Which of the following is correctly matched?

The correct answer is D, New Delhi. The institution stands at Teen Murti Bhavan in New Delhi, the house where Jawaharlal Nehru lived as Prime Minister for sixteen years, and it was opened to the public in 1964 after his death. It holds a museum on his life, a research library on modern Indian history with private papers and old newspapers, and a planetarium added in 1984. It works under the Ministry of Culture and has since been renamed the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library. The name Teen Murti comes from the three-soldier memorial in the circle outside. A is wrong because Kolkata has the Victoria Memorial and the National Library. B is wrong because Prayagraj has Anand Bhawan, the Nehru family home turned museum. C is wrong because Mumbai has the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya. Exam tip: pair Teen Murti Bhavan with Nehru and Anand Bhawan with Prayagraj.

The correct answer is B, Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury. Roy Choudhury, a pupil of Abanindranath Tagore who became the first Indian principal of the Government School of Art at Madras, modelled Triumph of Labour, the group of four men straining at a rock that stands on the Marina beach at Chennai, and also the Martyrs' Memorial outside the Patna secretariat. He was appointed the first chairman of the Lalit Kala Akademi in 1954. Option A is wrong because Ramkinkar Baij, though the other great sculptor of the period, made Santhal Family and Mill Call at Santiniketan. Option C is wrong because K. C. S. Paniker was a painter who founded Cholamandal. Option D is wrong because Nandalal Bose was a painter, not a sculptor. Separate the two sculptors by their cities: Ramkinkar Baij at Santiniketan, Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury at Madras and Patna.

The correct answer is B, M. F. Husain. Maqbool Fida Husain, a founder member of the Progressive Artists' Group and often called the Picasso of India, made the short film Through the Eyes of a Painter, which took the Golden Bear for a short film at the Berlin festival in 1967; he later directed the feature Gaja Gamini. He is remembered for his horses and for his Ramayana and Mahabharata series, received the Padma Shri, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. Option A is wrong because F. N. Souza, who founded the group, was a painter and writer who moved to London. Option C is wrong because Satish Gujral was a painter, muralist and architect who designed the Belgian embassy in Delhi. Option D is wrong because Krishen Khanna, a member of the group, painted bandwallas and did not make films. Husain was born at Pandharpur in Maharashtra in 1915 and began his working life painting cinema hoardings in Bombay.

The correct answer is A, Chennai. Cholamandal Artists' Village was founded in 1966 on the coast south of Chennai by K. C. S. Paniker and other artists of the Madras art movement, and it is described as the first self-supporting artists' commune in India, where painters and sculptors lived together and sold batik and metalwork to fund their studios. Option B is wrong because Bengaluru is associated with the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath. Option C is wrong because Kochi is the home of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, first held in 2012, which is an exhibition and not a residential village. Option D is wrong because Hyderabad has no commune of this kind, though it houses the Salar Jung Museum, which is often confused into such questions. The pairing that papers set is the year 1966 with Paniker and with Chennai, so fix all three together; the Madras art movement is its background.

The correct answer is C, 1954. The Lalit Kala Akademi, the national academy of art, was set up in 1954 at New Delhi, with the sculptor Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury as its first chairman; the National Gallery of Modern Art at Jaipur House in New Delhi dates from the same year. The Akademi gives the National Akademi Awards and the Lalit Kala Ratna. Option A is wrong because 1950 is the year the Constitution came into force, not the year of the Akademi. Option B is a close distractor, since the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the academy for music, dance and drama, was founded in 1953, a year earlier; the Sahitya Akademi for letters, like the Lalit Kala Akademi, belongs to 1954. Option D is wrong because 1961 is the year the Film and Television Institute at Pune was founded. Keep the three academies together in memory: Sangeet Natak Akademi 1953, and the Sahitya Akademi and the Lalit Kala Akademi both in 1954.