Autobiographies & Memoirs of Famous Indian Personalities

This post lists some of the famous autobiographies and memories that were written by famous Indian personalities of all time.

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Autobiographies & Memoirs of Famous Indian Personalities

A

• A Century is Not Enough: My Roller-coaster Ride to Success – Sourav Ganguly.
• A Grain of Sand in the Hourglass of Time – Arjun Singh.
• A Life of an Ordinary Indian: An exercise in self-importance – Anil K. Rajvanshi.
• A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold – Abhinav Bindra.
• Ace against Odds – Sania Mirza.
• All from Memory – B. V. Acharya (High Court Judge).
• An Autobiography (also known as Toward Freedom) – Jawahar Lal Nehru.
• And Then One Day: A Memoir – Nasiruddin Shah.
• Annie Besant: An Autobiography – Annie Besant.
• Atmakatha – Anna Chandy (First Woman Judge, written in Malayalam).
• Atmakatha – Dr. Rajendra Prasad (First President).
• Autobiography of an Actor – Sivaji Ganesan (Tamil Actor).
• Autobiography of a Yogi – Paramahansa Yogananda.

B

• Baburnama – Babur.
• Black Rose – Amritha Pritam.
• Bonding… A Memoir – Vyjayantimala Bali.
• By God's Decree: The Autobiography of Kapil Dev – Kapil Dev.

C

• Courage and Conviction – General Vijay Kumar Singh.
• Courage & Commitment: An Autobiography – Margaret Alva.
• Cracking the Code: My Journey in Bollywood – Ayushmann Khurana (Actor).

D

• Dreaming Big: My Journey to Connect India – Sam Pitroda (Co-author: David Chanoff).

E

• En Sarithiram – U. V. Swaminathan Iyer (Tamil Scholar).
• Ente Katha (My Story) – Kamala Surayya.

G

• Goal – Major Dhyan Chand.
• Golden Girl – P.T. Usha.

H

• Happy For No Reason – Mandira Bedi.
• How I Became a Hindu – Sita Ram Goel.

I

• I Am No Messiah – Sonu Sood.
• I too had a dream – Dr. Varghese Kurian. (LDC/Time Keeper/Computer Programmer, 2025)
• In the Afternoon of Time: An Autobiography – Harivansh Rai Bachchan.
• In the footsteps of the Mahatma – B.D. Birla.

J

• Jakhan Choto Chilam – Satyajit Ray (Director, written in Bengali).
• Joseph Anton – Salman Rushdie.

L

• Lessons Life Taught Me, Unknowingly: An Autobiography – Anupam Kher.
• Life On My Terms: From the Grassroots to the Corridors of Power – Sharad Pawar.
• Living Shadows – Aribam Syam Sharma (Film Director).

M

• Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha – Shantabai Krushnaji Kamble (Marathi Writer).
• Matters of Discretion – I.K. Gujral.
• My Country My Life – L.K. Advani.
• My Days – R.K. Narayan.
• My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia – Agni Sreedhar (Sahitya Academy Award).
• My Experiments with Truth – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
• My Life and Times – V.V. Giri.
• My Many Trysts with God – P. V. Raghunathan.
• My Music My Life – Pandit Ravi Shankar.
• My Own Boswell: Memoirs – M. Hidayatullah.
• My Presidential Years – R. Venkataraman.
• My Reminiscences – R.N. Tagore.
• My Tale of Four Cities – Jayant V Narlikar.
• My Times: An Autobiography – J. B. Kripalani (Freedom Fighter).

N

• Nejukku Needhi – M. Karunanidhi (written in Tamil).

O

• One Life Is Not Enough – K. Natwar Singh.

P

• Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar.
• Playing to Win - My Life On and Off Court – Saina Nehwal.

R

• Raga Mala – Pandit Ravi Shankar.
• Revenue Stamp: An Autobiography – Amrita Pritam.
• Romancing With Life – Dev Anand (Actor, Memoir).
• Roses in December – M.C. Chagla.

S

• Shadows of Words – Amritha Pritam.
• Shashi Kapoor – the Householder, the Star – Shashi Kapoor.
• Shuttler’s Flick: Making Every Match Count – Pullela Gopichand.
• Straight from the Heart – Kapil Dev.
• Stumped, Life behind and beyond Twenty Two Yards – Syed Kirmani.  (LDC/Time Keeper/Computer Programmer, 2025)
• Sunny Days – Sunil Gavaskar.

T

• The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian – Nirad C. Chaudhuri.
• The Bandit Queen of India – Phoolan Devi.
• The Fall of a Sparrow – Salim Ali (Ornithologist).
• The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance – Dr. Verghese Kurien (Amul).
• The Nice Guy Who Finished First: A Biography of Rahul Dravid – Devendra Prabhudesai.
• The Insider – P.V. Narasimha Rao.
• The Race of My Life – Milkha Singh.
• The Revenue Stamp – Amritha Pritam.
• The Score of My Life – Zubin Mehta.
• The Story of a Law Teacher: Turning Point – Dr. N.R. Madhava Menon (Lawyer, Father of Modern Legal Education).
• The Substance And The Shadow: An Autobiography – Dilip Kumar (Actor).
• The Test of My Life – Yuvraj Singh.
• The Tunnel of Time – R. K. Laxman (Cartoonist).
• The Z Factor: My Journey as the Wrong Man at the Right Time – Subhash Chandra.
• Truth, Love & a Little Malice – Khushwant Singh.
• Tuzk-e-Jahangiri – Jahangir.

U

• Unbreakable – Mary Kom.
• An Unsuitable Boy – Karan Johar.

W

• Waiting for a Visa – B. R. Ambedkar.
• Wandering in Many Worlds – V. R. Krishna Iyer.
• Why I am an Atheist – Bhagat Singh.
• Whom To Tell My Tale – Kartar Singh Duggal.
• Wings of Fire – Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
• Wular Ke Kinarey – Syed Ali Geelani.

Miscellaneous

• 281 and Beyond – VVS Laxman.

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