I have been quizzing since I was in Kindergarten. The first quiz I attended was conducted by the inimitable Uncle Pai (Ananth Pai of IBH). Uncle Pai publishes two of my favorite magazines - Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle. These, by the way, are not your run of the mill comics - they are treasure troves of information which help you learn everything from Indian history and myth to, literally, rocket science and nuclear physics - and enjoy yourself at the same time.

Visit the Amar Chitra Katha website and read through the nearly 400 titles they have archived online. This site requires a browser with Java enabled - Internet Explorer 4.x and Netscape 4.x preferred. A fairly fast Internet connection and plenty of patience is recommended. However, it is well worth all the time you spend on it, and more.

After this, I went through the usual school quizzing circuit (in Hyderabad, as a member of the Gitanjali School quiz team) and later, college quizzes when I was in Wesley College, muddling my way through a B.Sc, and Vivekananda School of Management, where I completed an MBA majoring in HR (and spent most of my time participating in one business quiz after the other).

Since 1996, I've been a member of K-Circle, one of the oldest quiz clubs in India. Since 1998, I've also been its webmaster. We at K-Circle meet every friday evening at the YMCA Secunderabad for a two hour long quiz session, and I post at least ten questions selected from the quiz within a few hours of reaching home from K-Circle.

Or rather, I used to post the quiz within a few hours of coming back from KC. Since July 2000, thanks to a career move which took me first to Bangalore, and another move in 2001 which pushed me into Hong Kong, the site's getting updated a lot slower :( Well, there's always e-mail and I get the quizzes within a day or two of their being asked at KC. Sorry for the delay :)

Quizzers around the world have supported KCircle by visiting our website every week, and Netscape has honored us by giving KCircle.Com its prestigious Editors Choice award in the Trivia Quiz category. This rating gives us top billing on several search engines which use Netscape's DMOZ search engine.

I was on the research team for Siddhartha Basu's Mastermind India quiz on the BBC. I was also a participant in the first edition (1997) of Mastermind India.

I also used to write regular quiz columns for The Economic Times and CafeMumbai, a Bombay oriented portal run by the ICICI group. Sadly, no time for that now.

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