Multiple choice

Who has written the novel The Inheritance of Loss which was awarded the Booker Award?

  1. Saniya Mirza

  2. Kiran Desai

  3. Kiran Bedi

  4. Sakuntala Devi
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Explanation

Kiran Desai wrote 'The Inheritance of Loss' which won the Booker Prize in 2006. She is the daughter of novelist Anita Desai and this was her second novel. The book explores themes of globalization, migration, and political conflict in Northeast India. Saniya Mirza is a tennis player, Kiran Bedi is a retired IPS officer, and Shakuntala Devi was a mathematician known as the 'human computer'.

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