Who is the author of the book The Elephant Paradigm'?

Correct — C. The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change (2002) is by Gurcharan Das, the former CEO of Procter & Gamble India.

Das published it two years after India Unbound (2000) → option (c).

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Nandan Nilekani — Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder and first chairman of UIDAI, wrote Imagining India and co-wrote Rebooting India with Viral Shah.
• (b)
  Raghuram Rajan — Raghuram Rajan, RBI Governor from 2013 to 2016, wrote Fault Lines and The Third Pillar.
• (d)
  Shashi Tharoor — The near-miss. Shashi Tharoor wrote The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone (2007): an elephant in the title, but a different book.

Author–book items reward a small map of Indian non-fiction.

Gurcharan Das writes on India's economy, governance and ethics: India Unbound (2000), The Elephant Paradigm (2002), The Difficulty of Being Good and India Grows at Night (2012).

Key facts

• The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change (2002) is by Gurcharan Das.
• Gurcharan Das also wrote India Unbound (2000) and India Grows at Night (2012).
• Shashi Tharoor wrote The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone (2007).
• Raghuram Rajan wrote Fault Lines (2010) and The Third Pillar (2019).

Common traps

• Choosing Tharoor because one of his titles also opens with 'The Elephant'. Check the whole title.
• Assuming a book on India's economy must be by an economist. Das came from the corporate world.

No directly related past PYQ was found.