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Questions : Consider the following statements
  1. Brahma Sutras was written by Badarayana.
  2. Natya Shastra was written by Bhartbihari.
Select the correct answer

(a) All of the above

(b) None of the above

(c) 2 only

(d) 1 only

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (d)

Natya Shastra was written by Bharata Muni.

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Question : 1

Who amongst the following is the author of the classic book Life Divine ?

a) Swami Vivekananda

b) Aurobindo Ghosh

c) Ravi Shankar

d) Radha Krishnan

Answer: (b)

The Life Divine is Sri Aurobindo’s major philosophical opus. It combines a synthesis of western thought and eastern spirituality with Sri Aurobindo’s own original insights.

The Life Divine covers topics such as the human aspiration, the emergence of life in the cosmos from out of a Divine Source, the evolution of matter to spirit in the universe, the division and dualities inherent in human consciousness, the way out of man’s ignorance through an evolution of consciousness, and the spiritual destiny of life on earth.

The Life Divine was translated into poetic Bengali in “Divya Jeevan Prasanga” by the scholar saint Sri Anirvan.

Question : 2

The books, Niti Shatak, Shringaar Shatak and Vairagya Shatak are written by

a) Kabir Das

b) Bhavabhuti

c) Bhartrihari

d) Bana Bhatt

Answer: (c)

Question : 3

Which one of the following works has recently been made into a full lenght featured film?

a) Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

b) Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English August

c) R.K Narayan’s Malgudi Days

d) Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Answer: (b)

English, August: An Indian Story is a novel by Indian author Upamanyu Chatterjee written in English, first published in 1988. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1994.

Question : 4

Which of the following books was not written by a Nobel Laureate?

a) Beyond Belief

b) Midnight’s Children

c) Miguel Street

d) Half a Life

Answer: (b)

Midnight's Children is a 1980 book by Salman Rushdie that deals with India's transition from British colonialism to independence and the partition of British India. Rushdie has not won the Nobel Prize. Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1981.

It was awarded the "Booker of Bookers" Prize and the best all-time prize winners in 1993 and 2008 to celebrate the Booker Prize 25th and 40th anniversary.

Question : 5

Who wrote the book named ‘Baiga’?

a) Verrier Elwin

b) S.C. Roy

c) H. Rizle

d) D.N. Majumdar

Answer: (a)

Question : 6

Who has written ‘An Equal Music’?

a) Khushwant Singh

b) Shobha De

c) Anita Desai

d) Vikram Seth

Answer: (d)

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