Portal:India/DYK
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- ...that Anuruddha, one of the leading five disciples of Gautama Buddha, was his cousin?
- ...that the Australian cricket team's world record of 16 consecutive wins ended during its 2002 India tour, when India recorded only the third win in Test cricket history by a side forced to follow-on?
- ...that Assaji, the last of the first five bhikkhus of Gautama Buddha to become an arahant, converted Sariputta and Mahamoggallana, the Buddha's two chief disciples?
- ...that the mother of Jamila Massey, an Indian actress and writer, refused to allow her to attend drama school, after the death of her father?
- ...that during his tenure as India's cricket coach, Kapil Dev, broke down in a BBC interview about alleged match-fixing?
- ...that Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian to represent the country as Test Cricket player, captain, coach/manager and Chairman of Selectors?
- ...that Patacara, who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi, rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya?
- ...that the graphic novel The Barn Owl's Wondrous Capers combines Kolkata's Babu culture and the legend of The Wandering Jew?
- ...that when Indrajit Gupta, a Communist, became India's Union Minister for Home Affairs in 1996, he became head of a ministry 'which once policed the Commies'?
- ...that Monisha, a South Indian cinema actress, was only 15 years old when she won the National Film Award for Best Actress for her debut performance in Nakhashathangal?
- ...that the relics of Sariputra and Mahamoggallana, Gautama Buddha's two chief disciples, were the subject of more than two million Sri Lankan pilgrimage visits after their discovery by Sir Alexander Cunningham?
- ...that Kosambi, a city in ancient India which was a frequent site of sermons by the Buddha was one of the places considered suitable for his Parinibbāna?
- ...that Ananthabhadram, a film by Indian director Santhosh Sivan, was inspired by classical Kathakali dancing and paintings of Raja Ravi Varma?
- ...that there are significant breeding populations of 35 mammalian species in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India, out of which 15 are threatened mammals according to the IUCN Red List?
- ...that G. S. Shivarudrappa is only the third person to be named "poet of the nation" by the Government of Karnataka?
- ...that Kolkata West International City has one of the largest foreign direct investments in township projects in India?
- ...that the world's tallest statue of Hindu God Lord Shiva (pictured) is located in Murudeshwara, a coastal town in Karnataka, India?
- ...that the term Rashtrapati, the native word in India to refer the nation's President, was first suggested by the Kannada poet, scholar T.N. Srikantaiah?
- ...that Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?
