Which of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
Names of Books — Authors

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Correct — D is the pair that is NOT correctly matched. 'Island of Lost Girls' was not written by Kunal Basu; it is a 2008 psychological thriller by the American author Jennifer McMahon. Kunal Basu's own novels include The Opium Clerk, The Miniaturist, Racists, The Yellow Emperor's Cure and Kalkatta. Because the book is wrongly attributed to him, pair (D) is the mismatch the question asks for.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) This pair IS correctly matched — sociologist Nandini Sundar wrote 'The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar' (2016) — so it is not the answer.  (b) Correctly matched — Chetan Bhagat wrote the 2016 novel 'One Indian Girl' — so it is not the mismatched pair.  (c) Correctly matched — former diplomat Kiran Doshi wrote this novel, which won The Hindu Prize (2016) — so it is not the answer.

Concept: 'Books and authors' matching is a recurring general-awareness test. Here three pairs are genuine and one is a plant. The reliable pairs: The Burning Forest = Nandini Sundar; One Indian Girl = Chetan Bhagat; Jinnah Often Came to Our House = Kiran Doshi. The false pair credits 'Island of Lost Girls' (actually by Jennifer McMahon) to Kunal Basu.

State PCS 2018 Q10 — Art & Culture PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2018 Q10 — Art & Culture PYQ with Answer