General Knowledge Questions

Who was/were the 10th century composer(s) of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham?

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Doing an internship at the University of Lille in France, I almost always found myself stuck whenever I had to speak to non-Indians about India or on anything 'Indian'. This was more because of the subtle differences in the way the French understood India in comparison to what I thought was 'Indian'. For instance, when I, or any Indian for that matter, say 'Hindi' is an Indian language, what it means is that it is one of the languages widely spoken in India. This need not be similar to the understanding that the French would have when they hear of 'Hindi' as an Indian language. Because for them Hindi then becomes the only language spoken in India. This is a natural inference that the French, Germans, Italians and many other European nationals would tend to make, because that is generally how it is in their own respective countries. The risk of such inappropriate generalisations made about 'Indian' is not restricted to language alone but also for India's landscape, cuisine, movies, music, climate, economic development and even political ideologies. The magnitude of diversity of one European country can be easily compared to that of one of the Indian State, isn't it? Can they imagine that India is one country whose diversity can be equated to that of the entire European continent? The onus is upon us to go ahead and clarify the nuances in 'Indianness' while we converse. But why should one do so? How does it even matter to clarify?

What wrong with respect to India are the Europeans responsible for?

Which of the following is a property of an acid?

Select the synonym of

to permeate

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

To have succumbed to their

P-blackmail was not an instance of
Q-making pragmatic political
R-concessions; it was one of capitulation

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

After walking around

P-­to quench their thirst
Q­-a bit, the women searched
R­-for a hand pump

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It is a pity that

P-­such violence hardly
Q­-comes within the
R­-purview of the law

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Public goods are
P-important as they
Q-mitigate the impact of
R-income poverty and inequality