Matters of Discretion: An Autobiography was written by
- A.I. K. Gujral
- B.V. P. Singh
- C.Chandra Shekhar
- D.Manmohan Singh
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, I. K. Gujral. His autobiography, Matters of Discretion, covers a career that ran from the freedom movement through the ministries he held to his term as Prime Minister, and it is the book usually cited alongside the foreign policy approach that carries his name.
Option B, V. P. Singh, is remembered for his politics and his painting and poetry rather than for this title. Option C, Chandra Shekhar, held office for a short period and is not the author examiners ask about. Option D, Manmohan Singh, is an economist whose academic work, India's Export Trends and the Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth, is the title linked with his name, along with collections of his speeches. Titles that sound like memoirs of office are the hardest part of this chapter, so learn them as a short list rather than guessing.
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- A.Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- B.Jawaharlal Nehru
- C.Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
- D.Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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He wrote it in 1944 while imprisoned in Ahmadnagar Fort, tracing Indian history and thought from the earliest times. Its Hindi version is Bharat Ki Khoj and the television series Bharat Ek Khoj was based on it.
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- A.Dr. Zakir Husain
- B.K. R. Narayanan
- C.Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- D.Pranab Mukherjee
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Wings of Fire, written with Arun Tiwari, describes his boyhood in Rameswaram, his training as an engineer and his years in the space and missile programmes, and it is the most frequently asked title in this whole chapter.
Read the full explanation →Which Prime Minister of India wrote the novel The Insider?
- A.P. V. Narasimha Rao
- B.I. K. Gujral
- C.Morarji Desai
- D.Chandra Shekhar
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The Insider is a novel that follows a politician's climb through state and national politics, and it is read as a lightly disguised account of the system its author knew from the inside.
Read the full explanation →The book India Divided was written by
- A.Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
- B.Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- C.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- D.V. V. Giri
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The first President of India published India Divided in 1946, examining the demand for partition and the arguments made on both sides in the years before independence.
Read the full explanation →The Hindu View of Life and An Idealist View of Life were written by
- A.Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
- B.Dr. Rajendra Prasad
- C.Swami Vivekananda
- D.Dr. Zakir Husain
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Besides these two titles he wrote Indian Philosophy in two volumes and The Philosophy of the Upanishads, and Teachers' Day is observed on his birthday, 5 September.
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