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INDIAN AND SRI LANKAN WRITING

Test your knowledge of the best writing from India and Sri Lanka with our readers' quiz. If you need a few clues, check out the books listed under the 'South Asia' compass...

 

Question 1.
Which award-winning Indian novelist's books include The Village by the Sea, The Zig Zag Way and Fasting, Feasting?

Salman Rushdie

David Davidar

Anita Desai

Gita Mehta
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Question 2.
Which book by Amit Chaudhuri consists of a selection of short stories and a memoir told in verse?

Real Time

A New World

Freedom Song

A Strange and Sublime Address
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Question 3.
Who's books - of fiction and travel - include In an Antique Land, The Glass Palace and, most recently, The Hungry Tide?

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Githa Hariharan

Amitav Ghosh

Vikram Kapur
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Question 4.
In which novel by Sri-Lankan born writer Romesh Gunesekera does the central character seem to value cricket more than love?

Monkfish Moon

The Sandglass

Heaven's Edge

The Match
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Question 5.
Which poet's collections include A Colour for Solitude, Augatora and Point No Point?

Dom Moraes

Tabish Khair

Imtiaz Dharker

Sujata Bhatt
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Question 6.
Which of Rohinton Mistry's books centres on Nariman Vakeel, a 79-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past?

Family Matters

A Fine Balance

Such a Long Journey

Tales from Firozsha Baag
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Question 7.
Vikram Seth's first novel was written in verse and set in the 1980s. What was it called?

An Equal Music

The Golden Gate

A Suitable Boy

From Heaven Lake
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Question 8.
Which of the following is not a novel by Bharati Mukherjee?

Jasmine

Imaginary Maps

Desirable Daughters

Leave It To Me
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Question 9.
Who wrote Malgudi Days, a collection of short stories describing the lives of residents of the imaginary village of Malgudi?

A. Sivanandam

V.S. Naipaul

A.K. Ramanujan

R.K. Narayan
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Question 10.
What was the title of Arundhati Roy's collection of speeches and essays about democracy and global justice?

No Logo

The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire

Fences and Windows

The God of Small Things
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