CDS (I) 2023 General Knowledge · Question 120 of 120

Correct — C, A-4 B-3 C-2 D-1. The four titles belong to four different languages, and each is a 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award. Bhool Satya, the short-story collection, is by Manoj Kumar Goswami and won in Assamese, so A goes with 4. Tumadi Ke Shabd, the poetry collection, is by Badri Narayan and won in Hindi, so B goes with 3. Chhe Roopak, in the drama category, is by Veena Gupta and won in Dogri, so C goes with 2. Alekhun Amba, the play, is by Kamal Ranga and won in Rajasthani, so D goes with 1. That is exactly the sequence in option (c). Because every pairing is independent, one confirmed pair is enough to eliminate most of the list — fixing Bhool Satya to Manoj Kumar Goswami alone removes options (a) and (b), and fixing Chhe Roopak to Veena Gupta then separates (c) from (d).

• (a)A-1 B-2 C-3 D-4 — The straight-down sequence, which is almost never the answer in a match item and is wrong at every position here.
• (b)A-1 B-3 C-2 D-4 — Gets the middle two pairs right but reverses the outer ones — Bhool Satya is Manoj Kumar Goswami's and Alekhun Amba is Kamal Ranga's, not the other way round.
• (d)A-4 B-2 C-3 D-1 — Correct at A and D but swaps the middle pair. Tumadi Ke Shabd is Badri Narayan's poetry and Chhe Roopak is Veena Gupta's drama.

The Sahitya Akademi gives an annual award in each of its twenty-four recognised languages, for a book first published in the preceding five years and judged by a language-specific jury. Genres vary from year to year within a language — poetry one year, short stories or drama the next — which is why an award list reads as a mixed set of titles. The Akademi's highest honour is not the award but election as a Fellow.

A four-pair matching item is really four small questions, and the code format lets you get there without knowing all four. Work from whichever pair you are surest of and strike out every option that contradicts it. The 2022 list is also a reminder that these awards range far beyond the big-circulation languages: alongside Hindi, this set includes Assamese, Dogri and Rajasthani, and Dogri and Rajasthani questions turn up in these papers precisely because candidates skip them. One habit worth building for the year before your exam is a single page listing the Sahitya Akademi winners with language, title and genre — that is the form in which the question is always asked.

• Manoj Kumar Goswami won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award in Assamese for the short-story collection Bhool Satya.
• Badri Narayan won the 2022 award in Hindi for the poetry collection Tumadi Ke Shabd.
• Veena Gupta won the 2022 award in Dogri for Chhe Roopak, in the drama category.
• Kamal Ranga won the 2022 award in Rajasthani for the play Alekhun Amba.
• The Sahitya Akademi gives an award in each of its twenty-four recognised languages, and its highest honour is election as a Fellow.

• Assuming the straight A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 sequence, which match items almost never use.
• Confusing the genre labels — the same year's list can carry poetry, short stories, drama and a play separately.
• Trying to recall all four pairs before answering, when one confirmed pair usually halves the options.

As a coded four-pair match on a recent award list, or as a single question pairing one book with its author or language.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The 2022 Sahitya Akademi Award in Hindi was given for which of the following works?

  • (a)Bhool Satya
  • (b)Tumadi Ke Shabd
  • (c)Chhe Roopak
  • (d)Alekhun Amba

  Answer(b) Tumadi Ke Shabd — the poetry collection by Badri Narayan.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  The highest honour conferred by the Sahitya Akademi on a writer is

  • (a)The annual Sahitya Akademi Award
  • (b)Election as a Fellow of the Akademi
  • (c)The Bhasha Samman
  • (d)The Yuva Puraskar

  Answer(b) Election as a Fellow of the Akademi — a distinction reserved for a small number of writers at any time, above the annual awards.