SSC GD 2021 PYQ — Question 48

SSC GD Constable (English) - 18th November 2021 Shift 3 • General Awareness • Q48

 Who is the author of the book, 'Walking with the comrades'?

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Arundhati Roy.

  • Walking with the Comrades  Ms. Roy describes the desperate fight in the forests of India by very large groups of people trying to save their way of life and their environment.
  • The exploitative forces of international capitalism have come to India where, as we see in the U.S. and elsewhere around the globe, profit and greed rule.
  • While people in the U.S. may think the fight of the so-called Maoists in India has nothing to do with them, they need to think again. 
  • Arundhati Roy is the author of a number of books, including The God of Small Things, which won the Booker Prize in 1997 and has been translated into more than forty languages.
  • She was born in 1959 in Shillong, India, and studied architecture in Delhi, where she now lives