What is the name of the writer of indian origin whose novel, "The Inheritance of Loss" has bagged Man Booker Prize?
Answer: B
It was Kiran Desai.
The Inheritance of Loss won the Man Booker in 2006, when she was 35, the youngest woman then to have won it. Her mother Anita Desai had been shortlisted three times without winning.
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A Childhood in Malabar
Answer: B
A Childhood in Malabar was written by Kamala Das.
It is her memoir of growing up in the Nalapat family house in Kerala. She wrote poetry in English and fiction in Malayalam as Madhavikutty, and was among the most candid Indian writers of her generation.
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The original name of Mahabharata is
Answer: B
The Mahabharata was originally called Jaya Samhita - the collection of victory.
It grew from about 8,800 verses as Jaya, to 24,000 as Bharata, to the roughly 100,000 of the Mahabharata, which makes it the longest epic poem in the world.
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George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was
Answer: B
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped, was a Scotsman.
He was born in Edinburgh in 1850 and died in Samoa in 1894.
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Who has written the book entitled "Hind Swaraj" ?
Answer: B
It was Mahatma Gandhi.
He wrote Hind Swaraj in Gujarati in 1909, on the voyage from London to South Africa, in ten days and with both hands when one tired. It sets out his critique of modern civilisation and his case for swaraj as self-rule in the moral sense.
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Who is the author of the book "Nineteen Eighty Four"?
Answer: C
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) was written by George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair.
The novel gave English "Big Brother", "doublethink" and "Newspeak". Orwell also wrote Animal Farm (1945).
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Who is author of the book "Kamayani"?
Answer: C
Kamayani was written by Jaishankar Prasad, published in 1936.
It is an epic poem in Hindi retelling the story of Manu and the flood as an allegory of the human mind, and is regarded as the finest work of the Chhayavad movement.
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Which of the following English films was the first one to be dubbed in Hindi?
Answer: A
Aladdin was the first English film dubbed into Hindi.
Disney's 1992 animated feature opened the way for the routine dubbing of Hollywood releases into Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, which now accounts for a substantial share of their Indian earnings.
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Who is the author of the Novel "Les Miserables"
Answer: B
It was Victor Hugo.
Les Miserables, published in 1862, follows Jean Valjean, imprisoned nineteen years for stealing bread, through the Paris of the 1832 uprising. One sentence in it runs to over 800 words.
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Who wrote the novel "Tamas"?
Answer: A
Tamas was written by Bhisham Sahni, published in 1974.
It is set in a town in north-west India in the weeks before partition, and shows how communal violence is manufactured. It won the Sahitya Akademi Award and was filmed by Govind Nihalani in 1988.
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