Books & Authors Mixed Quiz: Set 33

Madhyama-vyayoga is a one-act Sanskrit play by Bhasa, based on an episode from the Mahabharata. Bhasa is one of the earliest known Sanskrit dramatists, admired by Kalidasa himself.

The Jataka tales form part of the Buddhist canon in Pali and number over five hundred.

Netaji wrote The Indian Struggle, his own political account of India's freedom movement. Bose wrote the first part, covering 1920 to 1934, while living in Europe for medical treatment; it was published in London in 1935 and was banned in India by the British government.

Q & A was written by Vikas Swarup, a diplomat, and was adapted by Danny Boyle as Slumdog Millionaire, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture; A. R. Rahman won the awards for Best Original Score and, with Gulzar, for Best Original Song, and Resul Pookutty won for sound…

Binodini Dasi, a leading actress of the Bengali stage, wrote Amar Katha ("My Story"), which first appeared in parts between 1910 and 1913 and was published as a book in 1913.

Hit Refresh was published in 2017 by Satya Nadella, who became Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft in 2014.

Tomb of Sand is the English translation of her Hindi novel Ret Samadhi. Ret Samadhi was translated into English by the American translator Daisy Rockwell.

He is among the few figures honoured both by the film world and by the Sahitya Akademi, and the award of 2002 was for Dhuan, a collection of Urdu short stories; his poetry collections include Raat Pashmine Ki and Pluto.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the Discourse on Political Economy in 1755, first as the article "Economy" for Diderot's Encyclopédie.

Azad, who was president of the Congress through the Quit India years, gave his account of the negotiations leading to Partition in India Wins Freedom, written in Urdu and rendered into English with the help of Humayun Kabir; a portion of it was withheld from publication for thirty years.

In Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Bengali novel Anandamath (1882), the monk-rebels are shown three images of the Mother Goddess standing for the motherland: as she was, as she is and as she will be.

Writing in the fourteenth century, he put the Ramayana into Assamese verse in seven books, which is what the name Saptakanda records, and the work is counted among the first translations of the epic into any modern Indian language.

In this poem Amir Khusrau sets out to show that India is superior to other lands, praising its climate, its languages, its arts and music, and even its animals.

Kipling was born in Bombay, where his father taught at an art school, and his Indian years shaped The Jungle Book, Kim and the Just So Stories; he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and at forty-one remains the youngest laureate in the category.

The words 'ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt' are Ambedkar's own description of how the caste order works.

His Adhyatma Ramayanam, written in the kilippattu or parrot-song form in which a bird narrates the story, settled the vocabulary, script and metre of literary Malayalam and put the Ramayana within reach of ordinary readers, which is why he carries this title.

Bankim died in 1894, more than fifty years before the Partition of 1947, so he could not have written about it.

The Kiratarjuniya, a Sanskrit epic poem of the sixth century, was written by Bharavi. The Kiratarjuniya tells, in 18 cantos, a story from the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata: Arjuna performs penance to win divine weapons, and Shiva tests him by appearing as a Kirata, a mountain hunter.

Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule, in Gujarati in 1909. He wrote it in about ten days on board the ship Kildonan Castle while returning from London to South Africa.

Rameshwar Bhattacharya's best-known work is the Shivayan, also called Shivasankirtan, a long Bengali poem on Shiva composed in the early eighteenth century.