This week, a four-question quiz on writers and books of the Indian diaspora, a theme I chose solely because I heard the phrase floating around the newsroom just now. As always, send in your answers samanth.s@livemint.com or leave them here in the comments below. All-correct entries get lashings of respect and a place on tomorrow’s honour roll.

1. Which novelist, born in Trinidad and educated at Oxford, wrote novels like A Hot Country, Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherers, in which he groused plentifully about the post-imperial societies that Britain left behind? (Full name, please.)

2. Identify the writer below:

3. Fill in the blanks of this Nathaniel Hawthorne quotation:

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into _________ _____.”

4. Another identification. Who is the author?