A) Himalayan Tales and Geopolitics B) The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east C) The Bend of the Himalayas D) Journeys Across South-east Asia
A) Namita Gokhale B) Abdus Salam C) Vivek Mukherji D) Prannay Pathak
A) The bend of the Himalayas, the East of South-east B) The central plains of South Asia C) The northern frontiers of the British Empire D) The western rim of the Tibetan plateau
A) Myanmar B) Pakistan C) Afghanistan D) Sri Lanka
A) Bhutan B) Bangladesh C) Tibet D) China
A) More than thirty B) Exactly twenty C) Nearly one hundred D) Fewer than ten
A) Uniform linguistic assimilation B) Economic isolation and self-sufficiency C) A sense of shared existence and cultural connectivity D) Strict political divisions and rivalries
A) Sketches B) Photos C) Maps D) Paintings
A) Fables and folk stories B) Autobiographies C) Novels and plays D) Satirical essays
A) Industrial manufacturing B) Marine navigation C) Desert agriculture D) Strategy and diplomacy
A) Espionage and the deep state B) Space exploration C) Urban planning D) Taxation and fiscal policy
A) John Elliott B) Pushpesh Pant C) Salil Tripathi D) David Malone
A) John Elliott B) David Malone C) Sudhindra Sharma D) Manoj Joshi
A) Chetan Raj Shrestha B) Manoj Joshi C) Indra Bahadur Rai D) Aruni Kashyap
A) Abdus Salam B) Vivek Mukherji C) Omair Ahmad D) Prannay Pathak
A) Bangladeshi journalist B) British filmmaker C) Nepali novelist D) Indian historian
A) Nepal B) Myanmar C) Bhutan D) North-east India
A) Modern war photographs B) Architectural photographs C) Colonial-era photographs D) Wildlife photographs
A) It focuses too heavily on political borders B) There is an absence of an overarching theme other than geography C) It ignores the region of Nepal entirely D) It lacks any visual illustrations
A) A cohesive historical narrative B) A single continuous novel C) Discrete and unconnected vignettes D) A political manifesto
A) Prannay Pathak B) Omair Ahmad C) Abdus Salam D) Vivek Mukherji
A) A purely economic light B) A purely religious light C) A romantic and nostalgic light D) A geopolitical light
A) As an uninhabitable wasteland B) As having a curiously singular identity which ceases to exist beyond political borders C) As an extension of the European continent D) As a collection of completely isolated warring tribes
A) They remain entirely unchanged over centuries B) They transcend any sort of boundaries C) They are isolated to the country of Myanmar D) They are strictly confined by national borders
A) Uniform B) Stagnant C) Fluid D) Rigid
A) The News Lens B) Outlook Traveller C) The Hindu D) Hindustan Times
A) Identical cultural practices B) A single centralized government C) Vastly different subcultures D) Industrial manufacturing hubs
A) The dominance of colonial administrative systems B) The permanent division caused by political borders C) The cultural isolation of mountain tribes D) The interconnectedness of its many warm communities
A) Hindustan Times B) The News Lens C) The Hindu D) Outlook Traveller
A) They are exclusively taught in colonial schools B) They were never recorded in any written form C) They have largely been forgotten in favor of lines drawn on the map D) They have been preserved perfectly by modern governments
A) Local Himalayan monarchs B) United Nations peacekeepers C) Ancient Chinese dynasties D) The British Empire and its successors
A) They have to be understood B) They should be rewritten by colonial historians C) They must be replaced by modern political maps D) They must be ignored
A) The oceanic climate patterns B) The geological formation C) The agricultural trade routes D) The complex political geography
A) Janice Pariat B) Vikram Seth C) Rabindranath Tagore D) Rudyard Kipling
A) Only as the publisher B) No C) Yes D) Only as a reviewer
A) Kiran Desai B) Arundhati Roy C) Ma Thida D) Jhumpa Lahiri
A) Amitav Ghosh B) William Dalrymple C) Indra Bahadur Rai D) Salman Rushdie
A) Chetan Bhagat B) Shashi Tharoor C) Aravind Adiga D) Chetan Raj Shrestha
A) Narendra Modi B) Manmohan Singh C) Sujeev Shakya D) Dalai Lama
A) Mahatma Gandhi B) Subhash Chandra Bose C) Amish Raj Mulmi D) Jawaharlal Nehru
A) Sushma Joshi B) Kamala Das C) Anita Desai D) Nayantara Sahgal
A) Ramachandra Guha B) Sudhindra Sharma C) Amartya Sen D) Jhumpa Lahiri
A) Tashi Tsering B) Tenzin Tashi C) Thupten Tashi D) Tsering Tashi
A) T. S. Eliot B) Abhay K. C) A. A. Milne D) A. K. Ramanujan
A) Mulk Raj Anand B) R. K. Narayan C) Binodini D) Ruskin Bond
A) Jacqueline Kennedy B) Jacqueline de Burne C) Jacqueline Susann D) Jacqueline Zote
A) Aruni Kashyap B) Mamoni Raisom Goswami C) Bhabendra Nath Saikia D) Homen Borgohain
A) Nellie Bly B) Nitoo Das C) Nadine Gordimer D) Nayantara Sahgal
A) Begum Rokeya B) Lutfa Hanum Selima Begum C) Khaleda Zia D) Benazir Bhutto
A) Birendranath Bhattacharya B) Robin Ngangom C) Tilak Hazarika D) Hem Barua
A) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay B) Indira Goswami C) Michael Madhusudan Dutt D) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
A) Vijay Tendulkar B) Girish Karnad C) Tulsi Badrinath D) Devdutt Pattanaik
A) Anuja Chauhan B) Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni C) Mamang Dai D) Kavita Daswani
A) Prannay Pathak B) Abdus Salam C) Namita Gokhale D) Desmond Kharmawphlang |