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indomitable spirit was written by

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A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Indomitable Spirit is a book authored by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India. The cover page of the book says it “brings together the values, thoughts and ideas of President Kalam as reflected in his speeches and addresses

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Who is the author of crime and punishment

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment. Crime and Punishment is a novel by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. It was the first great novel of his mature period. It was first published in the literary journal The Russian Messenger in 12 monthly series in 1866.

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sunny days is autobiography of

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Sunil Gavaskar

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“my life law and other things” was written by

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M. C. Setalvad

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Roses In December: An Autobiography, originally published in 1973, is the autobiography of

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Mahommedali Currim Chagla,

who was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court from 1948 to 1958. … However, once he learnt that Jinnah wanted a separate country, Chagla decided to part ways.

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Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography of

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Fali Sam Nariman

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neither roses nor thorns was written by

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Hans Raj Khanna

was an Indian judge, jurist and advocate who propounded the basic structure doctrine in 1973 and upheld civil liberties during the time of Emergency in India in a lone dissenting judgement in 1976.

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Shashi Tharoor book The Great Indian novel uses a plot of which epic

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Mahabharata

The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor, first published by Viking Press in 1989. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata, the Indian epic, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian Independence Movement and the first three decades post-independence.

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who wrote the book Asian drama?

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Gunnar Myrdal

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which Hindi writer is known as agaya

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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan

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the book courts and their judgements written by

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Arun Shourie

Arun Shourie is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry.

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who wrote the famous book ‘we the people’?

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Nanabhoy Palkhivala

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who wrote the book “Paradise Regained”

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John Milton

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Who is the author of the book “a judge miscellany”?

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Mohammad Hidayatullah

Mohammad Hidayatullah, OBE was the 11th Chief Justice of India serving from 25 February 1968 to 16 December 1970, and the sixth Vice President of India, serving from 31 August 1979 to 30 August 1984

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Who is the author of “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India” & criticized for its content?

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Joseph Lelyveld

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War on terrorism or American strategy for global dominance is authored by which of the author

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Manzoor Alam

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who wrote Das Capital

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Karl Marx

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“between the assassinations” is a book written by whom

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Aravind Adiga

Between the Assassinations is the second book published by Aravind Adiga though it was written before his first book The White Tiger. The title refers to the period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and her son, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991.

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The Old Man and the Sea is

Novel by

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Ernest Hemingway

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name the book and the author who won the Booker prize in 2019

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Margaret Atwood —- ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and

Bernardine Evaristo — ‘Girl, Women, Other

This was the first time the prize was shared since 1992, despite a rule change banning joint winners.[1]

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Who is the author of “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”?

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John Maynard Keynes

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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who does the mariner stop to recite his story?

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The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story.

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which Indian scientist’s article was translated to German by Albert Einstein and submitted on his behalf to leading German language science journal Zeitschrift fur Physik

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Satyendranath Bose

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Who is the author of the book “ A bunch of old letters”?

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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who is considered the inventor of detective fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Who is the author of the book autobiography of an unknown Indian

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Nirad C. Chaudhuri

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Who is the author of the story of the last leaf?

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O. Henry

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who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature?

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Austrian author Peter Handke

“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”

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name the Indian poet called as Shakespeare of India

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Kalidasa

30
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Men and the city is the autobiography of

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Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein

31
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who wrote the book waiting for Mahatma

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R. K. Narayan

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Who is the author of Meghdoot

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Kālidāsa

33
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who was the author of the book Hind Swaraj

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Mahatma Gandhi

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who was the author of the book economic and philosophic manuscripts

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Karl Marx

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which Hindi writer was known by the name of Nirala

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सूर्यकान्त त्रिपाठी ‘निराला”

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who is considered the first great poet of modern Bengali literature

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Rabindranath Tagore

37
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Perpetual Peace authored by

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Immanuel Kant

38
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which city in the world has been declared as the world’s first city of literature by UNESCO

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Edinburg

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the first Indian citizen to have won the Booker prize in 1998 for her fiction the God of Small Things is

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Suzanna Arundhati Roy

40
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When was Gyanpeeth award started?

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1961

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the two cities in the famous book A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are

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London and Paris

before and during the French Revolution.

42
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“The child is the father of the man” in his famous 1802 poem of Whom

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William Wordsworth

43
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Who is the author of discovery of India

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Jawaharlal Nehru

44
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Knowledge Is Power quotation given by

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“scientia potentia est” (or “scientia est potentia” or also “scientia potestas est”) is a Latin aphorism meaning “knowledge is power”.

It is commonly attributed to Sir Francis Bacon,

45
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Louis Fischer has written the

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The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

46
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“the more things A man is ashamed of the more respectable he is” is quoted by whom

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George Bernard Shaw

47
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Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. was said by

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Ambedkar

48
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Justice in War Time was authored by

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Bertrand Russell

49
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Delusion and Dream is written by

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Sigmund Freud

50
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The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by

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S. E. Hinton,

51
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Business @ The Speed of Thought is a book written by

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Bill Gates

52
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words of which poem are inscribed in the entrance of players tunnel at Wimbledon?

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Rudyard Kipling’s poem

“If”

53
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who wrote “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?

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William Shakespeare

54
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A prisoner’s scrap-book has been written by

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L K Advani

55
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the book India in slow motion on India’s bad administration is written by

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Mark Tully

56
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who wrote the book The Ground Beneath her feet

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Salman Rushdie

57
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who was the first Indian to receive Nobel Prize for literature

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Rabindranath Tagore

58
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charak was the court physician of

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Kanishka I.

59
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the book midnight children is written by

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Salman Rushdie

60
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who won the National Florence Nightingale nurses award 2019

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Lini Puthussery

61
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who is the first recipient of Gyanpeeth award

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G. Sankara Kurup

The first recipient of the award was the Malayalam writer G. Sankara Kurup who received the award in 1965 for his collection of poems, Odakkuzhal (The Bamboo Flute), published in 1950

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name the author of the famous book Mother India

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Katherine Mayo

Mayo’s book created outrage across India, and it was burned along with her effigy.[3] Mayo’s book Mother India was criticized by Mahatma Gandhi as a “report of a drain inspector sent out with the one purpose of opening and examining the drains of the country to be reported upon”.[4] The book prompted over fifty angry books and pamphlets to be published to highlight Mayo’s errors and false perception of Indian society, which had become a powerful influence on the American people’s view of India.[5]

Critics of Mayo accuse her works of being racist, pro-imperialist[6] and Indophobic tracts that “expressed all the dominant prejudices of colonial society.”[7]

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“A Hindu view of life” is written by

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

64
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the World Literacy Day is observed on

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8 September

65
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the oldest work in Tamil available today is

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Tholkaapiyam

66
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Who is the author of Padmavat

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Malik Muhammad Jayasi

67
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Which country has the most female representation in Parliament 2019?

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Rwanda

Cuba

68
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the word Muslim is of which origin

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Arabic

69
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higher than hopes is biography of

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Nelson Mandela

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