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Who is author of the book ‘Apprenticeship of a Mahatma’ on which the film called ‘The Making of the Mahatma’ is based ?
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- Arundhati Roy
- Shyam Benegal
- Shobha De
- Fatima Meer
- Arundhati Roy
Correct Option: D
Fatima Meer was a South African writer, academic, screenwriter, and prominent anti-apartheid activist. She was born in Durban, the largest city in what is now KwaZulu-Natal Province, into a family of nine, where her father, a newspaper editor, instilled in her a consciousness of the racial discrimination that existed in the country. She completed her schooling at the Durban Indian Girls High School and subsequently attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she was a member of a Trotskyist group and the University of Natal, where she completed a Masters degree in Sociology.