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