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2021 Books & Authors
December 2021 Books & Authors
Book Name Author Released /Published by
“1971: Charge of the Gorkhas and Other Rachna Bisht Rawat Published by Penguin Random House India
Stories” (PRHI)
“At Home In The Universe” Bala Krishna Madhur Released by R.C. Sinha
“Bachelor Dad” ( His first book ) Tusshar Kapoor Published by Penguin Random House India
(PRHI)
“Democracy, Politics and Governance” in Dr A. Surya Prakash Released by Venkaiah Naidu
English and ‘Loktantr, Rajniti and Dharm’ in
Hindi
“Dr V L Dutt: Glimpses of a Pioneer’s Life Dr V L Indira Dutt Launched by M Venkaiah Naidu
Journey”
“Gandhi Topi Governor” (Telugu book) Dr Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad Released by M Venkaiah Naidu
“India’s Ancient Legacy of Wellness” Dr Rekha Chaudhari Released by the Maharashtra
governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari
“Pride, Prejudice and Punditry” Dr. Shashi Tharoor (23rd book) -
“Public Service Ethics: A Quest for Naitik Prabhat Kumar Published by IC Centre for Governance/
Bharat” launched by M Venkaiah Naidu
“Raj Kapoor: The Master At Work” Rahul Rawail Released by M Venkaiah Naidu
“Rewinding of First 25 years of Ministry of S S Oberoi Launched by Ajay Prakash Sawhney,
Electronics and Information Technology” Secretary of MeitY
“The Ambuja Story: How a Group of Ordinary Narotam Sekhsaria (Former Vice Published by Harpercollins India
Men Created an Extraordinary Company” Chairman/Founder/Promoter, Ambuja
(Autobiography) Cements)
“The Midway Battle: Modi’s Rollercoaster Gautam Chintamani Published by Bloomsbury India at Upa
Second Term” Rashtrapati Nivas, New Delhi.
“The Modi Gambit: Decoding Modi 2.0” Sanju Verma -
“The Monk Who Transformed Uttar Pradesh: Shantanu Gupta Published by Garuda Prakashan
How Yogi Aditynath Changed UP Waala
Bhaiya’ abuse to a Badge of Honour”
“The Turnover Wizard – Saviour Of Arup Roy Choudhury Released by M Venkaiah Naidu
Thousands”( autobiography)
“Watershed: How We Destroyed India’s Mriduala Ramesh Published by Hachette India
Water And How We Can Save It”

November 2021 Books & Authors

Book Name Author Released /Published by
Contested Lands: India, China and the Maroof Raza -
Boundary Dispute
Conversations: India’s Leading Art Historian BN Goswamy (will hit stands in 2022) Published by Penguin Random House
Engages with 101 themes, and More India (PRHI)
Cooking to Save Your Life Abhijit Banerjee Published by Juggernaut books.
Finding A Straight Line Between Twists and Aseem Chawla Published by Matrix Publishers.
Turns:An Imperfect, Yet Honest Reflections
on the Indian Tax Landscape
FORCE IN STATECRAFT Paul Gordon Lauren, Gordon Alexander Defence Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar
Craig, Alexander L. George released
India vs UK: The Story of an Unprecedented Syed Akbaruddin Published by Harpercollins India.
Diplomatic Win
John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Amit Ranjan Published by Niyogi books.
Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the
Ranee
Lal Salaam: A Novel Union Minister Smriti Zubin Irani Published by Westland Publications
Modern India Poonam Dalal Dahiya Published by McGraw Hill & Released
by Manohar Lal Khattar
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussain Published by HarperCollins India
Not Just Cricket: A Reporter's Journey Pradeep Magazine Published by Harper Collins Publishers
through Modern India India.

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Resolved: Uniting Nations in a Divided Ban Ki moon(Autobiography) Published by HarperCollins India.
World
Shuttler’s Flick: Making Every Match Count Pullela Gopichand (autobiography) Published by Simon & Schuster India.
& Co authored Priya Kumar
Sunrise Over Ayodhya: Nationhood in Our Salman Khurshid Published by Penguin Random House
Times India
The Cinema Of Satyajit Ray Bhaskar Chattopadhyay Published by Westland.
The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Debashish Mukerji HarperCollins India presents
Singh Shook India
The Sage with Two Horns: Unusual Tales Sudha Murty Published by Penguin Random House
from Mythology India
Uddna Baaz: a biography on Olympian Navdeep Singh Gill Launched by Pargat Singh
Gurbachan Singh Randhawa
Unshackling India: Hard Truths and Clear Ajay Chhibber and Salman Anees Soz HarperCollins India presents
Choices for Economic Revival
October 2021 Books & Authors
Books Name Authors Released /Published by
Actually… I Met Them: A Memoir Gulzar Penguin Random House India
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People Wole Soyinka Penguin Random House India
on Earth
Economist Gandhi: The Roots and the Relevance of Jerry Rao Penguin Random House India
the Political Economy of the Mahatma (Original name Jaithirth Rao)
Ek Jang Ladte Hue Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' Published by Prabhat Prakashan Pvt. Limited.
Handbook On Sustainable Urban Plastic Waste - NITI Aayog & UNDP
Management
Kamala Harris: Phenomenal Woman Chidanand Rajghatta HarperCollins Publisher India
Quest for a Stable Afghanistan: A View from Sujeet Sarkar Rupa Publications
Ground Zero
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation Shafey Kidwai Published by Routledge India
The Custodian of Trust:A Banker’s Memory Rajnish Kumar Penguin Random House India
The Origin Story of India’s States Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan Penguin Random House India
The Stars in My Sky: Those Who Brightened My Actress Divya Dutta Penguin Random House India
Film Journey
Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit Defence Minister Rajnath Singh launched
Prevented Partition
Writing for My Life Ruskin Bond Penguin Random House India

September 2021 Books & Authors

Books Name Authors Released /Published by
400 Days Chetan Bhagat Published by Westland
Back to the Roots : Celebrating Indian Tamannaah Bhatia & Luke Coutinho Published by Penguin eBury Press
Wisdom and Wellness

Battle of Rezang La Kulpreet Yadav Published under Penguin Random House’s

”Veer” imprint
Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Uday Bhatia Published by Harper Collins
Film Gangster
Gita Govinda: Jaydeva’s Divine Odyssey Utpal K. Banerjee Launched by Union Minister of Culture Shri
Kishan Reddy Gangapuram
Haryana Environment and Pollution Code Dheera Khandelwal Released by Manohar Lal Khattar
Human Rights and Terrorism in India BJP MP Subramanian Swamy -
Jungle Nama Amitav Ghosh Published by Harper Collins
Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India- Ranjit Rae Published by Penguin Random House
Nepal Ties
Know Your Rights: and Claim Them Angelina Jolie & Van Bueren QC(Amnesty -
International and human rights lawyer)
My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Futur Indra Nooyi Published by Hachette India
Reflecting, Recollecting, Reconnecting Anurag Thakur presented to M Venkaiah -
Naidu
Shining Sikh Youth of India Dr Prabhleen Singh Released by Union Defence Minister Rajnath

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The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Nirupama Menon Rao -
Shadows the Present in India
The Long Game: How the Chinese Vijay Gokhale -
Negotiate with India
The Three Khans: And the Emergence of Kaveree Bamzai -
New India
Translating Myself and Others Jhumpa Lahiri -

August 2021 Books & Authors

Books Name Authors Released /Published by
“A Begum and A Rani : Hazrat Mahal & Lakshmibai Rudrangshu Mukherjee Published by Penguin House
in 1857 “
“A Death in Shonagachhi “ Rijula Das Published by Picador India
“A Different Route to Success’ : It Could Be Yours “ Ramesh Narayan Published by Notion Press
“Accelerating India: 7 Years of Modi Government” Edited by KJ Alphons Published by OakBridge Publishing house &
Released by Venkaiah Naidu.
“Address Book: A Publishing Memoir in the time of Ritu Menon Published under the imprint ‘Women
COVID “ Unlimited
“An Invitation to Die: A Colonel Acharya Mystery” Tanushree Podder Published by Harper Collins
“Art Cinema And India’s Forgotten Futures: Film And Rochona Majumdar Published by Columbia University Press
History in the Post Colony “
“Balakot Air Strike: How India Avenged Pulwama “ Manan Bhatt Published by Garuda Prakashan
“Battlefield “(Translated from the Marathi original Vishram Bedekar -
Ranaangan by Jerry Pinto)
“How The Earth Got Its Beauty “ Sudha Murty (Illustrations by Published by Penguin Random House imprint
Priyanka Pachpande) Puffin
“In An Ideal World “ Kunal Basu Published by Penguin Random House India
“Lahore: Book 1 of the Partition Trilogy “ Manreet Sodhi Someshwar Published by HarperCollins India
“Leopard Diaries – the Rosette in India” Sanjay Gubbi Published by Westland
“Let's Go Time Travelling Again” (Illustrations by Subhadra Sen Gupta Released by Puffin Books
Tapas Guha)
“Mission Domination: An Unfinished Quest” Boria Majumdar & Kushan Sarkar Published by Simon & Schuster Publisher
India Private Limited
“My Own Mazagon” Captain Ramesh Babu Released by Vice Admiral R. Hari Kumar &
Vice Admiral Narayan Prasad CMD Mazagon
Dock Shipbuilders Limited & Published by
Indus Source Books
“Operation Khukri” Major General Rajpal Punia & co Published by Penguin Random House India &
authored by Damini republished in Hindi by Rajkamal Prakashan
“Ramrao: The Story of India's Farm Crisis “ Jaideep Hardikar Published by HarperCollins India
“The Dream of Revolution: A Biography of Written by historian Bimal Prasad Published by Penguin Random House India
Jayaprakash Narayan” and authored by Sujata Prasad
“The Earthspinner “ Anuradha Roy Published by Hachette India
“The Kapil Sharma Story” Ajitabha Bose Published by his own venture (Ajitabha
Publishers)
“The Most Incredible Olympic Stories “ Luciano Wernicke Published by Niyogi Books
“The Year That Wasn’t – The Diary of a 14 YearOld” Brisha Jain Launched by Shabana Azmi & Published by
Vitasta Publishing Pvt Ltd
“Why We Kneel, How We Rise” Michael Anthony Holding Published by Simon & Schuster limited

July 2021 Books and Authors

Books Authors Released /Published by
A Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux Khem Lata Wakhlu Published by Harper Collins India, released on
Soft Cover
An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation Ashok Lavasa (Former election Published by Harper Collins India
commissioner)
Bank with a Soul: Equitas Dr. C K Garyali (A founder trustee of Released by Duvvuri Subbarao, Former
EDIT (Equitas Development Initiative Governor, RBI
Trust))
Fiercely Female: The Dutee Chand Story Sundeep Misra Published by Westland Books On on
‘SoftCover

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India To The Rescue Sushant Singh & Shruthi Rao Published by Juggernaut Books
India Versus China: Why They Are Not Friends Kanti Bajpa Published by the Juggernaut publishers
Janaksuta Sut Shaurya Dr. Gauri Shankar Sharma Released by Shivraj Singh Chouhan
Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Kavitha Rao Published by Westland Books
Women in Medicine
Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi (A Dhaval Kulkarni Published by Pan Macmillan
biography of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram
Godse)
Operation khukri: The True Story behind the Indian Rajpal punia & Damini punia Published by Penguin Random House India
Army's Most Successful Mission as part of the United
Nations
Pregnancy Bible Aditi Shah Bhimjyani Published by Juggernaut Books
(Launched by Kareena Kapoor Khan)
SPACE. LIFE. MATTER : The Coming of Age of Indian Hari Pulakkat Published by Hachette India
Science
Terrace Garden: Midde Thota (Originally written in Thummeti Raghothama Reddy Publisher by Yadlapalli Venkateswara Rao
Telugu) (English Translation)
The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Published by HarperCollins)
Information Warfare Shapes Your World Venkatanarayanan
The Great Big Lion Chryseis Knight Published by Penguin Random House
The India Story Bimal Jalan Published by Rupa
(Former RBI governor)
The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha Jairam Ramesh Published under Penguin’s ‘Viking’ imprint
The Ramayan of Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Late Baljit Kaur Tulsi Published by Indira Gandhi National Centre
for the Arts
The Stranger In The Mirror Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Published by Rupa Publications
The Struggle Within: A Memoir of the Emergency Ashok Chakravarti Published by HarperCollins
UNTOLD stories of Haryana Police Manoj Yadava (DGP Haryana) Unveiled by Haryana Chief Minister
Urdu Poets and Writers – Gems f Deccan J.S. Ifthekhar(Senior journalist) Published by Woven Words Publishers OPC
Private Limited

June 2021 Books and Author

Books Name Author Name Published by

“Anomalies in Law and Justice” N V Ramana (Chief Justice of India) –

“Home in the World” Amartya Sen Penguin Random House.( in July)

“Languages of Truth: Essays 2003 -2020” Salman Rushdie Random House.

“Policymaker’s Journal: From New Delhi to

Kaushik Basu –
Washington D.C”

“Skill it , Kill it” Ronnie Screwvala Penguin Random House in July 2021.

“Stargazing: The Players in My Life” Ravi Shastri HarperCollins India.

“The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in

Amitav Ghosh Release in October 2021.
Crisis”

“The startup wife”(Novel) Tahmima Anam Penguin Random House India.

May 2021 Books and Author

Books Name Author Name

Elephant In The Womb Kalki Koechlin

Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance

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India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present Shivshankar Menon

Sach Kahun Toh (Autobiography) Neena Gupta

7 Lessons from Everest Expedition Learnings from Life and Business Aditya Gupta

Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924 1966) Vikram Sampath

April 2021 Books and Authors

Books Name Author Name/ Released by

Agriculture in India Mohan Kanda (Former Chief Secretary of Andhra Pradesh)

Akhtari: The Life and Music of Begum Akhtar (Originally written in

Edited by Yatindra Mishra
Hindi, is now available in English)

Suresh Raina autobiography.

Believe – What Life and Cricket Taught Me
(Co authored by Bharat Sundaresan)

Climate Change Explained – For One And All (E-Book) Aakash Ranison

Dr Ambedkar Jivan Darshan,

Dr Ambedkar Vyakti Darshan, Kishor Makwana
Dr Ambedkar Rashtra Darshan, and Four books released by PM Modi
Dr Ambedkar Aayam Darshan.

Living Mountain Amitav Ghosh

Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life Nitin Gokhale

Utkal Keshari Harekrushna Mahtab

Odisha Itihaas(Hindi translation of the book )
Release by Narendra Modi .

Suparipalana (Telugu translation of “Echo T Calling: Towards People- Shri Shailendra Kumar Joshi
Centric Governance) (former Telangana Chief Secretary)

The Christmas Pig JK Rowling released worldwide on Oct. 12

Whereabouts
Jhumpa Lahiri
(English translation of Italian novel ‘Ias Dove Mi Trovo’)

January to March 2021 Books and Authors

Books Name Author Name

Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis Anindya Dutta

Abdul Kalam- Ninaivugalukku Maranamillai Dr. APJM Nazema Maraikayar and Dr Y S Rajan

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds Rajiv Malhotra

Agriculture Acts 2020 Justice A K Rajan

ASOCA: A Sutra Irwin Allan Sealy

Baanjh: Incomplete Lives of Complete Women Susmita Mukherjee

Battle Ready for 21st Century Lt Gen AK Singh and Brig. Narendra Kumar

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Beautiful Things: A Memoir Hunter Biden(Son of US President Joe Biden)

Because India Comes First Ram Madhav

Bringing Governments and People Closer Dr. M Ramachandran

By Many a Happy Accident: Recollections of a Life Hamid Ansari

Dynasty to Democracy: The Untold Story of Smriti Irani’s Triumph Anant Vijay.

Escaped: True Stories of Indian Fugitives in London Danish Khan and Ruhi Khan

From Incremental to Exponential Vivek Wadhwa, Ismail Amla, and Alex Salkever

Flying Blind: India’s Quest for Global Leadership Mohamed Zeeshan

Gazing Eastwards: Of Buddhist Monks and Revolutionaries in China,

Romila Thapar
1957’

Hunchprose Ranjit Hoskote

India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia R. Kaushik

India’s Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution Sanjaya Baru

Indian Economy’s Greatest Crisis: impact of Coronavirus and the

Arun Kumar
Raod Ahead

India: A Scamstar Born Every Minute Snigdha Poonam

India 2030: The Rise of a Rajasic Nation Gautam Chikermane

Indians: A Brief History of a Civilization Namit Arora

Joe Biden: American Dreamer Evan Osnos

Karunanidhi: A Life (It is the 2nd biography) A.S. Panneerselvan

Kamala’s Way: An American Life Dan Morain

Leadership Lessons from 22 Yards Srikanth Ram

Louiz Banks: A Symphony of Love Ashis Ghatak

#METOO Karan Puri

Mapping Love Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Lt. Gen konsam Himalay Singh

Making of a General-A Himalayan Echo
Virtually released by Najma Heptulla

Waman Subha Prabhu

Manohar Parrikar :Off the Record
Released by Pramod Sawant

Mapping Love Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Ramesh Kandula
Maverick Messiah: A Political Biography of N T Rama Rao
Released by M Venkaiah Naidu

Modi India Calling 2021 Published by Maneesh Media

My Experiments With Silence Actor Samir Soni

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My Life in Full: Work, Family and Our Future Indra Nooyi

Names of the Women Jeet Thayil

Name Place Animal Things Daribha Lyndem

Platform Scale for a Post-Pandemic World Sangeet Paul Choudary

Prince with a Paintbrush: The Story of Raja Ravi Varma Shobha Tharoor Srinivasan

Parliamentary Messenger in Rajasthan Dr. K N Bhandari

Right Under our Nose R Giridharan

Race With Me! Andre De Grasse and Robert Budd

Runway to Skilled India Dr. Darlie O Koshy

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a

Katharine Hayhoe
Dividend World

Sabarimala Vijnaanakosham KS Vijayanath

Sarasvati’s Gift Kavita Kane

Stories I Must Tell: The Journey of an Actor Kabir Bedi

Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema, Theatre, Poetry, and Painting Arun Sengupta and Partha Mukherjee

Starstruck: Confessions of a TV executive Peter Mukerjea (Former chief executive of Star India)

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan(Freedom Fighter)

The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle
(It was 1st published in Iranian language in 1983)

The Little Book of Encouragement Dalai Lama (Edited by Renuka Singh)

Turn Around India: 2020 -Surmounting Past Legacy R.P.Gupta

The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George

Shrabani Basu
Edalji and the case of the foreigner in the English Village

The Green Queens of India- A Nation’s Pride Prakash Javadekar

The Pain-Free Mindset: 7 Steps to Taking Control and Overcoming

Dr. Deepak Ravindran
Chronic Pain

The Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Good News Meghna Pant

Tipane Kashmirchi (Notes on Kashmir), Untold Stories Arun Karmarkar

The Epic Battle of Longewala Air Marshal Bharat Kumar

They Found What/They Made What? Shweta Taneja

The Lost Soul Olga Tokarczuk

The Last Light of Glory Days: Stories from Nagaland’ Dr. Avinuo Kir

The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India S Y Quraishi

The Commonwealth of Cricket Ramachandra Guha

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The Law of Emergency Powers: Comparative Common Law
Dr. Abhishek Singhvi and Prof. Khagesh Gautam
Perspectives

1232 km: The Long Journey Home Vinod Kapri

1857- The Sword of Mastann Vineet Bajpai

Unscripted: Conversations on Life and Cinema Vidhu Vinod Chopra and Abhijat Joshi

Unfinished Priyanka Chopra Jonas

Undertow Jahnavi Barua

Vahana Masterclass Alfredo Coveli

Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri

Wild and Wilful: Tale of 15 Iconic Indian Species Neha Sinha

Yes Man: The Untold Story of Rana Kapoor Pavan C. Lall

Yearbook Seth Rogen

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