The Turbulent Years: 1980-1996 and The Coalition Years were written by
- A.Pranab Mukherjee
- B.Manmohan Singh
- C.K. R. Narayanan
- D.P. V. Narasimha Rao
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The correct answer is A, Pranab Mukherjee. These are the second and third volumes of his political memoir, the first being The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years. Together they cover Indian politics from the early 1970s until his election as President, and a fourth volume, The Presidential Years, appeared after his death.
Option B, Manmohan Singh, wrote as an economist, his best-known work being India's Export Trends and the Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth. Option C, K. R. Narayanan, is associated with collections such as Images and Insights. Option D, P. V. Narasimha Rao, wrote the novel The Insider and a book on the Ayodhya question, and since his years in office fall inside the period named in the title, he is the distractor most often chosen. Learn the trilogy as one unit and it cannot be broken up in the options.
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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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