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Bengali
writer
Rajnarayan Basu
was a tutor of
Asia
's first
Nobel Laureate
Rabindranath Tagore
?
the tyranny and the perceived dread of
Gobindram Mitter
, a
British
deputy in
Calcutta
, earned him a place in a
Bengali
rhyme?
a version of the traditional
Bengali
panjika
, the
Hindu
astrological
almanac
, comes with an interactive
CD-ROM
?
Mukh O Mukhosh
(
The face and the mask
), directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, is the first full-length
Bengali language
feature film to be produced in the erstwhile
East Pakistan
, which later became
Bangladesh
?
Indian
author and journalist
Peary Chand Mitra
played a leading role in the
Bengal renaissance
in the 19th century and became known as the "
Dickens
of Bengal" due to his clear
Bengali
prose?
Leela Majumdar
, author of children's books, translated
Jonathan Swift
's
Gulliver's Travels
and
Ernest Hemingway
's
The Old Man and the Sea
into
Bengali
?
Hindi
,
Bengali
, and
Portuguese
have all recently been proposed as
official languages of the United Nations
?
Facts on topics related to Bengali language
Sanskrit
historian
P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar
believed that
Kanchipuram
was the southernmost outpost of
Sanskrit
culture during the pre-
Pallava
period?
Arthur W. Ryder
taught the
Bhagavad Gita
in
Sanskrit
to
J. Robert Oppenheimer
, who said it shaped his philosophy of life and famously quoted it at the
Trinity nuclear test
explosion?
Chavundaraya
, the builder of the
Gomateshwara
monolith (
pictured
) at
Shravanabelagola
, was an
army
commander
,
minister
and a famous writer of
Kannada
and
Sanskrit
literature?
Lingyan Temple
in
Shandong
,
China
features a nine-
storey
Song Dynasty
pagoda
, named the
Pizhi Pagoda
(pictured)
from the
Sanskrit
word
pratyeka
?
Kirātārjunīya
, a
Sanskrit
poem by
Bharavi
, is known both for its depth and its wordplay, including a symmetric verse that reads the same forward, backward, horizontally and vertically?
Shishupala Vadha
, a
Sanskrit
epic poem by
Magha
, contains what has been called "the most complex and exquisite type of
palindrome
ever invented"?
a
Vihara
is an
Indian
Buddhist
cave
monastery
that takes its name from the
Sanskrit
word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
former
Thai
Minister of Education
M.L. Pin Malakul
created a
slide rule
for calculating the day of week of any given date despite being required to study
Sanskrit
rather than mathematics?
investment banker
John P. Clay
pursued his interest in
Sanskrit literature
by endowing the
Clay Sanskrit Library
, a 100-volume series of
Sanskrit
works translated into English?
many sex positions derive their
Sanskrit
names from that of the
Hindu
goddess of sexual pleasure –
Rati
(
pictured with her husband, the lovegod
Kama
)?
Punjabi language
Indian cricketer
Yuvraj Singh
is the son of former cricketer-turned-
Punjabi
actor
Yograj Singh
?
Punjabi
film-star
Yograj Singh
was a former
Test cricketer
and father of current Indian batsman
Yuvraj Singh
?
the
lyrics
of the debut song of
Indian
rock
musician
Rabbi Shergill
were written by the 18th century
Punjabi
poet
Bulleh Shah
?
Hindi
Hindi
is the language used for educational and official matters in
Bihari culture
?
Hindi
,
Bengali
, and
Portuguese
have all recently been proposed as
official languages of the United Nations
?
Sinhala language
Nymphaea nouchali
(pictured)
is the
national flower
of
Sri Lanka
where it is known as
Nil Manel
in
Sinhala
?
in the
Sinhala
novel
Madol Doova
, the two protagonists Upali and Jinna go to live on a "haunted" island?
the
Vedda language
is a
Creole language
based on
Sinhalese
of
Sri Lanka
rather than a
dialect
?
Marathi language
Durga Khote
was famous for her character roles and was the
heroine
of the first
Marathi
talkie
?
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