
(A) V. P. Singh and Raj Babbar
(B) Chandrashekhar
(C) Raj Babbar and Mulayam Singh
(D) Lalu Prasad Yadav
Ans:A
173. 'Automotive Mission Plan 2006–2016' aims to—
(A) Make India a global hub of automatic electronic devices
(B) Advance India in the field of technology
(C) Make India a global hub of automobiles and auto-components
(D) Advance India in the field of computers
Ans:C
174. Treat, Train, Retain Plan is—
(A) A plan aiming at development of Indian Railway
(B) A plan to retain the high status of Indian Railway
(C) A part of WHO's work to promote universal access to HIV/AIDS
services
(D) A plan to launch several new trains in the next two years
Ans:C
175. The 8th Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit/meeting
was held in—
(A) 2008
(B) 2009
(C) 2007
(D) 2010
Ans:A

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Books and Authors

Books and Authors A

A Backward Place : Ruth Prawer Jhabwala A Bend in the Ganges : Manohar Malgonkar A Bend in the River : V. S. Naipaul A Billion is Enough : Ashok Gupta A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories : Khushwant Singh A Brief History of Time : Stephen Hawking A Brush with Life : Satish Gujral A Bunch of Old Letters : Jawaharlal Nehru A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back : B. G. Deshmukh . A Call To Honour-In Service of Emergent India : Jaswant Singh A Captain's Diary : Alec Stewart A China Passage : John Kenneth Galbraith A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Gtanth Sahib : S. S. Kohli A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy : Karl Marx A Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant A Dangerous Place : Daniel Patrick Moynihan A Doctor's Story of Life and Death : Dr. Kakkana Subbarao & Arun K. Tiwari A Doll's House : Henrik Ibsen A Dream in Hawaii : Bhabani Bhattacharya A Farewell to Arms : Ernest Hemingway A Fine Balance : Rohinton Mistry A Foreign Policy for India : I. K. Gujral A Gift of Wings : Shanthi Gopalan A Handful of Dust : Evelyn Waugh A Himalayan Love Story : Namita Gokhale A House Divided : Pearl S. .Buck A Judge's Miscellany : M. Hidayatullah A Last Leap South : Vladimir Zhirinovsky A Long Way : P. V. Narasimha Rao A Man for All Seasons : Robert Bolt A Midsummer Night's Dream : William Shakespeare A Million Mutinies Now : V. S. Naipaul A New World : Amit Chaudhuri A Pair of Blue Eyes : Thomas Hardy A Passage to England : Nirad C. Chaudhuri A Passage to India : E. M. Forster A Peep into the Past : Vasant Navrekar A Personal Adventure : Theodore H. White A Possible India : Partha Chatterjee A Prisoner's Scrapbook : L. K. Advani A Revolutionary Life : Laxmi Sehgal A Ridge Too Far : Captain Amarinder Singh A River Sutra  : Gita Mehta A Royal Duty : Paul Burrel A Search for Home : Sasthi Brata A Secular Agenda : Arun Shourie A Sense of Time : S. H. Vatsyayan A Simple Path : Lucinda Vardey A Sin of Colour : Sunetra Gupta A Spaniard in the Works : John Lennon A Speaker's Diary : Manohar Joshi A Stream of Windows–Unsettling Reflections on Trade, Imigration and Democracy : Jagdish Bhagwati A. Study of History : Arnold Toynbee A. Sudden Change of Hearts : Barbara Taylor A Suitable Boy  : Vikram Seth A Tale of a Tub : Jonathan Swift A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Gardens : Octavio Paz A Thousand Days : Arthur M. Schlesinger A Thousand Suns  : Dominique Lapierre A Time of Coalitions : Paranjoy Guha Thakurta & Shankar Raghuraman A Tribute to People's Princess–Diana : Peter Donelli A Tryst With Destiny : Stanley Wolfer A TunnelofTime-AnAutobiography : R. K. Laxman A View from Delhi : Chester Bowles A View from Outside : Why Good Economics Works for Everybody : P. Chidambaram A Village by the Sea : Anita Desai A Voice of Freedom : Nayantara Sehgal A Week with Gandhi : Louis Fischer A Woman's Life : Guy de Maupassant Aasman Aur Bhi Hain  : Mridula Halan Abhigyana Shakuntalam  : Kalidasa Adam Bede  : George Eliot Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain Adventures of Robinson Crusoe : Daniel Defoe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adversary in the House : Irving Stone Advice and Consent : Allen Drury Afghanistan & Asian Stability : V D. Chopra After All These Years : Susan Issacs After the Dark Night : S. M. Ali Against the Grain : Boris Yeltsin Age of Reason : Jean Paul Sartre Ageless Body; Timeless Mind : Deepak Chopra Agni Pariksha  : Acharya Tulsi Agni Veena : Kazi Nazrul Islam Ain-i-Akbari  : Abul Fazal Airport : Arthur Hailey Ajatshatru  : Jai Shankar Prasad Akbarnama  : Abul Fazal Alexander the Great : John Gunther Algebra of Infinite Justice : Arundhati Roy Alice in Wonderland : Lewis Carroll All for Love : John Dryden All Is Well That Ends Well : William Shakespeare All Quiet on the Western Front : Erich Maria Remarque All the King's Men : Robert Penn Warren All the President's Men : Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward All the Prime Minister's Men : Janardhan Thakur All Things Bright and Beautiful : James HerrQit All Under Heaven : Pearl S. Buck Along the Road : Aldous Huxley Ambassador's Journal : J. K. Galbraith Ambassador's Report  : Chester Bowles Amelia : Henry Fielding American Capitalism : J. K. Galbraith An Admiral's Fall : Wilson John An American Dilemma : Gunnar Myrdal An American in Khadi  : Asha Sharma An American Tragedy : Theodore Dreiser An Area of Darkness : V. S. Naipaul An Autobiography : Jawaharlal Nehru An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding : David Hume An Equal Music : Vikram Seth An Eye to China : David Selbourne An Idealist View of Life : Dr. S.Radhakrishnan An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations : Adam Smith An Unfinished Dream : Dr. Verghese Kurien Anandmath  : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee And Quiet Flows the Don : Mikbail A. Sholokhov And Through the Looking Glass : Lewis Carroll Angry Letters : Willem Doevenduin Anguish of Deprived : Lakshmidhar Mishra Anna Karenina  : Leo Tolstoy Another Life : Derek Walcott Answer to History : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Antic Hay : Aldous Huxley Antony and Cleopatra : William Shakespeare Ape and Essence : Aldous Huxley Apple Cart : George Bernard Shaw Arabian Nights : Sir Richard Burton Arion and the Dolphin : Vikram Seth Arms and the Man : George Bernard Shaw Around the World in Eighty Days : Jules Verne Arrival and Departure : Arthur Koestler Arrow in the Blue : Arthur Koestler Arrow of Gold : Joseph Conrad Arthashastra  : Kautilya As I See : Kiran Bedi As You Like It  : William Shakespeare Ascent of the Everest : Sir John Hunt Ashtadhyayi  : Panini Asia and Western Dominance : K. M. Panikkar Asian Drama : Gunnar Myrdal Aspects of the Novel : E. M. Forster Assassination of a Prime Minister : S. Anandram Assignment Colombo : J. N. Dixit Athenian Constitution : Aristotle Atoms of Hope : Mohan Sundara Rajan August 1914  : .Alexander Solzhenitsyn Author's Farce : Henry Fielding Autumn Leaves : O. Pulla Reddi Ayodhya–6 December 1992  : P.V. Narasimha Rao

B

Back to Methuselah : George Bernard Shaw Bandicoot Run : Manohar Malgonkar Bang-i-Dara : Mohammad Iqbal Beach Boy : Ardesher Vakil Bearders–My Life in Cricket : Bill Frindall Beast and Man : Murry NIidgley Beginning of the Beginning : Acharya Rajneesh Being Digital : Nicholas Negroponte Being Freddie : Andrew Flintoff Being Indian : Pawan Varma Believe–Achieve : Paul Hanna Beloved : Toni Morrison Ben Hur : Lewis Wallace Bermuda Triangle : Charles Berlitz Betrayal of Pearl Harbour : James Rusbridger and Eric Nave Between Hope and History  : Bill Clinton Between the Lines : Kuldip Nayar Bewilderedlndia–Identity, Pluralism, Discord : Rasheeduddin Khan Beyond Autonomy-Roots of India's Foreign Policy : A. K. Damodaran Beyond Belief : V. S. Naipaul Beyond Boundaries-A Memoire  : Swraj Paul Beyond Good and Evil : Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self  : Sisir Kumar Ghose Beyond Peace : Richard Nixon Beyond the Horizons : Eugene O'Neill Beyond the Veil, Indian Women in the Raj  : Pran Nevile Beyond the Walls of Silence : Lalini Rajasuriya Bhagvad Gita  : S. Radhakrishnan Bharat Aur Europe : Nirmal Verma Bharat Bharati  : Maithili Sharan Gupta Bharatiya Parampara Ke Mool Swar  : Govind Chandra Pande Big Money : P. G. Wodehouse Bin Laden–The Man Who Declared War on America : Yossef Bodansky Birds and Beasts : Mark Twain Birth and Death of the Sun : George Gamow Birth and Evolution of the Soul : Annie Besant Bisarjan  : Rabindranath Tagore Black Holes and Baby Universes : Stephen Hawking Black Sheep : Honore de Balzac Bleak House : Charles Dickens Blind Ambitions : John Dean Blind Beauty : Boris Pasternak Blind Men of Hindoostan–Indo–Pak Nuclear War : Gen. Krishnaswamy Sundarji Bliss was it in that Dawn : Minoo Masani Blood Brothers : M. J. Akbar Blood Sport : James Stewart Blue Bird : Maurice Macterlink Bofors The Ambassador's Evidence : B. M. Oza Book of the Sword : Sir Richard Burton Borders & Boundaries; Women in India's Partition : Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin Born Free : Joy Adamson Branded by Law : Dilip D'Souza Bread, Beauty and Revolution : Khwaja Ahmed Abbas Breaking the Silence : Anees Jung Breakthrough : Gen. Moshe Dayan Brick Lane : Monica Ali Brideless in Wembley  : Sanjay Suri Bishbriksha : Bankim Chandra Chatterji Britain's True History :Prem Bhatia Broken Wings : Sarojini Naidu Buddha Charitam  : Ashvaghosha Buddha's Warriors : Mikel Dunham Bureaucrazy  : M. K. Kaw Burial At Sea : Khushwant Singh Business at the Speed of Thought : Bill Gates Business Legends : Gita Piramal By God's Decree : Kapil Dev

C

Caesar and Cleopatra: George Bernard Shaw Can India Grow Without Bharat : Shankar Acharya Cancer Ward: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Candida: George Bernard Shaw Candide: Voltaire Candle in the Wind: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Canvas of Life : Sheila Gujral Caravans: James A. Michener Carnage By Angels: Y P. Singh CBK : Graeme Wilson Cell: Stephen King Centennial: James lvIichener Chaitali : R. N. Tagore Chakori : Chandrasekhar Kamba Chance: Joseph Conrad Chandalika : Rabindranath Tagore Charisma & Cannon–Essays on the Religious History of Subcontinent: Vasudha Dalmia, Angelika Malinar and Marcin Christ Chemmeen : Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Chikaveera Rajendra : Masci Venkatesh Iyengar Child and Law in India: K. Chandru, Geeta Ramaseshan and Chandra Thanikachalam Child Who Never Grew: Pearl S. Buck Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: George Byron Childhood: Maxim Gorky Children and Human Rights: S. K. Pachuri Children in Globalising India– Challenging Our Conscience: Enkashi Ganguly Thukral Children of Gebelawi : Naquib Mahfouz Children of the Sun: Maxim Gorky China, the World and India: Mira Sinha Bhattacharjee China's Watergate: Leo Goodstadt China–Past and Present: Pearl S. Buck Chinese Betrayal: B. N. Mullick Chithirappaavai : P. V. Akilandam Chithrangada: R. N. Tagore Chitra: Rabindranath Tagore Choma's Drum: K. Shivaram Karanth Christabel : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christmas Tales: Charles Dickens Chronicle of a Death Foretold: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Circle of Reason: Amitav Ghosh City of Joy: Dominique Lapierre City of Saints: Sir Richard Burton City of the Yellow Devil: Maxim Gorky Clear Light of Day: Anita Desai Climate of Treason: Andrew Boyle Clockwork Orange: Anthony Burgess Cold Street: Paul Carson Colonel Sun: Kingsley Amis Comedy of Errors: William Shakespeare Common Sense: Thomas Paine Communalism-Handled with a Difference: Daniel Steel Communist Manifesto: Karl Marx Comus : John Milton Confessions: J. J. Rousseau Confessions of a Lover: Mulk Raj Anand Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer–My Years as Finance Minister :Yashwant Sinha Confrontation with Pakistan: Gen. B. M. Kaul Conquest of Happiness: Bertrand Russell Conquest of Self: M. K. Gandhi Considerations on Representative Government: John Stuart Mill Continent of Circe: Nirad C. Chaudhuri Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms & Development: Darryl Reed and Sanjoy Mukherjee Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch: Arindam Chaudhuri Court Dancer: Rabindranath Tagore Courts and Their Judgements: Arun Shourie Coverly Papers: Joseph Addison Creation: Gore Vidal Crescent Moon: Rabindranath Tagore Crescent Over Kashmir: Anil Maheshwari Cricket on the Hearth: Charles Dickens Crime & Money Laundering: Jyoti Trehan Crime and Punishment: Fyodor M. Dostoevsky Crisis into Chaos :E.M.S. Narnboodiripad Critical Mass: William E. Burrows Crossing the River: Caryl Phillips Crossing the Rubicon : C. Raja Mohan Crossing the Threshold of Hope: Pope John Paul II Cry, My Beloved Country: Alan Paton Cuckold: Kiran Nagar Kar Culture and Anarchy: Matthew Arnold Culture in the Vanity Bag: Nirad C. Chaudhuri Curtain Raisers: K. Natwar Singh

D

Damsel in Distress: P G. Wodehouse Dancing with the Devil: Rod Barker Dangling Man: Saul Bellow Daniel Deronda : George Eliot Dark Debts: Karen Hall Dark Home Coming: Eric Lustbader Dark Side of Camelot: Seymour Hersh Darkness at Noon: Arthur Koestler Das Kapital : Karl Marx Dashkumar Charitam : Dandi Dateline Kargil : Gaurav C. Samant Daughter of the East: Benazir Bhutto David Copperfield: Charles Dickens Days of Grace: Arthur Ashe & Arnold Rampersad Days of His Grace: Eyvind Johnson Days of My Years: H. P. Nanda De Profundis : Oscar Wilde Dean's December: Saul Bellow Death and Mter : Annie Besant Death Be Not Proud: John Gunther Death in the Casde : Pearl S. Buck Death in Venice: Thomas Maim Death of a City: Amrita Pritam Death of a Patriot: R. E. Harrington Death of a President: William Manchester Death on the Nile: Agatha Christie Death Under Sail: C. P. Snow Death–The Supreme Friend: Kakasaheb Kalelkar Debacle : Emile Zola Decameron : Giovanni Boccaccio Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi : D. R. Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Edward Gibbon Decline of the West: O' Spengler Democracy Means Bread and Freedom: Piloo Mody Democracy Redeemed: V. K. Narsimhan Democratic Governance in India–Challenges of Poverty, Development & Identity: Nirja Gopal Jayal & Sudha Pai Descent of Man: Charks Darwin Deserted Village: Oliver Goldsmith Detective: Arthur Hailey Devdas : Sharat Chandra Chatterjee Development and Nationhood–Essays in the Political Economy of South Asia: Meghnad Desai Development As Freedom: Amartya Sen Development Banks-Infrastructure and Industrial Output: Prakash Salvi Development with Dignity-A Case for Full Employment: Amit Bhaduri Devi–The Great Goddess: Vidya Dahejia Dharamashastra : Manu Dialogue With Death: Arthur Koestler Dialogue With Pakistan: S. G. Kashika Diana Versus Charles: James Whitaker Diana–Her Time Story in Her Own Words: Andrew Martin Diana–Princess of Wales: A Tribute: Tim Graham Diana–The Story So Far: Julia Donelli Diana–The True Story: Andrew Morton Die Blendung : Elias Canetti Differentiate or Die: Jack Trout & Steve Rivkin . Difficult Daughters: Manju Kapoor Dilemma of Our Time: Harold Joseph La ski Diplomacy: Henry Kissinger Diplomacy and Disillusion: George Urbans Diplomacy for the Next Century: Abba Eban Diplomacy in Peace and War: J. N. Kaul Disappearing Acts: Terry McMillan Discovery of India : Jawahadal Nehru Disgrace: J. M. Coetzee Distant Drums: Manohar Malgonkar Distant Neighbours : Kuldip Nayar Divine Comedy: A. Dante Divine Life: Swami Sivananda Doctor Faustus: Christopher Marlowe Doctor's Dilemma: George Bernard Shaw Dolly–The Birth of a Clone: Jina Kolata Don Juan: George Byrqn Don Quixote: Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes Don't Laugh–We are Police: Bishan Lal Vohra Double Betrayal: Paula R. Newburg Double Tongue: William Golding Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Robert Louis Stevenson Dr. Zhivago : Boris Pasternak Dragon's Teeth: U. B. Sinclair Dream of Fair to Middling Women: Samuel Beckett Dreams,Roses and Fire :Eyvind Johnson Drogon's Seed: Pearl S. Buck Drunkard: Emile Zola Dude, Where's My Country? : Michael Moore Durgesh Nandini : Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Dust to Dust: Tami Hoag Dynamics of Social Change: Chandra Shekhar Dynasties of India and Beyond–Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh: lnder Malhotra

E

Earth: Emile Zola Earth in the Balance–Forging a New Common Purpose: Al Gore East West: Salman Rushdie East Wind: Pearl S. Buck Echoes from Old Calcutta: H. E. Busteed Economic Planning of India: Ashok Mehta Economics of Peace and Laughter : John K. Galbraith Economics of Public Purpose: John K. Galbraith Economics of the Third World: S. K. Ray Educational Reforms in India–For the 21st Century:J. C. Aggarwal Edwina and Nehru: Catherine Clement Egmont :J. W. Von Goethe Eight Lives: Rajmohan Gandhi Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: Thomas Gray Emile: J. J. Rousseau Eminent Churchillians : Andrew Roberts Eminent Victorians: Lytton Strachey Emma: Jane Austen Empire of the Soul–Some Journeys in India : Paul William Roberts End of an Era: C. S. Pandit End of the Chapter: John Forsyte End of the Line: Neelesh IvIishra Ends and Means: Aldous Huxley Enemies: Maxim Gorky Engaging India–Diplomacy, Democracy & the Bomb: Strobe Talbott Environmental Economics–An Indian Perspective: Rabindra N. Bhattacharya Envoy to Nehru: Escott Reid Erewhon : Samuel Butler Escape: John Forsyte Escape the Night: Richard North Patterson Essay on Life: Samuel Butler Essays for Poor to the Rich: John Kenneth Galbraith Essays in Criticism: Matthew Arnold Essays of Elia : Charles Lamb Essays on Gita : Aurobindo Ghosh Estranged Democracies: Dennis Kux Eternal Himalayas: Major H. P. S. Ahluwalia Eternity: Anwar Shaikh Ethics: Aristotle Ethics for New Millennium: Dalai Lama Ethics Incorporated: Dipankar Gupta Eugenie Grandet : Honore de Balzac Europa: Time Parks Everest Hotel: Allan Sealey Every Man a Tiger : Tom Clancy Executioner's Song: Norman Mailer Exile and the Kingdom: Albert Camus Expanding Universe: Arthur Stanley Eddington Eyeless in Gaza : Aldous Huxley

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50 Years of India's Independence: D. S. Subramaniam Faces of Everest: Maj. H. P. S. Ahluwalia Facing Up: Bear Grylls Facts are Facts: Khan Abdul Wali Khan Failing Slowly: Anita Brookner Faith & Compassion: Navin Chawla Faith & Fire: A Way Within: Madhu Tandon Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: Adeline Yen Man False Witness: Dexter Dias Family Matters: Rohinton :Mistry Family Moskat : Issac Bashevis Singer Far From the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy Farewell the Trumpets: James Morris Farewell to a Ghost: Manoj Das Farm House: George Orwell Fasting, Feasting: Anita Desai Father and Sons.: Ivan Turgenev Faust: J. W Von Goethe Fidelio : L. Beethoven Fiesta: Ernest Hemingway Fifth Column: Ernest Hemingway Fifth Elephant: Terry Pratchett Fifty Years of Indian Management–An Insider's View: Arabinda Roy Fights Into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan Final Passage: Caryl Phillips Finding a Voice–Asian Women in Britain: Amrit Wilson Fire in the East–The Rise in Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age : Paul Bracker Firefly–A Fairytale : Ritu Beri First Circle: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Flags in the Dust: William Faulkner Flames from the Ashes: P. D. Tandon Flash Point: Mainank Dhar Flight into Fear: Captain Devi Sharan & Srijoy Chowdhury Flight to Parliament: Rajesh Pilot Follywood Flashback: Bwmy Reuben Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India: V. K. R. V. Rao For the Love of India: Russi M. Lala For the President's Eyes Only: Christopher Andrew For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ernest Hemingway Fortynine Days: Amrita Pritam Franklin's Tale: Geoffrey Chaucer Fraternity: John Forsyte Free Man's Worship: Bertrand Russell Freedom at Midnight: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre Freedom Behind Bars: Tarsem Kumar Freedom from Fear: Atmg San Suu Kyi Freedom in Exile: Dalai Lama Freedom Song: Amit Chaudhuri French Leave: P. G. Wodehouse French Revolution: Thomas Carlyle Friends and Foes: Sheikh Mujibur Rehman Friends, Not Masters: Ayub Khan From Here to Eternity: James Jones From India to America: S. Chandrashekhar From Raj to Rajiv : Mark Tully and Zaheer Masani From Raj to the Republic–A Political History of India: Jean Alphonse Bernard From Rajpath to Lokpath : Vijaya Raje Scindia Frozen Assets: P. G. Wodehouse Fun Moon: P. G. Wodehouse Fury: Salman Rushdie Future of NPT : Savita Pande

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Ganadevata : Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya Gandhi and Stalin: Louis Fisher Gandhi–A Sublime Failure : S. S. Gill Ganganvani : Ram Karan Sharma Gardener: Rabindranath Tagore Garrick Year: Margaret Drabble Gathering Storm: Winston Churchill Geet Govinda : Jaya Dev General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money: Keynes Ghosts in the Machine: Arthur Koestler Girl in Blue: P. G. Wodehouse Girl On the Boat: P. G. Wodehouse Gita Govinda : Jaydev Gita Rahasya : Bal Gangadhar Tilak Gitanjali : Rabindranath Tagore Gladiators: Arthur Koestler Glass Palace: Amitabha Ghosh Glimpses of Indian Ocean: Z. A. Quasim Glimpses of Some Great Indians: M. L. Ahuja Glimpses of World History: Jawaharlal Nehru Global Crises-Global Solutions: Bjorn Lombarg Go Down Moses: William Faulkner God and the Bible: Matthew Arnold God as Political Philosopher–Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism : Dr. Kanchan Illaiah God's Little Soldier: Kiran Nagarkar Godaan : Munshi Prem Chand Godrej–A Hundred Years: B. K. Karanjia Golden Threshold: Sarojini Naidu Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck Goodbye, Mr. Chips : James Hilton Gora : Rabindranath Tagore Governance and the Sclerosis that has set in :Arun Shourie Government@net: New Governance, New Opportunities for India : Kiran Bedi, Parminder Jeet Singh & Sandeep Srivastava Grace Notes: Bernard Mac Lavarto Grammar of Politics: Harold Joseph Laski Granny Dan : Danielle Steel Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck Great Expectations: Charles Dickens Great Gatsby : F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Illusion: Norman Angell Great One-Day Internationals: Gulu Ezekiel Great Tragedy: Z. A. Bhutto Grey Eminence: Aldous Huxley Ground Beneath Her Feet: Salman Rushdie Growing Old In India–Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak: Ashish Bose & Mala Kapur Shanker Dass Growing up in Anglo-India: Eric Stracey Grub Street: Henry Fielding Guide for the Perplexed: E. F. Schumacher Guiding Souls-Dialogues on the Purpose of Life. : Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Arun K. Tiwari Gulag Archipelago: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Gul-e-N aghma: Raghupati Sahai 'Firaq' Gorakhpuri Gulistan Bostan : Sheikh Saadi Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift Gulzari Lal Nanda : A Peep in the Service of the People: Promilla Kalhan Guns & Yellow Roses-Essays on Kargil War: Pamela Constable Gurusagaram : O. V. Vijayan

Famous Indian Authors

Famous Indian Authors

Assamese:

Hem Chandra Barua, Madhav Kondali, Hem Chand Goswami, Birendra Kumar  Bhattacharya(Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1979), Nilmani Phukan (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award for 2000). Apoorva Sharma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Indira Goswami(Winner of the Jnanpith Award for 2000), Mahima Bora (Recipient of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001), Nalinidhar Bhattacharya (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2002). Bireshwar Barua(Winner of Sahitya Academy award, 2003). Hirendra Nath Dutt (Winner of Sahitya Aeademy Award, 2004)

Bangla:

B. B. Bandhopadhyay, Rabindra Nath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Tara Shankar Bandhopadhyaya (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1966), Sarat Chandra, R. C. Dutt, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Machel Madhusudan Datt, Premendra Mitra, Vishnu Dey (Recipient of Jnanpith Award of 1971), Ashapoorna Devi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1976), Subhash Mukhopadhyaya and Smt. Mahasweta Devi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award 1996), Jai Goswami(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Atin Bandhyopadhyay (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). Roy Prafull (Winner of Sahitya Academy award, 2003). Sudhir Chakravorty (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004).

Gujarati :

Mirabai, Narsingh, Mehta, K. M. Munshi, Uma Shankar Joshi (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1967), Govardhan Ram Parmanand, Narmada Sagar, Panna Lal Patel (Winner of the 1985 Jnanpith Award), Vinesh Ataani (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Dhiruben Patel (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001 2002), Dhruv Bhatt (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002), Rajendra Keshavlal Shah (Honoured with Jnanpith Award, 2001). Bindu Bhatt (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Amrit Lal Vegad (Winner of Sahitya Academy award, 2004)

Hindi:

Shree Lal Shukla, Nirmal Verma (Recipient of Jnanpith Award for 1999). Dr. Ram Vilas Shanna. Krishna Sobti and Giriraj Kishore, Manglesh Dabral (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000). P.C.K. Prem. Ramdarsh Misra, Alka Saraogi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Dr. Ram Murthy Tripathy (Winner of Shankar Puruskar, 2001), Rajesh Joshi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002), Kamleshwar (Winner of Shlaka Samman 2002-03 and Sahitya Akademi Award 2003), S. R. Harnot, Dr. Biswambha Pahi, Rajendra Yadav. Viren Dangwal. (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Kannada :

Masti Venkatesh Iyengar (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1983), Prof. V. R. Anandmurti (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1994), Girish Karnad (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1998), Shanti Nath Desai(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), S. Narayan Shetty Sujan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002) K. B. Subanna (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Geeta Nagbhushan (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Malayalam:

Q. Chandu Menon, K. V. Raman Pillai, G. Shanker Kurup (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1965, author of Odakhugal), Kumaran Asan, Narayan Menon, Mohd. Basheer Vallathol, S. K. Pottekkat (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpitn Award, 1980). Takshi Shivshanker Pillai (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1984), M. T. Vasudevan Nair (Winner of the Jnanpith Award, 1995), Dr. M. Lilavati (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), R. Ram Chandran (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Attoor Ravivarma (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001-2002), K. G. Shanker Pillai (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). Sara Joseph (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Paul Jakaria (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Marathi :

Hari Narayan Apte, Tukarani Mahaya, V. S. Khandekar (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1974), Shirwadkar (Jnanpith Award, 1987), Binda Karandikar (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 200), N. D. Mahanore (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Rajan Gavas(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001), Mahesh Elkunchwar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). T.V. Sardeshmukh (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Sadanand Deshmukh (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Oriya :

Gopalabandhudas, Radha Nath Roy, Gopi Nath Mohanti (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1973), Dr. Saachchidanand Raut Rai (Recipient of Jnanpith Award, 1986), Dr. Sitakant Mahapatra (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1993), M. Neelmani Sahu (Winner of Bhartiya Bhasha Parishad Award, 2000), Pratibha Rai (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2000), Manoj Das (Winner of Saraswati Samman for 2000), Pratibha Satpathy (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Sharat. Kumar Mohanti (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). Jatindar Mohanty (Winner of Sahitya Acagemy Award, 2003). Profull Mohanti. (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2004).

Punjabi :

Dhani Ram Chatrik, Bhai Vir Singh, Amrita. Preetam, Waris Shah, Balwant Gargi, Nanak Singh, Gurudayal Singh (Recipient of 1999 Jnanpith Award), Surjit Fattar, Varyam Singh Sandhu(Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2000), Dev (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Dr. Dalip Kaur Tiwana (Recipient of Saraswati Samman, 2001), Harbhajan Halwarvi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). Charandas Sidhu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Satindra Singh Noor (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Sanskrit:

Bhasa, Kalidas, Bana Bhatt, Bhartrihari, Bhavbhutj, Kalhan, Valmiki, Prof. Rasik Behari Joshi(Recipient of Vachaspati Purushkar, 1999), Prof. Ram Chandra Narayan Dandekar, Ramanujtatacharya, Psriramachandrudu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001-2002), Dr. Gajanan Balkrishna Palsule, Kashinath Misra (Winner of Sahitya Acaderily Award 2002), Pt. Mohan Lal Sharma, Vijaydan Detha. Bhaskaracharya Tripathi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Kala Nath Shastri (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Tamil :

Subramaniam Bharati, Ramalingam Navakhal, P. V. Akilandam (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1975), Dr. Indira Parathasarathi (Recipient of Saraswati Samman for 1999), T. G. Shivshankarn (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), C. S. Chellappa (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2001), Sirpi Balasubramanian (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). R. Vairmatu (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Tamilban (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Telgu :

Vishwanatha Satya Narayan, Tirupati, Lakshmi Narasimhan, C. N. Reddy, Dr. Vasireddy Sita Devi, N. Gopi (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2000), Tirumala Ramchandra (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award for 2001), Chekuri Ram Rao (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award 2002). Utpal Satyanaraincharya (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Naveen (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Urdu:

Mohd. Iqbal, Mirza Galib, Raghupati Sahay Firaq (Recipient of Bhartiya Jnanpith Award, 1969), Altaf Hussain, Josh Malihabadi, Gyan Chandra Jain (Author of  Tafseer-a Ghalib), Sikander Ali Waid, Ms. Qurratul Hyder (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1989), Ali Sardar Jafri (Winner of Jnanpith Award, 1997), Ibrahim Yusuf and Joginder Pal, Amber Bahraichi (Winner of Sahitya Academy for 2000), Nayyar Masood (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2001), Prof. Gopi Chand Narang(Winner of Majlis Faroge Urdu Adab Award in 2002), Kaifi Azmi, Gulzar (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2002). Sayyad Mohd. Ashraf (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2003). Salam Bin Razaq (Winner of Sahitya Academy Award, 2004)

Some Famous Characters in Literature

Some Famous Characters in Literature Adam : A character in the Bible, also in `Paradise Lost' by Milton. Aladdin : A well-known character in the `Arabian Nights', in possession of the magic ring and lamp. Alice : A little girl in `Alice in Wonderland' and `Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carrol. Ariel : In `The Tempest' by William Shakespeare, an airy Spirit which is controlled by Prospero. Anna Karenina : The heroine of the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. Ancient Mariner : A character in the poem of the same name by S. T. Coleridge, who describes his supernatural experiences to the wedding guests. Antonio : A character in `The Merchant of Venice' by Shakespeare. Shylock the cruel money lender, is bent on taking one pound of flesh from his body. Bassanio : A friend of Antonio in `The Merchant of Venice'. Beatrix : Heroine in W. M. Thackeray's novel `Henry Esmond'. Beatrice : Heroine of Shakespeare's `Much Ado About Nothing'. She plays a delightful role and is famous for her witty dialogues. Brutus Mercus : The historic character in `Julius Caesar' of Shakespeare. He assassinates his friend Julius Caesar, the Emperor of Rome. Christian : An allegorical character and hero of `The Pilgrim's Progress' of John Bunyan. Clare : Hero of `Tess' by Thomas Hardy. Cleopatra : The heroine of `Antony and Cleopatra' of Shakespeare. She was the beautiful queen of Egypt. G. B. Shaw also has dramatised her in his `Caesar and Cleopatra.' Cordelia : The faithful and youngest daughter of Lear in Shakespeare's play `King Lear'. Desdemona : Faithful wife of Othello in Shakespeare's drama `Othello'. Don Quixote : A famous character in Cervente's novel of the same name. He is an eccentric figure striking at a windmill taking it for a giant. Don Juan : A character in the poem of the same name by Lord Byron. Dushyanta : Husband of Shakuntala and the hero of the play in Kalidasa's Abhigyan Shakuntlam'.

Important Personalities in History

Important Personalities in History

Personality Country Abbas the Great Persia Abu-Bekr Arabia Akbar the Great India Alexander the Great Greece (Macedon) Ashoka India Augustus Rome Adolf Hitler Germany Abraham Lincoln U.S.A. A.O. Hume England (served in India) Aristotle Greece (Athens) Albert Einstein U.S.A. (born Germany) Alfred Bernhard Nobel Sweden Babar India Benito Mussolini Italy Benjamin Disraeli Britain Bertrand Russell Britain Clement Attlee Britain Catherine the Great Russia Chandra Gupta India Chiang Kai-Shek China Chou En-lai China Christopher Columbus Italy (Genoa) Confucius China Christian N. Barnard South Africa C. Richelieu France Charles R. Darwin Britain Dwight Eisenhower U.S.A. Darius Persia Elizabeth I and II Britain Edmund Hillary New Zealand Fidel Castro Cuba Frederick the Great Prussia F. D. Roosevelt U.S.A. Florence Nightingale Britain Guiseppe Garibaldi Italy Genghis Khan Mongolia G. Mazzini Italy Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt George Washington U.S.A. Galileo Italy Harun-al-Rashid Arabia Herodotus Greece(born Persia) Hirohito Japan Hugo Grotius Holland Issac Newton Britain Immanuel Kant Germany James Cook Britain Julius Caesar Rome   Personality Country John F. Kennedy U.S.A. Jesus Christ Bethlehem Joseph P. Goebbels Germany Joseph Stalin U.S.S.R. John Stuart Mill Britain Jean Jacques Rousseau France Karl Marx Germany (later settled in London) Leon Trotsky Russia Loius XIV France L. V. Beethoven Germany Le Corbusier Switzerland Leo N. Tolstoy Russia Mark Antony Rome Muhammed Ali Jinnah Pakistan (born India) Martin Luther King U.S.A. Martin Luther Germany Mao Tse-tung China Marco Polo Italy (Venice) Muhammed, Prophet Arabia Marshal J. B. Tito Yugoslavia Megasthenese Greece Marie Curie France Nevile Chamberlain Britain Napoleon Bonaparte France Nero Rome Nicolas Copernicus Poland Neil Armstrong U.S.A. N. Machiavelli Italy Oliver Cromwell Britain Omar Khayyam Persia Prince Otto Von Bismarck Germany Pablo Picasso Spain Plato Greece (Athens) Robin-Hood Britain Sigmund Freud Austria Thomas Jefferson U.S.A. Thomas Malthus Britain Vladimir Lenin Russia Vasco da Gama Portugal Winston Churchil Britain Woodrow Wilson U.S.A. Walt Disney U.S.A. William Pitt Britain William Shakespeare Britain Yuri Gagarin Russia Yehudi Menuhin U.S.A. Zoroaster Persia