SSC MTS GK Questions 2026

Nilekani, a co-founder of Infosys and the first Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, published Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century in 2008; it argues that India's young population, its cities and its technology can be turned from problems into assets.

The national academy of art, set up in 1954 and working from Rabindra Bhavan in New Delhi, holds the National Exhibition of Art and gives the National Akademi Awards to the works selected in it, covering painting, sculpture, graphic art and allied forms; it also elects its own Fellows.

India's highest honour in cinema was instituted in 1969, the birth centenary year of Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, who made Raja Harishchandra in 1913, and the award for 1969 went to the actress Devika Rani.

The vocalist of the Gwalior gharana, the oldest of the Hindustani khayal gharanas, received the first Tansen Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980, a fitting choice because the samman is presented near Gwalior at Tansen's memorial.

The Government of Madhya Pradesh instituted the Kalidas Samman in 1980, in the same year as the Tansen Samman, and named it after the Sanskrit poet and dramatist Kalidasa, whose association with Ujjain the state claims.

The Academy, founded in 1928 in the wake of the Madras session of the Indian National Congress, began conferring the title Sangita Kalanidhi in 1929, and it is bestowed at the Academy's annual conference during the Margazhi music season on the musician who presides over that conference.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi instituted the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar in 2006, naming it after the shehnai player Ustad Bismillah Khan, to recognise promise in music, dance, theatre, the traditional and folk arts and puppetry, and the eligibility condition is that the artist has not completed forty years of…

The Fellowship is the Akademi's highest honour and is deliberately scarce: not more than forty living persons hold it at any one time, which is why it is reserved for masters and senior scholars of the performing arts.

The samman is named after Tansen, the singer of Akbar's court who is counted among the nine jewels of that court, and the Government of Madhya Pradesh gives it for Hindustani classical music at the Tansen Samaroh at Behat near Gwalior.

The Tansen Samman was instituted by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1980 for Hindustani classical music and is presented at the Tansen Samaroh held every year at Behat near Gwalior, where the memorial of Tansen stands.

The Sangeet Natak Akademi is the national academy for the performing arts, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Culture with its office at Rabindra Bhavan in New Delhi, and it has given its annual Akademi Puraskar since 1952.

The building is named after Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, who founded the Council on 9 April 1950 and was its first President, and it houses the body that runs India's cultural centres abroad, the scholarship schemes for foreign students and the chairs of Indian studies in foreign universities.

The Centre for Cultural Resources and Training was set up in New Delhi in 1979 to bring culture into school education, and it trains teachers and teacher educators, prepares teaching material on the arts, and gives scholarships to young children with talent in the arts.

The Zonal Cultural Centres were created from 1985 onwards to work with folk and tribal arts across cultural rather than political boundaries, and there are seven of them: the North Zone Centre at Patiala, the North Central Zone Centre at Prayagraj, the West Zone Centre at Udaipur, the South Zone…

The Indian Museum at Kolkata was founded in 1814, grew out of the collections of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and is both the oldest and the largest museum in the country, with sections on art, archaeology, anthropology, geology, zoology and botany.

The Archaeological Survey of India was created in 1861 and Cunningham, an army engineer turned archaeologist who had surveyed Buddhist sites following the accounts of Chinese travellers, became its first Director-General; he is often called the father of Indian archaeology.

The Lalit Kala Akademi was founded on 5 August 1954 as the national academy of art, in the same year as the Sahitya Akademi, which was inaugurated on 12 March 1954.

The Akademi created the National School of Drama in New Delhi in 1959 as one of its own training units, and the school became an independent autonomous body in 1975; it trains students in acting, direction, stage design and allied crafts, and it runs a repertory company.

The three national academies share the building on Ferozeshah Road in New Delhi named after Rabindranath Tagore, which is why a single question can cover all three at once.

The Council was founded on 9 April 1950 by Azad, independent India's first Education Minister, who also became its first President; its headquarters in New Delhi is named Azad Bhavan after him.