Indian Heritage Quiz: 500 Rare Questions and Answers

By Sripati

Quizzing can be funif the questions sound simple and the answers are not so simple! After you have heard both, you feel like having more! Questions and answers are initial steps to deep learning and contemplation. They need to ignite a train of thoughts into motion!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing India
• Release date: Nov 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781482841060

Sripati

Sripati (Vedantam Sripatisarma) is a writer in Telugu, Hindi, and English. He has penned several short stories, novels, and plays. He is a columnist in Telugu. His short stories in English had been broadcast by the AIR Hyderabad. His short stories in Telugu have been published in Telugu magazines like “Andhra Prabha,” “Swati,” “Andhra Bhoomi,” and “Navya.” His novels in Telugu have been published in “Andhra Bhoomi” and “Chitra.” He has written a column in the Telugu monthly magazine “Chitra” based on politics and economics. His plays in Hindi and Telugu have received awards in South Central Railway cultural events. He is currently writing for a weekly satirical column, “Kaburlu,” in “Andhra Prabha” (web edition). Telugu readers are also familiar with his single-page stories published in the local daily “Vaarta.” Sripati is also a well-known astrologer and has written a book on medical astrology, “Arogyabhagyachakram.” Some of his short stories are also available in the form of compilations. He can be contacted at www.sriviews.net or [e-mail]. He also writes in a Telugu blog, www.srikaaram.wordpress.com wherein some of his film reviews can be found besides other interesting material. He also writes film reviews for AIR Hyderabad on special occasions like the International Children’s Film Festivals of India.

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Compilor’s note

Indian heritage is known as ‘Nitya Itihasa’ suggesting that unlike the written and recorded history of several civilizations, India’s history as related to its heritage drawn from Vedas, Puranas, epics and subsequent texts is something which cannot be pinned down to a given time period. Roughly, one can quote the ‘recent’ Mahabharata war as a point in India’s distant history and examine it with the remnants of the city of Dwaraka unearthed from the western coast.

Having said this, we are actually looking at a glorious past ranging beyond almost 5000 years and if the scriptures are to be examined, the story goes beyond lakhs of human years.

Some time ago, I was approached by a local Telugu daily for conducting a quiz. The title was ‘Puranam Quiz’. Ever since, there was a great demand for having them in the form of a compilation. The purpose was basically to inculcate an interest in the subject and a certain inquisition about the backgrounds behind some phenomena and also to review the characters and events inside the glorious epitaphs which significantly describe the morals of the contemporary society.

The quiz went on for almost four years and the volume is therefore not only immense but quite intense as well. This is