Indian Writing in English-01

Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in

• 1911

• 1912

• 1913

• 1914

Which of the following options is incorrect with relevance to the Man Booker Prize"awarded to Indian Writers and their works?

• V.S. Naipaul - A house for Mr. Biswas (1971)

• Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger (2008)

• Kiran Desai - The inheritance of Loss (2006)

• Arundhati Roy - The God of small Things (1997)

In which of the following novels has Amitav Ghosh narrated about the "Morichjhapi issue' following the eviction of the refugees?

• The glass palace

• The shadow Lines

• The hungry tide

• Sea of poppies

Which of the following poems of Toro Dutt starts with "LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round"?

• The Lotus

• The tree of Life

• Lakshman

• Our Casuarina Tree

Which one of the following Girish Karnad's plays drew it's inspiration from Thomas Mann's "The Transpored Heads" for its theme?

• Yayati

• Tughlaq

• Hayavadana

• Nagamandala

Identify the poet in the image

• Jeet Thayil

• Agha Shahid Ali

• Hoshang Merchant

• Adil Jussawalla

Apart from RK Narayan, there are two other writers credited with creating what is the Modern Indian English Novel. Who are they?

• Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth

• Vikram Seth and Raja Rao

• Salman Rushdie and Mulk Raj Anand

• Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao

The........... code of conduct was related to the very high moral values.

• Elizabethan

• Georgian

• Victorian

• Austenism

Which of the following is not a poem by Kamala Das

• The Freaks

• My Grandmother's House

• Jejuri

• A Hot Noon in Malabar