Books and Authors Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Kurukshetra to Kargil was written by Kuldip Singh.

It traces the evolution of warfare on the subcontinent from the epic battle to the high-altitude conflict of 1999.

Answer: D

It is Mark Mazzetti.

The New York Times correspondent's The Way of the Knife, published in 2013, traces how the CIA turned from spying to killing after 2001, and how the military built an intelligence service of its own.

Answer: D

The correct answer is None of these.

No book of this title belongs to any of the authors listed: V.S. Naipaul wrote A House for Mr Biswas and A Bend in the River, Chetan Bhagat Five Point Someone, and Vikram Seth A Suitable Boy. Check each name against its known works before choosing.

Answer: A

All Under Heaven was written by Pearl S. Buck.

She grew up in China as the daughter of missionaries and set most of her fiction there. The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938.

Answer: C

Lajja (Shame, 1993) is set in Bangladesh.

Taslima Nasrin's novel follows a Hindu family in Dhaka during the communal violence that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid. The book was banned in Bangladesh and the author forced into exile.

Answer: C

Gitanjali was written by Rabindranath Tagore.

His own English rendering, published in 1912 with an introduction by W.B. Yeats, won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 - the first Nobel awarded to an Asian.

Answer: A

It was Tulsidas.

He began the Ramcharitmanas at Ayodhya in 1574 and wrote it in Awadhi rather than Sanskrit, so that the story of Rama should reach ordinary people. Valmiki wrote the Sanskrit Ramayana.

Answer: C

It is Cyrus Mistry.

Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer, published in 2012, follows a khandhia, one of the Parsi corpse bearers who live apart at the Towers of Silence. It won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature in 2014.

Answer: C

It is by K. Giriprakash.

The business journalist's The Vijay Mallya Story, published in 2015, traces the rise of the United Breweries group and the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines, shortly before Mallya left India.

Answer: A

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.