Culture

"Ramasamy" was a pejorative used by the whites against Indians in South Africa in the late 1800s. "Rammysammy" was also a variant.

The Turkish film Avare, released in 1964, is a remake of Raj Kapoor's Awara (1951) which was a huge hit in Turkey.

Mind your Language, the British TV series was remade in the US as What a Country! in which the Pakistani character, Ali Nadeem, was played by Vijay Amritraj.

Ranjeet Singh, the Indian character in Mind your Language was portrayed by Albert Moses, a Sri Lankan.

In 2001, there were just over one million Ho's in India. The Ho tribe can be found in the states of Jharkand and Odisha.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's nickname in the American media was "the giggling guru". He was given this epithet after he was seen giggling frequently on the Johnny Carson Show in 1969.

The word for key in many Indian languages is a variant of chavi (चाबी in Hindi, চাবি in Bengali, चावी in Marathi, சாவி in Tamil, etc.) which comes from the Portuguese word for key, chave.

The countryside of Sonargaon, located a few miles out of Dhaka, features the Taj Mahal Bangladesh, a replica of Shah Jahan's Agra original. It was commissioned by a Bangladesh film-maker.