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Contemporary Indian English fiction: Identify the author of ‘‘In Custody’’. Full question: ‘‘In Custody’’, an English novel later adapted to film, was written by which author? Choose the correct option.

Difficulty: Easy

Anita Desai
Vikram Seth
Arundhati Roy
Kiran Desai
Salman Rushdie

Correct Answer: Anita Desai

Explanation:

Fact
Anita Desai wrote In Custody (1984), exploring themes of language, loss, and culture; it was adapted into a Merchant–Ivory film.

Distractors
Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy), Roy (The God of Small Things), Kiran Desai (The Inheritance of Loss), and Rushdie (Midnight’s Children) authored other works.

Final Answer
Anita Desai.

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