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The first female war correspondent. She interviewed and photographed Mahatma Gandhi for LIFE magazine in 1948 just hours before his assassination. Identify this pioneering American photographer.

Additionally, Identify the actress who portrays her in the 1982 movie Gandhi

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Margaret Bourke-White

Candice Bergen

A phrase derived from Persian which literally means far be the evil eye.

frequently uttered as a protective phrase when a loved one or friend succeeds, has good luck or otherwise receives praise, because those events are said to invite jealous attention.

What Phrase

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Chasm-e-Badoor

A play by A. R. Gurney that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The play centers on two characters, Melissa Gardner and Andrew Makepeace Ladd III.

Using the epistolary form sometimes found in novels, they sit side by side at tables and read the notes, letters and cards in which over nearly 50 years, they discuss their hopes and ambitions, dreams and disappointments, victories and defeats that have passed between them throughout their separated lives.

Identify this play and the long running Indian adaptation

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Love Letters

Tumhari Amrita

Contemporaries. Friends. Both were tried for obscenity.She for Lihaaf. He for Bu.

They could not be more similar in their fictional art. FewUrdu writers can match them in their ability to leave a reader entirelyclueless, to arouse his wonderment and suspense and then, in the end,suddenly change this wonderment and suspense into joy.

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Ismat

Manto

Identify the Islands at the center named after the trees found on it.

We are reminded of Amir Khusrau's famous coupletgar firdaus bar roo-e zameen ast,hameen asto hameen asto hameen ast

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Char Chinari, Srinagar

If there be paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this

Started in 1978. Name the Indian magazine devoted to feminism as well as to gender studies and activism started by these two academics.

Bonus Points : Name them

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Manushi

Madhu KishwarRuth Vanita

Name the street

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Jew Street

Hes a famous writer, you know, she said fishing out a paperback copy of Franny and Zooey of her handbag and thrusting it at me. I was idly watching the traffic on the street, not really taking her seriously and murmuring distractedly that she must be kidding. I remember the shock I felt, like a deepening chill, when she said she wasnt joking.

Even before I could ask her to explain, I saw Greta waving to a tall man bounding out of the brownstone. Lanky, slightly greying, a little hunched, and holding an umbrella in his left hand, he nodded and walked quickly towards us. The long, angular, handsome face with those dark, gentle, searching eyes so familiar from the photograph on the back jacket of ___________ seemed to leap out at me.

I learnt that he had, in the early years, frequently taken classes and attended retreats at the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre (first in the city, and later at the Vivekananda Cottage in Thousand Island Park) because of his deep interest in Vedanta.

And to my eternal regret, I misplaced that piece of paper naming ______ favourite South Indian snack: just two words written in that unmistakable, angular handwriting: Rasam vada .

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JD Salinger

There are 1094 Kendriya Vidyalayas. 1091 in India. Name the ones abroad. Intended for children of embassy staff and expatriate employees

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Moscow, Tehran and Kathmandu

The story revolves around X, the grocer's son from Amloki. Wanting to be a singer but with no talent, he is driven out on a donkey for disturbing the king. Exiled into a forest, he meets Y, another exile from nearby Hortuki sent to the forest for playing the drum badly. They start singing and drumming, initially to scare off a roaming tiger, and in the process attract a group of ghosts who are fascinated by their music.

The king of ghosts grants them three boons:They can get food and clothes by clapping their hands,They are given a pair of magic slippers to travel anywhere,They can hold people in awe with their music.

They travel to Shundi, where a benevolent king appoints them court musicians. What are we talking about?

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Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

TIME OUT

LIST IT #1

List Test Cricket Captains of India (Men's team)31 in all

(Score: +2/-2)

List of Test Cricket Captains

CK Nayudu

Maharajkumar of Vizianagram

Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi

Lala Amarnath

Vijay Hazare

Vinoo Mankad

Ghulam Ahmed

Polly Umrigar

Hemu Adhikari

Datta Gaekwad

Pankaj Roy

Gulabrai Ramchand

Nari Contractor

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Chandu Borde

Ajit Wadekar

Srinivas Venkataraghavan

Sunil Gavaskar

Bishen Singh Bedi

Gundappa Viswanath

Kapil Dev

Dilip Vengsarkar

Ravi Shastri

Krishnamachari Srikkanth

Mohammad Azharuddin

Sachin Tendulkar

Sourav Ganguly

Rahul Dravid

Virender Sehwag

Anil Kumble

MS Dhoni

TIME OUT

Richard Dawkins calls him the Marco Polo of neurology. Author of Phantoms In the Brain (1999) and more recently The Tell-Tale Brain (2010).

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VS Ramachandran

He took on Facebook over the use of his name in 2011. He won. _____ had asked to use his middle name ______, which he is most recognised by. He described his online identity crisis in a series of messages posted on Twitter, among them

"Dear #Facebook, forcing me to change my FB name from ____ to Ahmed ____ is like forcing J. Edgar to become John Hoover" and "Or, if F. Scott Fitzgerald was on #Facebook, would they force him to be Francis Fitzgerald? What about F. Murray Abraham?" Messages such as these were then circulated online.

Facebook eventually relented and allowed him to use the name by which he is universally known.

Who are we talking about?

What pseudonym did he use between 1988 to 1998 in honourof two famous names from world literature?

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Salman Rushdie

Joseph Anton

From Jeffrey Archer's 'A Quiver full of Arrows':An unnamed Oxonian has an ambition to succeed as a cricketer for Oxford and follow his famous cricketer father's footsteps. He wishes to make a name for himself in the Oxford vs Cambridge cricket match.

In his first year he makes the team and has a terrific season but somehow injures his finger before the final match. In his second year he is in poor form and asks his captain to drop him from the finals. In his third year he is the captain.

He struggles with the ball and with the bat getting out cheaply for a duck in the first innings. In his second innings- set a total of 214 to get- he struggles and nearly gets out- but after hooking a boundary- begins to score runs briskly. At his score on 99, he is stranded in the middle of the crease and the ball is with the opposition captain Robin Oakley who instead of running the captain out and thereby putting Cambridge in a winning position chooses to allow the captain to go back to the crease. The Captain hits a boundary, scores his hundred and deliberately gets out hit wicket to honour the opposition.

The match ends in a draw as rain pours down- thereby being the ideal situation expected for one and all.Story based on which Oxford classmate of Jeffrey Archer?

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Mansoor Ali Khan, Nawab of Pataudi jr.

'Tiger' Pataudi

Identify the Poet

I sowed my wild oats Before I was twenty.Drunkards and turncoatsI knew in plenty.Most friends betrayed me.Each new affairFurther delayed me.I didn't care.

I put no end toThe life that led me

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Dom Moraes

Miss India 1954

Her father was a nuclear physicist who served as scientific adviser to UNESCO. Her mother was a French Indologist. She grew up in Europe and in her teens, took acting lessons from the great Jean Renoir.

In the prime of her beauty and youth, when she had just made a splash in Hindi cinema, she was chosen by Vogue magazine as one of the five most beautiful women in the world.

David Lean wanted to cast her as Tonya in Dr Zhivago. Salvador Dali used her as a model for the Madonna. Satyajit Ray wanted to make a film with her and Marlon Brando. And a smitten Raj Kapoor wanted to sign her up for four films, she turned him down. She translated Ionesco and Grass.Learnt Bharatanatyam from Balasaraswathy.Was an accomplished pianist.

Beauty is one of the most subjective abstractions and standards change, she points out.

Identify her

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Leela Naidu

What unique distinction do the following 19 Indians share?Only 511 in the world totally. Think Mathematics.

ALLADI, KRISHNASWAMI 1977: 5BABU, GUTTI JOGESH 1975: 3CHOWLA, SARVADAMAN D. S.* 1950: 3GUPTA, HANSRAJ* 1976: 1KHARE, SATGUR PRASAD 1976: 1LASKAR, RENU CHAKRAVARTI 1983: 4MALDE, PARESH J. 1987: 2MURTY, MARUTI RAM PEDAPROLU 1987: 2MURTY, VIJAYA KUMAR 1987: 1RAMACHANDRA, KANAKANAHALLI 1975: 2RAO, SIDDANI BHASKARA 1992: 1REDDY, A. R. 1973: 11SARKAR, AMITES 1999: 1SHARMA, AMBIKESHWAR* 1965: 1SINGHI, NAVIN MADHAVPRASAD 1977: 2SUBBARAO, MATUKUMALLI VENKATA* 1972: 2TETALI, PRASAD VENKATA SITARAM 1990: 2VARMA, ARUN KUMAR* 1986: 2VIJAYAN, KAIPILLIL 1985: 3

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Erdos Number 1

In 1913, he went to University College Dublin to study law, but was expelled from Ireland in 1916 after becoming involved with the Sinn Fin movement.

Upon returning to India, he became heavily involved in the labour movement, becoming general secretary and then president of the All-India Railwaymen's Federation

Bharat Ratna

Identify

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VV Giri

Union Leader who led the Coal Miners strike from 1977 in Chattisgarh.

On September 28, 1991, as he fell asleep under a mosquito net in his room on the ground floor in the Bhilai industrial township, in the early hours of the morning, a young man rode up to the house, looked in through the bedroom's well-lit window and shot him dead Nearly 150 thousand people followed the funeral procession as the body was taken for cremation at Dalli Rajhara where the Chatisgarh Mukti Morcha was founded 14 years earlier.

In 2005 the Supreme Court held that there was insufficient evidence to convict the industrialists and commuted the assassin's sentence to life imprisonment.

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'Shankar' Guha Niyogi

Popularly known as Doctorsaheb

He led the The Great Bombay Textile Strike in 1982 which involved 250,000 workers and more than 50 textile mills forever changing the face of Bombay In 1997, he was gunned down outside his home by contract killers working for the Chotta Rajan gang.

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Dr. Datta Samant

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts."

He started this non-violent movement in 1951 from Pochampali

Identify the person and the movement

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Vinoba Bhave

CONTEMPLATE
SCORES

LIST IT #2

List Param Veer Chakra Awardees21 in all

(Score: +3/-2)

List of PVC

MajorSom Nath Sharma

Lance NaikKaram Singh

Second LieutenantRama Raghoba Rane

NaikJadu Nath Singh

Company Havildar MajorPiru Singh Shekhawat

CaptainGurbachan Singh Salaria

MajorDhan Singh Thapa

SubedarJoginder Singh

MajorShaitan Singh

Company Quarter MasterHavildarAbdul Hamid

Lieutenant-ColonelArdeshir Burzorji Tarapore

Lance NaikAlbert Ekka

Flying OfficerNirmal Jit Singh Sekhon

2/Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal

MajorHoshiar Singh

Naib SubedarBana Singh

MajorRamaswamy Parameshwaran

CaptainManoj Kumar Pandey

Yogendra Singh Yadav

RiflemanSanjay Kumar

CaptainVikram Batra

CONTEMPLATE
SCORES

The Roots music Festival, brainchild of Lou Majaw, celebrated here on 24th May, every year since 1972.

Where? What is it about?

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Shillong, Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

Identify this Critically Endangered species, only around 250 are said to be present in the wild, owing to over hunting and loss of habitat

Ardeotis nigriceps

One of the nominees for National Bird of India

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The Great Indian Bustard

Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis

The species was described from specimens collected in the Idukki district of Kerala by S.D. Biju from the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute in Palode, India and Franky Bossuyt from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2003.

Give common name

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Purple Frog

Mohd Rafi was an ardent fan of _____. When _____ sang the song "Orayiram Parvalyile" from the film "Vallabhnukku Vallabhan" in a stage show at Bombay, Mohd Rafi embraced ______ and commented,

"You born for singing, your expression and modulation in the song is amazing and effective". Mohd Rafi sang the Hindi version of that song "_______ _____ ___ ____" in the film Ustadonge Ustad.

Fill in the blanks

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TMS

Sau baar janam lenge

INSERT PUNCHLINE HERE

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He's not a dog,He's a wolf

Origin of which modern day sport?

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Kabaddi

Which famous story from the Mahabharata? The Artist?

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Nala Damayanti

Raja Ravi Varma

Made popular by Fazal Shah Sayyad's famous quissa.

Unhappily married to a man whom she despises, she swims every night across the river where her beloved, herds buffaloes. One night her sister-in-law replaces the earthenware pot, which she uses to keep afloat in water, with a vessel of unbaked clay, which dissolves in water and she dies in the whirling waves of the river

Which tragic love story is being described here.

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Sohni Mahiwal

Waris Shah is also called Shakespeare of the Punjabi language because of his great poetic love story. Some critics say that through this story of romantic love, he tried to portray the love of man for God.

Awwal hamad Khuda da vird kichayIshq kita su jag da mool mianPehlaan aap he Rabb ne ishq kitamashooq he nabi rasool mian

Some historians say that Waris Shah wrote his poem based on the tragedy of the star crossed lovers in 1766 A.D. Some 200 years after the event.

It is also said by some historians that intensity of feelings and depth to his lyrics was inspired by his own love for a woman named Bhaag Bhari at the time.

Which story? (Bonus : Both actors shown)

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Heer Ranjha

Gets it's name from a thorny plant. Inspires a cuisine.

Identify the town where this palace is located and the cuisine

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Karaikudi Palace

CHECKPOINT

In the Court of Additional Sessions Judge/Special Judge, Anti-Corruption, C.B.I., GhaziabadPresent: S. LAL, H.J.S.Sessions Trial No. 477 of 2012The State of U.P. Through the C.B.I.Vs._________ & AnotherR.C. No.1(S)/2008/SCR-III/CBI/NEW DELHI U/ss 302 r/w Section34, 201 r/w Section 34& 203 I.P.C.

The mise en scene is Flat No. L-32, Jalvayu Vihar, Sector 25, N.O.I.D.A., a suburb of New Delhi.

The parties are ad idem that the case is based on circumstantial evidence

School bag and whim-whams were in the bed

On the dinning table one bottle of Ballentine Scotch Whisky was found but there was no any tumbler

She has also admitted that lock of the door of _____ room was like that of hotel which if locked from outside could be opened from inside but could not be opened from outside without key

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Arushi Talwar Murder Case

Most famous for his street theatre

founding member of Jana Natya Manch (People's Theatre Front; Janam for short) in 1973, which grew out of the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA).

He was brutally murdered in Ghaziabad, near Delhi while performing a street play, Halla Bol.

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Safdar Hashmi

Identify this genre of Indian tribal martial dance which is popular in the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Featured in a 'Ranbir' Kapoor movie.

#ArulManiStylez : the name is derived from Sanskrit for shadow, image or mask, but according to Sitakant Mahapatra, it is derived from the Oriya word for military camp.

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Chhau

First synthesized in India in 1951 by Indra Kishore Kacker and Syed Hussain Zaheer, for use as an antimalarial drug. It was soon introduced to Japanese and European consumers as a safe barbiturate substitute.

In 1965 a __________/ antihistamine combination was sold as the sedative drug Mandrax, by Roussel Laboratories (now part of Sanofi-Aventis).

In 1972 it was the sixth-bestselling sedative in the USA, where it was legal under the brand name ________.

accounted for less than 2% of our sales but created 98% of our headaches

is a depressant that increases the activity of the GABA receptors in the brain and nervous system. When GABA activity is increased, blood pressure drops and the breathing and pulse rates slow, leading to a state of deep relaxation. These properties explain why methaqualone was originally mainly prescribed for insomnia

The drug was sometimes used during sexual activity due to heightened sensitivity and lowered inhibition coupled with relaxation and euphoria.

Infamous in the Roman Polanski sexual abuse trial.

Disco Biscuits in the 1970ssoapers in the U.S. mandrakes and mandies in Great Britain.

What are we talking about?

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Qualudes

The Governor General had this to say, From the earliesttimes it has been also an emblem of permanence, and the poet has seen in the ring of light a true symbol of eternity. May therefore, we and those who follow us witness, so far as we may, the fruition of these twin conceptions.

Black marble came from Gaya, the white and the lined marble, lining the walls from Makrana, the timber (teak and other varieties) used for doors from Assam and Burma, and the black Shisham wood from South India.

Designed by Lutyens and Baker in 1912

Inaugurated by Lord Irwin in 1927

What heritage structure?

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Sansad Bhavan

On 25 May 2013, Mahendra Karma, a senior INC party leader was killed in a Naxalite attack along with other party members in Darbha Valley of Chhattisgarh, 400 km south of Raipur and 50 km from Jagdalpur.

The Naxalites claimed that they had specifically targeted Karma. he had been stabbed multiple times by a group of women Naxalites.

In 1991, he had founded the 'Jan Jagran Abhiyan', a group of traders and local businessmen. Later he was responsible for setting up a militia consisting of local tribal youth, which received support and training from the Chhattisgarh state government. The use of this militia by the government for anti-naxal operations was criticised for its violations of human rights, use of child soldiers and poorly trained uneducated youth for counter-insurgency roles.

On 5 July 2011, the Supreme Court of India declared the militia to be illegal and unconstitutional, and ordered its disbanding. The Court directed the Chhattisgarh government to recover all the firearms, ammunition and accessories.

The name of this militia comes from the Gond word for 'Purification Hunt'.

What's the good word?

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Salwa Judum

Why was this 2005 passage back in the news? Who is the Author and which Book?

Leaving everything else for later, I went looking for where her hair began and worked my way through its musky trails to where there was none. And having found her burning core, and having drunk of it, I left it, and wandered her body, only to keep circling back to it for sustenance.

We began to climb peaks and fall off them. We did old things in new ways. And new things in old ways. At times like these we were the work of surrealist masters. Any body part could be joined to any body part. And it would result in a masterpiece. Toe and tongue. Nipple and penis. Finger and the bud. Armpit and mouth. Nose and clitoris. Clavicle and gluteus maximus. Mons veneris and phallus indica.

The Last Tango of Labia Minora. Circa 1987. Vasant Kunj. By Salvador Dal. Draughtsmen: Fizznme.

Fizz screamed silently through it all - through gritted teeth, through wide-open mouth - and only those who have known a woman screaming silently in orgasm know how loud it is. It ripped through the room and set me to pounding frenzies.

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Bad Sex Award

Alchemy of Desire byTarun Tejpal

Established on January 15, 1956 to receive and administer funds for scientific, educational and charitable purposes, all for the public welfare.

Current endowment is $10.9 Billion

In 1967, implicated in a wide-ranging scandal concerning the funding of domestic and international organizations by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Name this organisation

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Ford Foundation

Ikat, or Ikkat, is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles that employs a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft fibres prior to dyeing. The word ikat derives from the Indonesian word mengikat 'to tie'

Double Ikat is a technique in which both warp and the weft are resist-dyed prior to stringing on the loom. Double ikat is only produced in three countries: India, Japan and Indonesia. The double ikat of Japan is a type of kasuri. In Indonesia it is only made in one small Bali Aga village, Tenganan in east Bali.

What is the Double Ikat of India, primarily woven in Gujarat, called?

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Patola

This consists of a cylindrical shell hollowed out of a solid block of jackfruit wood. Layers of animal skin (water buffalo on the right, goat on the left) are stretched across the two sides of the shell using hemp hoops attached to the shell. The right face of the instrument has a larger diameter than the left side, and the right drum head is stretched very tightly, while the left drum head is kept loose to allow pitch bending. The larger face is higher in pitch than the smaller face.

What Instrument?

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Thavil

IN DEEP WATERS

Recognised as one among the eight principal Indian classical dance traditions in 2000.An accompaniment to the traditional Ankia Naat or One Act Play.Originated in monasteries from which it derives it's name.

Identify the Dance form and state of origin.

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Sattriya

Known collectively as the Travancore sisters because they grew up in the tharavad mansion 'Malaya Cottage' in Trivandrum

Trained dancers. They learnt under the tutelage of Guru Gopinath, Guru T. K. Mahalingam Pillai and Udayshankar.

Acted in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and Hindi movies

Identify

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Lalitha, Padmini, Ragini

Google recently announced a new company that will focus on health and well being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.

Arthur D. Levinson of Genentech and Apple is CEO.

Larry Page, Google CEO said: Illness and aging affect all our families. With some longer term, moonshot thinking around healthcare and biotechnology, I believe we can improve millions of lives.

The name derives from the town of origin of a plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton. It may contain unseparated husk parts, but owing to its unfinished and undyed appearance, it is still very cheap.

Name the venture

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Calico

This specific game has a mounted horseman riding at a gallop and using a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up, and carry away a small ground target or a series of small ground targets.

From the results of the 2008 International Championships, the world's three leading national teams are currently Canada, India, and Oman.

In George McDonald Fraser's Flashman novels, title character Harry Flashman served in a lancer regiment, and frequently mentions it and his broader skills with the lance

What Equestrian Sport?

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Tent Pegging

An engineer by profession, he was proficient in the language of technology. Widely read and knowledgeable, he presented his knowledge in simple Tamil.

Batchmates with Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam at Madras Institute of technology

author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He has been associated with Mani Ratnam (for Iruvar, Kannathil Muthamittal, Aayitha Ezhuthu, etc.) and Shankar (for Boys, Anniyan, Indian, Mudhalvan, Sivaji, and Enthiran)

Name him and also the project he supervised,during his tenure at Bharat Electronics Limited

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'Sujatha' / S. Rangarajan

In the final days of World War II, Hana, a French-Canadian nurse finds herself in an abandoned Italian monastery.

Hana starts a romance with Kip, a sapper in the British Army defusing landmines and other bombs, despite her belief that anyone close to her will die.

Identify this multiple Academy Award winning movie and the Actress who plays Hana

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Juliette Binoche

The English Patient

Named by Time magazine as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World"

Is a lifelong Bruce Springsteen fan. At an October 2012 concert in Hartford, Connecticut, Springsteen shouted, This is for ____ ______! before launching into his song 'Death to My Hometown'.

Identify

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Preet Bharara

Connect

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Francis Newton Souza

He directed the movie after his friendJeeva appreciated the story.

It won the Third Best Feature Film at the 12th National Film Awards in 1965

The film had no songs with the background score composed by Chitti Babu.

A Kamal Haasan movie made in 2009 shares it's title.

What movie? Identify the author

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Unaipol Oruvan

D Jayakanthan

The rule is clear enough. The bowler is permitted, before releasing the bowl and provided he has not completed his usual delivery swing to attempt to run out the non striker.

It happened recently in a match between Bengal and Railways. When Murali Kartik warned Sandipan Deb twice and got him out under this rule.

This happened for the first time in 1947-48 series in Australia. An Indian bowler got the non-striker Bill Brown out because he wanted to ensure Don Bradman retains strike.

What term for this dismissal from the name of the bowler

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Mankeded

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