Indian Writing in English

Who wrote Twilight in Delhi?

• Ahmed Ali

• R.K Narayan

• Mulk Raj Anand

• Salman Rushdie

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Twilight in Delhi is Ahmed Ali's first novel, originally published in English by the Hogarth Press in Britain in 1940.

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Fill in the blanks:

The peasants came like (a)  
and buzzed the name of God a hundred times
to paralyse the Evil One.

Reference: Nissim Ezekiels' "Night of the Scorpion"

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Which of the following are the works of R.K Narayan?

1. 1. Swami and Friends

   2. Untouchable

2. 3. The Guide

3. 4. Malgudi Days

4. 5. Kanthapura

• 1,2,3

• 1,3,4

• 2,4,5

• 1 and 5 only

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Identify this famous writer.

• Sashi Tharoor

• Ruskin Bond

• Salman Rushdie

• Amitav Ghosh

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Arundhathi Roy was the recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 for which of her work?

• The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

• The God of Small Things

• My Seditious Heart

• The Algebra of Infinite Justice

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Karukku is a book authored by-

• Baby Kamble

• Gogu Shyamala

• Bama

• Urmila Pawar

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Is Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children a national allegory?

• TRUE

• False

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Which of the following is not a work of Jhumpa Lahiri?

• The Namsake

• The Inheritance of Loss

• The Interpreter of the Maladies

• Unaccustomed Earth

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When the River Sleeps is a book by-

• Mamang Dai

• Temsula Ao

• Easterine Kire

• Aruni Kashyap

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Idenitfy the work by Mira Nair, an adpatation of Jhumpa Lahiri novel.

• The Namesake

• Interpreter od the Maladies

• The Lowland

• Unacusstomed Earth

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