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Naam, Namak, Nishan

Naam, Namak, Nishan

The Ultimate Indian Armed Forces Quizbook

Anurakshat Gupta
,
Arnabh Sengupta
,
Hitesh Mahato
,
Anmol Dhawan
,
Sagnik Sarkar
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Do you know why the Indian Navy counts ‘One, Two, Six’ instead of ‘One, Two, Three’ while doing group tasks?
Or that the Intelligence Bureau was set up in response to an assassination?
Or that a Frenchman who had served three nations before turning thirty eventually rose to become the most powerful general of the Marathas?
Or that an army man gave his name to the highest mountain without ever having set foot on it?

Find out the answers to these and more as a team of quizzer-doctors from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Pune takes you on a journey across 250 questions, exploring trivia that connects the Indian Armed Forces to topics ranging from mythology, history and art to geography, fashion and sport.

This and more in a quiz book that will help you see the Indian Armed Forces through a lens you might never have seen before.

Happy exploring!

Imprint: Penguin Veer

Published: May/2023

ISBN: 9780143462286

Length : 216 Pages

MRP : ₹250.00

Naam, Namak, Nishan

The Ultimate Indian Armed Forces Quizbook

Anurakshat Gupta
,
Arnabh Sengupta
,
Hitesh Mahato
,
Anmol Dhawan
,
Sagnik Sarkar

Do you know why the Indian Navy counts ‘One, Two, Six’ instead of ‘One, Two, Three’ while doing group tasks?
Or that the Intelligence Bureau was set up in response to an assassination?
Or that a Frenchman who had served three nations before turning thirty eventually rose to become the most powerful general of the Marathas?
Or that an army man gave his name to the highest mountain without ever having set foot on it?

Find out the answers to these and more as a team of quizzer-doctors from the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) Pune takes you on a journey across 250 questions, exploring trivia that connects the Indian Armed Forces to topics ranging from mythology, history and art to geography, fashion and sport.

This and more in a quiz book that will help you see the Indian Armed Forces through a lens you might never have seen before.

Happy exploring!

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback
Bookscape Bookswagon Amazon

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Anurakshat Gupta

Air Cmde (Dr) Anurakshat Gupta is a professor of surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune. A founder-director of the International Quizzing Association, he has been on BBC Mastermind, was a finalist twice on Tata Crucible, did a stint as an expert on Kaun Banega Crorepati and authored three books on quizzing. He was inducted into the Trivia Hall of Fame at Las Vegas in 2016 and has visited over thirty countries. He counts his year spent as a surgeon at Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan in 2005 as his most unique experience ever. Contact him at anurakshat@rediffmail.com.

Arnabh Sengupta

Flt Lt (Dr) Arnabh Sengupta, a medical officer in the Indian Air Force, spends his free time in trivial pursuits and the pursuit of trivia. Having represented AFMC in multiple quiz competitions across the country, he has bagged accolades and experiences, both. Ever curious, he’s known to pack his bags often, setting out in search for the next activity of interest. Contact him at arnabhsengupta@gmail.com.

Hitesh Mahato

Surg. Lt Cdr (Dr) Hitesh Mahato is a pathologist in the Indian Navy with a penchant for trivia. When not hunting for clues under the microscope, he loves finding them in quiz questions. Often distracted by cute dogs and kitties, his interests constitute history, basketball, writing and travel. Contact him at hitessh24x7@gmail.com.

Anmol Dhawan

Dr Anmol Dhawan is a radiologist practising in Pune. An avid quizzer since his college days, he finished his college quizzing stint in 2017 as the international winner of the Tata Crucible Campus Quiz, beating over 7000 teams. Passionate about history, culture and writing, he maintains a blog where he writes about his interests. Contact him at anmoldhawan@gmail.com.

Sagnik Sarkar

Dr Sagnik Sarkar is an AFMC MBBS graduate, and currently one of the ‘Healing Rhinos’ in the Northeast. An accomplished quizzer since his school days, his varied passions include history, fauj, geopolitics, Russian literature, cinema and Hindustani classical music. When not obsessing over his kitty muse ‘Celine’, he can be found faithfully singing ‘Glory Glory Man United’ each season, often in vain. Contact him at sagniksarkar33@gmail.com.

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