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Notable books by
Contemporary Indian Authors
Kiran Desai
D Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
D The Inheritance of Loss
Mulk Raj Anand
D Untouchable
D The Village
D Across the Black Waters
D The Sword and the Sickle
D Coolie
D The Private Life of an Indian Prince
D Seven Summers
D Morning Face
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie
D Grimus
D Midnights Children
D Shame
D The Satanic Verses
D The Moors Last Sigh
D The Ground Beneath Her Feet
D Fury
D Shalimar the Clown
D The Enchantress of Florence
D Homeless by Choice with R.
Jhabvala and V. S. Naipaul)
D East, West
D The Best American Short Stories
D Haroun and the Sea of Stories
D Luka and the Fire of Life
D The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan
Journey
R. K. Narayan
D Swami and Friends
D The Bachelor of Arts
D The Dark Room
D The English Teacher
D Mr. Sampath
D The Financial Expert
D Waiting for the Mahatma
D The Guide
D The Man-Eater of Malgudi
D The Vendor of Sweets
D The Painter of Signs
D A Tiger for Malgudi
D Talkative Man
D The World of Nagaraj

Grandmothers Tale
Next Sunday
My Dateless Diary
My Days
Reluctant Guru
The Emerald Route
A Writers Nightmare
Gods, Demons and Others
Malgudi Days
An Astrologers Day and Other
Stories
D Lawley Road and Other Stories
D A Horse and Two Goats
D Under the Banyan Tree and Other
Stories
D The Grandmothers Tale and
Selected Stories
Vikram Seth
D The Golden Gate
D A Suitable Boy
D An Equal Music
D A Suitable Girl
D An Equal Music
D A Suitable Boy \
D Beastly Tales
D \Two Lives
D The Rivered Earth
Khushwant Singh
D The Mark of Vishnu and Other
Stories
D The History of Sikhs
D Train to Pakistan
D The Voice of God and Other Stories
D I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
D The Sikhs Today
D The Fall of the Kingdom of the
Punjab
D A History of the Sikhs
D Ranjit Singh: The Maharajah of the
Punjab
D Ghadar 1915: Indias first armed
revolution
D A History of the Sikhs
D A Bride for the Sahib and Other
Stories
D Black Jasmine
D Tragedy of Punjab
D Delhi: A Novel
D Sex, Scotch and Scholarship
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Not a Nice Man to Know
We Indians
Women and Men in My Life
Uncertain Liaisons; Sex, Strife and
Togetherness in Urban India,
D Declaring Love in Four Languages
D The Company of Women
D Truth, Love and a Little Malice (an
autobiography)
D With Malice towards One and All
D The End of India
D Burial at the Sea
D Paradise and Other Stories
D A History of the Sikhs
D Death at My Doorstep
D A History of the Sikhs
D The Illustrated History of the Sikhs
D Why I Supported the Emergency:
Essays and Profiles
D The Sunset Club
D Agnostic Khushwant Singh, There is
no GOD
Anita Mazumdar Desai
The Artist Of Disappearance
The Zigzag Way
Diamond Dust and Other Stories
Fasting, Feasting
Journey to Ithaca
Baumgartners Bombay
In Custody
The Village By The Sea
Clear Light of Day
Games at Twilight
Fire on the Mountain
Cat on a Houseboat
Where Shall We Go This Summer?
The Peacock Garden
Bye-bye Blackbird
Voices in the City
Cry, The Peacock
India- A Travellers Literary
Companion
Arundhati Roy
The God of Small Things.
The End of Imagination
The Cost of Living
The Greater Common Good
The Algebra of Infinite Justice.
The Shape of the Beast
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Listening to Grasshoppers
Gita Mehta
Karma Cola
Raj
A River Sutra
Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of
Modern India
Eternal Ganesha
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Arranged Marriage
The Mistress of Spices
Sister of My Heart
The Unknown Errors of our Lives
Neela: Victory Song
The Vine of Desire
The Conch Bearer
Queen of Dreams
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming
The Palace of Illusions
Shadowland
One Amazing Thing
Grandma and the Great Gourd
Vikram Chandra
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Sacred Games
Love and Longing in Bombay
Amit Chaudhuri
A Strange and Sublime Address
Afternoon Raag, Heinemann
Freedom Song, Picador
A New World. Picador
The Immortals.
Raj Kamal Jha
Fireproof
Zwischen den Welten
If You Are Afraid of Heights
The Blue Bedspread, novel
Shobhaa De
shethji
Shobhaa at Sixty
Sandhyas secret
Superstar India - From Incredible to
Unstoppable
Strange Obsession
Snapshots
Spouse: The truth about marriage
Speedpost
Surviving Men
Selective Memory

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Second Thoughts
Small betrayals
Shooting from the hip
Sultry Days
Uncertain Liaisons
Sisters
Starry Nights
Socialite Evenings
Jhumpa Lahiri
Interpreter of Maladies
Unaccustomed Earth
The Namesake
The low land (2013)
Kiran Nagarkar Novels
Seven Sixes are Forty Three
Ravan and Eddie
Cuckold
Gods Little Soldier
The Extras
Bedtime Story
Kabirache Kay Karayche
Stranger Amongst Us
The Broken Circle
The Widow and Her Friends
The Elephant on the Mouse
V. S. Naipaul
The Mystic Masseur
The Suffrage of Elvira
Miguel Street
A House for Mr Biswas
Mr. Stone and the Knights
Companion
The Mimic Men
A Flag on the Island
In a Free State Booker prize winning
book
Guerrillas
A Bend in the River
Finding the Centre
The Enigma of Arrival
A Way in the World
Half a Life
The Nightwatchmans Occurrence
Book: And Other Comic Inventions
Magic Seeds
The Middle Passage: Impressions of
Five
An Area of Darkness
The Loss of El Dorado

The Overcrowded Barracoon

India: A Wounded Civilization
A Congo Diary
The Return of Eva Pern and the
Killings in Trinidad
Among the Believers: An Islamic
Journey
A Turn in the South
India: A Million Mutinies Now
Homeless by Choice
Bombay
Between Father and Son: Family
Letters
Reading & Writing: A Personal
Account
The Writer and the World
A Writers People: Ways of Looking
and Feeling
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of
African Belief
BIOGRAPHIES OF FAMOUS PERSONS
Ronald Reagan
An American
Life
Ronald Reagan
The ReaganDiaries
Nelson Mandela A Long Walk toFreedom
Margaret Thatcher The Path to
Power
Barack Obama
Dreams from My
Father
A.P.J.Abdul Kalam Wings of Fire
Fidel Castro
My Life: A
Spoken
Autobiography
Taslima Nasrin
Gusty Wind
Taslima Nasrin
Speak Up or
Split into two
Taslima Nasrin
Those Dark
Days
Taslima Nasrin
I am not fine, but
you stay well my
beloved country
Taslima Nasrin
Nothing is there
Muhammad Ali
The Greatest: My
Own Story
Nirad C. Chaudhuri The
Autobiography of an
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Agatha Christie An Autobiography

Bill Clinton
My Life
Dalai Lama
My Land and My
People
Kapil Dev
By Gods Decree &
Cricket My Style &
Straight From the
Heart
Charles Dickens Autobiographical
Fragments
Alexandre Dumas ereMes Memoires
Sigmund Freud An Autobiographical
Study
Michael Jackson Moonwalk
Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Akira Kurosawa Something Like an
Autobiography
Pete Sampras A Champions Mind:
Lessons From a Life
In Tennis
Leo Tolstoy
Childhood, Boyhood,
and Youth
Leo Tolstoy
My Confession

Oscar Wilde
Paramahansa

De Profundis
Yogananda
Autobiography of a
Yogi
Experiments with truth
Mahatma Gandhi

STATISTICS ON ALL BANKS OF INDIA

(Amount in Million)
During 2012-13
No. of banks
No. of Private Banks
(No. of old private banks -13
No. of new private banks -07)
No. of Foreign banks
No. of RRBs bank
No. of offices
No. of employees
Business per employee
Profit per employee
Capital Reserve & Surplus
Deposits
Investments
Advances
Interest Income
Other income
Interest expended
Operating expenses
Net Interest Margin
Cost of Funds (CoF)
Return on advances
adjusted to COF
Wages as % to total expenses
Return on Equity
Return on Assets
CRAR
Net NPA ratio

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20
43
82
92114
1096984
121.33
0.83
7089300
74295324
26132752
58797025
7636115
977866
5138027
1565855
2.79
6.12
4.21
13.02
13.84
1.03
13.88
1.68

IMPORTANT MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS IN BANKING

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TAKING OVER BANK

ICICI Bank
HDFC Bank
Centurion Bank of Punjab
ICICI Bank
Indian Overseas Bank
IDBI
Federal Bank
Centurion Bank
Oriental Bank of Commerce
Punjab National Bank
ICICI Bank
HDFC Bank

MERGED BANK
Bank of Rajasthan
Centurion Bank of Punjab
Lord Krishna Bank
Sangli Bank
Bharat Overseas Bank
United Western Bank
Ganesh Bank of Kurundwad
Bank of Punjab
Global Trust Bank
Nedungadi Bank
Bank of Madura
Times Bank

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SOME RECENT WORKING GROUPS & COMMITTEES BY RBI & THEIR FOCUS AREA
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Capital Account Convertibility

Technology Up gradation in the Banking Sector
Repurchase Agreements (Repos)
Restructuring Weak Public Sector Banks
setting up Credit Information Bureau in India
Urban Cooperative Banks
Internet Banking
Legal Aspects of Bank Frauds
Guidelines on STRIPS (Separately Traded
Registered Interest & Principal of Securities)
Payment Systems
Ways and Means Advances to State Govts
Cheque Truncation and E-cheques
Micro finance
Instruments of Sterilisation
Rupee Interest Rate Derivatives
Procedures & Performance of Public Services
Development Financial Institutions
Internal Working Group on RRBs
Issues of Rural Credit and Microfinance
Procedures and Processes of Agricultural Loans
Rehabilitation of Sick SMEs
Interest Rate Futures
Technology Up gradation of RRBs
Estimation of Savings and Investment
Financial Sector Assessment
Procedures for Currency Distribution
Review the Business Correspondent Model
to Review Lead Bank Scheme
Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR)
Branch Authorisation Policy
CRAR of RRBs
eview of the Credit Guarantee Scheme of the
Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and
Small Enterprises
Balance of Payments Manual for India
Information security, electronic banking,
Technology risk management, cyber frauds
Information Technology Vision Document
Operating Procedure of Monetary Policy
Financial Holding Company Structure in India
Customer Service in Banks
To Review the Facilities for FEMA Act , 1999
The Issues and Concerns in the NBFC Sector
Licensing of New Urban Co-Operative Banks

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S.S.Tarapore
Dr A.Vasudevan
Dr.T.C. Nair
M.S.Verma
N.H.Siddiqui
Madhav Rao
S.R.Mittal
Dr.N.L. Mitra

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M.R.Ramesh
A.L. Narasimhan
C.Ramachandran
Dr.Barman
Vepa Kamesam
Smt. Usha Thorat
G. Padmanabhan
Tarapore Committee
N. Sadasivan
A V Sardesai
H.R.Khan
C.P.Swarnkar
Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty
V.K. Sharma
G. Srinivasan
Dr. C. Rangarajan
Dr. Rakesh Mohan
Usha Thorat
P Vijaya Bhaskar Rao
Usha Thorat
Deepak Mohanty
P.Vijaya Bhaskar
Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty

2010
2010

V. K. Sharma
Deepak Mohanty

2011
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G.Gopalakrishna
Dr K C Chakrabarty
Deepak Mohanty
Shyamala Gopinath
M. Damodaran
K. J. Udeshi
Usha Thorat
Y.H. Malegam

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