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Book's Name | Author's Name | A Bend in the River | V. S. Naipaul | A Bend in the River | V.S.Naipaul | A Gift of Monotheists | Ram Mohan Roy | A House for Mr.Biswas | V.S.Naipaul | A Journey | Tony Blair | A Minister and his Responsibilities | Morarji Bhai Desai | A Nation is Making | Surendra Nath Bandhopadhye | A Pair of Blue Eyes | Thomash Hardy | A Passage to India | E. M. Foster | A Revenue Stamp (autobiography) | Amrita Pritam | A Strange and Sublime Address | Amit Choudhary | A Suitable Boy | Bikram Seth | A Tale of Two Cities | Charls Dikens | A Voice of Freedom | Nayantara Shehgal | A week with Gandhi | L. Fischer | Adventures of Sherlock Homes | Arther Canon Doel | All the Prime Minister's Men | Janardan Thakur | Allahabad Prasasti | Harisen | Amitabh- the Making of the Superstar | Susmita Das Gupta | Amukta Malyad | Krishna Deva Raya | An Unknown Indian | Nirod C. Choudhary | Anand Math | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye | Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy | Aparajito | Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay | Apple Cart | G. B. Shaw | Aranyak | Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay | Arogyaniketan | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | Astyadhaye | Panini | Bakul Katha | Ashapurna Devi | Ban Palashir Padabali | Ramapada Chowdhury | Bandit Queen | Mala Sen | Bela Obela Kalbela | Jibanananda Das | Bengali Zamindar | Nilmoni Mukherjee | Bicramanchadev | Bilhon | Blind Beauty | Boris Pasternak | Buddhacharit | Asha Ghosh | Captive Lady | Michel Madhusudan Dutta | Causes of the Indian Mutiny | Sir Syyed Ahmed Khan | Charitraheen | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay | Chidambara | S. N. Panth | Circle of the Region | Amitabha Ghosh | City of Job Charnak | Nisith Ranjan Roy | Commedy Errors | Shekhspear | Conversations with Myself | Nelson Mandela | Coolie | Mulkraj Anand | Crisis of India | Ronal Segal | Das Capital | Karl Marks | Death of President | W. Marchent | Decamaren | Bocachio | Desert Village | Oliver Goldsmith | Devdas | Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay | Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | Devi Chaudharani | Bankim Chandra Chattopadhaye | Devine Comedi | Dante | Book's Name | Author's Name | Divine Life | Sivanand | Economic History of India | Ramesh Chandra Dutta | End and Means | Huxlay | Faust | Goethe | Ferary Queen | Edmond Spensar | Freedom at Midnight | Lapierre & Collins | Friend Not Master | Ayub Khan | Ganadebata | Tarashankar Bandopadhyay | Gathering Strom | Churchil | Ghulam Giri | Jyotiba Phule | Global Crisis Recession and Uneven Recovery | Y.B. Reddy | Great Indian and Their Landmark Speeches | Manohar and Sarita Prabhakar | Guid | R. K. Narayanan | Gurdbaho | Bakpatiraj | Hero of Nymph | Aurobindo Ghosh | Hind Swaraj | M. K. Gandhi | Hindu View of Life | S. Radhakrishnan | Historica | Herodotus | I follow the Mahatma | K. M. 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Shaw | Midnight Children | Salman Rushdi | Mitakshara | Vijnaneswara | Modernization of Indian Tradition | Yogendra Singh | Mother | Maxim Gorkay | Mother India | Katharin Mayo | Murder in Cathedral | Elliot | My Country My Life | Lal Krishna Advani | My Experiments With Truth | M.K. Gandhi | My Indian Years | Lord Hardinge II | My Journey | DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | Myth of Independence | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Neel Darpan | Dinbandhu Mitra | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | Book's Name | Author's Name | Netaji Dead or Alive | Samar Guha | New Dimensions of India's Foreign Policy | A. B. 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Nanda | The Prince | Maciavaly | The Rediscovery of India | Meghnad Desai | The Satanic Verse | Salman Rushdi | The Science of Bharat Natyam | Saroja Vaidyanathan | The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | The Silent Cry | Kenjaburo Ue | The Spirit of Islam | Syyed Amir Ali | The Village By the Sea | Anita Desai | The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | Theory of Relativity | Alexander Doma | Three Marketiars | Einstein | To all fighters of freedom, Why Socialism? | J. P. Narayan | Truth, Love and A Little Malice | Khushwant Singh | Two Leaves and a Bud | Mulkraj Anand | Two Lives | Vikram Seth | Unhappy India | L. Roy | Urbashi | R. D. Dinkar | Utopia | Thomas Moor | Vision of the Past | Michel Madhusudan Dutta | Volga Se Ganga | Rahul Sankritayan | War and Peace | Tolstoy | What Congress and Gandhi have done to the untouchables | B. R. Ambedkar | Wings of Fire | DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |

The World's Most Respected Management Thinkers (in alphabetical order): 1. Gary Becker, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on Human Capital 2. Michael A. Cusumano, author of "Competing on Internet Time" 3. Peter Drucker, Widely recognized as the father of modern management. "Concept of the Corporation" 4. Daniel Goleman, author of the best seller "Emotional Intelligence". 5. Gary Hamel, author of "Leading the Revolution" 6. Michael Hammer, co-author of "Reengineering the Corporation" 7. Charles Handy, author of The Age of Unreason and Age of Paradox. 8. Robert Kaplan, author of "The Balanced Scorecard: Translating Strategy into Action (also with D. Norton)" 9. John Kotter, John P. Kotter on "What Leaders Really Do" 10. Philip Kotler, co-author of "Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, Growth & Renewal" 11. Kenichi Ohmae, author of "The Invisible Continent: 4 Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy" 12. C. K. Prahalad, co-author of "Competing for the Future: Breakthrough Strategies for Seizing Control of Your Industry and Creating the Markets of Tomorrow" 13. Michael E. Porter, author of "Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors" 14. Edgar Schein, inventor of the term "Corporate Culture" 15. Peter Senge, MIT professor and author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

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A–H
* David A. Aaker – marketing strategy (1980s) * Russell L. Ackoff – operations research and systems theory (1950s – 2004) * Karol Adamiecki – management (1890s–1930s) * Igor Ansoff – strategic management (1950s–1970s) * Chris Argyris – learning systems (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) * Chester Barnard – management (1920s, 1930s) * Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett – operations research (1930s, 1940s) * Matthew Boulton – labor productivity (19th century) * James A. Champy – Business process reengineering (1990s) * Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. – Management – Pulitzer prize for The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business (1977) * Ronald Coase – Transaction costs, Coase theorem, Theory of the firm (1950s) (Nobel Prize in 1991) * James C. Collins – vision statement, strategic planning and BHAG (1990s) * George S. Day – marketing (1970s) * W. Edwards Deming – statistical quality control, (1950s, 1960s) * Peter Drucker – management (1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s) * Henri Fayol – management (1910s) * Armand V. Feigenbaum – quality control (1950s) * Ronald Fisher – statistics (1920s) * Mary Follett – organizational studies (1930s) * J. K. Galbraith – The New Industrial State (1967) * Henry Gantt – Gantt chart (20th century) * Michael Gerber – E-Myth Revisited, others * Sumantra Ghoshal – * Frank Gilbreth – Time and motion study (20th century) * Eliyahu M. Goldratt – Theory of Constraints (1980s) * Vytautas Andrius Graiciunas – management (1933) * Erich Gutenberg – theory of the firm (1950s) * Gary Hamel – core competency, strategic management (1990s) * Michael Hammer – business process reengineering (1990s) * Charles Handy – organisational behaviour (1990s) * Frederick Herzberg – two factor theory, motivation theory, job enrichment (1970s) * Albert S Humphrey – strategic planning, SWOT analysis (1970s, 1980s)
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[edit]I–P * Kaoru Ishikawa (1915–1989) – Ishikawa diagram in industrial process; quality circles (1960s) * Masaaki Imai (1930) – Kaizen (continuous improvement) (1980s, 1990s, 2000s) * Joseph M. Juran (1904–2008) – quality control, especially quality circles (1960s), (1970s) * Rosabeth Moss Kanter – Business Management and Change Management (1977) * Robert S. Kaplan – management accounting and balanced scorecard (1990s) * Philip Kotler – marketing management and social marketing (1970s, 1980s, 1990s) * John Kotter – organizational behaviour and management (1980s, 1990s) * William Henry Leffingwell – office management (1910s–1940s) * Theodore Levitt – marketing and globalization (1960s, 1970s) * John Lintner – capital asset pricing model (1970s) * James G. March – theory of the firm (1960s) * Constantinos Markides – strategic management and strategy dynamics (1990s) * Harry Markowitz – modern portfolio theory (1960s, 1970s) – Nobel Prize in 1990 * George Elton Mayo – job satisfaction and Hawthorne effect (1920s, 1930s) * Daniel McCallum – organizational charts (1850s) * Leo Melamed – currency futures and derivatives (1980s, 1990s) * Henry Metcalfe – the science of administration (1880s) * Merton Miller – Modigliani–Miller theorem and corporate finance (1970s) * Henry Mintzberg – organizational architecture, strategic management (1970s–2000s) * Franco Modigliani – Modigliani–Miller theorem and corporate finance (1970s) * Hugo Münsterberg – the psychology of work (1910s) * Nicholas Negroponte – human-computer interaction (1970s–1990s) * Nils Brunsson – institutionalized hypocrisy of organizations (1990s onwards) * Kenichi Ohmae – 3C's Model and strategic management (1970s, 1980s) * Taiichi Ohno – Toyota Production System, lean manufacturing, just in time (1980s) * David Ogilvy – advertising (1960s–1980s) * William Ouchi – Theory Z (1980s) * Robert Owen – cooperatives (1810s) * Luca Pacioli – double-entry bookkeeping system and financial statements (1494) * Keith Pavitt – Innovation clusters and innovation taxonomy (1970s through 2000) * Edith Penrose – Theory of the Growth of the Firm (1959) * Laurence J. Peter – peter principle (1970s) * Jeffrey Pfeffer – organizational development (1970s–?) * Henry Varnum Poor – the principles of organization (1850s–?) * Michael Porter – strategic management and Porter's 5 forces (1970s–1990s) * Thomas J. Peters – management (1970s, 1980s) * C. K. Prahalad – core competency (1980s) * Juan Antonio Pérez López – negative learning (1990s)
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[edit]S–Z * Eugen Schmalenbach – economic value added (1920s–?) * David Meerman Scott (1961– ) – inbound marketing and PR in the Internet era (2008-) * Walter Dill Scott – the psychology of personnel management (1920s) * Oliver Sheldon – business philosophy (1920s) * Walter A. Shewhart – control charts (1920s–1930s) * Shigeo Shingo (1909–1990) – Zero Quality Control (Poka-Yoke) and Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED) * Herbert A. Simon – (1916–2001) Satisficing Nobel Prize, 1978 * Adrian Slywotzky – marketing strategy (1990s) * Adam Smith – economics, capitalism, free trade (1770s) * Joel Stern – economic value added (1980s) * Genichi Taguchi (1924–) Taguchi methods, quality control * Frederick Winslow Taylor – scientific management, time and motion study (20th century) * Henry R. Towne – scientific management (1890s) * James Watt (1736–1819) – Industrial Revolution, division of labour, standard operating procedures, cost control (1810s) * Max Weber – a founder of the modern study of sociology and public administration (1900) * Joseph Wharton (1826–1909) – protective tariffs, business cycles, Wharton School of Business * Eli Whitney (1765–1825) – interchangeable parts, cost accounting (1810s,1820s) * Oliver Williamson – transaction costs, theory of the firm (1960s)

Literary Awards

2010 Jnanpith Award- Pratibha Ray
In 2010, 5 people were honored with the Sahitya Akademi Fellowships. * Dr. Bholabhai Patel (1934) * Sri Kunwar Narain (1927) * Sri Khushwant Singh (1915) * Professor Kedar Nath Singh (1934) * Professor Chandranath Mishra 'Amar' (1925)

The winners for the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards are:

Fiction
FIRST PLACE WINNER ($1,500 PRIZE) The Parsifal Pursuit by Michael McMenamin & Patrick McMenamin

Non-Fiction
FIRST PLACE WINNER ($1,500 PRIZE) Inner Visions: Grassroots Stories of Truth and Hope by Jan Thrope

The 2012 National Book Awards took place tonight, when accolades were given in each of four categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature.
The winners were:
Fiction: Louise Erdrich, The Round House
Non-Fiction: Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Poetry: David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
Young People's Literature: William Alexander, Goblin Secrets

On 16 October, jury chair Peter Stothard announced that the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize was Hilary Mantel for her Bring Up the Bodies.[40] By winning, Mantel became the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice, as well as the first British author to do so (South African J. M. Coetzee and Australian Peter Carey have won the award twice each).[20]

Two Indians – Pulitzer winner Siddhartha Mukherjee and writer-journalist Manu Joseph – figure in the 2011 PEN Awards, the most comprehensive literary awards programme in the US.

National Awards Winners for 2012

The Hindi film industry won several awards; Vidya Balan bagged the Best Actress award for her superlative performance in ‘The Dirty Picture’. Onir’s I AM received the Best Hindi film award, Partho Gupte of Stanley Ka Dabba fame won Best Child Actor, while Salman Khan’s Chillar Party team won 3 National awards including Best Children’s film. Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara won two – Best Choreography and Best Audiography. Ra One won an award in the Best VFX category.
Check out the full list of National Awards Winners for 2012 below.

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Best Film – Kannada film ‘Byari’ and Marathi film ‘Deool’ * -------------------------------------------------
Best Malayalam film – Indian Rupee * -------------------------------------------------
Best Bengali Film – Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na * -------------------------------------------------
Best Tamil Film – Vaagai Sooda Vaa * -------------------------------------------------
Best Marathi Film – Shaala * -------------------------------------------------
Best Hindi Film – I Am * -------------------------------------------------
Best Actor – Girish Kulkarni (Marathi film ‘Deool’) * -------------------------------------------------
Best Actress – Vidya Balan (The Dirty Picture) * -------------------------------------------------
Best Child Actor – Partho Gupte (Stanley Ka Dabba) and Chillar Party kids * -------------------------------------------------
Best Supporting Actor – Appu Kutty (Tamil film ‘Azhagar Samiyin Kuthirai’) * -------------------------------------------------
Best Supporting Actress – Leishangthem Tonthoingambi Devi (Manipuri film ‘Phijigee Mani’) * -------------------------------------------------
Best Director – Gurvinder Singh (Punjabi film ‘Anhe Ghore Da Daan’) * -------------------------------------------------
Best Children’s Film – Chillar Party * -------------------------------------------------
Best Book – Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Balaji Vittal (RD Burman The Man The Music) * -------------------------------------------------
Special Jury Award – Anjan Dutta (Ranjana Ami Aar Ashbo Na)

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84th Academy Awards Best Picture | Best Director | * The Artist – Thomas Langmann | * Michel Hazanavicius – The Artist | Best Actor | Best Actress | * Jean Dujardin – The Artist | * Meryl Streep – The Iron Lady | Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress | * Christopher Plummer – Beginners | * Octavia Spencer – The Help | Best Animated Feature | Best Foreign Language Film | * Rango – Gore Verbinski | * A Separation (Iran) in Persian – Asghar Farhadi |

The eleventh plan has the following objectives: 1. Income & Poverty * Accelerate GDP growth from 8% to 10% and then maintain at 10% in the 12th Plan in order to double per capita income by 2016–17 * Increase agricultural GDP growth rate to 4% per year to ensure a broader spread of benefits * Create 70 million new work opportunities. * Reduce educated unemployment to below 5%. * Raise real wage rate of unskilled workers by 20 percent. * Reduce the headcount ratio of consumption poverty by 10 percentage points. 2. Education * Reduce dropout rates of children from elementary school from 52.2% in 2003–04 to 20% by 2011–12 * Develop minimum standards of educational attainment in elementary school, and by regular testing monitor effectiveness of education to ensure quality * Increase literacy rate for persons of age 7 years or above to 85% * Lower gender gap in literacy to 10 percentage point * Increase the percentage of each cohort going to higher education from the present 10% to 15% by the end of the plan 3. Health * Reduce infant mortality rate to 28 and maternal mortality ratio to 1 per 1000 live births * Reduce Total Fertility Rate to 2.1 * Provide clean drinking water for all by 2009 and ensure that there are no slip-backs * Reduce malnutrition among children of age group 0–3 to half its present level * Reduce anaemia among women and girls by 50% by the end of the plan 4. Women and Children * Raise the sex ratio for age group 0–6 to 935 by 2011–12 and to 950 by 2016–17 * Ensure that at least 33 percent of the direct and indirect beneficiaries of all government schemes are women and girl children * Ensure that all children enjoy a safe childhood, without any compulsion to work 5. Infrastructure * Ensure electricity connection to all villages and BPL households by 2009 and round-the-clock power. * Ensure all-weather road connection to all habitation with population 1000 and above (500 in hilly and tribal areas) by 2009, and ensure coverage of all significant habitation by 2015 * Connect every village by telephone by November 2007 and provide broadband connectivity to all villages by 2012 * Provide homestead sites to all by 2012 and step up the pace of house construction for rural poor to cover all the poor by 2016–17 6. Environment * Increase forest and tree cover by 5 percentage points. * Attain WHO standards of air quality in all major cities by 2011–12. * Treat all urban waste water by 2011–12 to clean river waters. * Increase energy efficiency by 20%
Target growth:8.33% Growth achieved:7.9%

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