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Bose wrote The Indian Struggle, 1920–1934 in Europe, where he lived in the mid-1930s for medical treatment. The book was first published in London in 1935.

Sukumar Ray wrote Abol Tabol, a collection of nonsense rhymes that is a landmark of Bengali children's writing, along with the story HaJaBaRaLa and the play Chalachittachanchari.

The cartoonist Shankar, famous for his political cartoons and for Shankar's Weekly, founded the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi in 1957 to publish good and affordable books for Indian children, and also started the Shankar's International Children's Competition for painting and writing as well as the doll museum in…

The race in which the slow tortoise beats the overconfident hare is one of the best known fables attributed to Aesop of ancient Greece, along with the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf and the lion and the mouse.

Dodgson was a mathematician at Oxford who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and the nonsense poem Jabberwocky belongs to the same world.

Anant Pai, known to generations of readers as Uncle Pai, began Amar Chitra Katha in 1967 after noticing that Indian children knew European fairy tales better than the stories of their own country, and in 1980 he launched the children's magazine Tinkle.

Ruskin Bond, who has lived in Mussoorie for most of his life, won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1992 for the collection Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra.

Mowgli the boy raised by wolves, Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Kaa the python and Shere Khan the tiger are the characters of The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling and set in the forests of central India.

The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2 April, and the International Board on Books for Young People chose that date for International Children's Book Day; the same body gives the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the little Nobel of children's literature.

The Panchatantra was first rendered into Middle Persian, and from that version it was turned into Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna, the two names being those of the jackals of the first book.

The Jataka tales form part of the Buddhist canon in Pali and number over five hundred.

The Panchatantra, a collection of animal fables in Sanskrit arranged in five books, is traditionally said to have been composed by Vishnu Sharma to teach practical statecraft to the dull witted sons of a king.

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? was written by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. and published in 2002.

The founder of the Essel group and of Zee, India's first privately owned Hindi satellite channel, told his story in The Z Factor, written with Pranjal Sharma.

The founder of Infosys gathered his lectures and convocation addresses into A Better India: A Better World, published in 2009, on themes of fairness in business, the duties of the educated and what he called compassionate capitalism.

Made in Japan was written by Akio Morita, who founded Sony with Masaru Ibuka, and it appeared in 1986.

Lean In was published in 2013 by Sheryl Sandberg, then Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and argues that women hold themselves back at work in ways that can be named and corrected, from leaving before they leave to underestimating their own readiness for a role.

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish appeared in 2008 and carries twenty-five profiles of entrepreneurs who had studied at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, grouped by whether they were born to business, were self-made or were driven by a cause.

Hit Refresh was published in 2017 by Satya Nadella, who became Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in 2014.

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike was written by Phil Knight and published in 2016.