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Answer: (b)

Answer: (c)

The Freethinker’s Prayer Book is written by Khushwant Singh. In this eclectic and deeply personal collection, India’s grand old man of letters brings together precepts, prayers and practical advice by prophets, poets and philosophers, and his favourite passages from the seminal texts of the world’s major faiths.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

Dhruvaswamini is a famous drama by Jayshankar Prasad, considered one of the Four Pillars (Char Stambh) of Romanticism in Hindi Literature (Chhayavad), along with Sumitranandan Pant, Mahadevi Verma, and Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', which was published in 1933.

Prasad's most famous dramas include Skandagupta, Chandragupta and Dhruvaswamini.

Answer: (a)

Vetala Panchavimshati, is a collection of tales and legends within a frame story, from India. It was originally written in Sanskrit.

Vasavadatta is a Gupta period romantic akhyayika written in an ornate style of language that was in fashion at the height of Classical Sanskrit literature. Its author is Subandhu, a courtier of Kumaragupta I and his son Skandagupta.