Arts & Literature Flashcards
indomitable spirit was written by
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
Who is the author of crime and punishment
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.
sunny days is autobiography of
Sunil Gavaskar
“my life law and other things” was written by
M. C. Setalvad
Roses In December: An Autobiography, originally published in 1973, is the autobiography of
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.
Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography of
Fali Sam Nariman
neither roses nor thorns was written by
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.
Shashi Tharoor book The Great Indian novel uses a plot of which epic
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.
who wrote the book Asian drama?
Gunnar Myrdal
which Hindi writer is known as agaya
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan
the book courts and their judgements written by
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.
who wrote the famous book ‘we the people’?
Nanabhoy Palkhivala
who wrote the book “Paradise Regained”
John Milton
Who is the author of the book “a judge miscellany”?
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
Who is the author of “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India” & criticized for its content?
Joseph Lelyveld
War on terrorism or American strategy for global dominance is authored by which of the author
Manzoor Alam
who wrote Das Capital
Karl Marx
“between the assassinations” is a book written by whom
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.
The Old Man and the Sea is
Novel by
Ernest Hemingway
name the book and the author who won the Booker prize in 2019
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]
Who is the author of “The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”?
John Maynard Keynes
In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, who does the mariner stop to recite his story?
The mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story.
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
Satyendranath Bose
Who is the author of the book “ A bunch of old letters”?
Jawaharlal Nehru
who is considered the inventor of detective fiction
Edgar Allan Poe
Who is the author of the book autobiography of an unknown Indian
Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Who is the author of the story of the last leaf?
O. Henry
who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature?
Austrian author Peter Handke
“for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”
name the Indian poet called as Shakespeare of India
Kalidasa
Men and the city is the autobiography of
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
who wrote the book waiting for Mahatma
R. K. Narayan
Who is the author of Meghdoot
Kālidāsa
who was the author of the book Hind Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi
who was the author of the book economic and philosophic manuscripts
Karl Marx
which Hindi writer was known by the name of Nirala
सूर्यकान्त त्रिपाठी ‘निराला”
who is considered the first great poet of modern Bengali literature
Rabindranath Tagore
Perpetual Peace authored by
Immanuel Kant
which city in the world has been declared as the world’s first city of literature by UNESCO
Edinburg
the first Indian citizen to have won the Booker prize in 1998 for her fiction the God of Small Things is
Suzanna Arundhati Roy
When was Gyanpeeth award started?
1961
the two cities in the famous book A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are
London and Paris
before and during the French Revolution.
“The child is the father of the man” in his famous 1802 poem of Whom
William Wordsworth
Who is the author of discovery of India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Knowledge Is Power quotation given by
“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,
Louis Fischer has written the
The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
“the more things A man is ashamed of the more respectable he is” is quoted by whom
George Bernard Shaw
Self-respect is the most vital factor in life. Without it, man is a cipher. was said by
Ambedkar
Justice in War Time was authored by
Bertrand Russell
Delusion and Dream is written by
Sigmund Freud
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by
S. E. Hinton,
Business @ The Speed of Thought is a book written by
Bill Gates
words of which poem are inscribed in the entrance of players tunnel at Wimbledon?
Rudyard Kipling’s poem
“If”
who wrote “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?
William Shakespeare
A prisoner’s scrap-book has been written by
L K Advani
the book India in slow motion on India’s bad administration is written by
Mark Tully
who wrote the book The Ground Beneath her feet
Salman Rushdie
who was the first Indian to receive Nobel Prize for literature
Rabindranath Tagore
charak was the court physician of
Kanishka I.
the book midnight children is written by
Salman Rushdie
who won the National Florence Nightingale nurses award 2019
Lini Puthussery
who is the first recipient of Gyanpeeth award
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
name the author of the famous book Mother India
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]
“A Hindu view of life” is written by
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
the World Literacy Day is observed on
8 September
the oldest work in Tamil available today is
Tholkaapiyam
Who is the author of Padmavat
Malik Muhammad Jayasi
Which country has the most female representation in Parliament 2019?
Rwanda
Cuba
the word Muslim is of which origin
Arabic
higher than hopes is biography of
Nelson Mandela
