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Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Khushwant Singh is an Indian novelist and journalist. Singh’s weekly column, “With Malice towards One and All”, carried by several Indian newspapers, is among the most widely-read columns in the country.

An IndoAnglican novelist, Singh is best known for his trenchant secularism, his humour, and his abiding love of poetry.

His comparisons of social and behavioural characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. He is a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan the second-highest civilian award in India.

Khushwant Singh, one of India’s most well-known and widely read authors, commenced writing The Company of Women when he was eighty-three and finished at age eighty-five.

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President of India (1952–1962) and the second President of India from 1962 to 1967.

Some of his famous books include:

1. An Idealist View of Life (1929);
2. The Bhagavadgita (1948); and
3. The Hindu View of Life (1926).

Conquest of Self has been authored by Mahatma Gandhi.

Answer: (c)