Match the List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Authors | ||
| A. | Waiting for Godot | I. | Urvashi Butalia |
| B. | The Wasteland | II. | Samuel Beckett |
| C. | The Other Side of Silence | III. | Marshall McLuhan |
| D. | The Medium is the Message | IV. | T.S. Eliot |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
(A) Waiting for Godot — this matches (II) Samuel Beckett. This play by the Irish writer, first staged in French in 1953, shows two tramps waiting for someone who never comes.
(B) The Wasteland — this matches (IV) T.S. Eliot. The Waste Land (1922) is Eliot’s long poem on the emptiness of the world after the First World War.
(C) The Other Side of Silence — this matches (I) Urvashi Butalia. Her book of 1998 gathers the voices of people who lived through the Partition of India, especially women.
(D) The Medium is the Message — this matches (III) Marshall McLuhan. The Canadian thinker used this phrase in Understanding Media (1964) for his idea that the form of a medium shapes society more than its content.