Books & Authors Quiz: Books by Film, Music and Art Personalities

Romancing with Life appeared in 2007, timed to the actor's eighty-fourth birthday, and covers his arrival in Bombay, the founding of Navketan Films with his brother Chetan Anand, and the making of films such as Guide and Hare Rama Hare Krishna.

The director of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai wrote this memoir with the journalist Poonam Saxena, and its title plays deliberately on Vikram Seth's novel A Suitable Boy, which is the trap most often set with this question.

The book came out in 2014 and was narrated by the actor to the journalist Udayatara Nayar, which is why it is described as an autobiography rather than a biography.

His 2014 memoir runs from a childhood in Uttar Pradesh through the National School of Drama and the Film and Television Institute of India to the parallel cinema of the nineteen seventies.

He is among the few figures honoured both by the film world and by the Sahitya Akademi, and the award of 2002 was for Dhuan, a collection of Urdu short stories; his poetry collections include Raat Pashmine Ki and Pluto.

The lyricist and screenwriter published the collection Tarkash earlier and followed it with Lava, for which the Sahitya Akademi honoured him in Urdu in 2013.

Besides directing, Ray wrote constantly in Bengali and in English: the essays of Our Films, Their Films, the memoir My Years with Apu on the making of Pather Panchali, the childhood recollections of Jakhan Chhoto Chhilam, the Feluda detective stories and the Professor Shonku science fiction.

The sitar player wrote two books about his own life and art: My Music, My Life, an early introduction to Hindustani music written for readers abroad, and Raga Mala, the autobiography edited by his student George Harrison of the Beatles.

He wrote the Sangita Ratnakara in the thirteenth century at a Yadava court in the Deccan, and because it describes practice as it stood before the Hindustani and Carnatic systems drew apart, both traditions treat it as authoritative.

The former actress turned columnist published Mrs Funnybones as her first book and followed it with the fiction of The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad and Pyjamas Are Forgiving.