Books & Authors Mixed Quiz: Set 32

Bharavi, a Sanskrit poet of the sixth century CE, wrote the Kiratarjuniyam. The Kiratarjuniyam is a mahakavya in eighteen cantos.

The Panchatantra, a collection of animal fables in Sanskrit arranged in five books, is traditionally said to have been composed by Vishnu Sharma to teach practical statecraft to the dull witted sons of a king.

Bose wrote The Indian Struggle, 1920–1934 in Europe, where he lived in the mid-1930s for medical treatment. The book was first published in London in 1935.

Premchand's Hindi short story Shatranj Ke Khilari, about two noblemen of Awadh absorbed in chess while their kingdom is annexed, was filmed by Satyajit Ray in 1977, the director's only Hindi feature; Ray also made Sadgati from another Premchand story.

Dodgson was a mathematician at Oxford who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass under the pen name Lewis Carroll, and the nonsense poem Jabberwocky belongs to the same world.

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike was written by Phil Knight and published in 2016.

The prose romance Vasavadatta was written by Subandhu, not Kalidasa, so this pair is wrong. Subandhu's Vasavadatta, of about the sixth or seventh century, is famous for its ornate style full of puns and long compounds.

His 2014 memoir runs from a childhood in Uttar Pradesh through the National School of Drama and the Film and Television Institute of India to the parallel cinema of the nineteen seventies.

'Indian Unrest' (1910) was written by the British journalist Valentine Chirol, not by Annie Besant. Chirol, a writer for The Times, collected his articles on the rise of Indian nationalism into this book and called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the 'father of Indian unrest'.

The two journalists, one American and one French, wrote Freedom at Midnight as a narrative account of the last year of British rule, the division of the country and the killing of Gandhi, drawing on interviews with Mountbatten.

The race in which the slow tortoise beats the overconfident hare is one of the best known fables attributed to Aesop of ancient Greece, along with the fox and the grapes, the boy who cried wolf and the lion and the mouse.

He is called the father of Odia fiction and of modern Odia prose and is titled Utkala Byasa Kabi, and his novel Chha Mana Atha Guntha is a sharp, ironic account of how a scheming landlord dispossesses a poor weaver couple of their small plot of land.

Pairs 2 and 4 are right; pairs 1 and 3 name the wrong authors. The Hammira-Mahakavya, a Sanskrit poem on the Chauhan ruler Hammira of Ranthambore, was written by the Jain poet Nayachandra Suri in the fifteenth century.

The Colombian writer published One Hundred Years of Solitude in 1967, the chronicle of the Buendia family in the imaginary town of Macondo, and he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982; his other celebrated novel is Love in the Time of Cholera.

While held in Yerwada jail, Gandhi translated old Indian hymns and devotional lyrics into English, and these were published as 'Songs from Prison'.

Hajar Churashir Maa, written in Bengali in 1974, follows a mother who learns that her son, killed as a Naxalite, is only a corpse number in a police register, and it was later filmed in Hindi as Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa.

The cartoonist Shankar, famous for his political cartoons and for Shankar's Weekly, founded the Children's Book Trust in New Delhi in 1957 to publish good and affordable books for Indian children, and also started the Shankar's International Children's Competition for painting and writing as well as the doll museum in…

Published from 1888, Chandrakanta tells of the princess Chandrakanta and prince Virendra Singh and of the ayyars, the shape-shifting spies who serve them, moving through a tilism, an enchanted maze of traps and illusions.

The revolutionary Sachindranath Sanyal wrote Bandi Jivan, an account of his life as a prisoner. Sanyal was closely linked with Rash Behari Bose in the Banaras conspiracy and was sent to the Cellular Jail in the Andamans.

Sukumar Ray wrote Abol Tabol, a collection of nonsense rhymes that is a landmark of Bengali children's writing, along with the story HaJaBaRaLa and the play Chalachittachanchari.