India quiz kqa_finals_30_1_2012

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The India Quiz

Finals
Hrishi & Navin

ROUND 1: TATKAL BROS

 8 Questions on trains
 +5 for each question

1
Train no. 5707/5708 from Katihar –
Amritsar
Named so after the royal courtesan in
the republic of Vaishali in present day
Bihar, who was of unknown parentage
and was named so because she was
found at the foot of a mango tree
(mango+sprouts/leaves).

2
Train no. 2947/2948 from Ahmedabad to
Patna
When Patna was Patliputra, it was
sacked by Bakhtiyar Khilji, causing
Buddhism and the city to decline. It was
revived under Sher Shah Suri, and later
in 1703, when ____-us-Shan, the
grandson of Aurangzeb came as the
governor of the town.

3
Train no. 703/704 from Kanpur
Anwarganj - Gorakhpur
Named after a small village in Uttar
Pradesh, that was the scene of the killing
of 23 policemen on February 5, 1922
leading to Gandhi going on an indefinite
fast and cancelling the Non-Cooperation
Movement.

4
Train no. 7643/7644 from Egmore – Kakinada
or 7651/7652 from Egmore – Kacheguda
Named after the former division of British
India‟s Madras Presidency which consisted of
a narrow strip of territory lying along the Bay
of Bengal, which in turn was the term for
component parts of a subah/province such as
Srikakulam, Rajamundhry, Eluru, Kondapalli
and Guntur.

5
Train no. 55753/55754 Alipurduar –
Guwahati
Probably the only train to be named after a
musical instrument, it is named after the
traditional Bodo flute made of bamboo which
has 7 holes rather than the usual 6 on the
north Indian bansuri. What train?

6
Train no. 3113/3114 Kolkata – Murshidabad

Named after the thousand doored star
attraction at Murshidabad, built by General
Duncan McLeod for the Nawab Najim
Humayun Jah. Now, the palace is a museum
which has collections of armory, splendid
paintings, exhaustive portraits of the Nawabs
and many works of art.
Pic on next slide

7
Train no. 3039/3040 Howrah-Delhi,
9023/9024 Mumbai Central – Firozpur Cantt.

The original classless trains, offering only 2nd
class 3-Tier sleeper accomodation. Very few
remain today.

8
Train no. 2619/2620 Lokmanya Tilak
Terminus – Mangalore Central
The name was given because the train
traverses the coast of Western India and it
is hard to not be swayed by the odours of
fresh catch.

1
Train no. 5707/5708 from Katihar –
Amritsar
Named so after the royal courtesan in
the republic of Vaishali in present day
Bihar, who was of unknown parentage
and was named so because she was
found at the foot of a mango tree.

3
Train no. 5003/5004 from Kanpur
Anwarganj - Gorakhpur
Named after a small village in Uttar
Pradesh, that was the centre of an
incident on February 5, 1922 leading to
Gandhi going on an indefinite fast and
cancelling the Non-Cooperation
Movement.

Circar Express, after the Northern
Circars

7
Train no. 3039/3040 Howrah-
Delhi, 9023/9024 Mumbai Central – Firozpur
Cantt.

The original classless trains, offering only 2nd
class 3-Tier sleeper accomodation. Very few
remain today.

ANTI-CLOCKWISE
 16 Qns on infinite Bounce
 4 Pounces
 +10 on direct pass, +5 part points
 +15, -10 on pounce

1
Over the years as many foreign tunes have
been slowly phased out, this Christian hymn
has retained its position as the last in a series
of tunes. Here‟s Elton John giving his own
rendition of the same.
Where would hear this as the last tune?

<aud removed: Elton John – Abide with Me>

Abide With Me, this tune culminates
the Beating the Retreat Ceremony at
Delhi on January 29, officially ending
the Republic Day celebrations

2
One of the apocryphal origin theories of this phrase has
to do with Pope Paul V requesting something to be
retrieved at any cost and sent to him in Rome in 1614.
Another story goes that when the Bishop of Macau
commissioned a statue in front of St. Paul‟s Church, a
huge tree fell on the night before the dedication. The
entire statue was intact, except that ___ ____ had
broken off.
So while the operative part in the phrase remains in
Rome, the rest remains elsewhere.

What phrase and why all this fuss?

•I‟d give my right arm
•Pope requested the right arm of St.
Francis Xavier who is preserved in
Goa; the right arm is in Rome

3
[roughly translated] Blurb of a Malayalam book (titled
“Bicycle Thief”) released last year. This is a description
of the protagonist.

“Wore soiled clothes. Refused to sleep at night. Drank until
he lost consciousness. Sang loudly. Slept all day. Went after
a ____. Made his lead actor sit on a tree top all day long. Told
many tales of cinema. And in that manner, [he] made his life
itself a tale.”

What word has been blanked out? Who is this character
based on? (Pic on next slide)

“Donkey”/Kazhutha (blanked out)
John Abraham
Malayalam film director whose most famous
work is called “Agraharathile Kazhuta
(English: Donkey in the Brahmin Ghetto)

4
X says:
“Y was a complex character. He disliked everything about India,
particularly Indians. The only exceptions he made were good-
looking women he took to bed.….It appeared that the only real
love in his life was Z. She was visibly shaken by his death.
Z is a Tamil Brahmin married to a Punjabi and mother of two
children. She thinks like him, writes in the same style and adored
him. She was his soul mate.”

During the Gujarat riots, despite his ill health, Y visited the
area hoping that being a Catholic, he would not be harmed.

Identify the speaker(X), the subject (Y) and the lady love
(Z). 2 out of 3 for part points.

X- Khushwant Singh,
Y -Dom Moraes
Z - Sarayu Srivatsa

5
Poets of _____ is a collection of poems published in
1965, that are based on a ten year collaboration that
started in 1955. The foreword states that it is
“presented to the general public as showing that
apart from ___, there is a wealth of other talent also
available in the X township. A typical poem reads:

“Lo! The blast furnace is alight
Pouring molten iron, oh WHAT delight!”

Name the collaboration.

Bhilai Poets/Bhilai steel plant

6
This is the Canadian
writer Merrily Weisbord,
who in 2010 came out with
the critically acclaimed
book “The Love Queen of
Malabar” – an intimate
portrait of a writer she
shared a 14-year old
friendship with since their
first meeting in 1995.

Which writer?

Kamala Das/
Kamala Suraiyya/
Madhavikutty

7
Patna painting is a style of miniature painting that
developed in India in the second half of the 18th
century in response to the tastes of the British
serving in India. Emerging first in Madras and
then to other centers of trade, paintings were
executed in watercolors on paper and on mica,
with scenes of Indian daily life, local rulers, and
festivals being the favorite subjects.
What is the alternate, more popular name for this
school of art?
(Pic on next slide)

8
In October 1987, at a rally organised in Jaipur by
the Dharma Raksha Samiti, slogans were raised in
her honour. Her village, Deorala, attracted huge
crowds, giving rise to apprehensions that a temple
would be constructed in her honour at the spot
shown, despite a court order banning the same. In
addition, a chunri ceremony was held in gross
violation of the order.

Name her and what happened on September 4th,
1987 that caused these reactions?

Roop Kanwar, who was allegedly
murdered by forcing her to commit
Sati.

9
Fred Reines is credited with leading the team that
created and named the X-meter, a photometer for
remotely measuring atomic explosion yields.
Reines was also fully aware of the potential for
misinterpretation of the name, since X rhymed
with Y (X minus one letter), Y being an amusing
description of the sound produced by an atomic
explosion.
The joke goes that Reines named it so because
only X would ever make one believe that the X-
meter would work properly. X?

Bhangmeter,
X – Bhang, Y- Bang
(Please note Cannabis indica reference!)

10
This is one of the few language isolates in India
and possibly the only confirmed one.
Spoken by less than 5000 people in and around
West and Central India, it gets its name from the
tribe of the same name that lives just south of the
Tapti River and is sometimes erroneously referred
to as Kalto. While its vocabulary is borrowed
extensively from other languages, none of the core
words of the language bear any semblance to any
known language.

Name the language.

11
Sometime in early 90s, Shubha News Photo Agency,
run by Shubha Sundaram (once a father figure for
budding photographers in Madras) called up a
photographer named Haribabu as their client had
requested an unknown face for the purpose.
Haribabu took the chance and would accompany 4
others to the spot, and the plan would work like
clockwork, except for one complication. Haribabu‟s
inability to take photographs from a safe distance
proved to be the undoing of himself and his client.

Explain.

Haribabu was recruited by the LTTE to take
photos of Rajiv Gandhi‟s assassination.
However, he strayed too close to the suicide
bomber, and hence died. His camera,
however, survived the impact, and when
the photographs were developed, it led the
police to the LTTE.

12
Despite their own claims, they are not the oldest but a
community in a nearby town is over 500 years older
than theirs. In what can be termed a local apartheid,
these "white ones", displaced the older, "black ones“,
banned the “black ones” from their lands and
buildings, ostracizing anyone marrying outside of the
community.
Keith and Len are the only remaining bachelors, and
their cousin is the last woman of child-bearing age in
this community. However, since the latter is not
interested in either of the former, it can be safely said
that they are the last of the ______ ____.

13
If Samosapedia had had it its way, this 2 word slang
phrase may well have had the site‟s name in it. The
phrase is defined as the term for an earnest eager
beaver who is able to muster up inordinate amounts of
energy, inspiration and enthusiasm towards a variety
of good things.
Quoting the site verbatim
“Good ____ ____s organize parties, arrive early at a movie
theatre to buy everyone tickets and even enter words on
Samosapedia. Bad ____ ____s become politicians and local
demagogues.“

14
In October 1947, the government having woken up
to the fact that an invasion was imminent, assigned
this onerous task on a civil engineer named S.
Narboo. His team trekked 20 days through
avalanches and heavy snow, with 50 vehicles of
the army convoy breaking down en route and only
17 boys and 2 army men making it to the other
side.
In a month, the job was done and General
Thimmayya was the first to test out the final result.
What was constructed thus?

15

Known as diya cash, it is 200,000 dirhams for
males and 100,000 for females. It is usually
reduced depending upon individual consent.
Last June, almost half a million dirhams
were raised via fund raising dinners for this.
What are we talking about?

Blood money to rescue jailed Indians in
the UAE who may have caused
accidental deaths

16
This annual 3 day fair in Ahwa, Gujarat that
involves the 5 tribal heads attending with their
nayaks(secretaries) and bhaubands (security
guards), features a repeat of a tradition that
began in 1842 following an agreement between
the British and the 5 heads. This in turn makes
this district the only one in the country to still
continue a tradition done away with in 1971.

What district and what tradition?

Dangs, the only district where the tribal
kings continue to receive the Privy
Purse.

DICK BIRIYANI
-the one where you engage in
publicly humiliating yourself

Choose a question from the grid
Write the answer: +10, -15
If you get it wrong, goes on the
bounce to everyone: +10 for
others, no negatives

The species XY, represented most famously in an
1890s work is not closely related to the Y. In that
work, it has a name that is usually mispronounced
due to the fact that it was to be pronounced with an
“R” in the middle of the name.
Due to a popular mid-1960s adaptation, most
people think that the X Y is in fact a Z, since Z are
mistakenly thought to be scavengers.

XY and Z.

(Pic on next slide)

XY – Golden Jackal
Z – Hyena

According to Kipling, “Tabaqui” in the
Jungle books was to be pronounced as
Tabarky.

One of the most feared fighters during the 1857
rebellion, he was held in awe by the Sikhs who
followed him into battle and convinced that he was
an incarnation of Brahma, formed the cult ___ ___
after his name.
When a veteran of the 1857 mutiny meets Kim, he
sings the song of ____ _____:
Ahi! ____ ____ is dead--he died before Delhi! Lances
of North take vengeance for ____ ____”

Who? What cult? (Pic on next slide)

Brigadier General John Nicholson, who
inspired the cult “Nikal Seyn”.

Notwithstanding his success elsewhere, he finally
got a chance to act and was informed that his
undercover role in his debut 1983 film would
involve handling live snakes. In real life, snakes
terrified him, but he did not bat an eyelid when he
protested:

"But I've never worked with a snake except for ____",
referring to an iconic figure in his field, whose
conduct he had repeatedly opposed in public.

Who? And fill in the blanks.

The most famous legend surrounding this
6252m mountain massif in Uttarakhand has to
do with seven companions who are supposed to
have walked up the mountains many years ago.
The name of the peak is supposed to be
aspirational, much like a Led Zeppelin
masterpiece.
What mountain?

Pic on next slide

Swargarohini (Stairway to Heaven),
legend being that Pandavas, Draupadi
and dog walked up the peak

Bishen Bedi made his Test debut against WI at
Calcutta on the last day of 1966.
On the first day of the match, MAK Pataudi
brought him on to bowl for the first time in the last
over before lunch, only for Rohan Kanhai to hit the
last ball of the over for a straight six and walk off.
According to the writer Rajan Bala who knew
Pataudi‟s sense of humour well, what was the
probable non-cricketing reason why Pataudi
brought Bedi on to bowl at that point of time ?

So that Bedi would start his career
exactly as the clocks were striking
twelve, playing on the joke that Sardarjis
go crazy at noon.

Question courtesy Beatzo
The Loner, The Electrician/The Leader, The Greedy
Hotelier, The Drunk, The Prankster, The Bystander
Barber, The Hardworking Bicycle-Repair Guy,
Adolescent Girl, The Educator, The Cop, The
Beggar, The Cobbler, A student, Shopkeeper

What lovable cast from the 80s?

This 1927 work received the following comment:
“The carefully chosen quotations give it the false appearance
of a truthful book. But the impression it leaves …. is that it is
the report of a X ____ sent out with the one purpose of
opening and examining the X of the country to be reported
upon, or to give a graphic description of the stench exuded by
the opened X. If she had confessed that she had come to India
merely to open out and examine the Xs of India, there would
perhaps be little to complain about her compilation. But she
declared her abominable and patently wrong conclusion with
a certain amount of triumph: 'the Xs are India’”

What famous dismissal fills up the blanks?

A drain inspector‟s report – Gandhi‟s
dismissal of Katherine Mayo‟s Mother
India

In March 2002, the Rajasthan police arrested around 70
bookies in a massive operation after a week long search.
They were charged with, amongst other things, fuelling
rumors and “fixing” the odds on something spreading
to Rajasthan in order to drum up their business.
According to the police, “They deliberately spread the
rumours to keep the possibility of _____alive, without
which they would not have been in business.”

In true ToI style, they were named “___ bookies”.

So, what were these people fixing?

When Vasco Da Gama was leaving from Kozhikode, he
dared to ask the Samoothiri for a X stalk in order to
replant it in Portugal. While his courtiers were
outraged, the Samoothiri calmly replied:

“You may take our X, but you cannot take our Y with
you.”

X and Y?

CLOCKWISE
 16 Qns on infinite Bounce
 4 Pounces
 +10 on direct pass, +5 part points
 +15, -10 on pounce

1
This 150 year old rivalry between the Thengalai and
Vadagalai subsect followers of Sri Ramanuja has
centred around the appropriate form of adorning
deities, mandapams, towers, even the elephant at
various temples including the Kancheepuram
Varadaraja temple and now the Sri Andal temple at
Srivilliputtur.
The dominant Thengalai decorations are being
challenged by the Vadagalais who claim that their
traditional form was the original incumbent, but was
replaced by the Thengalais.
What is the crux of this dispute?

The Vadagalai Iyengars sport „U‟ shaped
Naamams on their forehead, while the
Thengalais sport the „Y‟ shaped Naamams.
The dispute involves the appropriate
Naamam to use on the idols and other
adornments.

2
This WWI conspiracy was uncovered when letters
written by Ubaidullah Sindhi were captured by the
Punjab CID. The plan involved the Amir of
Afghanistan declaring war on Britain, while the
Maulana of Deoband would seek German and
Turkish help, while also making pacts with friendly
tribes in Kabul.
The conspiracy came to be known by the material
on which the letters were written. What conspiracy
and what was it called?

Silk Letter Conspiracy
A Pan-Islamic insurrection in British India

3
The title of this 1997 novel, awarded the Sahitya
Akademi award, may best be exemplified by the
pictorial representation of this 13th century practice.
The semi-fictional subject matter of the novel details
the life of the spouse of a 15th century figure and the
nuances of their relationship, especially given the
more austere pursuits of the lady.
Name the novel and explain who it refers to.

Pic on next slide

Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
Details the relationship between Meerabai
and her husband, Bhoj Raj – who got
cuckolded because Meera‟s first love was
Lord Krishna

4
India‟s first commercial seaplane service X-Y is
based in the Andamans and started running
services between Port Blair and Havelock island
in January 2011.
This pilot project is jointly owned by the
Andaman & Nicobar administration and Z-Y, a
name we often hear in unfortunate political
contexts and which recently got rights to resume
some of its activities in the Northeast.
X-Y and Z-Y?

Jal Hans, Pawan Hans
Pawan Hans activities were suspended for a
while

5
What is unique about the poetry form shown
below and to which Deobandi is this credited?
Zeehaal-e miskeen makun taghaful,
duraye naina banaye batiyan;
ki taab-e hijran nadaram ay jaan,
na leho kaahe lagaye chhatiyan.

Shaban-e hijran daraz chun zulf
wa roz-e waslat cho umr kotah;
Sakhi piya ko jo main na dekhun
to kaise kaatun andheri ratiyan.

Macaronic Poetry or lines alternating in two
languages (Persian and Brij Bhasha)
Amir Khusrow

5
On March 4, 2011, a user posted this on an
Iranian forum
“the last survivor of the west/central Asian way
started his return today. Today, March 4th, 2011 at
10 am, he started for Sukhrud, finally left to FDK
area to Guilan province. We guess Omid will have a
short stay in Guilan before leaving Iran. Omid is his
Persian name, and it means hope.”
The posting renewed hopes of something that
hasn‟t happened in India since 2002. What event
and where is it (if at all) most likely to happen?

Sighting of the Siberian crane at
Keoladeo, Bharatpur

6
Who about whom, sometime in 2006:
______started publishing my books nearly twenty years
ago, at a time when there were very few English language
publishers in India. His was a mill that ground slow but
awful sure, and a manuscript that had passed under his pen
was a thing of beauty, in which no comma or semi-colon was
allowed to stand without accounting for its existence. It was
no easy matter to slip an ellipsis past his hawk-like eye: he
was scornful of the implications of vagueness that lie behind
those three little dots, so beloved of fabulists. As for split
infinitives, he was their Grim Reaper, his nib the instrument
of their perdition.

Amitav Ghosh on Ravi Dayal‟s death

Night scene depicting a 96 year old occurrence. 7
What/where?

The perennial fires at the Jharia coal fields

8
In 2006, the BBC carried an article about this wizened
octogenarian widow living in absolute penury in a
thatched hut in Madhya Pradesh. She recounts how
her original name, Kausalya was shortened to suit her
Oxford returned lover‟s whims, whom she married in
1940, only for him to disappear in 1947 and never
return.
Ram Guha says “the memory of the divorce was so
wounding that X could not bring himself to write about
her in his autobiography, disposing her off in two
paragraphs”
X? (Picture on next slide)

9
The original name for these sarees was Masuria
because they were woven in Mysore. The art
form was brought up further north by Rao
Kishore Singh, a general in the Mughal army, bu
Surprisingly, it is not the saree that has been filed
for GI protection, but the thread itself since it can
be used in production of lamp
shades, curtains, skirts and salwars.
What is the GI protected entity called?

(Pic on next slide)

10
These royal cooks usually worked in the
Awadhi Nawab‟s kitchens and were known to
have generated rare and flavorsome recipes to
satisfy their kings‟ gastronomic tastes. Known to
maintain a religious record of ingredient
proportion, preparation and presentation, you
are most likely to encounter the name in relation
with a Bangalore restaurant. What name?

11
These dragons, called the _____ Sha, figure on the
historical emblem of the Meiteis and were originally
erected by Chinese war captives but were blown to
pieces by the British in 1891. Currently, under
restoration, at which historical and religiously
important site might you see these dragons? (larger
pic on next slide)

12
Among the many reasons why this impossible
issue is investigated in religious texts is related
to the traditional arrangement of altars in the
Vedic yagnas. The mahavedi (great altar) was
placed on the periphery, inside the boundary of
which were placed the daksinagni altar, the
round garhapatya and the flat ahavaniya
altars, the last 2 of which had constraints on
occupied space.
What problem?

13
Chittagong in Bangladesh, Gadani in
Pakistan and Aliaga in Turkey are
roughly 2nd, 3rd and 4th on this list in
terms of volume.
What list is this and what location in
Gujarat tops this list?

Ship –breaking yards by volume/ships
handled
Alang

14
Sometime in 2010, the proposal to rename the Dean‟s
Residence at the JJ School of Art and turn into a
museum was shelved, fearing a backlash against
honoring a supposed colonial apologist. Instead it
would feature works by the college‟s artists, with
possibly a room dedicated to the first Dean, subject
to significant work by the Dean being discovered.
Who was the Dean and who might have been the
subject of the museum?

Pic on next slide

Lockwood Kipling was the first Dean, this
was the house where Rudyard Kipling was
born.

15
Hypothesized by Sankar Chatterjee, it is a 500 km
impact crater proposed to have been located west of
Mumbai in the Indian ocean.
The crater is supposed to have been created 65 million
years ago at the time of the K-T extinction
event, possibly by a comet or asteroid 40 km in
diameter.
While scientists outside India remain skeptical of the
hypothesis, the naming of the crater in the context
above has resonated with local beliefs.
What name?

Pic on next slide

Shiva crater, because Shiva was the
God of destruction

16
In his travellogue, Marco Polo describes this
politically disputed territory as the female island, the
ancient name Mahiladu being a reference to this. Not
unsurprisingly the social structure on this
predominantly Muslim island is matrilineal with the
men living either with their mothers or their wives.
Originally, the name for the Nicobar islands where
cannibals were believed to reside, it was misattributed
to this island by a British official and has stayed that
way ever since.
What island and who is it disputed with?

Minicoy or Maliku, that came from
Minikaa-raje
Disputed with Maldives

THIGH GRAB
- In which you get to molest like old
bearded men would

Modified Derailer – Choose from grid
 Allot it to any 1 team - written
 If they get it right : +10/-5
 If they get it wrong: +5/-10
Write and show answer for +5
If both teams don’t get it, goes on bounce to
other teams: +10

They are collected in a book with 4 parts titled
Worship, Love, Nature and Miscellaneous/Diverse.
The book Caste and Outcaste praises them as follows:
“They transcend the mundane to the aesthetic and express all
ranges and categories of human emotion. He has given a
voice to all—big or small, rich or poor. The poorest boatman
on the Ganges as well as the rich landlord find expression for
their emotional trials and tribulations.”
Who/what?

From the 1st to the 2nd. Explain and identify the lady

Only 2 players to have won the Senior
Badminton nationals at the age of 16.
Prakash Padukone and PV Sindhu

You were most likely to see him if you visited the Taj
Mahal Hotel where he was resident performer for 25
years. Id him as he plays on possibly one of India‟s
most watched videos in the 1990s

<video removed: Pretty Child by Indus Creed>

Which 124 year old Indian business
family, belonging to the Malankara
Orthodox Syrian church, tracing its roots
to Kozhencherry, began operations as the
MMG Fund in 1939?

Sir Joseph Banks conceived of this pet project
during his time at Tahiti as part of James
Cook‟s expedition. A cash award announced
for success in this project involved William
Bligh commanding the HMS Bounty and
proceeding to the South Pacific.
While Bligh‟s task wasn‟t fruitful, how does
this story link up to a union territory of India?

Breadfruit – Bligh was asked to
introduce breadfruit to the
Carribean, which is also the state
(union territory) fruit of Lakshwadeep.

It is said that these were borrowed from India and
travelled to Britain, where they were popular
during the health craze of the Victorian era.
As sports became much more organized and the
military modernized, their use in fitness waned
but they inspired designs for objects in an
entertainment context.
What object (original) and what did they inspire?

Indian Clubs, which inspired juggling
clubs

This oomph girl described her foray into
London‟s West End as follows:
“I’d seen the version with Jerry Hall, and thought it
would be a wonderful challenge. Divya Palat bought
the rights to it and adapted it. I’ll still have dark hair
for the role, not blonde. My kids are supportive of the
decision to play this role.”

Who about what?

Zeenat Aman on playing Mrs.
Robinson

Printed with flowers and originally produced in
India, the popularity of this glazed calico cloth in
Europe between 1600-1800 almost put the local textile
makers out of business. In 1720, the English banned
its use in any wear, bed, chair or household furniture,
which continued until 1759 when locals were able to
produce it.
In contemporary language, the same word is today
used as a generic term for something vulgar or
extremely florid in appearance. What word/fabric
name?

The Dibru-Saikhowa Biosphere reserve located
near Tinsukia in upper Assam is one among a
handful of places in the world where these can
be seen. Their presence here dates back to post
WWII when the British wound up their camps
against the Japanese and their ancestors were
let go, the river changed course and
consequently they were cutoff from the
mainland.
What?

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A tourist train introduced on Feb.
10, 1983, aimed at tourist locations of Buddhist
significance, it had various itineraries of 3 to 7
days from Calcutta, including stops at
Gorakhpur (for
Lumbini), Gaya, Patna, Sarnath, etc., and going
to Puri, Varanasi, and (for the 7-day one-way
itinerary) ending at New Delhi.
It stopped running some time in the late
1980s, and was the forerunner to the present-day
Buddhist special 'Buddha Parikrama' launched
in 1998.

Geeta Anand (winner of the Pulitzer as
part of WSJ)
• Wrote the book “The Cure”
adapated into the movie
Extraordinary Measures. The book is
about Pompe‟s disease and
chronicles the real life case of John
and Aileen Crowley

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