Books and Authors Quiz

“Vaishnava Jana To...” is a Hindu bhajan, written in the 15th century by the poet Narsinh Mehta in the Gujarati language.

“Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna Ab Hamaare Dil Mein Hai” is an Urdu patriotic poem written by Bismil Azimabadi as an ode to young freedom fighters of the Indian independence movement In 1921. The poem was immortalised by Ram Prasad Bismil, an Indian freedom fighter. Bismil Azimabadi and Ram Prasad Bismil are different personalities.

This raga is said to have been created by the sixteenth-century singing legend, Miyan Tansen. Tansen, also referred to as Ramtanu Pandey, was a prominent figure of Hindustani classical music.

“Business @ the Speed of Thought” is a book written by Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and explains how digital infrastructures and information networks can help someone get an edge on the competition.

“The Indian War of Independence” is an Indian nationalist history of the 1857 revolt by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar that was first published in 1909.

Gandhi felt so deeply connected to the Bhagwat Gita that he often referred to it as his “eternal mother,” feeling it offered him more support in his darkest hours than even his biological mother could.

The Vedas, meaning “knowledge,” are the oldest texts of Hinduism. They are derived from the ancient Indo-Aryan culture of the Indian Subcontinent and began as an oral tradition that was passed down through generations before finally being written in Vedic Sanskrit between 1500 and 500 BCE.

Kiratarjuniya is a Sanskrit epic poem by Bharavi. Amuktamalyada is a Telugu epic poem composed by Krishnadevaraya, the Vijayanagara Emperor in the early 16th century. Nagananda is a Sanskrit play attributed to emperor Harshavardhana. Ritusamhara is a long poem or mini-epic in Sanskrit attributed to Kalidasa.

Mulk Raj Anand (1905–2004) was an Indian writer in English. Important books by Mulk Raj Anand are: ​Untouchable, ​Coolie, Two Leaves and a Bud, The Village, Across the Black Waters, ​The Sword and the Sickle, ​The Big Heart, The Private Life of an Indian Prince, etc. “The Village” is also a short novel by the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Ivan Bunin. “A Stranger Called I” is written by Pritish Nandy. The Dark Room is a novel written by R.K.Narayan. Sasthi Brata burst on the literary scene in the late 1960s with My God Died Young, an autobiography.

Pingali Venkayya was an Indian freedom fighter. He was a staunch follower of Mahatma Gandhi and the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based.