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Indian Passport (Source: Wikipedia (Indian Passport))
Indians tend to have trouble getting visas. But did you know that this hasn't and isn't always the case?
Jacqueline Kennedy (White House) (Source: Wikipedia (Jacqueline Kennedy))
Jackie Kennedy travelled (sans JFK) to India & Pakistan in 1962
Atal Bihari Vajpayee meeting Nawaz Sharif (Source: Outlook (Vajpayee, Sharif; Prashant Panjiar))
Did you know that Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif were jointly honoured in 1998 for their efforts in promoting peace?
Potti Sreeramulu (Source: Wikipedia (A portrait of Indian revolutionary Potti Sreeramulu))
While hunger strikes are commonplace in India, has there been anybody who has carried out the threat to its ultimate end?
Zhou Enlai, 1946 (Source: Wikipedia)
How was a Kashmir Princess involved in the Cold War?
'The Great Game', a euphemism for espionage and diplomatic manoeuvring, has its roots in our humble corner of the world.

Quotable quotes

Abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha

If we wish to maintain democracy not merely in form, but also in fact, what must we do? The first thing in my judgement we must do is to hold fast to constitutional methods of achieving our social and economic objectives. It means we must abandon the bloody methods of revolution. It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods.

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Locusts in The Punjab

The East Punjab Agricultural Pests, Diseases and Noxious Weeds Act 4 reads,

In the event of any area being invaded, or in danger of an invastion, by locusts, the Collector of the district or other officer authorised by him in this behalf may call upon any male person not below the age of 14 years resident in the district to render all possible assistance in carrying out preventive or remedial measures and in the destruction of locusts …