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Who is the author of the novel titled “An Extreme Love of Coffee” launched in Starbucks, Mumbai?
Ashoke Kumar Sarkar
Ernest Samuel Ratnakumar
Harish Bhat
Jitendra Panwar
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Answer: Option CExplanation
On November 13, 2019, Harish Bhat’s first novel, “An Extreme Love of Coffee”, published by Penguin Random House India with the collaboration of Tata Starbucks launched at Starbucks, Mumbai. Harish Bhat also wrote the bestselling book named “Tata log”, and he is a chairman of Tata Coffee Ltd and also the brand custodian of Tata Sons Private Limited.
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Who is the author of the novel entitled “Accidental Magic”, that documents the Harry Potter nostalgia and straddles multiple contexts?
Meena Kandasamy
Ira Trivedi
Keshava Guha
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
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Answer: Option CExplanation
On November 11, 2019, Author Keshava Guha‘s new novel entitled “Accidental Magic”, Published by HarperCollins India, was launched at the Bangalore Literature Festival in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The novel documents the Harry Potter nostalgia and straddles multiple contexts such as the world of fan fiction, university life, with complex themes like solitude, self-discovery, identity, aspirations, and the tussle between love and duty.
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Who released the Assamese version of the book “Courts of India”?
Sarbananda Sonowal
Ranjan Gogoi
Jagdish Mukhi
Sujaul Karim
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Chief Justice of India (CJI) Ranjan Gogoi released the Assamese version of the book “Courts of India” in Guwahati on 10 November 2019. The book titled Courts of India captured the historical developments that took place in the history of India’s courts. The various chapters of the book narrates the various and important historical events of the court.
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Which cricketer wrote down his autobiography titled ‘281 and beyond’?
V. V. S. Laxman
Rahul Dravid
None of these
Sourav Ganguly
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Answer: Option AExplanation
After Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly, their teammate, former Indian cricketer, VVS Laxman, released his autobiography in the month of 20 November 2018. He retired from the game in 2012.
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Who won the Golden Man Booker International Prize 2018?
Michael Ondaatje
Olga Tokarczuk
Jennifer Croft
None of these
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Answer: Option AExplanation
The book “The English Patient,” the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje, won the Golden Man Booker Prize 2018.
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Who is the author of “The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra”?
Arupjyoti Gogoi
Arupjyoti Saikia
Biman Lahkar
Surya Kumar Bhuyan
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Answer: Option BExplanation
“The Unquiet River: A Biography of the Brahmaputra” describes the mighty Brahmaputra river, shaping the landscape of the Assam valley and livelihoods of its inhabitants. Historian Arupjyoti Saikia combines a range of disciplinary scholarship to unravel the geographical forces as well as a human endeavour in association with the river’s present shape.
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Who is the author of the book titled “The Unquiet River: A biography of the Brahmaputra”?
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Saikat Majumdar
Arupjyoti Saikia
Himanjali Sankar
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Answer: Option CExplanation
On October 28, 2019, a new book titled “The Unquiet River: A biography of the Brahmaputra” by historian Arupjyoti Saikia is to be released. The book which will be published by Oxford University Press (OUP), portrays the landscape of Assam valley and the livelihoods around, that shaped the river.
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Who has authored the book “Ten Studies in Kashmir: History and Politics” published by Academic Foundation?
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Kashi Nath Pandit has authored the book “Ten Studies in Kashmir: History and Politics” published by Academic Foundation.
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Who is the author of the book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster”?
Bill Gates
Satya Nadella
Sundar Pichai
Mark Zuckerberg
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Answer: Option AExplanation
Bill Gates is writing a book about energy and climate change that will be published by Allen Lane in the UK in June 2020. The book, which has been titled How To Avoid A Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, will share all that Gates has learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address the problems. He will set out a vision for how the world can work to build the tools it needs to get to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.
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Who is the author of the book “A Sorrow Beyond Dreams”?
Bob Dylan
Olga Tokarczuk
Kazuo Ishiguro
Peter Handke
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Answer: Option DExplanation
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (German: Wunschloses Unglück) is a 1972 semi-autobiographical novella by the Austrian writer Peter Handke. It is based on the life of Handke’s mother
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The book, titled ‘Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar’ will be launched on Sridevi’s 56th birth anniversary. The book is written by author-screenwriter
Vikram Seth
Satyarth Nayak
Chetan Bhagat
Amrita Pritam
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The book, titled ‘Sridevi: Girl Woman Superstar’ will be launched on Sridevi’s 56th birth anniversary. The book is written by author-screenwriter Satyarth Nayak.
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Who is the author of the book “Tools and Weapons: The Promise and The Peril of the Digital Age”?
Jeff Bezos
Sundar Pichai
Satya Nadella
Brad Smith
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Answer: Option DExplanation
The book “Tools and Weapons: The Promise and The Peril of the Digital Age” has been co-authored by Microsoft President Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne, and will release on September 11. The book will provide a behind-the-scene look at the multinational technology company and tell some of the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade. The book comes at a time when the company finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These include privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of AI, big tech’s relationship to inequality and the challenges for democracy, far and near.
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Who is the author of the book “Indo-Pak Relations : Beyond Pulwama & Balakot”?
U V Singh
Vinit Goenka
Amish Tripathi
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
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Answer: Option AExplanation
The book titled “Indo-Pak Relations: Beyond Pulwama and Balakot” has been authored by Dr. U V Singh. The book deals with the fundamental causes of the Indo-Pak conflict—why it is difficult, if not impossible, to have peace between the two neighbors. Also it explores the short spurt of Pulwama-Balakot stand-off or a game of one-upmanship.
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Who is the author of the book “Kargil: Untold stories from the War”?
Lakshmi Manchu
Prakash Kovelamudi
Rachna Bisht Rawat
Mrunal Thakur
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Answer: Option CExplanation
The book titled “Kargil: Untold stories from the War” has been authored by Rachna Bisht Rawat. The book is based on author’s interviews with war survivors and martyrs’ families. It will take the readers to the treacherous Himalayan mountains where some of the Indian Army’s bloodiest battles were fought. The war, which lasted for nearly three months, initiated in the May of 1999 in an effort to displace Pakistani soldiers from the peaks they had occupied on the Indian side of the Line of Control (LoC). India won the war, but lost over 500 soldiers. The book is a tribute to their courage and to that of their families, who have faced their loss with such dignity.
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Vivekadeepini is a compilation in 10 languages of selected facts and principles mentioned in Prashnottara Ratnamalika written by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. The book has been compiled by
Brahma Kumaris
Bharat Sevashram Sangha
Vedanta Bharati
Ananda Marga
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Answer: Option CExplanation
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has released a book titled “Vivekadeepini”. It has been released in 10 languages. It is a book that contains facts and principles of spiritual leaders like Adi Shankaracharya and Swami Vivekananda.
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Who is the author of the book ‘A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief’?
Sushil Kumar
Vijai Singh Shekhawat
Sureesh Mehta
Vishnu Bhagwat
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Answer: Option AExplanation
The book titled “A Prime Minister to Remember- Memories of a Military Chief” has been authored by former Navy Chief Admiral Sushil Kumar. The book is about the huge impact that the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had on the armed forces of India. The author called Kargil as the finest hour of Vajpayee . He credits Vajpayee for turning the strategic tactical loss into a massive victory and for which he gave full credit to the Armed Forces. Admiral Kumar was the Navy Chief between 1998 and 2001 and oversaw the Kargil conflict in 1999.
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Which well-known actor has written the novel “Dopehri”?
R. Madhavan
Sanjay Dutt
Naseeruddin Shah
Pankaj Kapur
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Veteran actor Pankaj Kapur will soon release his debut novel ‘Dopehri’, based on a play of the same name which he wrote and directed several years ago. “Dopehri” is the story of Amma Bi, an elderly widow who lives alone in her deserted family haveli in Lucknow. Her only companion is a dishevelled young servant who comes in twice a day. Every afternoon, Amma Bi hears the sound of footsteps on the stairs and her heart fills with panic. She peeks out the door only to find no one there. After considering a move to an old peoples’ home, an anxious Amma Bi ends up taking in a lodger, a young woman named Sabiha, with a mysterious occupation and a winsome personality. When Sabiha’s secret is revealed, Amma Bi discovers reserves of ingenuity, skill and love she never knew she had, and what started out as the tale of a haunted haveli turns into a heart-warming one about ageing, self-discovery and female bonding. Originally written in Hindi, “Dopehri” will be published simultaneously by HarperCollins in three editions: Hindi (in Devanagari script), Hindi (in Urdu script) and in English translation.
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