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  Arundhati Roy

  Arundhati Roy is an Indian writer, best known for her book The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. She was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. Her parents were Rajib Roy, a Bengali Hindu tea plantation anager from Calcutta and Mary Roy, a Malayali Syrian Christian women's rights activist from Kerala. When she was two, her parents divorced, and she returned with her mother and brother to Kerala. For some time, the family lived with her maternal grandfather in Ooty, Tamil Nadu. When she was 5, the family moved back to Kerala, where her mother started a school. Roy began writing her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1992, completing it in 1996. The book is semi-autobiographical in nature. It captures a major part of her childhood experiences in Aymanam. This book gave Arundhati Roy international fame and was also a commercial success. After that she wrote several non-fiction books which includes The End of Imagination (a critique against the Indian government's nuclear policies), The Algebra of Infinite Justice, Listening to Grasshoppers, War Talk and Walking with Comrades. Her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, was published in June 2017, 20 years after her first novel. It has been chosen for the Man Booker Prize 2017 Long List. She currently lives in Delhi. Read More

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  William Wordsworth

  On April 7, 1770, William Wordsworth was conceived in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England. Wordsworth's mom kicked the bucket when he was eight—this experience shapes a lot of his later work. Wordsworth went to Hawkshead Grammar School, where his adoraton for verse was solidly settled and, it is trusted, he made his initially endeavors at verse. While he was at Hawkshead, Wordsworth's dad passed on abandoning him and his four kin vagrants. After Hawkshead, Wordsworth learned at St. John's College in Cambridge and before his last semester, he set out on a mobile voyage through Europe, an ordeal that impacted the two his verse and his political sensibilities. While visiting Europe, Wordsworth came into contact with the French Revolution. This experience and an ensuing period living in France, realized Wordsworth's advantage and sensitivity for the life, inconveniences, and discourse of the "normal man." These issues ended up being absolutely critical to Wordsworth's work. Wordsworth's soonest verse was distributed in 1793 in the accumulations An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches. While living in France, Wordsworth considered a little girl, Caroline, with only one parent present; he cleared out France, nonetheless, before she was conceived. In 1802, he came back to France with his sister on a four-week visit to meet Caroline. Soon thereafter, he wedded Mary Hutchinson, an adolescence companion, and they had five youngsters together. In 1812, while living in Grasmere, two of their kids—Catherine and John—kicked the bucket. Similarly imperative in the beautiful existence of Wordsworth was his 1795 meeting with the writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was with Coleridge that Wordsworth distributed the acclaimed Lyrical Ballads (J. and A. Curve) in 1798. While the lyrics themselves are the absolute most powerful in Western writing, it is the introduction to the second release that remaining parts a standout amongst the most vital demonstrations of a writer's perspectives on the two his art and his place on the planet. In the prelude Wordsworth composes on the requirement for "regular discourse" inside sonnets and contends against the chain of command of the period which esteemed epic verse over the verse. Wordsworth's most popular work, The Prelude (Edward Moxon, 1850), is considered by many to be the most distinguished accomplishment of English sentimentalism. The ballad, overhauled various circumstances, accounts the profound existence of the artist and imprints the introduction of another sort of verse. Despite the fact that Wordsworth chipped away at The Prelude for the duration of his life, the ballad was distributed after death. Wordsworth spent his last years settled at Rydal Mount in England, voyaging and proceeding with his open air journeys. Crushed by the passing of his little girl Dora in 1847, Wordsworth apparently lost his will to make ballads. William Wordsworth kicked the bucket at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850, leaving his significant other Mary to distribute The Prelude three months after the fact. Read More

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  John Green

  John Michael Green is the author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is an American author, vlogger, writer, producer, actor and editor. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on august 24,1977. John grew up in Orlando, Florida. Then he attended Indian Springs School and then Kenyon College. While living in Chicago for several years, he worked for the book review journal Booklist as a publishing assistant and production editor. Along with this, he was also writing his first book, Looking for Alaska. He won the 2006 Printz Award for Looking for Alaska. An Abundance of Katherines, which was his second novel, was a runner-up for the Printz Award. In 2008, his third novel, Paper Towns, debuted at number five on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's books, and the novel was made into the film Paper Towns in 2015. His sixth book, The Fault in Our Stars, was released in January 2012. It debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. John Green, aside from being a novelist, is also a well-known YouTuber. He launched the VlogBrothers channel with his brother, Hank Green, in 2007. Since then, John and Hank have created a total of 11 online series, including Crash Course, an educational channel teaching Literature, History, and Science, etc. He currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife and children. Read More

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  Gayle Forman

  Gayle Forman is an American young adult fiction author. She was born in June 5, 1978 in in Los Angeles. Her best known novel is If I Stay which topped the New York bestseller list for young adult fiction category. It was later made into a film to. Forman began her career with writing for Seventeen Magazine. Later she worked as a freelance journalist for various publications. Her first book, a travelogue, You Can't Get There From Here: A Year On The Fringes Of A Shrinking World, was published in 2005. In 2007, she published her first young adult novel Sisters in Sanity. In 2009, Forman released If I Stay, for which she won the 2009 NAIBA Book of the Year Awards and was a 2010 Indie Choice Honor Award winner. The sequel to If I Stay, titled Where She Went, was released in 2011. In January 2013, Forman released a new book, Just One Day. The sequel to Just One Day, titled Just One Year, was released in October 2013. The final installment of the series titled Just One Night, is a 50-page novella that was released in 2014. In January 2015, Forman released I Was Here. Forman’s first adult novel, titled Leave Me was published in 2016. Forman currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and two daughters. Read More

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  Sylvia Plath

  Sylvia Plath was born on 27 Oct , 1932 in Boston , US was an American poet , novelist , short story writer . She wrote poetry , friction and short stories . Her best work was confessional poetry in which she wrote The colossus and other poems . long with this her notable works include The Bell Jar . She had also published a semi – autobiographical novel before her death which got much appreciation . She has even got many awards for her work in literature like Fulbright Scholarship , Glasscock Prize , Pulitzer Prize for Poetry etc . She studied at University of Cambridge before being a poet / writer . Even her spouse was a poet . Plath was clinically depressed for most for her lide and had undergone shock therapies ( ECT ) a lot of time . later she committed suicide . Read More

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  Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho is irrefutably of the best writers of late circumstances, offering more than 100 million books in no less than 150 nations globally. Paulo Coelho has met with a considerable measure of progress; his books have been generally decipherd in various dialects, winning him the lofty Guinness World Record for most interpreted book by a living writer and has gotten much respect. Be that as it may, it ought to be noticed that Coelho was not generally essentially celebrated for being the author that he is today. Paulo Coelho was conceived on August 24, 1947 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As A juvenile, Coelho communicated an aching to end up plainly an author. In any case, his mom was of the assessment that Coelho ought to do seek after something along the lines of his dad, who was a specialist. This yearning and steadfast assurance eventually prompted his folks selecting him in a mental establishment. Coelho ? oversaw escape thrice lastly was discharged when he was 20. Paulo keeps up that his folks carried on of altruism. Coelho got conceded in graduate school for his parent's purpose in 1970, leaving his longing to compose. In the long run, he cleared out and took up venturing out to South America, North Africa, Mexico, and Europe. He occupied with drugs and lived as a nonconformist. He went ahead to work in a wide range of callings before coming back to his unique dream – composing. In his book the Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho points of interest a profound arousing when he strolled more than 500 miles Road of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain an occasion which changed his life. "Damnation Archives" was Coelho's underlying book which was distributed in 1982 and was not generally welcomed. The Pilgrimage was discharged in 1987 which is a memory of the otherworldly arousing he experienced. Afterward, The Alchemist was made accessible which ended up being getting to be noticeably outstanding amongst other offering books ever, offering more than 65 million duplicates. Coelho has distributed numerous different works which have additionally gotten basic recognition, for example; The Fifth Mountain, The Valkyries, Veronica Decides to Die, The Devil and Miss Prym, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Eleven Minutes, The Witch of Portobello and Like the Flowing River. Read More

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  R.k. Narayan

  Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyar Narayanaswami otherwise called R. K. Narayan was a twentieth century Indian creator. Conceived on October 10, 1906, in Madras (Chennai), he was the child of a school dean. He spent a large portion of his adolescence under is maternal grandma's supervision and care, as his dad's activity expected him to move from spots to places habitually. Out of weariness, he discovered his mates in a peacock and a monkey. His family generally chatted in English and his grandma dealt with him as well as taught him. She outfitted him with the common astuteness and showed him number juggling, Sanskrit, folklore and traditional Indian music. Also, he went to various schools in Madras, including Lutheran Mission School and C.R.C. Secondary School. Narayan was a ravenous peruser of with an unquenchable craving for the artistic works of Wodehouse, Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Arthur Conan Doyle. As he moved with his dad to Mysore, he exploited the all around supplied library at the school he father educated at. Amid this time, he connected at a college yet neglected to clear the fitness test. Subsequently, Narayan remained at home for an entire year and he dedicated that opportunity to composing and perusing energetically. In the end, he earned a Bachelor degree from Maharaja College of Mysore. Consequent to his brief and frustrating knowledge as an educator, Naryan came to understand that his actual potential lay in composing as opposed to some other field. He composed a book survey of Development of Maritime Laws of seventeenth Century England, which is set apart as his first genuine written work. Sporadically, he composed pieces for English daily papers and magazines. He kept on pursuing composing, despite the fact that his profession did not hold much guarantee in budgetary terms. In the wake of getting hitched to his adored, Narayan found a vocation as a journalist for a daily paper upholding non-Brahmans' rights, The Justice. In 1930, Narayan made an endeavor at novel written work with Swami and Friends. It was his first novel including the anecdotal Malgudi town set in British India. The novel delineates the enterprises of a gathering of youthful schoolboys, disregarding the sociopolitical atmosphere in India under British run the show. Despite the fact that the book is as of late announced as outstanding amongst other English books to be composed by an Indian, it got a large group of dismissal slips when Narayan endeavored to have it distributed the first run through. English essayist, Graham Greene assumed a huge part in the distribution of the book. Thusly, the writer transformed it into a set of three composition spin-offs of the novel. Narayan's Bachelor of Arts, follows the progress in the lives of defiant youth to being full grown-ups. The Dark Room, features the dominating issue in a patriarch Indian culture that is residential conflicts. It depicts the part of a man and a lady in a marriage as being oppressor and persecuted. Besides, his different books show his discontent over the nonsensical Hindu custom of matchmaking. His other eminent works incorporate, The Financial Expert, The Guide, Malgudi Days and Gods, Demons and Others. Narayan got esteemed honors including the Sahitya Academia Award and AC Benson Medal. He kicked the bucket in 2001, at 94 years old, in Chennai. Read More

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  Amitav Ghosh

  Amitav Ghosh is a notable name in the contemporary writing. The Indian-conceived author created an extensive variety of books in the class of recorded fiction. His anecdotal work fixates on the Southeast Asian populace managing the character emergenc at various levels. Conceived in Kolkata on eleventh of July 1956, Amitav Ghosh has a place with a Bengali Hindu family. His dad, Lieutenant Colonel Shailendra Chandra Ghosh, was a negotiator who voyaged a ton amid Ghosh's adolescence. Thus he had the chance to grow up and see the diverse societies of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Iran other than India. Ghosh got his advanced education from University of Delhi acquiring a Bachelors of Arts and a Masters degree. Amid his examinations he likewise charmed himself in detailing and article work for a daily paper. A short time later he cleared out for England where he got confirmation in the University of Oxford and had himself enlisted in social human sciences course for Ph.D. degree. Before setting out on an adventure as an author, Ghosh began off his expert vocation with educating. There are various colleges he educated at incorporating Columbia University in NYU, Queens College of the City University, American University in Cairo, Harvard University and some more. Ghosh influenced his written work to make a big appearance with The Circle of Reason (1986). The novel's spotlights on a focal character being blamed for fear based oppression and his trip to Africa. It is viewed as a postcolonial and postmodern writing for its treatment of the frontier factors and the intertextual nature the novel, individually. Another generally perceived work of Ghosh incorporates The Shadow Lines (1988) that likewise manages the consequence of takeoff of British pilgrim powers from India. Later in 2000, Ghosh delivered another recorded novel, The Glass Palace. This is a perplexing work of fiction set in various districts and eras. Top to bottom the novel tends to the common issues like monetary changes, constitution of a country and the effect of innovation on the general public. Ocean of Poppies (2008) is one of the principal volumes in Ibis set of three. The story is set in the pre-Opium-War period in 1830s. It compresses the pilgrim time frame in the Southeast Asia. The second volume in the set of three is as of late distributed by the title, River of Smoke (2011). Other than composing verifiable fiction Ghosh along these lines dove into sci-fi sort. His first science fiction novel The Calcutta Chromosome was distributed in 1995. Sir Ronald Ross is thought to be the motivation for the book. This medicinal spine chiller, set in future, rotates around irregular individuals who are united by an ongoing theme of occasions. In an Antique Land (1992) is a Ghosh's trial work incorporating assortment of classifications like self-portraying composing, anecdotal and non-anecdotal written work, mixing into each other. Ignitable Circumstances, Dancing in Cambodia and The Imam and the Indian are set apart as his commitments to non-anecdotal class. Amitav Ghosh's work is perceived universally for which he accomplished a few privileged honors. In 1990, he got France's boss artistic honor, France's Prix Médicis, for The Circle of Reason. Arthur C. Clarke Award was exhibited to him for The Calcutta Chromosome. Another lofty point of reference in his vocation arrived when Sea of Poppies won Dan David Prize and was likewise shortlisted for Man Booker Prize. The Glass Palace was considered for Commonwealth Writers' Prize however he haul out in the midst of the thought procedure. Amitav Ghosh is a set up Indian creator and there are more twenty dialects in which his works have been interpreted up until this point. Read More

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  Stephen Coonts

  STEPHEN COONTS is the author of sixteen New York Times bestselling books that have been translated and published around the world. A former naval aviator and Vietnam combat veteran, he is a graduate of West Virginia University and the University of Clorado School of Law. He lives in Colorado. Read More

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  Stephen King

  Stephen Edwin King was conceived in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second child of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his folks isolated when Stephen was a little child, he and his more established sibling, David, were raised by his mom. Part of his youth were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his dad's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. At the point when Stephen was eleven, his mom took her youngsters back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her folks, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had turned out to be crippled with maturity, and Ruth King was convinced by her sisters to assume control over the physical care of the elderly couple. Other relatives gave a little house in Durham and money related help. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Ruler looked for some kind of employment in the kitchens of Pineland, a close-by private office for the simple-minded. Stephen went to the syntax school in Durham and after that Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he composed a week by week segment for the school daily paper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was additionally dynamic in understudy governmental issues, filling in as an individual from the Student Senate. He came to help the counter war development on the Orono grounds, touching base at his position from a moderate view that the war in Vietnam was illegal. He moved on from the University of Maine at Orono in 1970, with a B.A. in English and met all requirements to instruct on the secondary school level. A draft board examination instantly post-graduation discovered him 4-F on grounds of hypertension, constrained vision, level feet, and punctured eardrums. Stephen made his first expert short story deal ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. All through the early years of his marriage, he kept on pitching stories to men's magazines. A large number of these were later assembled into the Night Shift gathering or showed up in different treasurys. Toward the finish of the mid year of 1973, the Kings moved their developing family to southern Maine as a result of Stephen's mom's falling flat wellbeing. Leasing a mid year home on Sebago Lake in North Windham for the winter, Stephen composed his next-distributed novel, initially titled Second Coming and afterward Jerusalem's Lot, before it turned into 'Salem's Lot, in a little room in the carport. Amid this period, Stephen's mom kicked the bucket of growth, at 59 years old. In 1977, the Kings burned through three months of an anticipated year-long remain in England, cut the stay off and returned home in mid-December, acquiring another home in Center Lovell, Maine. Subsequent to living there one summer, the Kings moved north to Orrington, close Bangor, with the goal that Stephen could instruct exploratory writing at the University of Maine at Orono. The Kings came back to Center Lovell in the spring of 1979. In 1980, the Kings obtained a moment home in Bangor, holding the Center Lovell house as a mid year home. Stephen is of Scots-Irish heritage, stands 6'4" and weighs around 200 pounds. He is blue-peered toward, reasonable cleaned, and has thick, dark hair, with an ice of white most detectable in his facial hair, which he now and then wears between the apocalypse Series and the opening of baseball spring preparing in Florida. Once in a while he wears a mustache in different seasons. He has worn glasses since he was a kid. He has put some of his school sensational society experience to utilize doing cameos in a few of the film adjustments of his acts and also a bit part in a George Romero picture, Knightriders. Joe Hill King likewise showed up in Creepshow, which was discharged in 1982. Stephen made his directorial make a big appearance, and also composing the screenplay, for the motion picture Maximum Overdrive (an adjustment of his short story "Trucks") in 1985. Read More

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  Gillian Flynn

  Gillian Flynn was born February 24, 1971 in Kansas City, Missouri. She is an American author, screenwriter, comic book writer and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Flynn has published three novels, which are all thrillers: Sharp bjects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl. While growing up, Flynn was "painfully shy" and found escape in reading and writing. Flynn's father used to take her to watch horror movies. She received her undergraduate degrees in English and journalism from the University of Kansas. She spent two years in California, writing for a trade magazine for human resources professionals. Then she moved to Chicago and attended Northwestern University for a master's degree in Journalism, in 1997 Flynn initially wanted to work as a police reporter, but she chose to do writing, as she discovered she had "no aptitude" for police reporting. She says that she is a writer due to her 15-some years in journalism. Some critics have accused Flynn of unflattering depiction of female characters in her books. Flynn identifies herself as a feminist and feels that feminism allows for women to be bad characters in literature. She says that she has grown weary of the “the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul- searching fashionistas”. She particularly mourns the lack of good, potent, female villains. Read More

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  Erich Segal

  An American author, screenwriter, and educator Erich Wolf Segal (16 June, 1937- 17 January, 2010) shot to fame as the author of Love Story . The tragic novel was later adapted into a motion picture which was also a major hit. Son of a teaher, Segal attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, USA.He travelled to Switzerland to take summer courses. He attended Harvard College, graduating both as the class poet and Latin salutorian in 1958, after which he obtained his master’s degree in 1959 and a doctorate degree in 1965 in comparative literature from Harvard University. Later he joined the teaching profession. Erich Segal used to teach Greek and Latin literature at Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. He also had been a Supernumerary Fellow and subsequently an Honorary of Wolfson College at Oxford University. His first academic book was the Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus which had revolutionized the great Roman comic playwright widely known today as the inspiration for Broadway hit, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In 2001 Harvard published his The Death of Comedy , the all-encompassing literary history. The book for which Segal is world famous today is Love Story, a 1970 romance novel. A film adaptation was released on December 16, 1970. While teaching at various universities Segal published a number of scholarly works. He was a visiting professor to the University of Munich, Princeton University, and Dartmouth College. He wrote widely on Greek and Latin literature. His novel The Class published in 1985 was a saga based on the Harvard Class of 1958.It was a bestseller, and won literary accolades in France and Italy. Doctors was another New York Times bestseller from Segal. Erich Segal died of a heart attack on January 17, 2010 after suffering from Parkinson’s disease.? Read More

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  Shashi Tharoor

  Shashi Tharoor is an individual from the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram supporters in Kerala. He beforehand filled in as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and as the Indian Ministe of State for External Affairs. He is likewise a productive creator, writer, columnist and a human rights advocate. Tharoor has composed various books in English. A large portion of his artistic manifestations are focused on Indian subjects and they are especially "Indo-nostalgic." Perhaps his most celebrated work is The Great Indian Novel, distributed in 1989, in which he utilizes the account and topic of the popular Indian epic Mahabharata to weave a sarcastic story of Indian life in a non-straight mode with the characters drawn from the Indian Independence Movement. His novel Show Business (1992) was made into the film 'Bollywood'(1994). The late Ismail Merchant had declared his desire to make a film of Tharoor's novel Riot right away before Merchant's passing in 2005. Tharoor has been a profoundly respected feature writer in each of India's three best-known English- dialect daily papers, most as of late for The Hindu daily paper (2001– 2008) and in a week by week section, "Shashi on Sunday," in the Times of India (January 2007 – December 2008). Following his acquiescence as Minister of State for External Affairs, he started a fortnightly segment on outside arrangement issues in the "Deccan Chronicle". Already he was a reporter for the Gentleman magazine and the Indian Express daily paper, and an incessant supporter of Newsweek International and the International Herald Tribune. His Op-Eds and book surveys have showed up in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, among different papers. Tharoor started composing at 6 years old and his initially distributed story showed up in the "Bharat Jyoti", the Sunday release of the "Free press Journal", in Mumbai at age 10. His World War II experience novel Operation Bellows, enlivened by the Biggles books, was serialized in the Junior Statesman beginning seven days before his eleventh birthday celebration. Each of his books has been a smash hit in India. The Great Indian Novel is right now in its 28th release in India and his most up to date volume. The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone has experienced seven hardback re-printings there. Read More

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  Robin Sharma

  Robin Sharma is a Canadian author, writer and leadership speaker, and former litigation Lawyer, he is known for his bestselling book “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari series” He has 20 years of experience as a motivational speaker and writer. In his 0 years of experience he spoken for biggest organisation in the world like Microsoft, Nike, HP etc. He has published 12 books based on motivation and leadership and a founder of leadership training firm Sharma Leadership International. The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari is a motivational and a book to build a good character and discipline. This book conveys a message that you should live your life freely in spite of working entire day. This book is around two characters Julian Mantle a high-profile attorney with a crazy schedule and set of priorities that center around money, power and prestige and his best friend John. The book is in the form of conversation between these two characters. After getting a heart attack, he(Julian) drop out everything and sells all assets (house and Ferrari) and went to India for holidays in Himalayas. In this book Julian narrates his experience about the journey of spiritual experience in Himalayan holiday. The Core of this book is seven virtues of enlightened learning – 1. Master your Mind 2. Practice Kaizen 3. Live with discipline 4. Follow your purpose 5. Respect your time 6. Selflessly serve others 7. Embrace the present All the above virtues are described so well by Robin Sharma in this book. I recommend everyone to buy this book and for those who is interested incorporating routines and habits that can transform their lives, and helps them to achieve their goals and ambitions and make themselves happy they should soon grab this book. It’s very exciting to read this book Read More

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  Vikram Seth

  Vikram Seth is among the most observed Indian authors and writers. He was conceived on twentieth of June 1952 in Kolkata to Leila, a court judge, and Prem Seth, a shoe organization official. He has his underlying foundations in Punjab. He voyaged a cnsiderable measure with his family as a kid from Batanagar to Danpur to London. He got his initial instruction from St. Xavier's High School in India. Seth backpedaled to England and amid his A-levels he created enthusiasm for Chinese dialect and verse. He got degrees in Economics, Philosophy and Politics from Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Seth moved to California in quest for Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University yet couldn't finish the course. His enthusiasm for monetary field had dried out and bit by bit created in composing. Thereafter, he considered exploratory writing at Stanford University and traditional Chinese verse at Nanjing University. Seth has explored different avenues regarding various kinds in composing. He started his written work profession with verse. He distributed the primary volume of his verse work in 1980, named Mappings. The volume was mocked when he sent a duplicate to a well known English writer, Philip Larkin. Be that as it may, he convinced Seth to overcome the challenges of composing and compose on. In 1985, the second volume The Humble Administrator's Garden was distributed. With this volume Seth demonstrated his wonderful ability as he accumulated Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Seth additionally penned a couple of travel books. From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet was distributed in 1983 which investigates the go through Nepal, Tibet and China. The book additionally happens to win Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. After verse and travel composing, he made his scholarly presentation in 1986 with the novel, The Golden Gate. The novel is organized around 690 rhyming versifying tetrameter works. It is a parody on sentiment which represents the lives of elitists who are in mission of adoration for business reasons. Seth got the 1988 Sahitya Akademi Award from India's National Academy of Letters. In any case, it was Seth's second novel that got him the spotlight. A Suitable Boy (1993) is a 1349 pages in length Goliath, unparalleled to any book distributed as of late in English dialect. The novel investigates the national and political issues in post-freedom period. The book did not depend on a solitary story. Seth shows the worries of the general public in the divided India which extend from Hindu-Muslim clashes, scholastic undertakings, intra-family relations and land changes. An Equal Music was distributed in 1999 that is thought to be one of Seth's perfect works of art. The book is the tribute of his melodic slant in which he delineates an awful story of a violinist anguished by his detachment from a previous darling. The enthusiastic force and music learning exhibited in the book puts Seth's innovative forces at the apex. Truth be told, the book had Seth earned Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award. Seth's flexibility can be found by his commitment to lyrics as he was appointed by English National Opera to keep in touch with one in light of the Greek legend of Arion and the Dolphin. Besides, Seth is a bilingual, who is knowledgeable in a significant number dialects, including Mandarin, Welsh, Urdu, English and French. Being a music buff, he enjoys awesome singing German lieder and playing cello and woodwind. Read More

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  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’ Famous for his art of deduction, a significant fictional character known by all, Sherlock Holmes whose creator is a British writer who originally happened to be physician, Sir Arthur Conan Dyle. He wrote around 4 major novels and city-short stories revolving around the lives of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson related to their deductive detective skills and practices. Doyle was inspired by his university teacher, Joseph Bell, for the character of Sherlock Holmes. In a letter to Bell, Doyle wrote, "It is most certainly to you that I owe Sherlock Holmes ... round the center of deduction and inference and observation which I have heard you inculcate I have tried to build up a man”. He had a keen interest in mystical subjects as well and was influenced by a member of Portsmouth Literary and Philosophical Society to start a series of psychic investigations which included experiments in telepathy and sitting with mediums. His non-sherlokian works include writing stories, plays, romances, non-fiction, historical novels and poetry. His works include stories about Professor Challenger and the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard. Doyle had a keen interest in sports as well. He played football under the pseudonym A. C. Smith as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club. He had a keen interest in cricket as well, he played a few first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club and Allahabarries alongside authors J.M. Barrie and A.A. Milne. Read More