‘The Great Indian Novel’, a satirical novel that recreates the Hindu epic Mahabharata within the context of the Indian National Movement, is written by which of the following writers who is a member of the Indian Parliament?
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Shashi Tharoor.
- Shashi Tharoor is a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala.
- He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and as the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs.
- His most famous work is The Great Indian Novel, published in 1989, in which he shows blocked the narrative and theme of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata to weave a satirical story of Indian life in a non-linear mode with the characters drawn from the Indian Independence Movement.