Other

In Sanskrit, madana tends to mean intoxicating or passionate and is synonymous with the god of love, Kama. Madanankushaha & madanayudham mean penis and vulva respectively.

One of the writers (and sometimes producer) for CSI, Star Trek, Farscape, and other science/sci-fi shows is a certain Naren Shankar.

The next time you spray yourself with a musk-based fragrance, you might want to remember that the word musk comes from the Sanskrit word, muṣká (मुष्क) meaning testicle.

Shores of Silence: Whale Sharks in India, a documentary by Mike Pandey, led to the whale shark being declared an endangered species in India and a ban on their fishing.

The Romulan mining vessel in Star Trek (2009) captained by the film's villain, Nero, was called Narada.

In Persia/Iran, a crore (korur) was equivalent to 500,000 (5 lakhs) rather than 10,000,000 (100 lakhs).

India's population in 2012 is the same as the entire planet's estimated population in 1850 of around 1.25 billion people.

Even today, all gazetted officers in India have to sign a form which includes an account of the amount of opium in their charge.

The Sanskrit word guru (गुरु) and the English word, grave, are both said to descend from the same Proto-Indo-European base, *gru-, meaning heavy or weighty.

Kasab or Qassab means butchers or slaughterers in Arabic and Urdu. It is also the name of a Muslim community involved in the meat business.