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1
Notable bengali author Purnendu Pattrea wrote:
“The grief of this death
Can never be lowered from our shoulders
How foolish barbarism is
As though death is enough to wipe out
The heart of a vow
Assault is not a new word
Violence is not a new word”
What new word did Pattrea assign to symbolize the ‘waking up’ of the society against the
injustice, who according to professor Sumana roy, dies every year 25 days before the
celebrations of the Republic Day ? Also, he gave birth to which organisation which raised a
lot of voices from the streets ?

SAFDAR HASHMI;
JANA NATYA MANCH(JANAM)

2
Staged at the Royal Opera House in Mumbai in 1945, the play is based on a familial plot
featuring two rich Zamindar brothers arguing, thanks to the discord triggered by the arrival
of a foreign woman. The play underlined the anguish of the brothers who couldn't bear to
stay under one roof. The audience was spellbound as the brothers split their joint estate
into two.
Simply tell me the name of the play, not to be confused with a production which came up
in a different medium 30 years later, featuring another fateful sibling rivalry.
Also, give me the broad theme of the play, an allegory to the contemporary politics of that
time.

2 A
By the allegorical nature of the play hinting at contemporary politics of that time, the
dialogues delivered by the two brothers and the woman were, in part, translations of
various speeches of three. Two of them were patriarchs and another man, whose speech
did last for more than a minute, breaking several barriers of the language.
Identify three of them.

MK GANDHI; JINNAH; TB MACAULAY

2 B
The writers of the play were the founder-director of the theatre company himself and
another writer who continued his expertise and worked with the director’s elder son in
numerous projects of a different medium. For all your patriarchal relations and identify this
writer.
The writer shares his middle and last name with a man, who was a torchbearer of the 20th
century Progressive Writers movement and attempted to capture the social realities of
British India in the language of the colonial master. Identify him.

INDER RAJ ANAND; MULK RAJ ANAND

2 C
Once, in Virginia Woolf’s drawing-room, Anand was mocked by a young critic Edward
Sackville-West for trying to write a novel about a lower-caste protagonist, a toilet cleaner
named Bakha highlighting his struggles and humiliations. The novel soon turned out to be
his seminal debut book.
Anand's friend, popular author EM Forster said about his book that “None of us is pure —
we shouldn’t be alive if we were. But to the straightforward, all things can become pure,
and it is to the directness of his attack that Mr Anand’s success is probably due,”
Give me the one word name of the book.

2 D
Mulk Raj Anand went to Ireland to visit the likes of WB Yeats and George Russel. On
hearing his requests, Russel asked Anand to visit a man from Anand’s motherland,struggling
against the rejection of outcasts and at the same time, fighting against imperialism.
Where did Russel ask MRA to visit, where the aforementioned man complained to MRA
for using heavy words and advised him to transliterate the novel using simpler language?

2 E
Ending this rabbit hole, give the name of the theatre production company that staged
DEEWAR. The company stopped its travelling business around and settled down in 20,
Janki Kutir at Juhu Church road, Mumbai.

3
One of the very firsts of the ensemble, bestowed upon with the World Heritage Site status
in June,2018, this place was a point of community gatherings. A pioneer of the city's
architectural movement of the 1930s, the place could be winding down to a predictable
climax. Featuring luxury facilities such as a soda fountain, ice cream in wine glasses and a
pantry for some special guests, the majestic place proved to its name. Identify this place.
Also give me the name of the art/architectural movement.

3 A
The facade of the Regal Cinemas consisted of two grotesque bas heads representing the
opposing emotions.
What did the masks represent?(+5)
The bas reliefs referenced to the name of the company which leased the plot for building
Regal Cinemas. What is the name of the not so world famous company founded by Franji
Sidhwa and Kaikhushroo A. Kooka ?
Incidentally, Kooka owned a similar establishment in Calcutta with the same name.(+5)

TRAGEDY AND COMEDY; GLOBE THEATRE ;

3 B
1) According to the book “Cities Of Light: Two Centuries Of Urban Illumination” , what
noble and elementary first did Regal cinemas introduce to the city of Bombay? (+5)
2) Marketed as the first luxury theatre of the city, what now-essential service did the hall
start for the first time in India?(+5)
#workablekolstylz

NEON LIGHTS IN THE CINEMA NAME BOARD
AIR CONDITIONING

3 C
The architect assigned with the construction of this building is the son of another famous
architect who designed various outstanding examples of Victorian Gothic Architectural
Revival in India. Name him or his father.
The most famous of the structures was bestowed with the UNESCO World Heritage site
status in 2004. Its exteriors was designed by the students of an eponymous institution, the
oldest of its kind in the city. Which institution?

CHARLES FREDERICK STEVENS/
FREDERICK WILLIAM STEVENS

3 D
The theatre hosted a special screening of a documentary, an edited cut of a 7 hour 48
minutes long recording for the then Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. The recording , the
longest of its kind shot in New York in the year 1957 was interrupted due to a medical
emergency towards its end, but resumed soon after and continued for an hour.
What is the subject of this documentary?

VK KRISHNA MENON’S SPEECH IN UNSC

4
Calcutta had bittersweet memories of protests since its inception. One such protest
happened in February, 2010,where one of the fellow citizens, Mudar Patherya wrote
against the endorsement deal of Lux Hosiery with one of Calcutta’s mascots in a certain
field. The owners of the company were accused of playing a major role in a high profile
case, two years back, when thousands of Calcuttans came outside St Xavier’s College,
wanting for justice. That protest,which had started on the small pavement had gone prime
time national. The letter requests the owner to endorse the LUX brand in his personal
capacity(which he had done before) and not from the organization .
Name the organisation which was part of the endorsement deal and the hullabaloo in
2008?

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