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HERITAGE NEWS

STUDENTS QUIZ ON HERITAGE!

INTaCH HErITagE QuIZ -2016 for schools was bathinda, Patiala, allahabad, brajbhoomi(Mathura),
conducted for schools across the country. Apart from rohilkhand(rampur), Orai, Varanasi, lalitpur, Dehradun,
English, the quiz was done in the following languages: Kanpur, bijapur, Dharwad, Darjeeling, Kolkata,
Hindi, Punjabi, Kannada, Bangla, Marathi, Gujarati, santiniketan, Mumbai, wai-Panchgani, Chandrapur,
Assamese, Mizo, Nagamese, Oriya, Telugu, Tamil and aurangabad, Pune, solapur, goa, ahmedabad, Mehsana,
Malayalam. The idea here was to engage young minds Jamnagar, rajpipla, Dibrugarh, aizawl, Dimapur, gangtok,
in different parts of the country to know their heritage in Kakinada, Kadapa, Kurnool, Machilipatnam, srikakulam,
a more interesting way and take active participation in Vishakapatnam, Vijayanagram, anantapur, guntur,
spreading it further to their families and peers. warangal, Mahbubnagar, Trivandrum, Calicut, Chennai,
Coimbatore, Kodaikanal, Madurai, salem, Thanjavur,
This year around 85 iNTaCh chapters from various cities
participated in the quiz. The local heritage of the city was bhagalpur, Jamshedpur, bhubaneshwar, Mayurbhanj,
focused upon and more questions were based upon the sonepur, barmer, Jaipur, udaipur, Jodhpur, Karauli, raipur,
same. This was done to throw light on the local heritage bilaspur, sarguja, bhopal, Datia, Dhar, gwalior, Jabalpur,
that has always been neglected upon, as our school Khandwa, shivpuri, Mandla, burhanpur, gurgaon,
curriculum omits the arena of heritage awareness. Kurukshetra, Panipat, Chandigarh and Jammu.
With a reach out of this magnitude, the entire country has
The cities included Delhi,ambala, Mohindergarh,
Kangra, shimla, Mandi, amritsar, Faridkot, Maler Kotla, been covered to reach out to school children in our efforts to
sensitize them about the importance of our heritage.

Udaipur Ahmedabad Ambala Visakhapatnam

HOW WELL DO YOU kNOW INTACH INDIA QUIZ BOOk FOR

HERITAGE? SCHOOLS BY COLLINS INDIA
a Quiz book named “indiaQa:
1. it is the oldest form of hindustani Classical Music. india heritage Quizbook”
what is it called? has been released this year
2. Name the hill of Visakhaptnam where places of which is a unique collection
worship of three different religions are located. of facts, general knowledge
and trivia on india. The
3. Name the first woman Carnatic vocalist to be questions in this book are
awarded bharat ratna. based on content used in the
quizzes of the last two years’
4. what is the form of puppetry in Tamil Nadu iNTaCh heritage Quiz. The
called? book is compiled by Kunal

5 The Mughal emperor aurangzeb was expert in savarkar and seema Chari of
playing which string instrument? ‘Xpressminds edutainment’
supported by iNTaCh and
published by Collins india.
Answers: 1 Dhrupad; 2 Ross Hill; 3 M.S Subhalakshmi; 4 Bommalattam; 5 Veena

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