Multiple choice

An Indian who won the Magsaysay Award during 2007 for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts is

  1. Ms Kiran Bedi

  2. Arundathi Roy

  3. Sandeep Pandey

  4. Salonga Palagummi

  5. Mahabir Pun
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Palagummi Sainath won the 2007 Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts for his reporting on rural poverty and social inequality in India. The option shows his name in reverse order as 'Salonga Palagummi'. Kiran Bedi won in 2002 for government service, Arundhati Roy is a Booker Prize winner (not Magsaysay), and Sandeep Pandey won in 2002 for community leadership.

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