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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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 |
Friday, February 19, 2010
Books and Authors
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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Human Body Facts
Body Facts
In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes. This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year.
Every square inch of the human body has about 19,000,000 skin cells.
Approximately 25% of all scald burns to children are from hot tap water and is associated with more deaths than with any other liquid.
Forty-one percent of women apply body and hand moisturizer at least three times a day.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
The world record for the number of body piercing on one individual is 702, which is held by Canadian Brent Moffat.
The small intestine in the human body is about 2 inches around, and 22 feet long.
The human body makes anywhere from 1 to 3 pints of saliva every 24 hours.
The human body has approximately 37,000 miles of capillaries.
The aorta, which is largest artery located in the body, is about the diameter of a garden hose.
The adult human body requires about 88 pounds of oxygen daily.
It is very common for babies in New Zealand to sleep on sheepskins. This is to help them gain weight faster, and retain their body heat.
An average women has 17 square feet of skin. When a women is in her ninth month of pregnancy she has 18.5 square feet of skin.
The width of your armspan stretched out is the length of your whole body.
41% of women apply body or hand moisturizer a minimum three times a day.
A human's small intestine is 6 meters long.
There are as many hairs per square inch on your body as a chimpanzee. You don't see all of them because most are too fine and light to be noticed.
Every hour one billion cells in the body must be replaced.
Dead cells in the body ultimately go to the kidneys for excretion.
By walking an extra 20 minutes every day, an average person will burn off seven pounds of body fat in an year.
The human body is 75% water.
Heart Facts
Women hearts beat faster than men.
Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
The human heart weighs less than a pound.
The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a distance of thirty feet.
The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space and placement of the heart.
The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications.
In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa.
People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.
The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions.
Brain Facts
Women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depression than men in the United States.
The human brain has about 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) neurons.
From all the oxygen that a human breathes, twenty percent goes to the brain.
People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.
Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced.
It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.
A women from Berlin Germany has had 3,110 gallstones taken out of her gall bladder.
In America, the most common mental illness is Anxiety Disorders.
Your brain is 80% water.
Your brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.
Bones Facts
The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes bone which is located in the ear.
There are 54 bones in your hands including the wrists.
The only bone fully grown at birth is located in the ear.
The human face is made up of 14 bones.
The chances of getting a cavity is higher if candy is eaten slowly throughout the day compared to eating it all at once and then brushing your teeth.
If an identical twin grows up without having a certain tooth, the other twin will most likely also grow up with that tooth missing.
Humans are born with 300 bones in their body, however when a person reaches adulthood they only have 206 bones. This occurs because many of them join together to make a single bone.
Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.
Enamel is hardest substance in the human body.
Although the outsides of a bone are hard, they are generally light and soft inside. They are about 75% water.
Adult human bones account for 14% of the body's total weight.
In 2000 babies are born with a tooth that is already visible.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete.
The strongest bone in your body is the femur (thighbone), and it's hollow!
Blood Facts
Two million red blood cells die every second.
There are approximately 100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.
Seven percent of a humans body weight is made up of blood.
In the early nineteenth century some advertisements claimed that riding the carousel was good for the circulation of blood.
Each day 400 gallons of recycled blood are pumped through the kidneys.
By donating just one pint of blood, four lives can be saved.
Blood is such a good stain that Native Americans used it for paint.
The kidneys filter over 400 gallons of blood each day.
The average life span of a single red blood cell is 120 days.
Blood accounts for about 8% of a human's body weight.
A woman has approximately 4.5 liters of blood in her body, while men have 5.6 liters.
Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human's blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That's enough to go around the world twice.
Half your body’s red blood cells are replaced every seven days.
If all the blood vessels in your body were laid end to end, they would reach about 60,000 miles.
Eyes Facts
We should never put anything in or near our eyes, unless we have a reason to use eye drops. We would only do that if our doctor or parent told us to use them.
Blinking helps to wash tears over our eyeballs. That keeps them clean and moist. Also, if something is about to hit our eye, we will blink automatically.
Our body has some natural protection for our eyes. Our eyelashes help to keep dirt out of our eyes. Our eyebrows are made to keep sweat from running into our eyes.
Our eyes are very important to us, and we must protect them. We don't want dirt, sand, splinters or even fingers to get in our eyes. We don't want our eyes to get scratched or poked. That could damage our sight!
The study of the iris of the eye is called iridology.
The shark cornea has been used in eye surgery, since its cornea is similar to a human cornea.
The number one cause of blindness in adults in the United States is diabetes.
The eyeball of a human weighs approximately 28 grams.
The eye of a human can distinguish 500 shades of the gray.
The cornea is the only living tissue in the human body that does not contain any blood vessels.
The conjunctiva is a membrane that covers the human eye.
Sailors once thought that wearing a gold earring would improve their eyesight.
Research has indicated that a tie that is on too tight cam increase the risk of glaucoma in men.
People generally read 25% slower from a computer screen compared to paper.
Men are able to read fine print better than women can.
In the United States, approximately 25,000 eye injuries occur that result in the person becoming totally blind.
All babies are colour blind when they are born.
A human eyeball weighs an ounce.
If the lens in our eye doesn't work quite right, we can get glasses to help us see. Glasses have lenses in them that work with our eye's own lens to help us see better.
Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
The reason why your nose gets runny when you are crying is because the tears from the eyes drain into the nose.
The most common injury caused by cosmetics is to the eye by a mascara wand.
Some people start to sneeze if they are exposed to sunlight or have a light shined into their eye.
The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour.
It is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
The space between your eyebrows is called the Glabella.
Inside our eye, at the back, is a part called the "retina." On the retina are cells called "rods" and "cones." These rods and cones help us to see colors and light.
Just behind the pupil is a lens. It is round and flat. It is thicker toward the middle.
Over the front of our eye is a clear covering called the "conjunctiva."
The white part of our eye is called the "sclera." At the front, the sclera becomes clear and is called the "cornea."
Around the pupil is a colored muscle called the "iris." Our eyes may be BLUE, BROWN, GREEN, GRAY OR BLACK, because that is the color of the iris.
Our eyes have many parts. The black part on the front of our eye is called the "pupil." It is really a little hole that opens into the back part of our eyes.
Your eyes blinks over 10,000,000 times a year!
Mouth Facts
In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch.
People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore. This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose.
While sleeping, one man in eight snores, and one in ten grinds his teeth.
It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
Tongue Facts
Close to fifty percent of the bacteria in the mouth lives on the surface of our tongue.
There are approximately 9,000 taste buds on the tongue.
Your tongue has 3,000 taste buds.
85% of the population can curl their tongue into a tube.
Hair Facts
On average, a man spends about five months of his life shaving.
On average, a hair strand's life span is five and a half years.
On average redheads have 90,000 hairs. People with black hair have about 110,000 hairs.
Next to bone marrow, hair is the fastest growing tissue in the human body.
In a lifetime, an average man will shave 20,000 times.
Humans have about the same number of hair follicles as a chimpanzee has.
Hair will fall out faster on a person that is on a crash diet.
The average human head weighs about eight pounds.
The reason why some people get a cowlick is because the growth of their hair is in a spiral pattern, which causes the hair to either stand straight up, or goes to a certain angle.
The reason why hair turns gray as we age is because the pigment cells in the hair follicle start to die, which is responsible for producing "melanin" which gives the hair colour.
The big toe is the foot reflexology pressure point for the head.
The loss of eyelashes is referred to as madarosis.
The longest human beard on record is 17.5 feet, held by Hans N. Langseth who was born in Norway in 1846.
The fastest growing tissue in the human body is hair.
The average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.
Hair and fingernails are made from the same substance, keratin.
Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.
Eyebrow hair lasts between 3-5 months before it sheds.
The first hair dryer was a vacuum cleaner that was used for drying hair.
A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
Everyday approximately 35 meters of hair fiber is produced on the scalp of an adult.
Brylcreem, which was created in 1929, was the first man's hair product.
Ancient Egyptians used to think having facial hair was an indication of personal neglect.
A survey done by Clairol 10 years ago came up with 46% of men stating that it was okay to color their hair. Now 66% of men admit to coloring their hair.
A lifespan of an eyelash is approximately 150 days.
Diseases Facts
People that use mobile phones are 2.5 time more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain that are adjacent to the ear they use to talk on the mobile phone.
Over 90% of diseases are caused or complicated by stress.
Over 436,000 U.S. Troops were exposed to depleted uranium during the first Gulf war.
On average, 90% of the people that have the disease Lupus are female.
Many cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy lose their hair. For some when the hair grows back, it can grow back a different colour, or be curly or straight.
Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000 deaths per year.
Chances of a women getting breast cancer are increased by excessive use of alcohol.
A popular superstition is that if you put a piece of bread in a baby's crib, it will keep away diseases.
A person that is struck by lightning has a greater chance of developing motor neurons disease.
Every year in the U.S., there are 178,000 new cases of lung cancer.
Every three minutes a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer.
Asthma affects one in fifteen children under the age of eighteen.
Every eleven minutes in the U.S., a woman dies of breast cancer.
Due to eating habits in the USA, one in three children born in the year 2000 have a chance of getting type II diabetes.
The oldest known disease in the world is leprosy.
The number one cause of rabies in the United States are bats.
Coughing can cause air to move through your windpipe faster than the speed of sound — over a thousand feet per second!
A headache and inflammatory pain can be reduced by eating 20 tart cherries.
The incidents of immune system diseases has increased over 200% in the last five years.
The flu pandemic of 1918 killed over 20 million people.
Each year in America there are about 300,000 deaths that can be attributed to obesity.
Every three days a human stomach gets a new lining.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company, Wayne McLaren, died of lung cancer.
Soldiers disease is a term for morphine addiction. The Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a disease caused by ticks.
A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
A study indicates that smokers are likely to die on average six and a half years earlier than non-smokers.
A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day will on average lose two teeth every ten years.
Lady Peseshet is known to be the world's first known female physician. She practiced during the time of the pyramids, which was the fourth dynasty.
The DNA of humans is closer to a rat than a cat.
Teenage suicide is the second cause of death in the state of Wisconsin.
Teenage cosmetic surgeries nearly doubled in the USA between 1996 and 1998.
Studies indicate that weightlifters working out in blue gyms can handle heavier weights.
Studies indicate that listening to music is good for digestion.
Studies indicate that epileptic patients that listen to Mozart's Piano Sonata can dramatically decrease their chance of a seizure.
Lack of sleep can affect your immune system and reduce your ability to fight infections.
It takes about three hours for food to be broken down in the human stomach.
Over 40 million Americans have chronic bad breath.
Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.
Fourteen people die each day from asthma in the United States.
Every day the human stomach produces about 2 liters of hydrochloric acid.
Nearly half of all Americans suffer from symptoms of burnout.In humans, the epidermal layer of skin, which consists of many layers of skin regenerates every 27 days.
Native Americans used to use pumpkin seeds for medicine.
In ancient Egypt, doctors used jolts from the electric catfish to reduce the pain of arthritis.
The lining of the a person's stomach is replaced every 36 hours.
The purpose of tonsils is to destroy foreign substances that are swallowed or breathed in.
In the United States, poisoning is the fourth leading cause of death among children.
The risk of cardiovascular disease is twice as high in women that snore regularly compared to women who do not snore.
The stomach of an adult can hold 1.5 liters of material.
The stomach can break down goat's milk faster than the milk of a cow.
The smoke that is produced by a fire kills more people than a burn does because of carbon monoxide and other dangerous gases.
It has been medically been proven that laughter is an effective pain killer.
Influenza caused over twenty-one million deaths in 1918.
In a year, there are 60,000 trampoline injuries that occur in the U.S.
Even if you eat food standing on your head, the food will still end up in your stomach.
A person infected with the SARS virus, has a 95-98% chance of recovery.
3000 children die every day in Africa because of malaria.
Pregnancy Facts
The world's first test tube twins are Stephen and Amanda Mays born June 5, 1981.
Some people drink the urine of pregnant women to build up their immune system.
The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.
Every day, over 1,300 babies are born prematurely in the USA.
During pregnancy, the average woman's uterus expands up to five hundred times its normal size.
Changing a cat's litter box can be dangerous to pregnant women, as cat feces sometimes carry a parasite that can cause harm to the developing baby.
A pregnant woman's dental health can affect her unborn child.
May babies are on avearge 200 grams heavier than babies born in other months.
When a women is pregnant, her senses are all heightened.
Studies show that couples that smoke during the time of conception have a higher chance of having a girl compared to couples that do not smoke.
Other Human Body Facts
The Gastric Flu can cause projectile vomiting.
The Dutch people are known to be the tallest people in Europe.
Studies have shown that the scent of Rosemary can help in better mental performance and make individuals feel more alert.
Some brands of toothpaste contain glycerin or glycerol, which is also an ingredient in antifreeze.
Soaking beans for twelve hours in water before they are cooked can reduce flatulence caused by beans.
Scientists say that babies that are breastfed are more likely to be slimmer as adults than those that are not breastfed.
Scientists have determined that having guilty feelings may actually damage your immune system
Research has indicated that approximately eleven minutes are cut off the life of an average male smoker from each cigarette smoked.
People have the tendency to chew the food on the side that they most often use their hand.
Over 600,000 people died as a result of the Spanish influenza epidemic.
Only one out of every three people wash their hands when leaving a public bathroom.
One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day.
One out of 20 people have an extra rib.
One average, men spend 60 hours a year shaving.
On average, falling asleep while driving results in 550 accidents per day in the United States.
On average, a person has two million sweat glands.
On average, Americans spend 33% of their life sleeping.
On average a person passes gas 14 times a day.
On average 1,668 gallons of water are used by each person in the United States daily.
Nerve impulses for muscle position travel at a speed of up to 390 feet per second.
Nerve cells can travel as fast as 120 meters per second.
Mummy powder was once thought to be a cure for all remedies. English men used to carry the powder with them in a tiny bag wherever they went.
Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
Medical research has found substances in mistletoe that can slow down tumor growth.
Medical reports show that about 18% of the population are prone to sleepwalking.
Manicuring the nails has been done by people for more than 4,000 years.
Left-handed people are better at sports that require good spatial judgment and fast reaction, compared to right-handed individuals.
Ironically, when doctors in Los Angeles, California went on strike in 1976, the daily number of deaths in the city dropped 18%.
In the United States, 8.5 million cosmetic surgical and non-surgical procedures were done in the year 2001.
People with darker skin will not wrinkle as fast as people with lighter skin.
People with allergies can lower allergy reactions by laughing.
People who meet their calcium need reduce their risk of developing kidney stones.
People that smoke have 10 times as many wrinkles as a person that does not smoke.
People still cut the cheese shortly after death.
People over the age of fifty will start to lose their dislike for foods that taste bitter.
People of Ancient China believed that swinging your arms could cure a headache.
The average weight of a newborn baby is 7 lbs. 6 oz. For a triplet baby it is 3 lbs. 12 oz.
The average person spends two weeks of their life kissing.
The average person falls asleep in about 12 to 14 minutes.
There are approximately one hundred million people in the United States that have a chronic illness.
There are approximately 60 muscles in the face.
There are 50% more males that are left handed compared to females.
There are 400 species of bacteria in the human colon.
There are 10 million bacteria at the place where you rest your hands at a desk.
In a lifetime, an average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva.
In a lifetime, an average driver will release approximately 912 pints of wind inside a car.
In Canada, men are three times more likely than women to have seen a doctor in the last year.
In 1832, in Paisley, Scotland the first municipal water filtration works was opened.
Humans breathe in and out approximately one litre of air in ten seconds.
Girls have more tastebud than boys.
From the age of thirty, humans gradually begin to shrink in size.
Flu shots only work about 70% of the time.
Gases that build up in your large intestine cause flatulence. It usually takes about 30 to 45 minutes for these gases to pass through your system.
Fat is important for the development of children and normal growth.
Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.
Eighty percent of 10 year old girls in the USA go on a diet.
Air is passed through the nose at a speed of 100 miles per hour when a person sneezes.
About twenty-five percent of the population sneeze when they are exposed to light.
A yawn usually lasts for approximately six seconds.
Children who are breast fed tend to have an IQ seven points higher than children who are not.
Children grow faster in the springtime than any other season during the year.
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all.
Constipation is caused when too much water is absorbed in the large intestine and poops become dry.
A ear trumpet was used before the hearing aid was invented by people who had difficulty hearing.
The average human dream lasts only 2 to 3 seconds.
The average person has at least seven dreams a night.
Bile produced by the liver is responsible for making your feces a brownish, green colour.
It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile.
By the time you are 70 you will have easily drunk over 12,000 gallons of water.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
The average person laughs about 15 times a day.
The vocabulary of the average person consists of 5,000 to 6,000 words.
About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
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