Diaspora

Question 1

Tales of Firozsha Baag is about?

Answer 1

Parsi community in mumbai. It was published in 1987

Question 2

Such a Long Journney

Answer 2

It was published in 1991
It was about the Mumbai of 1971.
Gustad Noble struggled to keep his wife Dilnavaz and three children not poor. Sohrab didnt want to attempt IIT. Roshan falls ill. Gustad had trouble with neighbours and Dinshawji Tehmul. He is entangled into government deception due to a letter by Major Bilimoria. it is based in the Indira Gandhi time.

Question 3

The Fine Balance

Answer 3

Published in 1995

It is about Maneck Kohlah, a college student living in Mumbai. He meets Ishvar Darji and OmPrakash Darji who are going to Dina Dalal’s place to find a job as a tailor. Dina hires them to work from patterns which are given by Au Revoir Exports. She manages to her finances to avoid going back to her brother.

Question 4

Whan was The Namesake published?

Answer 4

2003 in The New Yorker

Ashok marries Ashima and leaves for Cambridge, Massachusetts. They name their child Gogol as he read Gogol’s overcoat after an accident. He is called Nikhil by others. He feels irritated by his name. His name is changed. he goes to MIT and becomes an architect. He has an affair with Maxine but breaks up. Ashoke dies of a heart attack while teaching in Ohio. He meets Moushami due to his mother. They get married and she regrets that. His name is revealed by her at a party. The marriage ends when she has an affair with Dimitri. He picks up Gogol at the end.

Question 5

When was the film adaptation of Namesake released?

Answer 5

A film adaptation of the novel was released in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and India in March 2006. It was directed by Mira Nair and featured a screenplay written by Sooni Taraporevala.

Question 6

When was The Lowland Published?

Answer 6

Published in 2013.
It reached New York Times Best seller list.
Number 5

it is about Subhash and Udyan who enjoyed fixing radios and learning Morse code. Udayan became Naxal and Subhash goes to Rhodes Island to study. No one knew about Naxalbari there.

Udayan meets Gauri and Subhas befriends Holly and her son Joshua. He feels amazed to see her interaction with her husband.

Subhash returns to Calcutta and finds Gauri with his parents. She is pregnant with Udayan’s child and Udayan’s parent want to take the child and leave her.
Police threatens to kill them if they didn’t tell them about Udayan. Udayan is shot dead by the police while escaping in the water nearby his house. Subhash asks Gauri to marry him so that his parents don’t take the custody of the child.

Gauri agrees but is still sad and goes to the library and read philosophy books. Bela is born and Subhash is a great father to her, which discomforts Gauri. He watches Bela when she goes to Graduate school . They decide to tell Bela one day about him.

Bella asks him about Udayan’s photo and he tells her that he is her uncle. Gauri leaves a note that Subhash should take care of Bela as he is a great father and leaves them. Bela seeks psychiatric help and becomes a nomad conservationist.
Bella reveals that she is pregnant and he reveals about her father. She becomes upset with that.
Gauri meets Bela and her daughter Megna.
Gauri attempts suicide but doesn’t. Bela writes to her that they will meets someday and she will tell her child about her real relationship with her.
Subhash marries Else. In the final chapter it is revealed that Udayan was involved in a murder and he was killed. he thinks of Gauri before his death.

Question 7

Middle and other Stories is a work by?

Answer 7

Bharti Mukherji, published in 1988.

Question 8

What is the story The Middleman about?

Answer 8

about a man from Iraq named Alfred working for a land-owner in South America. Alfred becomes a middleman between the land-owners attractive wife and her lover from her youth in plotting to kill and rob the land-owner

Question 9

“A Wife’s Story’ is a story by?

Answer 9

Bharti Mukherji, “
It is about an Indian wife finding herself enjoying the freedom of western life and refusing to go back to India with her husband.

Question 10

Loose Ends is a story by?

Answer 10

Bharti Mukherji in The Middleman and other stories. “Loose Ends” is about an assassin living in Miami and describing his work and reasons why he became that way.

Question 11

Fifth, sixth and seventh story in The Middleman and other story?

Answer 11

The fifth story titled “Fighting for the Rebound” is about a guy going from one relationship to another and learning something new about himself from each of them.
The next story titled “The Tenant” is about an Indian failed student who finds herself lost in the western world and feeling alienated and shamed with traditions of the place she came from.
The seventh story called “Fathering” is about an American father who searched and found his lost daughter from Vietnam. This led to his wife being jealous and depressed. Despite that, he is a father now and his little girl is all that matters.

Question 12

Jasmin by Bharti Mukherjee belongs to?

Answer 12

Trinidad who starts working as a maid for a lovely American couple. Jasmine falls in love with the husband and finds excitement in freedom of being able to be whatever she wants.

Question 13

Dimple Das is a character from?

Answer 13

Darkness (1985)
It is about Dimple Das Gupta who wants to marry a neuro surgeon in USA. She had to marry someone whom her father chose and she couldn’t adapt herself to that.

Question 14

Jasmin was written by?

Answer 14

Bharti Mukherjee in 1989.

Jasmin is about an Indian immigrant who is reluctant to accept the traditional society. Her husband is murdered in a bomb attack and she goes to Florida alone for a trip. An astrologer had told her that she will live a widower. She is living with 53 year old Bud Ripplemayer. She is pregnant and he wants to marry her. Darrel is a young neighbour who is also interested in her. She talks about her life in Jullundhar Punjab where she was known as Jyoti. He meets Prakash who calls her Jasmin. They move to US and he is killed by Sukhvindar. He is calling her a prostitute before his death.

Question 15

Uma Parmeshwaran belong to?

Answer 15

She was born in Chennai and immigrated to Winnipeg, Canada in 1960s.

Question 16

What was always hers is a work by?

Answer 16

Uma Parmeshwaran in 1999

Question 17

Who is the protagonist of What was always hers?

Answer 17

Veebala or Veeru.

The story is related to queer theory.

Question 18

Who compelled Veeru to abort her child in What was always her?

Answer 18

her husband Niranjan as they had two sons and the next one was a girl.

Question 19

Where did Veeru live in What was always her?

Answer 19

They lived in Vancouver.

Question 20

Why did Veeru want a divorce from Niranjan?

Answer 20

It is because he asked to bring the doctor for abortion.

Question 21

Veeru has a lesbian relationship with?

Answer 21

Her husband’s second wife.

Question 22

Mangoes on the Maple tree is a work by? When was it published?

Answer 22

Uma Parmeshwaran.

It was published in 1996.

Question 23

Who are the main characters in Mangoes and the Maple tree.

Answer 23

Its is about Bhave family, Jyoti is the eldest who is still in home while studying. She spends a lot of time inventing things like she or her brother leaving home.

Question 24

Mayura is a character from?

Answer 24

A Cycle of the Moon.

She leaves her husband, men in her house feel guilty while asking her to return to her husband. She feels nothing.

Question 25

Where does Anita Rau Badami belong to?

Answer 25

She was born in 1961.
She was born in Rourkela, Odisha,
She went to Canada in the University of Calgary.

Question 26

Tamarind Mem is a novel by?

Answer 26

Anita Rau Badami, published in 1997.

Question 27

Which is novel about the Air India Bombing and Golden Temple Massacre.?

Answer 27

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? (2015)

it also about the partition.

Question 28

The Hero’s Walk was published in? It is a book by?

Answer 28

2016, Anita Rau Badami

five finalist for the CBC Canada Reads Competition

Question 29

Sripathi Rao is the Protagonist of?

Answer 29

The Hero’s Walk

Question 30

What did Sripathi Rao’s mother wanted him to become?

Answer 30

A lawyer. He is a copywriter instead.
His wife , blames him for refusing to communicate with their daughter Maya, who defied tradition, rejecting her proper Brahmin fiancé for a Caucasian husband.

Question 31

What tragedy happens to the life of Sripathi Rao?

Answer 31

Maya and her husband have been killed in an accident leaving Sripathi to be their daughter Nandan’s guardian

Question 32

‘Incantations and Other Stories’ is a work by?

Answer 32

Anjana Appachana who lives in US. She has won the O Henry Festival Prize and National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.

Question 33

Anajana Appachana’s first novel is?

Answer 33

Listening Now
It is about Female bounding and mother child relationship.
The story of the main character, Padma, is a compelling and tragic tale of love and deception told from several perspectives, all of them female.
The novel begins with Padma’s young daughter, Mallika, and blossoms with the viewpoints of the women in Padma’s life–her sister, mother, and two close friends. A lie told to protect Padma’s reputation when she finds herself pregnant and unmarried engulfs the lives of everyone around her.

Question 34

Anita Nair belongs to?

Answer 34

Kerala.

Question 35

‘Satyr of the Subway’ is a collection by?

Answer 35

Anita Nair. It won her a fellowship from Virginia Mercury Woman.

It is about Lesbian cunning,

The Witch Wife’s Tale, a bored woman’s flight of sexual fancy, the weirdly brilliant

The Karmic Cat, though too evocative of Collette’s La Chatte, is narrated by a cat that is sexually obsessed with a woman;

Mistress of the Night is an account of an otherwise “decent” man’s encounter with a prostitute;
and

Consider the Tree is a beautiful tale of a beloved household servant

Question 36

Mukundan is a character from?

Answer 36

The Beter Man (2000) by Anita Nair
He returns to Kaikurussi after retirement. He meets “One-screw-loose-Bhasi”, a local eccentric, a housepainter and an inventor of an odd system of alternative medicine. He helps Mukundan transform himself
Power House Ramakrishna wants to make a community hall and selects Bhasi’s land. Mukundan intrupts but is flattered to get membership on the project committee. His father dies and he changes.

Question 37

Which work is based on a one-way train journey transforming the life of the protagonist?

Answer 37

Ladies Coup.

Question 38

Arranged Marriage and other stories is a collection by?

Answer 38

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
From a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered to a proud middle-aged divorcée determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni paints eleven devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation

Question 39

The Mistress of Spices is set in?

Answer 39

Oakland, California.

Question 40

Tilo helps people by?

Answer 40

Satisfying their desire with mystical properties of spices

She falls for Raven. Spices punish her. and her loved ones. She decides to leave him after they make love. As a punishement the store is destroyed by an earthquake.

Question 41

Who directed the film version of The Mistress of Spices?

Answer 41

The film The Mistress of Spices, based on the novel, was released in 2005. It is directed by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a script by Berges and his wife, British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha. The film stars Aishwarya Rai and Dylan McDermott

Question 42

Manjula Pandmanabhan belongs to?

Answer 42

Sweden, Pakistan and Trinidad

Question 43

Harvest is a play by?

Answer 43

Manjula Padmanabhan. published in 1997 by Kali for Women. It won the Onassis Prize in 1997.

Question 44

What is Harvest about?

Answer 44

It is about Organ selling in future Mumbai. Om Prakash is a jobless man in 2010. He agrees to sell
unspecified organs through InterPlanta Services, Inc. to a rich person for a small fortune. InterPlanta.
Recipient Ginni wants his health to be good and control their lives.

Question 45

What is Getting there about?

Answer 45

it is a semi-autobiographical work by Manjula Padmanabhan.

depicts the plight of young woman illustrator in Bombay

Question 46

The House of Hidden Mothers is a work by?

Answer 46

Meera Sayal

It is about the Surrogacy industry. Western couple pays a young woman to have their child and then fly home with the baby.

Shyama and Toby already have a child together but she can’t conceive again. They find an Indian surrogate to carry the child and meet Mala who is trapped in a bad marriage.

Question 47

Nampally Road is written by?

Answer 47

Meena Alaxander

in 1999.

Question 48

Nampally Road is about

Answer 48

contemporary India a woman’s struggle to cut together her past. In the middle of the novel she becomes the victim of the gang rape by the police. The people in that place rise up and burn the police station. The incidents in the novel resemble the recent tragic events in Delhi.

Question 49

Shyam Selvadurai belongs to?

Answer 49

Sri Lanka and Canada.

Question 50

Who wrote Funny Boy?

Answer 50

Shyam Selvadurai in 1994
funny Boy is a coming of age story that follows a young boy named Arjie as he discovers his sexuality in a close minded society. Arjie was born into a wealthy Tamil family in Sri Lanka and the book follows him between the ages of 6 to 14.

The second chapter focuses on the return of Radha Aunty from America. Radha Aunty and Arjie develop a special relationship, immediately, and both become involved in a performance of The King and I. she and other Tamils are attacked on the train. Eventually, she becomes engaged to Rajan

When Arjie becomes very ill, Amma decides to take Arjie from Colombo to the countryside to recover. Much to Arjie’s surprise, Daryl Uncle visits Arjie and his mother throughout their stay in the hill country. he dies in Jaffna. Amma tries to pursue the matter further, a civil rights lawyer tells her that there is nothing they can do,

Funny Boy also describes how political conflict affects Arjie’s life. The conflict between

The Tamils and Sinhalese ends up altering not only Arjie’s life, but his loved ones too. The first sections of the book introduce the reader to Arjie and his family. As the book progresses, the author begins to focus on Arjie’s discovery of his sexuality and his realization of the political conflict in Sri Lanka.

Arjie feels homosexual tendencies towards Jegan, and ex-Tamil Tiger. Jegan is accused of being involved in a plot to assassinate a Tamil politician who the Tamil Tigers label as a traitor

Arjie catches the eye of a boy named Shehan as well as the notorious school principal. Diggy hints that Shehan is gay and urges Arjie to stay away from him. Shehan kisses Arjie on the lips and he recoils, but it is after the kiss Arjie begins to comprehend his own sexuality. Arjie and Shehan have their first sexual encounter together in his parents’ garage. Afterwards, Arjie feels ashamed of himself and believes he has failed his family and their trust.

In the final chapter of the novel, rioters start to burn down the Tamil houses and establishments in Colombo. The family escapes to a neighbor’s house and goes into hiding after a mob comes to burn down their home. After their own hotel is attacked and Ammachi and Appachi are killed, Appa decides it is time for the family to leave the country. After making love to Shehan for the last time, Arjie leaves Sri Lanka and moves to Canada with his family.