Books and Authors Quiz

The author of the book “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind” is Deepak Chopra. The book is published in 1993. This book goes beyond current anti-aging research and ancient mind/body wisdom to dramatically demonstrate that we do not have to grow old!

“The Inheritance of Loss” is the novel by Indian author Kiran Desai. It was first published in 2006. It won a number of awards, including the Man Booker Prize for that year.

“Hamsa Damayanti” Oil painting on canvas by Raja Ravi Varma is his very famous painting and was done in 1899. Damayanti is the protagonist and heroine in the Sanskrit epic, Nala and Damayanti. According to the story, Damayanti and Nala fall in love despite being miles away. A swan (Hamsa) acts as their messenger of love.

“Young India” was a weekly paper or journal in English published by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from 1919 to 1931. Gandhi wrote various quotations in this journal that inspired many. Mahatma Gandhi began publishing “Harijan”, a weekly newspaper, in English in 1933. It lasted until 1948.

Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) was an Indian nationalist and freedom fighter, major Indian English poet, philosopher, and yogi. The Life Divine is Sri Aurobindo's principal work of philosophy.

Hickey's Bengal Gazette was the first newspaper (English-language) published in India. It was first published on 29th January 1780 by James Augustus Hickey under the British Raj.

The Sirr-i-Akbar is a version of the Upanishads authored by the Mughal-Shahzada, Dara Shukoh, translated from Sanskrit into Persian in 1657.

Gandhi composed his 'translation' of Plato's Apology while he was in South Africa. Gandhi was responding to political restrictions against the Indian community and was also influenced by John Ruskin's Unto This Last.

“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.