(A) Read the passage and answer the questions - And years later, when I was out of Gemimi Studios and I had much time but not much money, and things at a reduced price attracted my attention. On the footpath in front of the Madras Mount road Post Office, there was a pile of brand new books for fifty paise each. Actually they were copies of the same book, on elegant paper back of American origin. Special low priced student edition, in connection with the 50th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution. I paid fifty paise and picked up a copy of the book- The God That Failed. passage based question answer
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Ashokmitran was born in Secunderabad on 22 September 1931. He spent the first twenty years of his life there. His real name was Jagadisa Thyagarajan. He moved to Chennai in 1952 after the death of his father. His father’s friend, S.S.Vasan who was a film director and the owner of Gemini Studios, invited him to work at Studios. He worked for more than a decade at the Gemini Studios.While working there he often acted as an “unofficial scribe” (in his own words) for people working in the film industry. He also began writing about his experiences of working in the film industry in a set of columns for the Illustrated Weekly of India; these columns later became his book, My Years with Boss. The ‘boss’ is here referred to S.S. Vasan, the owner of Gemini Studios.
It was from 1966 that he became a full-time writer and he took up the pseudonym of “Ashokamitran”. He began his prolific literary career with the prize-winning play “Anbin Parisu” and went on to author more than two hundred short stories, and a dozen novellas and novels.
In 1973 he was invited and took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, United States. In the 1980s most of his works were translated into English and he and his works became well-known all over India. Some of his works were translated into other European languages and most Indian languages as well.
Ashokamitran died on 23 March 2017 at the age of 85. At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife and three sons.