The author of the book "Changing Village, Changing Life" is
Answer: C
Changing Village, Changing Life was written by Prafulla Mohanti.
He is an Odia writer and painter who left his village of Nanpur for London and returned repeatedly to record how it changed. His earlier book My Village, My Life described it as he first knew it.
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‘Neela Chand’, which won the Vyas Samman in 1992, is written by
Answer: D
Neela Chand was written by Shiv Prasad Singh, and won the Vyas Samman in 1992.
The Vyas Samman is given by the K.K. Birla Foundation for an outstanding Hindi literary work published in the preceding ten years.
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Who said the words, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to Death your right to say it"?
Answer: C
It is attributed to Voltaire.
The sentence was not written by Voltaire but by his biographer Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906, as a summary of his attitude to Helvetius. It has been quoted as his ever since.
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Which of the following books has been written by Kamala Das?
Answer: D
Tonight This Savage Rite was written by Kamala Das, with Pritish Nandy, published in 1979.
She wrote poetry in English and fiction in Malayalam as Madhavikutty, and was among the most candid writers of her generation on love and the position of women.
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Who has written the book My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir?
Answer: B
My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir was written by Jagmohan, published in 1991.
He was twice governor of Jammu and Kashmir, including during the outbreak of militancy in 1990, and the book is his account of those years and their causes.
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Who wrote the famous book "We the People"?
Answer: C
Nani Palkhivala wrote We, the People: India, the Largest Democracy. Palkhivala was a constitutional lawyer and jurist, famous for arguing Kesavananda Bharati (1973), the case that established the basic structure doctrine.
The book collects his writings and speeches on the Constitution, the economy and civil liberties. T.N. Kaul was a diplomat and wrote memoirs of foreign service, not this title.
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"Ek Doctor Ki Maut" is film directed by-
Answer: C
Ek Doctor Ki Maut was directed by Tapan Sinha, released in 1990.
Pankaj Kapur plays a doctor who discovers a vaccine for leprosy and is destroyed by professional jealousy and bureaucratic obstruction. It won three National Film Awards.
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The book ‘Vish Vriksha’ was written by:
Answer: A
It was Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
Vishabriksha, the poison tree, was published in 1873 and takes as its subject widow remarriage and the destruction that follows a second marriage across social lines - among the first Bengali novels to treat a contemporary social question directly.
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"The Old Man and the Sea" was a short novel written by-
Answer: B
The Old Man and the Sea was written by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1952.
Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman, catches a great marlin and loses it to sharks on the way home. It won the Pulitzer Prize and was cited when Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in 1954.
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The author of "A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back"-
Answer: D
A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back was written by B.G. Deshmukh.
He was Cabinet Secretary and later principal secretary to three prime ministers - Rajiv Gandhi, V.P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar - and the book records those years from inside the office.
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