Books and Authors Quiz

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher. He is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. Lectures on Jurisprudence is a collection of Adam Smith's lectures. It contains the formative ideas behind The Wealth of Nations. Social Contract is written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, authored by Plato around 375 BC.

The author of “The Mystery of Capital” is Hernando de Soto. He is a prominent Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights.

Devdas (1917) is a Bengali-language romance novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay written when he was only seventeen years of age.

“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.

Kapalkundala, Published in 1866, is a Bengali romance novel by Indian writer Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. It is a story of a forest-dwelling girl named Kapalkundala, who fell in love with and married Nabakumar, a young gentleman from Saptagram, but eventually found that she is unable to adjust herself with the city life.

Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907 – 2003) was an Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement of early 20th century Hindi literature. He is best known for his early work Madhushala. Prateeksha is one of his famous poems. Writer of Chidambara is Sumitranandan Pant. Kapala Kundala is written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Kamayani is a Hindi epic poem by Jaishankar Prasad.

“Cricket My Style” has been written by Kapil Dev.

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.

The Indian Struggle, 1920–1942 is a two-part book by the Indian nationalist leader Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose that covers the 1920–1942 history of the Indian independence movement to end British imperial rule over India.

The Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer-based, humanitarian and educational non-governmental organization. It was founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.