Characters
This collection of short stories by R.K.Narayan about Malgudi was symbolic of the 1980s subaltern India. Name the protagonist.
RK Narayan
Which Indian author is renowned for his series of novels featuring the character Shiva, such as "The Immortals of Meluha"?
Amish Tripathi
Which planet is covered by clouds of sulphuric acid?
Venus
Which book won the Booker Prize in 1981?
Midnight's Children
The movie 3 Idiots is based on Chetan Bhagat's debut novel _________?
Five Point Someone
V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr Biswas (1961) puts forth the migrant Indian, who doesn't have a place to call his own. Name the portagonist.
Mohun Biswas
Which renowned author wrote the powerful autobiographical novel Untouchable?
Mulk Raj Anand
What is the name of the long-running Indian soap opera that focuses on the lives of the members of the Agarwal family?
Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai
Waht is the name of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam's autobiography?
Wings of Fire
The popular web series Sacred Games is based on which author's work?
Vikram Chandra
Name of the private investigator created by Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray.
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra
Who is the author of the famous novel Midnight’s Children?
Salman Rushdie
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Nissim Ezekiel received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his poetry collection titled ________________.
Latter-Day Psalms
The Netflix series A Suitable Boy is based on the popular novel of the same name. Name the author.
Vikram Seth
Thieves in India are often endearing characters. First staged in 1975 by playwright Habib Tanvir, the character is defined as “a stock figure of fun, a loveable rogue taken from the folklore of Madhya Pradesh”.
Charandas
VS Naipaul has been awarded the honorary fellowship of Sahitya Akademi in which year?
2010
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Ruskin Bond received the Sahitya Akademi Award for which collection of short stories?
Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra
Bollywood spy movie Raazi, featuring Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal, is based on Harinder Sikka's debut novel ____________.
Calling Sehmat
Vijay Tendulkar’s hard-hitting play first staged in 1972, is about a man, disdainful of covert sexual practices, who takes on several ditched women as either domestic helps or sexual partners, until his own arrangements make his life complicated. Name the protagonist.
Sakharam Binder
Who was the first Indian to win the Pulitzer Prize?
Gobind Behari Lal
What is the title of the india biographical drama film that follows the life of an Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons?
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Nayantara Sehgal was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for which novel?
Rich Like Us
The Mistress of Spices film is based on Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's novel that focuses on Tilo, an orphan who has learned to harness the magical properties of spices. Who plays the character in the film?
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan