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Questions : Out of the following artists, who has written the book, Meandering Pastures of Memories?

(a) Saroja Vaidyanathan

(b) Geeta Chandran

(c) Shovana Narayan

(d) Yamini Krishnamoorthy

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (c)

Meandering pastures of memories has been authored by Shovana Narayan, best known as one of the best Kathak danseuses in the world. The pastures of memories cover activities of Shovana Narayan. It subtly reveals the dawn of a new era of dance reflecting humanity, harmony, feminism, dignity, dialogue and concern for global peace.

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Question : 1

Which of the following books has been written by Kishwar Desai?

a) Witness the Night

b) Earth and Ashes

c) The Red Devil

d) Tonight This Savage Rite

Answer: (a)

Kishwar Desai is an Indian author. Her first novel, Witness the Night, won the Costa Book Award in 2010 for Best First Novel. Her latest novel Origins of Love was published in June 2012.

Both novels feature a feisty Indian middle-aged social worker Simran Singh, who gets involved in social problems and tries to find a resolution. In the first novel, Witness the Night, she tries to rescue a young girl accused of a horrific crime in Punjab (India) and while trying to help her stumbles upon the frightening and still prevalent tradition of female foeticide and infanticide in India.

The judges of the Costa Award (Anita Rani, Anneka Rice and Mark Thornton) said about ‘Witness the Night’, “Kishwar Desai pulls off a remarkable trick, transplanting a country-house murder to modern-day India in a book that’s not afraid to tackle serious themes” The book was also longlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize.

Question : 2

Who is the author of ‘Ashtadhyayi’?

a) Panini

b) Gitta Piramal

c) Sumitranandan

d) Raj Anand

Answer: (a)

Ashtadhyayi is Sanskrit treatise on grammar written in the 6th to 5th century BCE by the grammarian Panini.

Question : 3

The memoirs entitled ‘Bapu : My Mother’ was written by

a) Mahadev Desai

b) B.R. Nanda

c) Manubehn

d) Rajkumari Amrita Kaur

Answer: (c)

Question : 4

Who was the author of ‘India of My Dreams’ ?

a) M.K. Gandhi

b) Jawaharlal Nehru

c) J.B. Kripalani

d) Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Answer: (a)

Mahatma Gandhi: My Experiments with Truth, India of My Dreams

Jawaharlal Nehru: The Discovery of India, Glimpses of World History.

Question : 5

Which one of the following is correctly matched?

a) Sachindra Nath Sanyal - Indian Struggle

b) Bhagat Singh - An Introduction to the Dreamland

c) Bhagwati Charan Vohra - Why I am an Atheist?

d) Subhash Chandra Bose - Bandi Jivan

Answer: (b)

Question : 6

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer using the code given below the lists

List I List II
(Authors) (Books)
A. Rajendra Prasad 1. Nation in Making
B. Dilip Mukherjee 2. India Divided
C. S.N. Banerjee 3. My Experiments with Truth
D. Mahatma Gandhi 4. Terrorist
Codes: A B C D

a) 2 4 1 3

b) 1 2 4 3

c) 2 4 3 1

d) 1 4 2 3

Answer: (a)

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