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