Books and Authors Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The Future of Freedom (2003) was written by Fareed Zakaria.

Subtitled Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad, it argues that elections alone do not make a free society without constitutional liberalism to constrain the majority.

Answer: B

Aristotle said man is a political animal.

The phrase is from the Politics: zoon politikon, an animal of the polis. He meant that human beings realise their nature only in the life of a city-state, and that one who could live outside it would be either a beast or a god.

Answer: B

It is Mark Tully.

No Full Stops in India, published in 1991, collects the essays of the BBC's long-serving Delhi correspondent, arguing that India should be understood on its own terms rather than as a country failing to become western.

Answer: D

A Passage to India was written by E.M. Forster, published in 1924.

It turns on what did or did not happen in the Marabar Caves, and on whether an Englishman and an Indian can be friends under empire. Forster wrote no further novel in the remaining 46 years of his life.

Answer: D

The film Gandhi (1982) was directed by Richard Attenborough.

It won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley. Attenborough spent nearly twenty years raising finance for the project.

Answer: D

It was Bentham.

Jeremy Bentham founded utilitarianism on the principle that the object of government is the greatest happiness of the greatest number, and that pleasure and pain alone determine what people ought to do.

Answer: B

India in Transition was written by the economist Jagdish Bhagwati.

Bhagwati is a leading authority on international trade and a long-standing advocate of liberalising the Indian economy. The book (1993) analysed the reforms that followed the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis.

Answer: C

It was John Keats.

The line opens Endymion, published in 1818: a thing of beauty is a joy for ever, its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness. Keats was 22 and had three years to live.

Answer: C

A Captain's Diary was written by Alec Stewart.

The England wicketkeeper-batsman captained the side in 1998–99, and played 133 Tests, more than any other England cricketer at the time of his retirement.

Answer: A

Jawaharlal Nehru's An Autobiography was first published in 1936, in London.

He wrote it in Almora and Dehradun jails between 1934 and 1935. It is sometimes titled Toward Freedom in its American edition.