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382.

Who among the following authors wrote books namely Among the Believers, India - A Million Mutinies, An Area of Darkness?

Answer: D

Among the Believers, India: A Million Mutinies Now and An Area of Darkness are all by V.S. Naipaul.

The three books on India span nearly thirty years, from the disillusion of An Area of Darkness in 1964 to the qualified hope of 1990. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

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384.

Who is the author of the books Five Weeks in a Balloon and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea?

Answer: A

It is Jules Verne.

Five Weeks in a Balloon of 1863 was his first success, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea of 1870 gave the world Captain Nemo and the Nautilus. The leagues in the title measure the voyage's distance, not its depth.

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386.

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India, is the author of the book-

Answer: B

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wrote Wings of Fire and Ignited Minds.

Wings of Fire (1999) is his autobiography to 1992; Ignited Minds (2002) addresses young Indians on what the country could become. The Algebra of Infinite Justice is Arundhati Roy's.

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388.

The book "The Man who knew Infinity" by Robert Kanigel is the biography of

Answer: A

It is Srinivasa Ramanujan.

Robert Kanigel's 1991 biography traces the clerk from Kumbakonam who sent his results to Hardy at Cambridge in 1913, and the collaboration that followed. Ramanujan died at 32, leaving notebooks still being worked through.

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390.

Which of the following newspapers was published in Bengali Language

Answer: A

It was Jugantar.

Started at Calcutta in 1906 by Barindra Kumar Ghosh and Bhupendranath Datta, it was the organ of the revolutionary group of the same name and was prosecuted repeatedly for sedition. Pratap, Dinamani and Loksatta are Hindi, Tamil and Marathi.

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