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  2. List of autobiographies by Indians - Wikipedia

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    The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance: Audioautobiography - Om Audio Books 2013 Mary Kom: Unbreakable: Milkha Singh: The Race of My Life: Kapil Dev: Straight from the Heart: Vijay Kumar Singh: Courage and Conviction: Yuvraj Singh: The Test of My Life: M. Karunanidhi: Nejukku Needhi 6 Volumes. 3926 Pages. Covering period from 1924 to 2006 2014 K ...

  3. The Race of My Life - Wikipedia

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    Singh said that after reading his autobiography, a few Bollywood directors approached him, asking to make a film on his life. Singh's son, Jeev Milkha Singh, decided that the film rights be given to Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Singh sold the rights for ₹ 1, with a clause that 10-15% of the film's profits would be donated to his charitable trust. [3]

  4. The Act of Life - Wikipedia

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    The Act of Life is a 2006 autobiography about the Indian theatre and film actor Amrish Puri. Co-authored by Puri himself with Jyoti Sabharwal, the book chronicles his birth in 1932 and his 38-year-long theatrical and film career. The book was published on 24 May 2006 by Stellar Publishers, and critics were generally appreciative to the book.

  5. Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow - Wikipedia

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    Dilip Kumar: The Substance and the Shadow is a book about the filmmaker and politician Dilip Kumar that was written by the film journalist Udaya Tara Nayar.The first part of the book chronicles Kumar's and career; using first-person narrative, the autobiography chronicles Kumar's childhood in Peshawar, British India (present-day Pakistan); his education, his 62-year-long cinematic and ...

  6. Satyajit Ray - Wikipedia

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    He also wrote essays on film, published as the collections Our Films, Their Films (1976), Bishoy Chalachchitra (1976), and Ekei Bole Shooting (1979). During the mid-1990s, Ray's film essays and an anthology of short stories were also published in English in the West. Our Films, Their Films is an anthology of film criticism by Ray. The book ...

  7. Dalit literature - Wikipedia

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    In the 1960s and 1970s, Dalit autobiographies in India emerged as a powerful tool for social and political protest. Baluta, a groundbreaking autobiography by Dagdu Maruti Pawar that questioned the caste system and the social stigma associated with Dalit names, was one of the first and most impactful works. Many other Dalit writers followed suit ...

  8. The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian - Wikipedia

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    The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian is the 1951 autobiography of Indian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri. [1] [2] Written when he was around 50, it records his life from his birth in 1897 in Kishoreganj, a small town in present-day Bangladesh. The book relates his mental and intellectual development, his life and growth in Calcutta, his ...

  9. Kamleshwar (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Kamleshwar Prasad Saxena (6 January 1932 – 27 January 2007), known mononymously as Kamleshwar, was a 20th-century Indian writer who wrote in Hindi. He also worked as a screenwriter for Indian films and television industry. Among his most well-known works are the films Aandhi, Mausam, Chhoti Si Baat and Rang Birangi.