Indian Writing in English

Who wrote Twilight in Delhi?

• Ahmed Ali

• R.K Narayan

• Mulk Raj Anand

• Salman Rushdie

Answer explanation

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

Fill in the blanks:

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

Reference: Nissim Ezekiels' "Night of the Scorpion"

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

Identify this famous writer.

• Sashi Tharoor

• Ruskin Bond

• Salman Rushdie

• Amitav Ghosh

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

Karukku is a book authored by-

• Baby Kamble

• Gogu Shyamala

• Bama

• Urmila Pawar

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

• TRUE

• False

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

• The Namsake

• The Inheritance of Loss

• The Interpreter of the Maladies

• Unaccustomed Earth

When the River Sleeps is a book by-

• Mamang Dai

• Temsula Ao

• Easterine Kire

• Aruni Kashyap

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

• The Namesake

• Interpreter od the Maladies

• The Lowland

• Unacusstomed Earth