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“I've always been searching to arrive at a certain voice that will probably elude me forever…”

Although she spoke Bengali until she was 4, she learned to read and write English, but she says neither of these linguistic identities ever felt fully her own. One week after moving to Rome she started writing in Italian.

So she is trying something new — very new. She wrote her new memoir, In Other Words, in Italian. Who is this Pulitzer Prize winner?

Jhumpa Lahiri

Originally titled A Long Way Home, Lion is an upcoming biopic based on Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home. The film stars X, Rooney Mara, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nicole Kidman. The film was screened at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.

Saroo Brierley was lost from his family at the age of five after falling asleep on a train from Khandwa to Burhanpur only to find himself in Calcutta. He was adopted by an Australian family, and 25 years later found his long-lost family using Google Earth.

Dev Patel

This popular song was composed by A.R. Rahman and written by Gulzar. A remix of this Hindi song was used in the 2006 film Inside Man, CSI: Miami and the opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

One of the performers, recalls: "Would you believe it? Well, the song was shot exactly as you see it on the screen: No camera tricks, no back projection, no special effects!" She also said that "...one of the unit members tripped … other than that, things were safe."

What song?

Chaiyya Chaiyya

Vikram Sarabhai was an Indian scientist and innovator widely regarded as the father of India's space programme.

Led by him, Shri. Kasturbhai Lalbhai and supported by the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, a group of individuals set up X. This group ably wove together a coalition of five factors — the governments at the centre and the state, the local industrialists, the Ford Foundation and the Harvard Business School, in a public private partnership to establish X.

ID X.

IIM Ahmedabad

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Types of veenas

The song Aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai from the movie Guide was shot at the largest fort in India. In some part of the song, Dev Anand sees Waheeda Rehman’s reflection in the mirror thus recreating a historic legend.

Legend has it that at this fort Allaudin Khilji glimpsed Rani Padmini’s reflection in a lake, and upon seeing her image he immediately fell in love.

Name this fort in the former capital of Mewar.

Chittorgarh Fort

The village of ___ is located in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. During World War II Italian Prisoners of War were interred here in an open jail by the British.

During the day the POWs worked in the hills, at the end of the working day the warden would shout, “To your own locations” to call prisoners back.

The prisoners shortened this call and hence the village got its name.

Name the village.

Yol, Himachal Pradesh

This stamp was issued on India’s 11th Republic Day to commemorate which freedom fighter?

Bhikaji Cama

The four Munjal brothers, hailing from a small town called Kamalia, now in Pakistan, are the men who are behind the mission.

In the year 1944, they decided to start a business of bicycle spare parts in Amritsar. Its is modest beginning and the next 3 years saw the business grow rapidly. After the Partition, the operational base was shifted to Ludhiana.

By 1956, the brothers had began manufacturing key components of bicycles and began to assemble the entire cycle at their manufacturing plant in Ludhiana.

Which company did the brothers form?

Hero Cycles

Whose birth anniversary 125th was this Google Doodle celebrating in 2012?

Srinivas Ramanujan

She was born in Bengaluru, in 1929 . Her father rebelled against becoming a temple priest and instead joined a circus. He discovered his daughter's ability to memorise numbers while teaching her a card trick. Her father left the circus and took her on road shows around India to display her talent.

In 1980, she contested in the Lok Sabha elections as an independent, from Medak in Andhra Pradesh against Indira Gandhi, saying she wanted to "defend the people of Medak from being fooled by Mrs. Gandhi"

In addition to her work, she was an astrologer and an author of several books, including cookbooks and novels.

Who?

Shakuntala Devi

What incident is being depicted here?

Capture of Bahadur Shah Zafar and his sons by William Hodson in 1857

________ _____ is the name given to two residential houses built in the 19th century in Delhi; one is near Civil Lines and the other is in Mehrauli. These were built by Sir Thomas Theophilus Metcalfe, when he was the Governor General’s last British Resident (Agent) at the Mughal Court of Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.

The first house near the Civil Lines, was built in 1835 in colonial style, near the present day Inter State Bus Terminal (ISBT). It was badly damaged during the 1857 Indian War of Independence. It was repaired subsequently. The house exchanged hands several times before it finally came under the possession of the Government of India.

The house was rebuilt in 1913 with Gothic arches but can now be glimpsed from outside only, since it is occupied by the Defense establishment of the DRDO.Today, it is out of limits for visitors and photography.

Name this building.

Metcalfe House

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These are the players that featured in Harsha Bhogle’s DREAM XI.

• X is an Indian NGO which uses football to connect individuals, teach life skills and work towards improving the living conditions of women and marginalized populations in Indian society. X has won the inaugural FIFA Diversity Award on 26th September, 2016 in Manchester, UK. This award is part of FIFA’s overall strategy to reinforce its fight against discrimination and promote diversity in football. Id X.

SLUM SOCCER

Dr. Manmohan Singh and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru are the only two to have achieved this feat.What am I talking about?

Both of them got re-elected after completing their full term of five years.Dr. Manmohan Singh got elected to the post in 2004 and 2009.Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru served the office for nearly 17 years from 1947 till 1964.

Y is a family originally based in Surat , subsequently shifted to Mumbai. The family is related to a very famous family in Pakistan.X’s ancestor began the Y shipbuilding dynasty in 1736, when they obtained a contract from the British East India Company for building rocks and ships in Bombay. Although eventually Y came to be considered a Bombay family, many of them remained in Surat, where one branch of the family established a ship-breaking yard that remains one of the largest of its kind in the world.Also, the national anthem of the United States was written in 1812 on a British Navy Ship built by Y.X is a director of Gherzi Eastern Ltd., Tata Iron & Steel, Britannia Industries Ltd., among other companies.X is the MD of the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation.ID X & Y.

X-Ness Wadia Y- Wadia family

They all held the post of DUSU President

K.M. Nanavati caseIt was the last case to be heard as a jury trial in India as the government abolished jury trial after this and bench trial was introduced.

On being interviewed about the secret of success to Wall Street Journal, X said, “I meditate a lot. That’s a huge tool in trying to calm myself, get away from the crazy circus of it all, have a focused mind as well as be a kinder, considerate person in the world. I took a lot of stuff away from my experience in Darjeeling, West Bengal, right at the Nepali border. It was Tibetan Buddhist monks in a converted Nepali house in India, with a view of Bhutan.”X took a gap-year after school to travel to Darjeeling, India to teach English in a Tibetan monastery.Id X.

Benedict Cumberbatch

X was born into a middle-class Parsi home in Bombay.Her first appearance at age 13 in advertisements of popular soap brand Rexona set her on her way to becoming a popular model.At age 17,as Femina Miss India , X entered Miss Universe 1965, dressed in off-the –rack clothes she bought at the last minute.X became a model for companies such as Air India, Revlon and Garden Vareli.X also became the first Indian citizen to present the Academy Award in 1980.ID X.

Persis KhambattaShe was best known for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in the 1979 feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

X was a movie studio founded by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani in 1934 in Malad.X set a high technical standard for film making in India and was credited with introducing a level of professionalism to the medium of movie making and acting, reputedly higher than standards set by rival Indian film production companies. X acquired a reputation for changing the aesthetic and technology traditionally associated with Indian films. It was also renowned for producing films on (then) controversial topics such as those dealing with love between an untouchable lower caste girl and a high caste Hindu Brahmin boy.ID X.

Bombay Talkies

They might have an Italian designer named Chicco, but X is completely Indian. In fact, it was India's first homegrown denim brand and was launched in 1980 by Arvind Lifestyle Brand Ltd.ID X.

Flying Machine

X was educated at Ludgrove School and Eton College, where he helped start its first mountaineering club, and Birkbeck, University of London, where he graduated with a degree, obtained part-time, in Hispanic studies in 2002. He graduated from the University of West of England.From an early age, he learned to climb and sail with his father, who was a member of the prestigious Royal Yacht Squadron. As a teenager, he learned to skydive and earned a second dan black belt in  Shotokan karate. After leaving school, X briefly considered joining the Indian Army and hiked in the Himalayan mountains of Sikkim and West Bengal.ID X.

Bear Grylls

Krishna Pandit Bhanji is an English actor. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has won an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actor’s Guild Award.He was also awarded the Padma Shri in 1984.Bhanji’s father, born in Kenya, was of Gujarati descent.We know him better as?

Sir Ben Kingsley

Daughter of an officer in the Indian Army, X was born on November 19, 1958.As her father was an army man, the family travelled all over the country and X attended seven schools in as many cities before finishing her schooling from Loreto Convent in Delhi. She went on to do BA (Honours) in Economics from LSR in Delhi and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. She also holds a post-graduate diploma in Software Technology from the National Centre for Software Technology in Mumbai.X is currently the MD and CEO of Axis Bank.

Shikha Sharma

ID this occasion.

Crude oil was discovered here in late 19th century. This is where the first oil well in Asia was drilled. The first refinery was started here as early as 1901.It is said that the town gets its name from the phrase "dig-boy-dig," which is what the English told the labourers as they dug for crude oil. The town's history begins in 1867 when a small group of men from the Assam Railway and Trading Co. found their elephants' legs soaked in black mud, that smelt somewhat like oil. The men began exploring more, and in 1889, the English started a small oil installation.What place?

Digboi,Assam

La Liga President announced recently that Spain’s top tier football matches will start earlier than usual. Matches will now start at 4.30 PM lcal time in Spain, instead of the night timings.The announcement coincided with the launch of La Liga’s New Delhi office.What was the reason for this early start?

More fans in India can watch in night time

“Doppleganger also means peripheral vision which one sees without a mirror”, says Sahej Bakshi while discussing the name of his new album.“I’m not sure what drew me to the name-the depth of meaning, multiple connotations……,its connections with ____________.”What two-word moniker do we know him as?

Dualist Inquiry