Amar Chitra Katha, the comic series on Indian history and mythology, was started by
- A.Anant Pai
- B.K. Shankar Pillai
- C.Pran Kumar Sharma
- D.Narayan Debnath
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Anant Pai. Anant Pai, known to generations of readers as Uncle Pai, began Amar Chitra Katha in 1967 after noticing that Indian children knew European fairy tales better than the stories of their own country, and in 1980 he launched the children's magazine Tinkle. Option B, K. Shankar Pillai, called simply Shankar, was the cartoonist who founded the Children's Book Trust in 1957 and began the Shankar's International Children's Competition, a different institution of the same period. Option C, Pran Kumar Sharma, created the comic characters Chacha Chaudhary and Sabu, which are comics but not Amar Chitra Katha. Option D, Narayan Debnath, was the Bengali comic artist who created Handa Bhonda and Bantul the Great. All four belong to the history of Indian children's publishing, which makes the distractors strong.
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Practice Questions
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- A.Narayana Pandita
- B.Vishnu Sharma
- C.Somadeva
- D.Kalidasa
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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.
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- A.the earlier births of the Buddha
- B.the exploits of King Vikramaditya
- C.the adventures of the Pandavas
- D.the childhood of Mahavira
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The Jataka tales form part of the Buddhist canon in Pali and number over five hundred.
Read the full explanation →The Panchatantra reached Europe mainly through an Arabic version titled
- A.Kalila wa Dimna
- B.Alf Layla wa Layla
- C.Kitab al-Hind
- D.Shahnama
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The Panchatantra was first rendered into Middle Persian, and from that version it was turned into Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna, the two names being those of the jackals of the first book.
Read the full explanation →International Children's Book Day is observed on 2 April to mark the birthday of
- A.the Brothers Grimm
- B.Hans Christian Andersen
- C.Lewis Carroll
- D.Rudyard Kipling
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The Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born on 2 April, and the International Board on Books for Young People chose that date for International Children's Book Day; the same body gives the Hans Christian Andersen Award, often called the little Nobel of children's literature.
Read the full explanation →Mowgli, Baloo and Shere Khan are characters created by
- A.Rudyard Kipling
- B.Robert Louis Stevenson
- C.Roald Dahl
- D.Kenneth Grahame
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Mowgli the boy raised by wolves, Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Kaa the python and Shere Khan the tiger are the characters of The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling and set in the forests of central India.
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