Book of poems entitled "Lamhe Lamhe" is written by which of the following Indian actresses?
Answer: A
Lamhe Lamhe was written by Deepti Naval.
The actress, known for Chashme Buddoor and Katha, is also a poet and painter; the collection appeared in 1983.
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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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Who is the author of "Anandmath"
Answer: B
It is Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.
Anandamath, published in 1882, is set during the Sannyasi rebellion in Bengal and contains Vande Mataram, which became the national song.
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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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Lala Lajpat Rai is the author of the book
Answer: B
It is Unhappy India.
Lala Lajpat Rai wrote it in 1928 as a reply to Katherine Mayo's Mother India, which had attacked Indian society to argue against self-rule. Gandhi called Mayo's book a drain inspector's report.
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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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"The Naked Face", a very popular book, is written by
Answer: D
It is Sidney Sheldon.
The Naked Face, published in 1970, was his first novel, written after a career in film and television, and won the Edgar Award for best first mystery.
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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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The famous book “A Better India, A Better world” has been written by
Answer: B
It is N. R. Narayana Murthy.
A Better India, A Better World, published in 2009, collects the Infosys founder's lectures on values in public life, education and what he called compassionate capitalism.
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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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