The Hindi avatar of the amateur detective series, The Three Investigators, was titled, Bal Secret Agent 555 Ranga, Ganga & Shirazi. Ranga is Pete, Ganga is Jupe and Shirazi is Bob.
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.
While Urdu is its national language, more people speak Punjabi and its dialects in Pakistan than any other language. In 1998, only 7.57% of the population were Urdu speakers.
While most Indian school history books spell the 7th-century Chinese traveller's name as Hiuen Tsang, the more commonly used romanisations around the world are Xuanzang or Hsüan-tsang.