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Emilie Schenkl with her daughter Anita (Source: Rediff (Slideshow))
What tenuous connection does this Austrian professor of economics have with the Indian freedom movement?
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?
Mindy Kaling (Source: Business Insider (Mindy Kaling, "The Office"))
Who is this Indian American who acts, writes, produces and directs episodes of the American sitcom, The Office?
Braham Chopp (Source: lessmiths (Chopp Brahma, Brazil))
What connects a Brazilian alcoholic beverage to the Hindu Trinity?
Atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (Source: Wikipedia (Nagasaki Bomb))
What links the Bhagavad Gita and the Atomic Bomb?
Kubera. Northern India. 10th century. Sandstone. (Source: Wikipedia (Kubera))
Kubera, Gandharva, Shakuntala, Garuda and .. South Korea. What gives?

Quotable quotes

Barbarous Indian and shrill Western music

In what perfection [Indian] music stands (as I am no competent judge), I could never give my ears the trouble to examine, it seeming loud and barbarous; yet they observe time and measure in their singing and dancing, and are mightily delighted with their tumbling and noise. They as much dislike our shriller music, hardly allowing our waits fit to play to bears, and our stringed instruments strike not their hard-to-be-raised fancies; but our organs are the music of the spheres with them, charming them to listen as long as they play.

Did you know?

Teapoy

A tea-poy has very little to do with tea. It was originally the name for an Indian three-footed, i.e., a tī-pāī table which could be used for many things including serving tea.