Books & Authors Mixed Quiz: Set 23

He wrote the song in Sanskritised Bengali and placed it in his novel Anandamath, published in 1882; it was sung at the Congress session of 1896 and became the chief song of the national movement, and the Constituent Assembly later gave it the same honour as the national anthem.

She received the Jnanpith Award in 1976 for the Bengali novel Pratham Pratishruti, the first part of a trilogy that follows three generations of women in a Bengali household, and she was the first woman to receive the award in its history.

Stri Purush Tulana, a Marathi tract published in 1882, argued that the standards society applied to women were far harsher than those applied to men, and it is studied as one of the earliest feminist writings in any Indian language.

He took the name from the call of a Mississippi riverboat crew, where mark twain meant a sounding of two fathoms, that is water deep enough to be safe.

The full line is Satyameva Jayate Nanritam, meaning truth alone triumphs, not falsehood, and the first two words were inscribed in Devanagari below the Lion Capital of Ashoka when the State Emblem was adopted in 1950.

Fa-Hien travelled overland into India at the close of the fourth century and stayed for several years, coming chiefly to collect the texts of Buddhist monastic discipline; his account, known as the Record of the Buddhist Kingdoms, notes the charitable rest houses and hospitals, the mildness of punishments and the…

Yama, a collection that brings together her earlier volumes of verse, won her the Jnanpith Award in 1982.

Kamayani takes the flood story of Manu from Indian tradition and turns it into a long allegory in which Manu stands for the mind, Shraddha for faith and Ida for reason.

He repeated the line constantly in his lectures to Indian youth after returning from the Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893, and the thought is drawn from the Katha Upanishad.

The correct answer is A, Abdul Hamid Lahori, who followed the method Abul Fazl had established and produced the official chronicle of Shah Jahan’s reign; a work of the same title by Muhammad Amin Qazwini belongs to the same court, and the Amal-i-Salih of Muhammad Salih Kambo is a further…

Hajar Churashir Maa, written in Bengali in 1974, follows a mother who learns that her son, killed as a Naxalite, is only a corpse number in a police register, and it was later filmed in Hindi as Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa.

Ascribed to Tolkappiyar, it belongs to the Sangam age and lays down the rules of Tamil letters, words and poetic composition, including the division of poetry into akam, the inner world of love, and puram, the outer world of war and public life.

Two words promising the removal of poverty carried her to a very large majority in the general election of that year, and the phrase has been quoted in Indian politics ever since.

It won the Booker Prize in 2006, and Kiran Desai was at the time the youngest woman to have won the award.

My Story is her frank autobiography, first serialised and then published as a book, and she wrote English poetry as Kamala Das while publishing Malayalam fiction and prose under the pen name Madhavikutty.

The Sahitya Akademi recognises twenty-four languages and gives one award in each of them every year for the most outstanding book of literary merit, so roughly two dozen names are announced together.

Speaking at Patna in 1974 during the student movement in Bihar, he asked for a total revolution covering social, economic, political, cultural and educational life, and the movement he led became the gathering point for the opposition to the government of the day.

The Bijak gathers Kabir’s verse in three parts — the Sakhi, the Sabad and the Ramaini — and it carries his Nirgun teaching, that god has no form and no image, and his attack on ritual and caste.

The words, meaning touch the sky with glory, come from the eleventh chapter of the Gita, where the universal form of the Lord is described, and they were adopted as the motto of the Indian Air Force.

The Florentine writer Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513 and it was published in 1532; it advises a ruler to judge an action by whether it preserves the state rather than by whether it is virtuous, and for this it is called the first work of modern political realism and…