Books and Authors question: In a comparison beginning with The Immortals of Meluha, which of the following book–author pairs is incorrectly matched?

The verified answer to “Books and Authors question: In a comparison beginning with The Immortals of Meluha, which of the following book–author pairs is incorrectly matched?” is The Immortals of Meluha — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, option B. The source-backed, question-specific record explains: The Immortals of Meluha is correctly associated with Amish Tripathi. These three details—title, author, and language—form the decisive bibliographical combination required here. The distractor set (The Palace of Illusions — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri; The Story of My Experiments with Truth — M. Gandhi) must therefore be tested as complete statements: one true fragment cannot make an entire option correct. A common examination trap is to confuse an author’s nationality with the language of composition, or a translation date with first publication. Revision takeaway: remember the compact chain “The Immortals of Meluha — Amish Tripathi — English — 2010,” and connect it with The Secret of the Nagas for stronger recall. This evidence establishes the bibliographic relationship required in this Books and Authors item. A correct solution must preserve the exact title, author, publication context, language, award or comparison requested by the stem. Similar periods, genres or national traditions do not make two book–author pairs interchangeable. Option B gives The Immortals of Meluha — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and satisfies the wording of the question. The remaining choices—The Palace of Illusions — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri and The Story of My Experiments with Truth — M. Gandhi—do not satisfy the complete requirement. Depending on the stem, a distractor may name a real writer but attach the wrong title, use a related work by another author, reverse a correct association, or present a correct pair when the question specifically asks for the incorrect match.