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Among the following who is considered as the 'First English writing women of India' ?

A. Sarojini Naidu

B. Jhumpa Lahiri

C. Anita Desai

D. Toru Dutt

Ans. D

Among the following which Indian writer published his collection of short stories under the title 'Tales from Firozshah Baag' ?

A. Vikram Seth

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Pritish Nandy

D. Rohinton Mistry

Ans. D

Who is the protagonist of the novel 'The Serpent and the Rope' written by Raja Rao ?

A. Moorthy

B. Achakka

C. Ramaswamy

D. Govinda Nair

Ans. C

In which of the following works the Indian playwright, Grish Karnad used Yakshagana, a dance-drama of South India, associated most strongly with the State of Karnataka?

A. Hayavadana

B. Yayati

C. Nagamandala

D. Tughlaq

Ans. A

Among the following plays by Grish Karnad which one is based on the folktales of Karnataka, India ?

A. Yayati

B. Tughlaq

C. Nagamandala

D. Hayavadana

Ans. C

Who among the following is the first Indian poet to receive Sahitya Akademi Award (1981) ?

A. A.K Ramanujan

B.Nissim Ezekiel

C. Khushwant Singh

D. Jayanti Mahapatra

Ans. D

Which Indian writer received Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012 ?

A. Grish Karnad

B. Salman Rushdie

C. Shashi Tharoor 

D. Rohinton Mistry

Ans. D

Among the following who wrote the poem 'Our Casuarina Tree' ?

A. Romesh Chunder Dutt

B. Madhusudan Dutt

C. Toru Duty

D. Sarojini Naidu

Ans. C

Who wrote the poem 'The Lotus' ?

A. Romesh Chunder Dutt

B. Madhusudan Dutt

C. Sarojini Naidu

D. Toru Duty

Ans. D

'The Fakir of Jungheera' is a well-known Indian literary work written by whom in the following?

A. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

B. H. Derozio

C. Sarojini Naidu

D. Toru Duty

Ans. B

" I am an Indian very brown, born in Malabar, I speak 5hree languages, write 8n two and dream in one". Who is the speaker?

A. Arundhati Roy

B. Kiran Desai

C. Amitav Ghosh

D. Kamla Das

Ans. D

The great Indian philosophical epic 'Savitri' in 12 books, is written by____. 

A. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

B. H. Derozio

C. Sarojini Naidu

D. Toru Duty

Ans. A

Arun Joshi received Sahitya Academy Award for his novel __.

A.  'The Last Labyrinth 

B. The Foreigner

C. The Strange Case of Belly Biswas

D. Shri Ram (biography co-authored with Khushwant Singh

Ans. A

The collection of poems 'The Golden Threshold' is written by ___. 

A. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh

B. H. Derozio

C. Sarojini Naidu

D. Toru Duty

Ans. C

Among the following characters of R. K. Narayan, who is a true disciple of Mahatma Gandhi ?

A. Sita

B. Rosie

C. Daisy

D. Bharati

Ans. D

"While I feel about as an Indian, I think about it as an outsider." Who among the following Indian writers states it in his/her work?

A. Arun Joshi

B. Anita Desai

C. Grish karnad

D. Salman Rushdie

Ans. B

'The Bachelor of Arts' and 'Mr. Sampath' are the works of _____.

A. Milk Raj Anand

B. R. K. Narayan

C. Sarojini Naidu

D. Toru Duty

Ans. B

Anita Desai focuses on the decline of Urdu Language in one of his works. Identify the work below-

A. Fasting Feasting

B. Clear Light of the Day

C. In Custody

4. Cry the Peacock

Ans. C

In which of the following work by Anita Desai the Urdu poet named Nur appears? 

A. Fasting Feasting

B. Clear Light of the Day

C. In Custody

4. Cry the Peacock

Ans. C

The Story of My Experiments with Truth , published in 1925, is the autobiography of ____. 

A. Jawaharlal Nehru

B. Mahatma Gandhi

C. Maulana Azad

D. Gieve Patel

Ans. B

The play "Sleepwalker" is a satire on the so-called liberal, modern, intellectual and educated Men and Women of progressive India. 

Identify the author among the following Indian writers :

A. Pratap Sharma

B. Asif Currimbhoy

C. Gurcharan Das

D. Nissim Ezekiel

Ans. D

Among the following works which one 'describes the degradation and corruption in the infamous red-light district of Bombay where a young girl was sold who ultimately died there. 

A. The Hungry Ones by Asif Currimbhoy

B. A Touch of Brightness  by Pratap Sharma

C. Mira by Gurcharan Das

D. Sleepwalkers by Nissim Ezekiel

Ans. B

 "My man, my sons, forming the axis 

 while I, wife and mother 

 insignificant as a fly 

 climbed the glass panes of their eyes." 

 Identify the poem written by Kamala Das from which the above lines have been taken.

 (a) 'The Latest Toy' 

 (b) 'The Old Playhouse' 

 (c) An Introduction' 

 (d) 'A Widow's Lament' 

Ans. D

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Major Indian Writers in English Literature 

• Rabindra Nath Tagore 
• Henry Derozio 
• R.K Narayan  
• Mulk Raj Anand 
• Raja Rao |  Toru Dutt   
• Ruskin Bond  
• Nissim Ezekiel
• Micheal Madhusudan Dutt  
• Sri Aurobindo 
• Vikram Seth  
• Jhumpa Lahiri  
• Sarojini Naidu  
• Rohinton Mistry
• Salman Rushdie 
• Khushwant Singh 
• Shobha De 
• Shashi Deshpande 
• Shashi Tharoor  
• Romesh Chander Dutt    
• A.K Ramanujan  
• R Parthsarthy
•  Arvind Adiga  
• Amitav Ghosh  
• Kamla Das  
• Arundhati Roy 
• Arun Kolatkar
• Kamla Markandaya  
• Badal Sircar 
• Bhabani Bhattacharya  
• Jayant Mahapatra 
• Mahesh Dattani   
• Mahashweta Devi    
• Nirad C Chaudhury 
• Nayantara Sahgal
• Manohar Malgaonkar 
• Arun Joshi 
• Ananda Coomaraswamy 
• Anita Desai 
• Kiran Desai
• Girish Karnad 
• Vijay Tendulkar 
• Meena Alexander 
• Meena Kandaswami

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