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  1. 1Nehru and GandhiThe Discovery of India (1946): Jawaharlal Nehru, written in Ahmednagar Fort jail. My Experiments with Truth: Gandhi, first written in Gujarati.
  2. 2Bankim and TagoreAnandamath (1882), the novel with the song Vande Mataram: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Gitanjali: Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote the anthems of India and Bangladesh.
  3. 3Indian novelsUntouchable: Mulk Raj Anand; The Guide: R. K. Narayan (Malgudi); Train to Pakistan: Khushwant Singh; A Suitable Boy: Vikram Seth; Godan: Premchand.
  4. 4Booker winnersSalman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981); Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997); Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (2006); Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008).
  5. 5International BookerInternational Booker (translated fiction): Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand (2022); Banu Mushtaq, Heart Lamp (2025).
  6. 6Ancient textsArthashastra: Kautilya; Indica: Megasthenes, the Greek envoy at Chandragupta Maurya's court; Rajatarangini: Kalhana; Abhijnanashakuntalam: Kalidasa.
  7. 7Economics classicsThe Wealth of Nations (1776): Adam Smith; Das Kapital (1867): Karl Marx; The General Theory (1936): John Maynard Keynes.
  8. 8Start-up shelfThe Lean Startup: Eric Ries; Zero to One: Peter Thiel with Blake Masters; Good to Great: Jim Collins; The Innovator's Dilemma: Clayton Christensen.
  9. 9Born in IndiaGeorge Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) was born in Motihari, now in Bihar, in 1903; Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865.

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  1. Q1Easy

    Who wrote 'The Discovery of India'?

    Correct answerJawaharlal Nehru

    Why

    Hook: it is the book Nehru wrote while jailed in Ahmednagar Fort, published in 1946.

    Gandhi's own famous book is his life story, My Experiments with Truth, not a history of India.

    So the author is Jawaharlal Nehru.

  2. Q2Easy

    For which novel did Arundhati Roy win the Booker prize?

    Correct answerThe God of Small Things

    Why

    Roy has one Booker win, in 1997, and it went to the very first novel she wrote.

    The other three titles won the Booker for other writers: Jhabvala, Rushdie and Graham Swift.

    So her Booker went to The God of Small Things.

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