26. Who was the first Indian to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Sumitranandan Pant
b) G. Sankara Kurup
c) Tarashankar Bandopadhyay
d) K. Shivaram Karanth
Answer: a) Sumitranandan Pant
27. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Jnanpith Award?
a) Ashapurna Devi
b) Mahadevi Varma
c) Amrita Pritam
d) Qurratulain Hyder
Answer: c) Amrita Pritam
28. Who was the first Indian to receive the Booker Prize?
a) Salman Rushdie
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Kiran Desai
d) Aravind Adiga
Answer: a) Salman Rushdie
29. Who was the first Indian woman to receive the Booker Prize?
a) Kiran Desai
b) Arundhati Roy
c) Anita Desai
d) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Answer: b) Arundhati Roy
30. Who was the first Indian to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature?
a) Rabindranath Tagore
b) C. V. Raman
c) Mother Teresa
d) Amartya Sen
Answer: a) Rabindranath Tagore
