The document describes several taglines and questions from a quiz competition called Agneyastra. One question asks to identify a polyglot educator "X" who was taught English by writer P.L. Deshpande and later started an institute for personality development. The answer is Mr. Anant Pai. Another question asks to identify a saree originating from eastern India called "X" whose sales increased after association with a famous personality, with the answer being the Tant saree from Bengal, now known as the Mamata saree.
47. X, who while in school was taught English by the noted
writer P.L.Despande, later started the Partha Institute
of Personality Development to conduct
correspondence course in personality development.
Name this polyglot (X), whose appeal was once
compared by PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee to that of Chacha
Nehru & who was called upon by the Soviet Consulate
officials to fact-check a speech containing a sanskrit
shloka during the President Mikhail Gorbachev’s visit
to India. Identify the X.
49. ‘X’ is mostly made by cooperative members
of eight villages in eastern india and it takes
about 2 days to be made. About 1.5 feet
longer than the usual 18 feet it is made of
white or off-white yarn with 100x100 cotton
thread count. It has around 2 inch borders
having colours as green,yellow,blue,grey
and black except red.
Identify ‘X’ whose sales shot up in 2011 due
to its association with a famous personality?
50. The famous ‘Tant’ Saree from Bengal,
which is customized & now sold as
‘Mamata Saree’(after Mamata Banerjee)