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Answer: (c)

Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000. The book has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and is on Oprah Winfrey’s Top Ten Book List.

Answer: (b)

Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. The book includes 19 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi in South India.

Answer: (c)

The book written by Stephen Hawking deals with fundamental questions of physics and our existence: where did the universe come from "How and why did it begin" Will it come to an end, and if so, how Hawking attempts to deal with these questions (and where we might look for answers) using a minimum of technical jargon.

Answer: (b)

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.

Answer: (a)

Niti-Shatak was written by Bhartrihari. Bhartrihari is a Sanskrit author who has written two influential Sanskrit texts: the Vakyapadiya, on Sanskrit grammar and linguistic philosophy, and the atakatraya, a work of Sanskrit poetry, comprising three collections of about 100 stanzas each.

Shahnama was written by Firdausi. Hakim Abul-Qasim Firdausi, most commonly known as Ferdausi; also spelt as Firdausi or Firdausi; 940 – 1020 CE, was a highly revered Persian poet. He is the author of the Shahnama, the national epic of Iran and the Persian-speaking world.

Akabarnama was written by Abul Fazal. Shaikh Abual Fazal ibn Mubarak (January 14, 1551 – August 12, 1602) was the wizier of the great Mughal emperor Akbar, and author of the Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar’s reign in three volumes, (the third volume is known as the Ain-i-Akbari) and a Persian translation of the Bible.

He was also one of the Nine Jewels (Navaratans) of Akbar’s royal court and the brother of Faizi, the poet laureate of emperor Akbar.