Nirad Chandra Chudhuri ,one liner question and answer about life ,work ,Award

Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri, CBE (23 November 1897 – 1 August 1999) Indian English-language writer.

1 . Name Nirad C. Chaudhuri

2 . Full name - Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri

3 . Nirad was an  Indian Prolific English language writer.

4 . What was Nirad's father name.

A . Upendra Narayan Chaudhuri, a lawyer.

5 . What was Nirad's mother name.

A. Sushilaani Chaudhurani.

6 . His parents were liberal middle-class Hindus who belonged to the .

A . Brahmo Samaj movement.

7. In 1932 he married to .

A . Amiya Dhar

8 . Professionally Amiya Dhar was  a.

A .  well-known writer herself.

9 . When was Nirad Born in

A . 23 November 1897

10 .  Where were Nirad born in

A . Kishoreganj, Mymensingh, British India (present-day Bangladesh)

11 .where he lived at England

A . He lived at 20 Lathbury Road from 1982 until his death and a blue plaque was installed by the Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board in 2008.

12 . When was Nirad Died in
A . 1 August 1999 (aged 101)

13 . Where were Nirad Died in

A . Lathbury Road, Oxford, England

14 . What was Pen name of Nirad.
A . Balahak Nandi, Sonibarer Cithi Outsider.

15 . What was Nirad's Occupation
A . writer and commentator on culture
16 . Nirad belongs to which Nationality
A . Indian
17 . Nirad active in which literary time Period
A . 1930s–1999
18 .  In which Genre Nirad wrote mostly.
A . literature, culture, politics, war strategy, winery

19 . Chaudhuri authored numerous works in

A . English and Bengali.

20 .  Chaudhuri is best known for

A . The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

21 . The autobiography of an unknown indian published in .

A . 1951.

22 . Chaudhuri was educated in

A . Kishorganj and Kolkata .

23 . For his FA (school-leaving) course he attended Ripon College in Calcutta along with the famous Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay.

24 . he attended Scottish Church College,____.

A .  Calcutta

25 . where he studied history as his ______ major.

A .  undergraduate

26 . He graduated with honors in ____ and topped the University of ____ merit list.

A . History, Calcutta.

27 .  At Scottish Church College, Calcutta, he attended the seminars of the noted historian, _____

A . Professor Kalidas Nag.

28 . After graduation, he enrolled for the M.A. at the University of _____

A . Calcutta.

29 . Did Nirad complete his master degree ?

A .  he did not attend all of his final exams, and consequently was not able to complete his M.A

30 . After his studies, he took a position as a ___ in the Accounting Department of the____ .

A . Clerk, Indian Army

At the same time, he started contributing articles to popular magazines.

31 . Give the name of his first article

A . His first article on Bharat Chandra (a famous Bengali poet of the 18th century) appeared in the most prestigious English magazine of the time, Modern Review.

32 . Chaudhuri left his position in the Accounting Department shortly after, and started a new career as a

A . journalist and editor.

33 . In 1938, Chaudhuri obtained a job as secretary to Sarat Chandra Bose, a political leader in the freedom movement in India.

34 .  He was also appointed as a political commentator on the Kolkata branch of ……..

A . the All India Radio.

35 .  In 1941, he started working for the_____ .

A . Delhi branch of All India Radio

36 .In 1955, the British Council and the BBC jointly made arrangements to take Chaudhuri

to England for eight weeks.

37 . He was asked to contribute lectures to the BBC, and wrote eight of these.

38 . His impressions of England and Europe were later collected in.____

A .  A Passage to England.

39 . The Continent of Circe, published in 1965, traces Chaudhuri's doggedly independent-minded ideas on the social, geo-political, and historical aspects of sub-continental India across millennia.

40 . Why was he always in love with England, though he had never visited the land before the age of 57? These questions perplexed me and the only answer I could decipher is that perhaps Nirad Chaudhuri was in search of a home that he could call his own.

41 . His masterpiece, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, published in 1951, put him on the long list of great Indian writers. He courted controversy in the newly independent India due to the dedication of the book, which ran thus.

Over the course of his literary career, he received numerous accolades for his writing.

42 . In 1966, The Continent of Circe was awarded the

A . Duff Cooper Memorial Award

43 . Duff Cooper memorial Award making Chaudhuri the first and only Indian to date to be given the prize.

44 . The Sahitya Akademi, India's national Academy of Letters, awarded Chaudhuri the Sahitya Akademi Award for his biography on Max Müller, Scholar Extraordinary.

45 . In 1990, Oxford University awarded Chaudhuri, by then a long-time resident of the city of Oxford, an Honorary Degree in Letters.

46 . In 1992, he was made an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Chaudhuri wrote the following books in English:

1 . The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951)
2 . A Passage to England (1959)
3 . The Continent of Circe (1965)
4 . The Intellectual in India (1967)
5 . To Live or Not to Live (1971)
6 . Scholar Extraordinary, The Life of Professor the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Muller, P.C. (1974)
7 . Culture in the Vanity Bag (1976)
8 . Clive of India (1975)
9 . Hinduism: A Religion to Live by (1979)
10 . Thy Hand, Great Anarch! (1987)
11 . Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse (1997)
12 . The East is East and West is West (collection of pre-published essays)
13 . From the Archives of a Centenarian (collection of pre-published essays)
14 . Why I Mourn for England (collection of pre-published essays)

He also wrote the following books in Bengali:

1 . Bangali Jibane Ramani (Role of Woman in Bengali Life)
2 . Atmaghati Bangali (Suicidal Bengalee)
3 . Atmaghati Rabindranath (Suicidal Rabindranath)
4 . Amar Debottar Sampatti (My Bequeathed Property)
5 . Nirbachita Prabandha (Selected Essays)
6 . Aji Hote Satabarsha Age (Before a Hundred Years) (A Hundred years ago)