1. Sacred Games is a collection of poems by Vikram Seth.

2. The Mahabharata tells of peoples descended from the same grandfather.

3. No Indian monarch has written an autobiography.

4. Indian novelist Vikas Swarup was also a diplomat.

5. Much early Indian literature is written in Sanskrit.

6. The oldest Indian literature is a body of poems.

7. The literature of the Jains is written in Ardhamagadhi.

8. Tamil literature is very ancient.

9. The Dhammapada is the first Indian novel in English.