(a) Pingali Venkayya designed the tricolour Indian National Flag here.
(b) Pattabhi Sitaramaiah led the Quit India Movement of the Andhra region from here.
(c) Rabindranath Tagore translated the National Anthem from Bengali to English here.
(d) Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott set up headquarters of Theosophical Society first here.
17. Answer: (c) Option (c) is correct:
Madanapalle is a city in the Annamayya district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. Rabindranath Tagore translated “Jana Gana Mana” from Bengali to English and also set it to music in Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, short story writer, essayist, and painter. He was highly influential in introducing Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. The song for “Jana Gana Mana” was composed by Margaret Cousins, the wife of educationist Dr James Henry Cousins.
