Before Playing It My Way was launched, Walter Isaacson, who wrote biographies on people such as Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein, wrote a biography on this man, which held the record in India for most preordered book?
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Playing It My Way Playing It My Way is the autobiography of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. It was launched on 5 November 2014 in Mumbai. The book summarises Tendulkar's early days, his 24 years of international career and aspects of his life that have not been shared publicly. It entered the Limca Book of Records for being the best selling adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories. In India, it broke the record set by Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs for being the most pre-ordered biographical book.
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Steve Jobs (book) Steve Jobs is the authorized self-titled biography book of Steve Jobs. The book was written at the request of Jobs by Walter Isaacson, a former executive at CNN and "TIME" who has written best-selling biographies of Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein.
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Sonny Mehta Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta (born 1942) is the current editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf and chairman of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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Mehera Irani Mehera Jehangir Irani (January 7, 1907 - May 20, 1989) was Meher Baba's closest mandali (disciple). Meher Baba said she was the purest soul in the universe and that she loved him as he ought to be loved. He called her his "Radha" and said, "She is my very breath without which I cannot live." Her accounts of her life with Meher Baba are exhaustively and carefully documented in the three volume chronicle, "Mehera-Meher: A Divine Romance", written by David Fenster, based on tape-recordings of Mehera he made.
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Dick Merrill Henry Tyndall "Dick" Merrill (February 1, 1894 – October 31, 1982) was an early aviation pioneer. Among his feats he was the highest paid air mail pilot, flew the first round-trip transatlantic flight in 1936, was Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal pilot during the 1952 presidential elections, set several speed records, and would go on to be Eastern Air Lines' most experienced pilot with over 36,000 hours until his retirement in 1961. In total, Merrill flew over 45,000 hours as pilot in command, covering over eight million miles.
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Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India Swami Vivekananda: Messiah of Resurgent India (2003) is a book written by Pranaba Ranjan Bhuyan. This book is a comprehensive biography of Swami Vivekananda. The book was published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist, New Delhi.
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I, Me, Mine I, Me, Mine is an autobiographic work by George Harrison, published in 1980 as a hand-bound, limited edition book by Genesis Publications, with a mixture of printed text and multi-colour facsimiles of Harrison's handwritten lyrics. It was limited to 2000 signed copies, with a foreword by Derek Taylor. The Genesis limited edition sold out soon after publication, and it was subsequently published in hardback and paperback in black ink by W H Allen in London and by Simon & Schuster in New York. The book was released a few weeks before the assassination of John Lennon which also happened in New York. Lennon had taken offence at Harrison's book, telling interviewer David Sheff that "I was hurt by it ... By glaring omission in the book, my influence on his life is absolutely zilch and nil ... I'm not in the book". Harrison, in fact, does mention Lennon several times (although not as a musical influence, which was the point of Lennon's displeasure). "I, Me, Mine" was re-published with a new foreword from Harrison's widow, Olivia, in 2002.
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Raja Bahadur Kirtyanand Sinha Raja Bahadur Kirtyanand Sinha (1880-1938) was the more prominent and better educated son of Raja Lilanand Singh. He was a Bachelor of Arts from Allahabad University, and was famous for his many pursuits including shikaar (hunting), Polo, as also for the role he played in the contemporary public life. He wrote three books: "Purnea, a Shikarland"; "Shikar in Hills and Jungles"; and "Homeopathic Practice".
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James Thomas Flexner James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award
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The Polyester Prince The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani is an unauthorized biography of Indian business tycoon and Reliance Industries founder Dhirubhai Ambani. The book was written by Australian journalist Hamish McDonald and first published by Allen & Unwin, an Australian publisher, in 1998. The book was never published in India and was banned there.
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Gopi Krishna (yogi) Gopi Krishna (30 May 1903 – 31 July 1984) of India was a yogi, mystic, teacher, social reformer, and writer. His autobiography is known under the title "".
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Sugata Bose Sugata Bose (born 7 September 1956) is an Indian historian and politician who has taught and worked in the United States since the mid-1980s. His fields of study are South Asian and Indian Ocean history. Bose taught at Tufts University until 2001, when he accepted the Gardiner Chair of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. Bose is also the Director of the Netaji Research Bureau in Kolkata, India, a research center and archives devoted to the life and work of Bose's great uncle, the Indian nationalist, Subhas Chandra Bose. Bose is the author most recently of "His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire" (2011) and "A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire" (2006).
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List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of "Satyagraha" — the resistance of alleged tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon "ahimsa" or total nonviolence — which inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world with the honorific "Mahatma Gandhi" (Sanskrit: महात्मा "mahātmā" — "Great Soul") and as "Bapu" (Gujarati: બાપુ "bāpu" — "Father"). In India, he is recognised as the Father of the Nation by the political class and 2 October, his birthday, is commemorated each year on Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday and dry day.
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My Years with Apu: A Memoir My Years with Apu: A Memoir, first published in 1994, is a memoir by the Indian film director Satyajit Ray. The book was published posthumously. The memoir describes Ray's experience and thoughts during the making of the acclaimed Apu Trilogy.
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Pankaj Roy Pankaj Roy    (31 May 1928 – 4 February 2001) was an Indian cricketer. A right-handed opening batsman, he is best known for establishing the world record opening partnership of 413 runs, together with Vinoo Mankad, against New Zealand at Chennai. The record stood until 2008. He was honoured with the Padma Shri. His nephew Ambar Roy and son Pranab Roy also played Test cricket for India.
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Swami Anand Swami Anand (8 September 1887 – 25 January 1976) was a monk, a Gandhian activist and a Gujarati writer. He is remembered as the manager of Gandhi's publications such as "Navajivan" and "Young India" and for having inspired Gandhi to pen his autobiography, "The Story of My Experiments with Truth". In 1969, he was conferred the Central Sahitya Akademi Award for Gujarati literature for his work "Kulkathao".
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Robert Walpole (1650–1700) Colonel Robert Walpole (18 November 1650 – 18 November 1700) was an English Whig politician and soldier who represented the borough of Castle Rising from 1689 to 1700 in the House of Commons of England. Because he held the rank of Colonel in the militia, he was widely known as Colonel Walpole. He is mainly notable for being the father of Sir Robert Walpole. His son, who served during the reigns of George I and George II, is considered to have been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is also known for being the "Guinness World Records" titular for having the world's longest overdue book.
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Nautamlal Bhagavanji Mehta Nautamlal Bhagavanji Mehta, or the Nagar Sheth of Jetpur (2 September 1879 – 2 September 1968) was an Indian independence activist and a supporter of Mahatma Gandhi. He was also a prominent businessman and a pioneer of the Gandhian Movement in Gujarat. He is also believed to be the first to bestow the title "Mahatma" to Gandhi, not Rabindranath Tagore, as many believe. Mehta wrote a manpatra using the term, which has been authenticated by the National Gandhi Museum in New Delhi.
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Gandhi family The Gandhi family is the family of Mohandas Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) who was the distinguished leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Mahatma Gandhi is also officially called the Father of the Nation; a title given to him by Subhas Chandra Bose on 6 July 1944 during his address on the Singapore Radio. On 28 April 1947, Sarojini Naidu too referred Gandhi with the title "Father of the Nation". Gandhi is also referred to as Bapu (Gujarati: endearment for "father", in India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. An anonymous journalist from Jetpur town in Saurashtra, in an anonymous letter referred Mohandas KaramChand Gandhi as "Mahatma" (Sanskrit: "high-souled", "venerable"), for the first time while he was still in South Africa.
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Pioneers of Science Pioneers of Science (Turkish: "Bilimin öncüleri" ) (ISBN  ) is a book by Cemal Yıldırım which has run to 22 editions. The book explains the scientific method with anecdotes from significant figures in scientific history such as Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr and Marie Curie.
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S. Sambhu Prasad Sivalenka Sambhu Prasad (26 January 1911 – 8 June 1972) was a journalist and Indian National Congress politician, who took over the Daily News Paper Andhra Patrika (Daily Telugu language Newspaper), Andhra Sachitra Vara Patrika (Telugu Language Weekly Magazine) and Bharathi (Telugu Language Monthly covering classical Literature) which were published from Chennai City (then Madras) which was the capital of Composite State of Madras (Madras Presidency) from his father-in-law Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao, the founder of Andhra Patrika group of publications in 1903, inventor of "Amrutanjan", a pain balm with natural ingredients, in 1893 and a freedom-fighter. After taking over he led the group of publications from 1938 to 1972. Rao also bequeathed all properties and Amrutanjan business to Sambhu Prasad, which he ran along with publications. During Sambhu Prasad's lifetime there were many important events in India, including the Second World War, the Independence of India, and much of the life, and the death, of Mahatma Gandhi. He was called "Ayyavaru" (Teacher and Guru) by his employees.
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India as a Secular State India as a Secular State is a book written by Donald Eugene Smith and published by Princeton University Press in 1963.