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Who is the author of the biography Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon?
Salman Khurshid
Anand Sharma
Jairam Ramesh
P. Chidambaram
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Former union minister in Indian National Congress and writer Jairam Ramesh is penning the biography of veteran Indian nationalist, diplomat, and politician Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon titled “Chequered Brilliance: The Many Lives of V K Krishna Menon”.
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Who is the author of the book “Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders”?
Pankaj Mishral
Manoshi Sinha Rawa
Ravi Subramanian
Anand Neelakantan
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The book titled “Saffron Swords- Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders” has been authored by Manoshi Sinha Rawal. It has been launched by India’s homegrown startup publishing houses – Garuda Prakashan Private Limited. It is a book on 52 unsung warriors of India from the last 1300 years. It celebrates the glory of our ancestors who offered stiff resistance, won battles and fought till their last breath against Islamic invaders and British.
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“Every Vote Counts-The Story of India’s Elections” is authored by ___________.
Alka Jain
Rajan Jagota
Navin Chawla
Hamid Ansari
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Answer: Option CExplanation
This book presents a riveting account of how the daunting task of conducting the largest electoral exercise in the world is undertaken. It’s an informative account that gives us a kaleidoscopic view of how the electoral machinery works in India.
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Who is the author of “The Great Disappointment: How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to transform the Indian Economy”?
Salman Aneez Soz
Ahzez Khan
Arvind Subramaniyam
Salman Rushdie
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Answer: Option AExplanation
“The Great Disappointement:How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to transform the Indian Economy”attempts to answer the overarching question of whether or not the Modi government transformed India’s economy and what the next government’s agenda should look like.
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Who is the author of the book “The Great Disappointment: How Narendra Modi Squandered a Unique Opportunity to Transform the Indian Economy”?
Raghuram Rajan
Salman Anees Soz
Amartya Sen
Jayati Ghosh
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Answer: Option BExplanation
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The book titled “Indian Fiscal Federalism” has been authored by which former governor of RBI?
Y.V. Reddy
Raghuram Rajan
Urjit Patel
D. Subbarao
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Answer: Option AExplanation
The Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Shri Shaktikanta Das launched the book “Indian Fiscal Federalism” authored by Dr. Y.V. Reddy and Shri G.R. Reddy.
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Who is the author of the book “Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way”?
Bikram Choudhury
Kamlesh Patel
Arunava Sinha
Rajashree Choudhury
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Answer: Option BExplanation
The book titled “Designing Destiny: The Heartfulness Way” has been authored by Spiritual teacher Kamlesh Patel, who is popularly known as Daaji. He addressed key issues related to destiny and how it shapes one’s life in his new book. The author provides practical wisdom on how to use heartfulness practices to refine lifestyle and design destiny, including destiny in the afterlife. He elaborates on the subject of consciousness, the role of evolution, and explains what happens to people at the time of birth and death – and how people can act in those pivotal moments when life takes a turn. In the book, Daaji shares how beliefs determine the relative importance of fate and free will in people’s lives. He also shares a set of simple heartfulness practices and lifestyle changes that can help people design their destiny. The author also explores the meditative practices in the light of destiny besides fundamental aspects of well-being, like healthy sleep patterns, heartful communication, eating patterns, living in tune with natural cycles and so on.
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Name the author of the book ‘Simplicity & Wisdom’?
Lagadapati Rajagopal
Rahul Bajaj
Dinesh Shahra
Baijayant Panda
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Famous Industrialist and Philanthropist Dinesh Shahra has launched his book titled ‘Simplicity & Wisdom’. The book is dedicated to Late eminent Vedanti Swami Pragananandji.
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Name the author of the novel “Nireeshwaran” that won the best novel award in the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award 2017, announced on 23rd January 2019?
Mariam Dunstan
VJ James
Sarika Devi
Parvathy Nair
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Answer: Option BExplanation
On 23rd January 2019,Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award 2017 was announced, Malayalam Novelist VJ James’s, Novel Nireeshwaran won the best novel award. V J James was born in Vazhapally, Changanassery in Kottayam district of Kerala. His debut novel was Purappadinte Pusthakam. Other Accolades he received:DC Silver Jubilee Award, Malayattor Prize in 1999, Rotary Literary Award for Purappadinte Pusthakam, Thoppil Ravi Award, Kerala Bhasha Institute Basheer Award (2015) for Nireeshwaran.
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Who is the author of the book We are Displaced?
Kamila Shamsie
Malala Yousafzai
Mohsin Hamid
Umera Ahmad
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and Pakistani activist, has written a new book, titled We are Displaced.
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Name the author of the book “Timeless Laxman”, written on famous cartoonist RK Laxman, released by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Maharashtra, on 18th December 2018?
Manish Chawla
Usha Srinivas Laxman
Suchampa Bhaji
Jayanti Laxman
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Answer: Option BExplanation
On December 18, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a 1-day state visit to Maharashtra. Prime Minister also released a book, titled “Timeless Laxman”, based on the famous cartoonist, RK Laxman. The book was penned by the cartoonist’s daughter-in-law, Smt. Usha Srinivas Laxman
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Who wrote the book “A foreign Policy for India?
Morarji Desai
I. K Gujral
Chaudhary Charan Singh
Pranab Mukherjee
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Answer: Option BExplanation
the former Indian Prime Minister I.K Gujral wrote the book “A foreign policy for India”
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Who wrote the book “India 2020”?
Pranab Mukherjee
A. P. J Abdul Kalam
Indira Gandhi
Man Mohan Singh
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Answer: Option BExplanation
A. P. J Abdul Kalam- Abdul Kalam and a team of 500 experts. The plan is further detailed in the book India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium, which Kalam co authored with Y. S. Rajan.
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Who directed the film ‘Little Buddha’?
Richard Attenborough
Bernardo Bertolucci
Ben Johnson
Mani Kaul
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Bernardo Bertolucci was an Italian director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky, Little Buddha, Stealing Beauty and The Dreamers.
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What is the book ‘Lord of the Flies’ about?
A round trip around the USA
A swarm of killer flies
Schoolboys on the desert island
None of the above
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding. In Lord of the Flies, the author is conveying the message that human beings must have rules, authority and government in order to maintain a safe environment. Left to their own, with freedom from discipline, rules, and governmental regulations, Jack and his tribal warriors return to animal instincts. Hence, C is the correct option.
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Which is the first Harry Potter book?
HP and the Goblet of Fire
HP and the Philosopher’s Stone
HP and the Chamber of Secrets
HP and the God of small Things
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Answer: Option BExplanation
Harry Potter is a series of fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the life of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. HP and the Philosopher’s Stone was the first Harry Potter book. Hence, B is the correct option.
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Who was the author of the famous storybook ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’?
Rudyard Kipling
John Keats
Lewis Carroll
H G Wells
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Answer: Option CExplanation
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson over the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. Hence, C is the correct option.
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The book ‘A Farewell to Arms’ was written by
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Thomas Hardy
Huxley
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Answer: Option BExplanation
A Farewell to Arms is a novel by Ernest Hemingway set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant (“tenente”) in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.
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The book ‘Glimpses of World History’ has been authored by whom?
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Mahatma Gandhi
Swami Vivekanand
Jawahar Lal Nehru
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Answer: Option DExplanation
Jawahar Lal Nehru- Glimpses of World History. Glimpses of World History, a bookpublished by Jawaharlal Nehru in 1934, is a panoramic sweep of the history of humankind. It is a collection of 196 letters on world history written from various prisons in British India between 1930–1933.
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