Q72
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeArt, Culture, Literature & Cinema
'Letters from Burma' is a book of essays penned by
- a.Aung San Suu Kyi
- b.Rashbehari Bose
- c.Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
- d.Subhas Chandra Bose
Answer: (A) Aung San Suu Kyi
Letters from Burma (1996-97) is a collection of 52 essays that Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace laureate (1991), wrote for a Japanese newspaper after her release from house arrest; her other well-known book is Freedom from Fear. The other options are people linked with Burma in different ways: Rashbehari Bose lived in exile in Japan and worked in South-East Asia, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay worked in Rangoon for years (his Pather Dabi is set in Burma), and Subhas Chandra Bose was imprisoned in Mandalay and later led the INA campaign through Burma.