290: These Indians are all recipients of the honour shown. Two other well known Indian recipients are not shown. What prize? 289: The sculpture at Mahabalipuram was traditionally held to depict Arjuna’s penance. People now believe that it depicts Bhagiratha’s tapasya to bring the river Ganges to earth.
289: What is /was the controversy over this sculpture? 288: Mammootty appearing as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in the 1998 film.
288: Which national award winning performance? 287: The two scripts of the Punjabi language which evolved on the basis of religious / political affiliations – the Gurmukhi script used in India and the Shahmukhi script used in Pakistan.
287: What’s the difference? 286: The Chauri Chaura Incident.
286: What dark episode? 285: Hamsa (Swan) and Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. The obvious connection is that the swan is a symbol of the Ramakrishna Mission, the other is that the title Paramahamsa may be translated as “supreme swan,” and is based on “the swan being equally at home on land or water and the true sage…
285: Two ways you can connect these images. Give me both. 284: Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal, known as Lal Bal Pal.
284: What were they collectively known as? 283: Indonesia, an Islamic majority country, to celebrate its multicultural nature, chose to carry the Hindu god Ganesha on one of their currency notes.
283: What is unconventional about this currency note? 282: Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to conquer Mount Everest.
282: She works as Head, Adventure Programmes, for a large organization these days. What is her claim to fame? 281: The Rig Veda
281:This is a map constructed from the geographical descriptions from which work? 280: Golghar, in Patna. From Wikipedia, After the devastating famine of 1770, which killed nearly 10 million people in regions of Bengal, Bihar and modern day Bangladesh, Warren Hastings, then Governor-General of India, ordered the construction of this beehive shaped structure for the…
