English Proficiency Programme

Some suggestions for selection of reading material that grips and takes you forward

  1. Jeffrey Archer, Arthur Hailey, Satyajit Ray.

  2. O. Henry, H. H. Munro (Saki), Erle Stanley Gardner.

  3. Isaac Asimov, Somerset Maugham, Agatha Christie.

  4. J. R. R. Tolkien, P. G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

  5. Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, H. G. Wells, R. L. Stevenson, Mark Twain.

  6. History, Science, Psychology and Philosophy books written for layman audience.

Suggestion for Grammar

Nesfield and Nesfield only.

Suggestion for Vocabulary

Norman Lewis, Nurenberg and some others.

Online literature: Free repository of literature.

Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg: Lots of books available.


Note: You may find English dictionary/thesaurus and Hindi -- English dictionary on the net useful while reading or composing.

- Bhaskar Dasgupta