The collection of poems Meri Ekyavan Kavitayen was written by
- A.Atal Bihari Vajpayee
- B.Jawaharlal Nehru
- C.P. V. Narasimha Rao
- D.Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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The correct answer is A, Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was a Hindi poet long before he became Prime Minister, and Meri Ekyavan Kavitayen is his best-known collection. Kaidi Kavirai Ki Kundaliyan holds verses written during the Emergency, and Meri Sansadiya Yatra collects his speeches in Parliament.
Option B, Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote history and memoir in English and published no volume of poetry. Option C, P. V. Narasimha Rao, wrote the novel The Insider and translated literary works, so he is the one other literary Prime Minister and therefore the strongest distractor. Option D, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, wrote India Divided and his Hindi autobiography Atmakatha, which are prose. Sort this chapter's authors by form once, into poetry, fiction, memoir and philosophy, and a question of this type takes only seconds.
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View allThe book The Discovery of India was written by
- 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.
Read the full explanation →Wings of Fire is the autobiography of which President of India?
- 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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