The Children's Book Trust was founded in 1957 by
- A.Anant Pai
- B.K. Shankar Pillai
- C.Sudha Murty
- D.Ruskin Bond
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The correct answer is B, K. Shankar Pillai. 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 Delhi. Option A, Anant Pai, is the founder of Amar Chitra Katha in 1967 and of Tinkle in 1980, a decade later and a different enterprise. Option C, Sudha Murty, is a writer of children's stories and the head of a charitable foundation, but she did not found the Trust, which was set up long before her books appeared. Option D, Ruskin Bond, is an author whose books the Trust has published, not its founder. The National Book Trust, also of 1957, is a separate government body.
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- B.Alf Layla wa Layla
- C.Kitab al-Hind
- D.Shahnama
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- C.Lewis Carroll
- D.Rudyard Kipling
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- C.Roald Dahl
- D.Kenneth Grahame
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