"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Who said this?
Answer: A
A Simple Path was written by Mother Teresa, compiled with Lucinda Vardey.
The book sets out her spiritual method in five steps - silence, prayer, faith, love and service. It reflects the working philosophy of the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in Calcutta in 1950.
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Which Prime Minister's autobiography is titled "Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography"?
Answer: D
Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography is by I.K. Gujral.
He was prime minister from 1997 to 1998 and is remembered for the Gujral Doctrine, which offered India's smaller neighbours concessions without expecting reciprocity.
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Author of the book "The City of Joy" is:
Answer: B
The City of Joy was written by Dominique Lapierre, published in 1985.
It describes life in the Anand Nagar slum of Calcutta. Lapierre gave much of the royalties to charitable work in the city, and the book was filmed by Roland Joffé in 1992.
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Who is the author of the book The 3 Mistakes of My Life?
Answer: D
The 3 Mistakes of My Life was written by Chetan Bhagat, published in 2008.
It is set in Ahmedabad around the 2001 earthquake and the 2002 riots, and follows three friends and a cricket shop. It was filmed as Kai Po Che! in 2013.
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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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