Malgudi was envisioned by R.K. Narayan, the eminent writer, for his numerous books. Located somewhere in South India during the British times, the fictional town had the Mempi Hills as the backdrop with tigers and bamboo forests. The town had a college called Albert Mission College, and a cinema hall called the Palace Talkies. Along …
Both the freedom fighters Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai started journals in 1906 by the same name Vande Mataram independently at two different parts of the country. Pal started the Bengali journal in Bengal while Lala Lajpat Rai started it in Urdu in Lahore.
Arundhati Roy was brought up by her mother in Kerala. She came alone to Delhi when she was 16 years old. She stayed with friends in a slum in Feroz Shah Kotla and sometimes sold empty beer bottles. Later she attended the Delhi School of Architecture.
Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has the distinction of being the largest single power generating unit in India. Located in coastal Tamil Nadu, Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant has a capacity of generating 1000 MW power. The construction of the plant began on 31 March, 2002 and it became critical on 13 July, 2013.
Mark Twain described Varanasi as – ‘Older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend’. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famously known as Mark Twain, visited India with his wife in the year 1895–96 on their way to the world trip. He visited Bombay, Delhi and Benares. While in Benares, he took a boat ride on the …
Sadgati is a story written by Munshi Premchand. It is essentially based on the banes of the caste system. Satyajit Ray made it into a film in 1981, mainly for the TV audience. The main actors of the film were Om Puri, Smita Patil and Mohan Agashe.
