Template:Did you know: Difference between revisions

"Did you know ...?"
"Did you know ...?"
Introduction and rules	BP:DYK
General discussion	BT:DYK
Supplementary rules	BP:DYKSG
Nominations (awaiting approval)	BP:DYKN
Reviewing guide	BP:DYKR
Nominations (approved)	BP:DYKNA
Currently on Main Page	T:DYK
Main Page errors	BP:ERRORS
Archive of appearances	BP:DYKA
Statistics	BP:DYKSTATS
Monthly wraps	BP:DYKW
	v; t; e;

← Older edit Newer edit →

VisualWikitext

Revision as of 12:22, 12 December 2021

Did you know mentions and links to new articles, articles expanded by a factor of five within the last seven days, and newly-promoted good articles. To propose a new fact for this template, make a suggestion on the talk page.

To report an error, see Main Page errors.

Admins:

Before updating please protect the featured image.
After updating please purge the cache of the Main Page so that the updated version appears.

Hooks

From a collection of Bharatpedia's articles:

... that sprinter Milkha Singh refused to accept the Arjuna Award, one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?

... that after the Indian team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, their manager PR Man Singh ensured that Wisden Cricket Monthly editor David Frith would "eat his words"?

... that the social network Koo increased in popularity after the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?

... that in 1957, a bus ride from Calcutta to London cost £65?

... that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?

... that the Lac La Croix Indian Pony was recreated from a breeding population of four mares by crossing them with a Spanish Mustang?

... that radio station WWBC in Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?

... that the Friends of the Soviet Union was founded in 1941 with poet Rabindranath Tagore as its patron?

... that five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand and India's first woman Everest climber Bachendri Pal received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s, then India's highest sporting honour?

... that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North-West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?

... that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?

... that the northern plains gray langur monkey is killed in India for food and to prevent crop-raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?

... that Payal Ghanwani was the first Belizean senator of Indian descent?

... that Indian lyricist Gulzar wants his patriotic song "Ae Watan" to become the "song of our nation"?

... that the British Raj restricted access to squash courts in India—then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?

... that in 2019, despite a nationwide ban in India, an estimated more than ₹900 crore (US$130 million) was wagered on cockfighting in Andhra Pradesh in just three days?

... that the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill introduced in 2019 by the Indian parliament has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community?

... that small Indian ringstones of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE typically have four nude female figures around the central hole?

... that Ismith Khan's novel The Jumbie Bird explores the transformation of immigrants from India into Indo-Trinidadians?

... that nearly half the milk produced in India, whose dairy industry is the largest in the world, comes from buffaloes?

... that clinical trials in India must have government-regulated ethics committees oversee their research?

... that the book Before Freedom contains 38 years of letters from Jawaharlal Nehru to his sister Nan, including some he wrote while imprisoned during India's fight for independence?

... that the anandalahari is an Indian chordophone musical instrument used by religious singers of the Baul faith?

... that the Palika Kendra is one of 23 buildings in India documented in the Atlas of Brutalist Architecture?

... that Sarika Kale, a kho kho player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?

... that the All India Anglo-Indian Association maintains that Anglo-Indians are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?

... that Woodland Sketches by Edward MacDowell includes a piano piece based on the songs of the Walla Walla and Brotherton peoples?

... that Gujarati humourist Ratilal Borisagar was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India's National Academy of Letters in 2019?

... that a print of Badnam Basti, often described as India's first gay film, was discovered in 2019 after having been lost for 40 years?

... that a 17th-century illustrated manuscript of the Anis Al-Hujjaj shows pilgrims sailing from the Indian subcontinent to Arabia Template:-?

... that the opera Die Prinzessin Girnara, by composer Wellesz and librettist Wassermann, and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?

... that after Indian-American lawyer Sakharam Ganesh Pandit represented Bhagat Singh Thind in a 1923 U.S. Supreme Court case, the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?

... that General Sir Charles Reid shot the celebrated, but probably not man-eating, Leeds Tiger?

... that Faith Smith, who grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation in Wisconsin, became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving Native Americans?

... that one of the arguments made by the Simla Deputation for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the Mughal Empire?

... that Cleveland Indigenous activist Sundance successfully petitioned Oberlin High School in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?

... that Facebook has to vet fake news in India for 23 official languages, but has been able to cover only 10 of them?

... that Stribodh, first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?

... that Kim A. Wagner, a Danish author of books on India, is named after Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim?

... that SC East Bengal became the first club in Indian football to activate the force majeure clause in their 2020–21 season?

... that Sarran Teelucksingh was the first person of Indian descent elected to the Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago?

... that the tomb of Sultan Alauddin Khalji was built inside an Islamic school in Delhi, India?

... that Sunita Sharma is reportedly India's first woman cricket coach?

... that Gunjan Saxena was the first woman Indian Air Force officer to go to war?

... that Kolkata's Currency Building has housed the Agra Bank, an office for the issue and exchange of currency, the Reserve Bank of India, and a public art museum?

... that the 2018 film Hotel Milan is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh?

... that although the 2018 release Hamari Paltan was promoted as the last film of veteran Indian actor Tom Alter, another one featuring him premiered later that same year?

... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer Samuel van der Putte ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?

... that Indian choreographer Mrinalini Sarabhai suggested the egg-shaped Kuiper belt object 20000 Varuna be named after the Hindu deity Varuna?

... that Nainital Yacht Club, located at an elevation of 2,084 m (6,837 ft), is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?

... that every sixth person in the world who has diabetes is from India?

... that the six members of Navika Sagar Parikrama, an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received India's highest adventure award in 2017?

... that it took 190 litres (42 imp gal; 50 US gal) of paint to complete the livery of the Indian locomotive class WDG-4GTemplate:-?

... that Russian generals proposed to invade India in 1854 and in 1855 to divert British forces from the Crimean War?

... that Priscilla Jana, a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug Nelson Mandela in 13 years of imprisonment on Robben Island?

... that the Marine Cemetery, made from plastic bottles collected from an Indian beach, is dedicated to nine endangered aquatic species?

... that the Doric columns used in Christ Church in Byculla, India, were imported from England?

... that when Lois Ellen Frank first proposed her 2003 James Beard Award–winning cookbook on Native American foods, publishers told her there was no such cuisine?

... that superstitious people hold a Cleveland Indian responsible for losses by the Cleveland Indians?

... that the number of Tibetan refugees in India decreased by 44 per cent between 2011 and 2018?

... that Vijayalakshmi Ramanan, the first woman officer of the Indian Air Force, custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?

... that in the 1980s, textile conservator Martand Singh organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?

... that the twenty members of the successful 1965 Indian Everest expedition are to date the only team recipients of the Arjuna Award?

... that Turkey's Anadolu Shipyard signed a contract with India's Hindustan Shipyard to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the Indian Navy?

... that Essop Moosa, who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white soccer team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?

... that to make the ethnographic film series The Doon School Quintet, visual anthropologist David MacDougall was given unprecedented access to film students at an all-boys boarding school in India?

... that Nilima Arun Kshirsagar developed and patented liposomal amphotericin B, which was used to treat "black fungus" during the COVID-19 pandemic in India?

... that Wahan Ke Log is one of the earliest science-fiction films made in India?

... that a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari was published just seven months after her death in 1972?

... that radio station WWBC in Cocoa, Florida, was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the Indian River when the site was sold to condominium developers?

... that the Friends of the Soviet Union was founded in 1941 with poet Rabindranath Tagore as its patron?

... that due to COVID-19 lockdowns in India, the science-fiction short film 55 km/sec was directed remotely, and the lead actors Mrinal Dutt and Richa Chadda filmed themselves through their own devices?

... that the space industry of India has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?

... that Kashmiri poet Madhosh Balhami lost 30 years of his poetry in a clash between militants and the Indian government?

... that Indian-American chef Raji Jallepalli, who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a microbiologist?

... that the Buddhist site of Ratnagiri in Odisha, India, includes rare carved scenes that seem to combine eroticism and hair-cutting?

... that Satyavathi Rathod is the first woman from a scheduled tribe to serve as a minister in the Indian state of Telangana?

... that India's first metro, the Kolkata Metro, was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?

... that during its 2019 election campaign, the Indian National Congress promised to abolish the sedition law, although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?

... that Tamil Nadu was the first state in India to use green corridors to expedite organ transplants?

... that Aisha de Sequeira led Morgan Stanley's mergers and acquisitions in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?

... that the Lekhapaddhati, a guidebook written in Sanskrit, includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during Chaulukya rule in Gujarat, India?

... that ancient Gupta art of India includes gold coins commemorating the Ashvamedha Vedic horse sacrifice?

... that the adults and larvae of the cactus lady beetle prey on the West Indian red scale, the date palm scale, the white peach scale, the sugarcane scale, and the minute cypress scale?

... that Kim A. Wagner wrote The Skull of Alum Bheg to tell the story of "thousands of Indian soldiers" who rebelled in 1857?

... that in 1886 prison superintendent John W. Tyler took 34 Indians, mostly prisoners, to the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London to show their skill in carpet weaving?

... that Indian child actress Taruni Sachdev was nicknamed the "Rasna girl"?

... that the annual Indian sports awards ceremony at the Presidential Palace includes awards for adventure, for the top-performing university, and for sports promotion?

... that Mahatma Gandhi championed the concept of composite nationalism, which led to a massive expansion of the Indian independence movement?

... that India's Shikhar Dhawan and England's Jack Burnham are the only players to have scored three centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup?

... that Shantaram Siddi is the first Indian legislator of African descent?

... that during the 1981 Benson & Hedges Cup Final, a domestic cricket match in England, two West Indian players set new batting and bowling records?

... that the web series Avrodh: The Siege Within meticulously details the planning for India's retaliatory military strike following the 2016 Uri terrorist attacks?

... that the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts were modelled on legislation introduced after the Irish Great Famine?

... that the Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary acts as a natural corridor in the movement of the Himalayan brown bear and markhor between Poonch and the Kashmir Valley forests?

... that prior to becoming Google India's manager, Sanjay Gupta was credited for expanding Star India's sports business by launching Pro Kabaddi League and Indian Super League?

... that the ancient Indian religion Jainism holds that the universe was not created?

... that the northern plains gray langur monkey is killed in India for food and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?

... that the Indian film Chand Bujh Gaya (The Moon Is Eclipsed) was denied a censor certificate for fear of "inciting communal violence" and "communal disharmony"?

... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?

... that all the residents of Wallacepur, a village in the Indian state of Gujarat, are Christian?

... that inter-service cooperation was one of the most important lessons of the Bangladesh war for India?

... that Shawnee leader John Lewis often wore a "peace medal" given to him by U.S. president Thomas Jefferson?

... that during the collision of India with Asia, the southern part of the Tibetan Plateau achieved its high elevation before the northern part?

... that Muhammad Ali Mungeri was the prime founder of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama, a major Islamic seminary in India?

... that storm surge and abnormally high tides generated by the 1875 Indianola hurricane in Texas swept boats as far as 9 mi (14 km) inland?

... that a kidney-transplantation scandal led to a 2011 amendment to the law on organ donation in India?

... that the 1964 split in the Communist Party of India was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?

... that the Latin American travesti gender identity has been considered to be a third gender, akin to the hijras of India and the muxe of Mexico?

... that India developed nuclear power when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was prime minister?

... that under India's new education policy, students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?

... that Rani Kumudini Devi was the first woman to serve as Mayor of Hyderabad?

... that Manoj Muntashir originally wrote "Teri Mitti" as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a reprise as a tribute to healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India?

... that Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru launched Shankar's Weekly, even though its founder described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?

... that India's Mohan Samant managed the largest covert naval operation in history, which resulted in the destruction of around 100,000 tonnes of Pakistani shipping during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971?

... that Indian writer Malayanil was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the Gujarati language?

... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, Indira Joseph Venniyoor, was paid 69 rupees (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?

... that the first cookbook edited by Maria Guarnaschelli helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?

... that Saumitra Khan was elected in the 2019 Indian general election by a margin of more than 78,000 votes without participating in any political rally in his constituency?

... that cricketer Sachin Tendulkar (depicted) was recognised by his native India with both a top sporting honour and its highest civilian honour?

... that Joshna Chinappa has won the Indian national squash championship a record 18 times?

... that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri are about the Indian scholar and independence activist Abul Kalam Azad?

... that the 1990 Bijnor riot was the most destructive event during concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns in India, which eventually led to the demolition of the Babri Masjid?

... that the State Emblem of India was embossed on the wheels of the Chandrayaan-2 mission's lunar rover to leave behind patterned tracks on the lunar surface?

... that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the Gateway of India?

... that the play Karl Marx in Kalbadevi depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to Kalbadevi, the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?

... that the Port of Krueng Geukueh in Aceh, Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the 2004 tsunami?

... that India is creating the post of Chief of the Defence Staff twenty years after it was officially suggested?

... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", Arvind Sawant defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the Mumbai South constituency in the 2014 Indian general election?

... that after an aeroplane hijacking, the Central Industrial Security Force was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?

... that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the National Industrial Security Academy of India?

... that before the passage of India's anti-defection law, an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some crossing the floor more than once?

... that six All India Institutes of Medical Sciences began operating in 2019, including institutes in Telangana, in Jharkhand, and in West Bengal?

... that the 2005 book Open Secrets reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?

... that Iqbal Qureshi composed the music for the 1964 film Cha Cha Cha, the first Indian film to feature Western dance?

... that Asus had to rename their ZenFone 6 for the Indian market after the Delhi High Court ruled that the name violated a competitor's trademark?

... that British Army officer Sir Augustus FitzGeorge served as equerry to his father, Prince George, Duke of Cambridge, and accompanied Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on his visit to India?

... that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the Chicago Indian Village started next to the Chicago Cubs home stadium, Wrigley Field?

... that Stuart Bergsma, a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected speaking in tongues with emotional stress?

... that The Unsafe Asylum, a book of short stories by Anirudh Kala, explores the psychological effects of the Partition of India?

... that Indian writer Shrabani Basu learned about the relationship between Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria while researching the history of curry?

... that Indian cricketer Bangalore JayaramTemplate:`s English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the Mashie Niblick?

... that in 1990, Mantu Ghosh became India's youngest national table tennis champion at age 16?

... that during a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union, Indian politician Shashi Tharoor claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?

... that Pakistan was envisioned as the New Medina to be used as a staging point for the conquest and Islamisation of India, similar to the conquest of Mecca by Muhammad?

... that Mozambique-born Violet Dias Lannoy, called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by Peter Nazareth, came from a Goan family, worked with Mahatma Gandhi, and hung out with Richard Wright?

... that the release of the 2001 Hindi film Chori Chori Chupke Chupke was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the Mumbai underworld?

... that after the Indian team won the 1983 Cricket World Cup, their manager PR Man Singh ensured that Wisden Cricket Monthly editor David Frith would "eat his words"?

... that the newly reported 6th-century Devunigutta Temple in Telangana, India, only came to international scholarly attention when images were posted on social media in 2017?

... that Rembrandt's Mughal drawings depict Indian emperors and noblemen, and are the only drawings in which the artist engaged with the style of a "dramatically foreign culture"?

... that Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist S. G. Neginhal to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister Indira Gandhi?

... that Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Mathura, India, combines Gothic principles, Indian craftsmanship, and a Russian dome?

... that the social network Koo increased in popularity after the 2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?

... that Kolkata, the smallest by area of India's six A-1 cities, has the country's largest suburban rail system by track length and number of stationsTemplate:-?

... that Assam Petro-Chemicals became the first Indian company to sell methanol as cooking fuel?

... that the tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the pigeon pea in India?

... that the lehenga was the traditional dress of women belonging to the Bettiah Christian ethnoreligious community of India?

... that as the film negatives used for the first Indian feature film were of limited spectral sensitivity, the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?

... that after meeting Pueblo Indians during his World War II service, Burton Benedict switched his focus at Harvard University from ornithology to anthropology?

... that in the 1970s, Indian retailer Anokhi, which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional Rajasthani woodblock printing?

... that the final exhibition of Indian artist Anjum Singh, titled I am still here, was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?

... that Myra MacDonald, whose career as a foreign correspondent for Reuters spanned virtually three decades, and who covered South Asia for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?

... that Indian doctor Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy, who worked to improve public health, contracted bubonic plague three times?

... that the National Salt Satyagraha Memorial honors the participants of the Salt Satyagraha, a nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India led by Mahatma Gandhi in 1930?

... that India's 2020 food-security scheme, launched during the country's COVID-19 pandemic, is equivalent to feeding 2.5 times the population of the US, 12 times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?

... that the cotton mealybug, originally discovered in an underground ants' nest in New Mexico, is now a major cotton pest in India?

... that Bihar Animal Sciences University is one of four state universities and six private universities established in the Indian state of Bihar in 2017–18?

... that a medal depicting Minerva, sometimes identified as the East India Company's Monghyr Mutiny Medal, may in fact be a Freemasons' award?

... that Indian Kathakali artist Mathoor Govindan Kutty specialized in Kathakali Stri Vesham, the portrayal of female characters on stage?

... that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film The Last Kiss was brought from a brothel in Dhaka?

... that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian long jumper M. Sreeshankar won the bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships?

... that in a radical reform of its power grid, Gujarat became the first state in India to separate electricity feeder lines between agricultural and household usage?

... that India has 66 chess grandmasters?

... that the ancient fortified city of Bhitargarh served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?

... that English librarian Frank Cundall created the West India Reference Library in 1894, which later became the nucleus of the National Library of Jamaica?

... that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of Sikri Mata Temple during the Indian Rebellion of 1857?

... that after Lady Ganga learned that she had stage-four cervical cancer, she traveled to India and set a women's world record by standup-paddleboarding 700 miles (1,100 km) on the Ganges?

... that the creators of the Indian web series His Storyy changed the ending because of prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country?

... that according to legend, Gabriel Boughton treated Jahanara Begum's burns and in return received the right to free trade for the East India Company from her father Shah Jahan?

... that Naimur Rahman took six wickets for 132 runs in the very first test Bangladesh played in 2000?

... that sprinter Milkha Singh refused to accept the Arjuna Award, one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?

... that international cricketer Rohit Sharma is the rhino ambassador for WWF-India?

... that the Indian Air Force has launched two mobile air combat games, Guardians of the Skies and A Cut Above, to reach out to youth?

... that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian Deccan painting were erased after her son rebelled and imprisoned her?

... that Manjappada, a supporters' group of Kerala Blasters FC, coordinated and brought forty-one busloads of their fans across Kerala to the venue for the opening match of the 2019–20 season?

... that teenager Jyoti Kumari travelled 750 miles (1,210 km) on a bicycle with her injured father, during India's COVID-19 lockdown?

... that Karan Johar launched the pop song "Genda Phool" on social media during India's coronavirus lockdown?

... that Vikram Misri was the Indian ambassador to China during the 2020–2021 China–India skirmishes?

... that the Indian wax scale was first described in 1798 by Fabricius, but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?

... that after a secret purchase from Europe, the Special Group became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the AK-47?

... that the Indian folktronic duo Hari & Sukhmani combine traditional Punjabi folk music and Sufi poetry with electronic music?

... that the jute hairy caterpillar is a serious pest of fibre crops in India, sometimes occurring in epidemic outbreaks?

... that as a child, Indian archery champion Pravin Jadhav was undernourished and lived in a shack near a drain?

... that Alexander Lindsay served as a general in the East India Company while remaining a half-pay lieutenant in the British Army?

... that Barrackpore Trunk Road, the oldest metalled road in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British cantonment in India with Calcutta, then the country's capital?

... that the East Bengal Ultras, founded in 2013, became India's first ultras group?

... that Farooq Khan headed the Kashmiri Special Operations Group credited with the killing of more than 2,000 militants between 1994 and 1996?

... that Mahanati is the highest-grossing South Indian film to feature a woman as its primary character?

... that Paleo-Indians began inhabiting Maryland around 10,000 BC?

... that the All India Conference of Indian Christians was opposed to the partition of India?

... that after suspected coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India, started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using indelible ink?

... that Zeng Rongsheng organized a Sino-American joint investigation of the geology of the Tibetan Plateau and examined the collision process of the Indian Plate with the Eurasian Plate?

... that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's Special Area Games Scheme to scout for field hockey players?

... that a Jewish girl from Jerusalem became an acclaimed performer of Indian, Javanese, Balinese, and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?

... that Sir Robert Fletcher rose to command the East India Company's Madras Army, despite being cashiered for his involvement in the 1766 Monghyr Mutiny?

... that the first batch of cadets from the Indian Military Academy included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?

... that five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand and India's first woman Everest climber Bachendri Pal received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s, then India's highest sporting honour?

... that Khin Maung Lat, a servant at the king's palace in Ratnagiri, India, eloped with Princess Myat Phaya Lat against the will of the king and queen?

... that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?

... that Acorn Creek is named after an extinct Creek Indian village and plantation on the Chattahoochee River?

... that in 1957, a bus ride from Calcutta to London cost £65?

... that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as Institutes of Eminence has been approved in India?

... that Radio Quarantine was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to social isolation protocols following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic?

... that food writer Vir Sanghvi called Indigo "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?

... that the American merchant ship Herald served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French privateer, was sold to Britain as a slaver, and ended her days as a West Indiaman?

... that around 200 CE, the Indian monk Nagarjuna exhorted a king to make "Images of Buddha with fine proportions / Well designed and sitting on lotuses"?

... that the Lac La Croix Indian Pony was recreated from a breeding population of four mares by crossing them with a Spanish Mustang?

... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the Bombay Stock Exchange demanding removal of the Big Bull after the market crashed?

... that Bharatiya Janata Party politicians Maneka Gandhi and Santosh Gangwar, current members of the 17th Lok Sabha, have been elected to the Indian lower house for the eighth time?

... that badminton player P. V. Sindhu became the inaugural recipient of the BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year award in 2020?

... that, unusual for a Sikh place of worship, Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib in India was influenced by Islamic architecture?

... that Swarup Rani Nehru appealed to women to make salt in defiance of the salt laws in British India?

... that Australian soprano Ada Baker toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in Perth in 1889?

... that the Famine Inquiry Commission has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the 1943 Bengal famine?

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
+<noinclude><div style="border: 1px solid; width: 96%; color: black; padding: 1em; float: left; background: #EFEFEF">
+{{DYKbox}}
+'''Did you know''' mentions and links to ''new'' articles, articles expanded by a factor of five within the last seven days, and newly-promoted good articles. To propose a new fact for this template, '''make a suggestion''' on the [[Template talk:Did you know|talk page]].
+To report an error, see [[Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors|Main Page errors]].
+Admins:
+*Before updating please [[Wikipedia:Did you know#Pictures|protect the featured image]].
+*After updating please [{{fullurl:Main Page|action=purge}} purge the cache of the Main Page] so that the updated version appears.</div>
+__NOTOC__
+{{clear}}
+==Hooks==
+</noinclude>
 {|
 |
@@ Line 17: / Line 31: @@
 :{{*mp}}... that Indian prime minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist '''[[S. G. Neginhal]]''' to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]]?
 :{{*mp}}... that the '''[[northern plains gray langur]]''' monkey is killed in India for food and to prevent crop-raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?
+<noinclude>
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Payal Ghanwani]]''' was the first [[Senate (Belize)|Belizean senator]] of [[Indo-Belizeans|Indian descent]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian lyricist [[Gulzar]] wants his patriotic song "'''[[Ae Watan]]'''" to become the "song of our nation"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the [[British Raj]] restricted access to '''[[Squash in India|squash courts in India]]'''—then located on military bases—to the upper class of society?
+:{{*mp}} ... that in 2019, despite a nationwide ban in India, an estimated more than [[Indian rupee|₹]]900&nbsp;[[crore]] (US$130&nbsp;million) was wagered on '''[[cockfighting in India|cockfighting]]''' in [[Andhra Pradesh]] in just three days?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill, 2019|Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Bill]]''' introduced in 2019 by the [[Parliament of India|Indian parliament]] has been met with protests and criticism by the queer community?
+:{{*mp}} ... that small Indian '''[[ringstone]]s''' of the 3rd to 2nd centuries BCE typically have four nude female figures around the central hole?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Ismith Khan]]'s novel '''''[[The Jumbie Bird]]''''' explores the transformation of immigrants from India into [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|Indo-Trinidadians]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that nearly half the milk produced in India, '''[[Dairy in India|whose dairy industry]]''' is the largest in the world, comes from [[Bubalina|buffalo]]es?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[clinical trials in India]]''' must have government-regulated [[ethics committee]]s oversee their research?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the book '''''[[Before Freedom: Nehru's Letters to His Sister 1909–1947|Before Freedom]]''''' contains 38&nbsp;years of letters from [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to his sister [[Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit|Nan]], including some he wrote while imprisoned during [[Indian independence movement|India's fight for independence]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[anandalahari]]''' is an Indian [[chordophone]] musical instrument used by religious singers of the [[Baul]] faith?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Palika Kendra]]''' is one of 23 buildings in India documented in the ''Atlas of Brutalist Architecture''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sarika Kale]]''', a [[kho kho]] player who has struggled financially for years, won ₹51,000 for her performance as captain of the India national team at the Third Asian Kho-Kho Championship?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[All India Anglo-Indian Association]]''' maintains that [[Anglo-Indian]]s are unique because they are Christians and have historical links to both Europe and India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Woodland Sketches]]''''' by [[Edward MacDowell]] includes a piano piece based on the songs of the [[Walla Walla people|Walla Walla]] and [[Brothertown Indians|Brotherton]] peoples?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] humourist '''[[Ratilal Borisagar]]''' was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] by India's [[Sahitya Akademi|National Academy of Letters]] in 2019?
+:{{*mp}} ... that a print of '''''[[Badnam Basti]]''''', often described as India's first [[List of LGBT-related films|gay film]], was discovered in 2019 after having been [[Lost film|lost]] for 40&nbsp;years?
+:{{*mp}} ... that a 17th-century illustrated manuscript of the '''''[[Anis Al-Hujjaj]]''''' shows pilgrims sailing from the [[Indian subcontinent]] to [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]]{{-?}}
+:{{*mp}} ... that the opera '''''[[Die Prinzessin Girnara]]''''', by composer [[Egon Wellesz|Wellesz]] and librettist [[Jakob Wassermann|Wassermann]], and based on a legend from India, premiered simultaneously at two opera houses in 1921?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after Indian-American lawyer '''[[Sakharam Ganesh Pandit]]''' represented [[Bhagat Singh Thind]] in a [[United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind|1923 U.S. Supreme Court case]], the U.S. government attempted to revoke his citizenship?
+:{{*mp}} ... that General '''[[Charles Reid (Indian Army officer)|Sir Charles Reid]]''' shot the celebrated, but probably not man-eating, [[Leeds Tiger]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Faith Smith]]''', who grew up on the [[Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians|Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe]] reservation in [[Wisconsin]], became the founding president of the first urban institute of higher learning led by and serving [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that one of the arguments made by the '''[[Simla Deputation]]''' for increasing Muslim representation in Indian politics was that they had ruled India under the [[Mughal Empire]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Cleveland Indigenous activism|Cleveland Indigenous activist]]''' [[Sundance (activist)|Sundance]] successfully petitioned [[Oberlin High School (Ohio)|Oberlin High School]] in Ohio to change its school mascot from the Indians to the Phoenix in 2007?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Facebook]] has to vet '''[[fake news in India]]''' for 23 official languages, but has been able to cover only 10 of them?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Stribodh]]''''', first published in 1857, was one of the earliest magazines in India to be aimed at a female audience?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Kim A. Wagner]]''', a Danish author of books on India, is named after [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s novel ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[SC East Bengal]] became the first club in [[Football in India|Indian football]] to activate the [[force majeure]] clause in '''[[2020–21 SC East Bengal season|their 2020–21 season]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sarran Teelucksingh]]''' was the first [[Indo-Trinidadian and Tobagonian|person of Indian descent]] elected to the [[Legislative Council of Trinidad and Tobago]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Madrasa and tomb of Alauddin Khalji|tomb of Sultan Alauddin Khalji]]''' was built inside an [[madrasa|Islamic school]] in [[Delhi]], India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sunita Sharma]]''' is reportedly India's first woman [[cricket]] coach?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Gunjan Saxena]]''' was the first woman [[Indian Air Force]] officer to go to war?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Kolkata]]'s '''[[Currency Building]]''' has housed the [[Agra Bank]], an office for the issue and exchange of currency, the [[Reserve Bank of India]], and a public art museum?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the 2018 film '''''[[Hotel Milan]]''''' is based on "anti-Romeo squads" formed in the Indian state of [[Uttar Pradesh]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that although the 2018 release '''''[[Hamari Paltan]]''''' was promoted as the last film of veteran Indian actor [[Tom Alter]], another one featuring him premiered later that same year?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after traveling through India, Tibet, and the Qing Empire for more than 20 years, 18th-century Dutch explorer '''[[Samuel van der Putte]]''' ordered his notes and journals to be burned rather than accept their misuse?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian choreographer [[Mrinalini Sarabhai]] suggested the egg-shaped [[Kuiper belt]] object '''[[20000 Varuna]]''' be named after the Hindu deity [[Varuna]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Nainital Yacht Club]]''', located at an elevation of {{cvt|2084|m}}, is the highest yacht club in India and among the highest in the world?
+:{{*mp}} ... that every sixth person in the world who has [[diabetes]] is '''[[Diabetes in India|from India]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the six members of [[Navika Sagar Parikrama]], an all-female crew who circumnavigated the globe, received '''[[Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award|India's highest adventure award]]''' in 2017?
+:{{*mp}} ... that it took {{convert|190|litre}} of paint to complete the livery of the '''[[Indian locomotive class WDG-4G|Indian locomotive class {{nowrap|WDG-4G}}]]'''{{-?}}
+:{{*mp}} ... that Russian generals '''[[Duhamel plan|proposed to invade India in 1854]]''' and '''[[Khrulev plan|in 1855]]''' to divert British forces from the [[Crimean War]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Priscilla Jana]]''', a South African human-rights lawyer of Indian descent, was the first woman to hug [[Nelson Mandela]] in 13&nbsp;years of imprisonment on [[Maximum Security Prison, Robben Island|Robben Island]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Marine Cemetery]]''', made from plastic bottles collected from an Indian beach, is dedicated to nine endangered aquatic species?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the [[Doric order|Doric]] columns used in '''[[Christ Church, Byculla|Christ Church]]''' in [[Byculla]], India, were imported from England?
+:{{*mp}} ... that when '''[[Lois Ellen Frank]]''' first proposed her 2003 [[James Beard Foundation Award|James Beard Award]]–winning cookbook on [[Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations|Native American foods]], publishers told her there was no such cuisine?
+:{{*mp}} ... that superstitious people hold '''[[Joc-O-Sot|a Cleveland Indian]]''' responsible for losses by the [[Cleveland Indians]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the number of '''[[India–Tibet relations|Tibetan refugees in India]]''' decreased by 44&nbsp;per cent between 2011 and 2018?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Vijayalakshmi Ramanan]]''', the first woman officer of the [[Indian Air Force]], custom-tailored her uniform as there were no specific uniforms for women when she joined the force?
+:{{*mp}} ... that in the 1980s, textile conservator '''[[Martand Singh (textile conservator)|Martand Singh]]''' organized a series of exhibitions to rekindle interest in the weaving and dyeing traditions of India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the twenty members of the successful [[1965 Indian Everest Expedition|1965 Indian Everest expedition]] are to date '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1961–1969)|the only team recipients]]''' of the [[Arjuna Award]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Turkey's '''[[Anadolu Shipyard]]''' signed a contract with India's [[Hindustan Shipyard]] to transfer technology for the building of five fleet support ships for the [[Indian Navy]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Essop Moosa]]''', who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white [[association football|soccer]] team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?
+:{{*mp}} ... that to make the [[ethnographic film]] series '''''[[The Doon School Quintet]]''''', visual anthropologist [[David MacDougall]] was given unprecedented access to film students at [[The Doon School|an all-boys boarding school]] in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Nilima Arun Kshirsagar]]''' developed and patented liposomal [[Amphotericin B|amphotericin&nbsp;B]], which was used to treat "[[Mucormycosis|black fungus]]" during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic in India]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Wahan Ke Log]]''''' is one of the earliest science-fiction films made in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Meena Kumari (book)|a book detailing the short life of Indian actress Meena Kumari]]''' was published just seven months after her death in 1972?
+:{{*mp}} ... that radio station '''[[WWBC]]''' in [[Cocoa, Florida]], was forced to remove its transmitter tower from the [[Indian River (Florida)|Indian River]] when the site was sold to condominium developers?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Indian Society for Cultural Co-operation and Friendship|Friends of the Soviet Union]]''' was founded in 1941 with poet [[Rabindranath Tagore]] as its patron?
+:{{*mp}} ... that due to [[COVID-19 lockdown in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} lockdowns in India]], the science-fiction short film ''55&nbsp;km/sec'' was directed remotely, and the lead actors '''[[Mrinal Dutt]]''' and [[Richa Chadda]] filmed themselves through their own devices?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[space industry of India]]''' has supported the launch of more than 100 domestic satellites and more than 300 foreign satellites?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Kashmiris|Kashmiri]] poet '''[[Madhosh Balhami]]''' lost 30&nbsp;years of his poetry in a [[Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir|clash between militants and the Indian government]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian-American chef '''[[Raji Jallepalli]]''', who is credited with "originating the fusion of classic French and Indian cuisines", originally trained as a [[microbiologist]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the Buddhist site of '''[[Ratnagiri, Odisha|Ratnagiri]]''' in [[Odisha]], India, includes rare carved scenes that seem to combine eroticism and hair-cutting?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Satyavathi Rathod]]''' is the first woman from a [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes|scheduled tribe]] to serve as a minister in the Indian state of [[Telangana]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India's first metro, the '''[[Kolkata Metro]]''', was first proposed in 1919 but became operational only in 1984?
+:{{*mp}} ... that during its [[2019 Indian general election|2019 election campaign]], the [[Indian National Congress]] promised to abolish the '''[[Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code|sedition law]]''', although the government had arrested 9,000 people for sedition alone in 2012–2013?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Tamil Nadu]] was the first state in India to use [[Organ donation in India#Green corridors|green corridors]] to '''[[Organ transplantation in Tamil Nadu|expedite organ transplants]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Aisha de Sequeira]]''' led [[Morgan Stanley]]'s [[mergers and acquisitions]] in India when it was the top bank by the value of its deals in 2012?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''''[[Lekhapaddhati]]''''', a guidebook written in [[Sanskrit]], includes specimens of letters and documents intended to be used by administrators during [[Chaulukya dynasty|Chaulukya]] rule in [[Gujarat]], India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that ancient '''[[Gupta art]]''' of India includes gold coins commemorating the [[Ashvamedha]] [[Vedas|Vedic]] horse sacrifice?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the adults and larvae of the '''[[Chilocorus cacti|cactus lady beetle]]''' prey on the '''[[Selenaspidus articulatus|West Indian red scale]]''', the '''[[Parlatoria blanchardi|date palm scale]]''', the '''[[Pseudaulacaspis pentagona|white peach scale]]''', the '''[[Melanaspis glomerata|sugarcane scale]]''', and the '''[[Carulaspis minima|minute cypress scale]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Kim A. Wagner]] wrote '''''[[The Skull of Alum Bheg]]''''' to tell the story of "thousands of Indian soldiers" who [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|rebelled in 1857]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that in 1886 prison superintendent '''[[John W. Tyler]]''' took 34 Indians, mostly prisoners, to the [[Colonial and Indian Exhibition]] in London to show their skill in carpet weaving?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian child actress '''[[Taruni Sachdev]]''' was nicknamed the "[[Rasna]] girl"?<!--Special occasion hook for May 14-->
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[National Sports Awards|annual Indian sports awards]]''' ceremony at the [[Rashtrapati Bhavan|Presidential Palace]] includes awards [[List of Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award recipients|for adventure]], '''[[Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Trophy|for the top-performing university]]''', and '''[[Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar|for sports promotion]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Mahatma Gandhi]] championed the concept of '''[[composite nationalism]]''', which led to a massive expansion of the [[Indian independence movement]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India's [[Shikhar Dhawan]] and England's [[Jack Burnham (cricketer)|Jack Burnham]] are the only players to have scored three '''[[List of Under-19 Cricket World Cup centuries|centuries in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Shantaram Siddi]]''' is the first Indian legislator of African descent?
+:{{*mp}} ... that during the '''[[1981 Benson&nbsp;& Hedges Cup Final]]''', a domestic cricket match in England, two [[West Indies cricket team|West Indian]] players set new [[Batting (cricket)|batting]] and [[Bowling (cricket)|bowling]] records?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the web series '''''[[Avrodh: The Siege Within]]''''' meticulously details the planning for India's [[2016 Indian Line of Control strike|retaliatory military strike]] following the [[2016 Uri attack|2016 Uri terrorist attacks]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts]]''' were modelled on legislation introduced after the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Irish Great Famine]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Gulmarg Wildlife Sanctuary]]''' acts as a natural [[Wildlife corridor|corridor]] in the movement of the [[Himalayan brown bear]] and [[markhor]] between [[Poonch district, India|Poonch]] and the [[Kashmir Valley]] forests?
+:{{*mp}} ... that prior to becoming Google India's manager, '''[[Sanjay Gupta (business executive)|Sanjay Gupta]]''' was credited for expanding [[Star India]]'s sports business by launching [[Pro Kabaddi League]] and [[Indian Super League]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the ancient Indian religion '''[[Jainism]]''' holds that the [[Jainism and non-creationism|universe was not created]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[northern plains gray langur]]''' monkey is killed in India for food and to prevent crop raiding, despite being considered sacred by Hindus?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the Indian film '''''[[Chand Bujh Gaya]]''''' (''The Moon Is Eclipsed'') was denied a censor certificate for fear of "inciting communal violence" and "communal disharmony"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[John Montgomery Cooper]]''' advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times?
+:{{*mp}} ... that all the residents of '''[[Wallacepur]]''', a village in the Indian state of [[Gujarat]], are Christian?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Jointness and integration in the Indian military|inter-service cooperation]]''' was one of the most important lessons of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh war]] for India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Shawnee]] leader '''[[John Lewis (Shawnee leader)|John Lewis]]''' often wore a "[[Indian peace medal|peace medal]]" given to him by U.S. president [[Thomas Jefferson]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that during the '''[[Paleogeography of the India–Asia collision system|collision of India with Asia]]''', the southern part of the [[Tibetan Plateau]] achieved its high elevation before the northern part?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Muhammad Ali Mungeri]]''' was the prime founder of [[Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama]], a major Islamic seminary in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[storm surge]] and abnormally high tides generated by the '''[[1875 Indianola hurricane]]''' in Texas swept boats as far as {{convert|9|mi|km|abbr=on}} inland?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Gurgaon kidney scandal|a kidney-transplantation scandal]] led to a 2011 amendment to the law on '''[[organ donation in India]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[1964 split in the Communist Party of India]]''' was ignored by the Soviet press, but was overemphasized in Chinese mass media?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the Latin American '''''[[Travesti (gender identity)|travesti]]''''' gender identity has been considered to be a [[third gender]], akin to the ''[[Hijra (South Asia)|hijras]]'' of India and the ''[[muxe]]'' of Mexico?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India developed nuclear power when '''[[Atal Bihari Vajpayee]]''' was prime minister?
+:{{*mp}} ... that under '''[[National Education Policy 2020|India's new education policy]]''', students will be allowed to combine fashion studies with physics, or baking courses with chemistry?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Rani Kumudini Devi]]''' was the first woman to serve as [[Mayor of Hyderabad, India|Mayor of Hyderabad]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Manoj Muntashir]] originally wrote "'''[[Teri Mitti]]'''" as a tribute to soldiers, then wrote a [[reprise]] as a tribute to healthcare workers during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|{{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic in India]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian prime minister [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] launched '''''[[Shankar's Weekly]]''''', even though [[K. Shankar Pillai|its founder]] described the magazine as "fundamentally anti-establishment"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India's '''[[Mohan Narayan Rao Samant|Mohan Samant]]''' managed the largest covert naval operation in history, which resulted in the destruction of around 100,000&nbsp;tonnes of Pakistani shipping during the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian writer '''[[Malayanil]]''' was a pioneer of modern short-story writing in the [[Gujarati language]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Travancore Radio's first English-language broadcaster, '''[[Indira Joseph Venniyoor]]''', was paid 69&nbsp;[[Indian rupee|rupees]] (then equivalent to US$14.50) for her broadcasts in 1949?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the first cookbook edited by '''[[Maria Guarnaschelli]]''' helped introduce American cooks to Indian cuisine?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Saumitra Khan]]''' was elected in the [[2019 Indian general election]] by a margin of more than 78,000 votes without participating in any political rally in his constituency?
+:{{*mp}} ... that cricketer [[Sachin Tendulkar]] ''(depicted)'' was recognised by his native India with both '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1990–1999)|a top sporting honour]]''' and [[Bharat Ratna|its highest civilian honour]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Joshna Chinappa]]''' has won the Indian national [[Squash (sport)|squash]] championship a record 18 times?
+:{{*mp}} ... that 50 books from a total of more than 150 authored by Pakistani historian '''[[Abu Salman Shahjahanpuri]]''' are about the Indian scholar and independence activist [[Abul Kalam Azad]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[1990 Bijnor riot]]''' was the most destructive event during concurrent Hindu nationalist campaigns in India, which eventually led to the [[demolition of the Babri Masjid]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the [[State Emblem of India]] was embossed on the wheels of the '''[[Chandrayaan-2|{{nowrap|Chandrayaan-2}}]]''' mission's [[lunar rover]] to leave behind patterned tracks on the lunar surface?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the last British troops left India in 1948, post independence, from the '''[[Gateway of India]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the play '''''[[Karl Marx in Kalbadevi]]''''' depicts an imaginary visit by Marx to [[Kalbadevi]], the hyper-capitalist area of Mumbai, India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Port of Krueng Geukueh]]''' in [[Aceh]], Indonesia, became an entry point for aid shipments as it was not damaged by the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|2004 tsunami]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India is creating the post of '''[[Chief of the Defence Staff (India)|Chief of the Defence Staff]]''' twenty years after it was officially suggested?
+:{{*mp}} ... that despite being described as a "weak candidate", '''[[Arvind Sawant]]''' defeated his nearest competitor by more than 120,000 votes to represent the [[Mumbai South (Lok Sabha constituency)|Mumbai South constituency]] in the [[2014 Indian general election]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after [[Indian Airlines Flight 814|an aeroplane hijacking]], the '''[[Airport Sector (CISF)|Central Industrial Security Force]]''' was given the responsibility of securing airports in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Qatar expressed interest for its industrial security personnel to be trained at the '''[[National Industrial Security Academy]]''' of India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that before the passage of '''[[Anti-defection law (India)|India's anti-defection law]]''', an estimated 550 out of 3,500 legislators elected in 1967 defected from their parent parties, some [[crossing the floor]] more than once?
+:{{*mp}} ... that six [[All India Institutes of Medical Sciences]] began operating in 2019, including institutes '''[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar|in Telangana]]''', '''[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Deoghar|in Jharkhand]]''', and '''[[All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani|in West Bengal]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the 2005 book '''''[[Open Secrets: India's Intelligence Unveiled|Open Secrets]]''''' reveals how assets of Indian intelligence agencies, including aircraft, were used by politicians and their families for private purposes?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Iqbal Qureshi]]''' composed the music for the 1964 film ''[[Cha Cha Cha (1964 film)|Cha Cha Cha]]'', the first Indian film to feature Western dance?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Asus]] had to rename their '''[[Asus ZenFone 6|ZenFone&nbsp;6]]''' for the Indian market after the [[Delhi High Court]] ruled that the name violated a competitor's trademark?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[British Army]] officer '''[[Augustus FitzGeorge|Sir Augustus FitzGeorge]]''' served as [[equerry]] to his father, [[Prince George, Duke of Cambridge]], and accompanied [[Edward VII|Albert Edward, Prince of Wales]], on his visit to India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that a two-year Native American housing protest group called the '''[[Chicago Indian Village]]''' started next to the [[Chicago Cubs]] home stadium, [[Wrigley Field]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Stuart Bergsma]]''', a medical missionary in Ethiopia and India, connected [[Glossolalia|speaking in tongues]] with emotional stress?<!--Special occasion hook for July 30-->
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[The Unsafe Asylum]]''''', a book of short stories by [[Anirudh Kala]], explores the psychological effects of the [[Partition of India]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian writer '''[[Shrabani Basu]]''' learned about [[Victoria & Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant|the relationship between Abdul Karim and Queen Victoria]] while researching the history of curry?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian cricketer '''[[B. Jayaram|Bangalore Jayaram]]'''{{`s}} English styled Mashie Lodge, was named after his favourite golf club, the [[Mashie|Mashie Niblick]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that in 1990, '''[[Mantu Ghosh]]''' became India's youngest national [[table tennis]] champion at age 16?
+:{{*mp}} ... that during '''[[Shashi Tharoor's Oxford Union speech|a 2015 speech at the Oxford Union]]''', Indian politician [[Shashi Tharoor]] claimed that Britain owes reparations to India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Pakistan was envisioned as the '''[[New Medina]]''' to be used as a staging point for the conquest and [[Islamization|Islamisation]] of India, similar to the [[conquest of Mecca]] by [[Muhammad]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Mozambique-born '''[[Violet Dias Lannoy]]''', called "the lost Goan/Indian/African novelist" by [[Peter Nazareth]], came from a Goan family, worked with [[Mahatma Gandhi]], and hung out with [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the release of the 2001 Hindi film '''''[[Chori Chori Chupke Chupke]]''''' was delayed for several months due to allegations that it was funded by the [[Organised crime in India|Mumbai underworld]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after the [[India national cricket team|Indian team]] won the [[1983 Cricket World Cup]], their manager '''[[PR Man Singh]]''' ensured that ''[[Wisden Cricket Monthly]]'' editor [[David Frith]] would "eat his words"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the newly reported 6th-century '''[[Devunigutta Temple]]''' in [[Telangana]], India, only came to international scholarly attention when images were posted on [[social media]] in 2017?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Rembrandt's Mughal drawings]]''' depict Indian emperors and noblemen, and are the only drawings in which the artist engaged with the style of a "dramatically foreign culture"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian prime minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]] sought plant species from Indian forest conservationist '''[[S. G. Neginhal|S.&nbsp;G. Neginhal]]''' to be planted at the memorial of his mother, former prime minister [[Indira Gandhi]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Mathura)|Sacred Heart Catholic Church]]''' in [[Mathura]], India, combines Gothic principles, Indian craftsmanship, and a Russian dome?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the social network '''[[Koo (social network)|Koo]]''' increased in popularity after the [[2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest]] caused a standoff between Twitter and the government of India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Kolkata]], the smallest by area of India's six [[Classification of Indian cities#Historical classification|{{nowrap|A-1}} cities]], has the country's largest '''[[Kolkata Suburban Railway|suburban rail system]]''' by track length and number of stations{{-?}}
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Assam Petro-Chemicals]]''' became the first Indian company to sell [[methanol]] as cooking fuel?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Clavigralla gibbosa|tur pod bug]]''' is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of the [[pigeon pea]] in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the [[lehenga]] was the traditional dress of women belonging to the '''[[Bettiah Christians|Bettiah Christian]]''' ethnoreligious community of India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that as the film negatives used for the '''[[Raja Harishchandra|first Indian feature film]]''' were of limited [[spectral sensitivity]], the colour red was avoided in sets, costumes, and make-up?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after meeting [[Puebloans|Pueblo Indians]] during his World War&nbsp;II service, '''[[Burton Benedict]]''' switched his focus at Harvard University from [[ornithology]] to [[anthropology]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that in the 1970s, Indian retailer '''[[Anokhi]]''', which produces hand-printed garments, helped revive traditional [[Rajasthan]]i [[woodblock printing]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the final exhibition of Indian artist '''[[Anjum Singh]]''', titled ''I am still here'', was an autobiographical depiction of her struggles with cancer?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Myra MacDonald]]''', whose career as a foreign correspondent for [[Reuters]] spanned virtually three decades, and who covered [[South Asia]] for a long time, wrote three books on India and Pakistan?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian doctor '''[[Nasarvanji Hormusji Choksy]]''', who worked to improve public health, contracted [[bubonic plague]] three times?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[National Salt Satyagraha Memorial]]''' honors the participants of the [[Salt March|Salt Satyagraha]], a nonviolent civil disobedience in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|colonial India]] led by [[Mahatma Gandhi]] in 1930?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India's '''[[Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana|2020 food-security scheme]]''', launched during [[COVID-19 pandemic in India|the country's {{nowrap|COVID-19}} pandemic]], is equivalent to feeding 2.5&nbsp;times the population of the US, 12&nbsp;times that of the UK, and twice that of the EU?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Phenacoccus solenopsis|cotton mealybug]]''', originally discovered in an underground ants' nest in [[New Mexico]], is now a major cotton pest in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Bihar Animal Sciences University]]''' is one of four [[State university (India)|state universities]] and six [[List of private universities in India|private universities]] established in the Indian state of [[Bihar]] in 2017&ndash;18?
+:{{*mp}} ... that a medal depicting [[Minerva]], sometimes identified as the East India Company's '''[[Monghyr Mutiny Medal]]''', may in fact be a Freemasons' award?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Indian [[Kathakali]] artist '''[[Mathoor Govindan Kutty]]''' specialized in ''Kathakali Stri Vesham'', the portrayal of female characters on stage?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the 14-year-old lead actress in the 1931 British Indian film '''''[[The Last Kiss (1931 film)|The Last Kiss]]''''' was brought from a [[Prostitution in Bangladesh|brothel in Dhaka]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that two months after being unable to walk properly, Indian [[long jump]]er '''[[M. Sreeshankar]]''' won the bronze medal at the [[2018 Asian Junior Athletics Championships]]?<!--Special occasion hook for September 28-->
+:{{*mp}} ... that in '''[[Jyotigram Yojana|a radical reform of its power grid]]''', [[Gujarat]] became the first state in India to separate [[Electric power distribution|electricity feeder lines]] between agricultural and household usage?
+:{{*mp}} ... that India has '''[[List of Indian chess players|66 chess grandmasters]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the ancient fortified city of '''[[Bhitargarh]]''' served as a node to the strategic trade routes connecting Tibet and eastern India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that English librarian '''[[Frank Cundall]]''' created the West India Reference Library in 1894, which later became the nucleus of the [[National Library of Jamaica]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that more than 130 revolutionaries were hanged on the premises of '''[[Sikri Mata Temple]]''' during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after '''[[Lady Ganga]]''' learned that she had stage-four [[cervical cancer]], she traveled to India and set a women's world record by [[Standup paddleboarding|standup-paddleboarding]] {{convert|700|mi}} on the Ganges?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the creators of the Indian web series '''''[[His Storyy (web series)|His Storyy]]''''' changed the ending because of [[LGBT rights in India|prevailing social discrimination against the LGBTQIA+ community in the country]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that according to legend, '''[[Gabriel Boughton]]''' treated [[Jahanara Begum]]'s burns and in return received the right to free trade for the [[East India Company]] from her father [[Shah Jahan]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Naimur Rahman]] took '''[[List of Bangladesh cricketers who have taken five-wicket hauls on Test debut|six wickets for 132 runs]]''' in the very first [[Test cricket|test]] [[Bangladesh national cricket team|Bangladesh]] played in [[Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2000–01#Only Test|2000]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that sprinter [[Milkha Singh]] '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (2000–2009)|refused to accept]]''' the [[Arjuna Award]], one of India's top sporting honours, citing undeserving awardees?
+:{{*mp}} ... that international [[cricket]]er '''[[Rohit Sharma]]''' is the rhino ambassador for [[WWF-India]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the [[Indian Air Force]] has launched two mobile [[Combat flight simulation game|air combat games]], '''''[[Guardians of the Skies]]''''' and '''''[[Indian Air Force: A Cut Above|A Cut Above]]''''', to reach out to youth?
+:{{*mp}} ... that images of the widowed queen who commissioned the first major work of Indian '''[[Deccan painting]]''' were erased after [[Murtaza Nizam Shah I|her son]] rebelled and imprisoned her?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Manjappada]]''', a [[Supporters' groups|supporters' group]] of [[Kerala Blasters FC]], coordinated and brought forty-one busloads of their fans across [[Kerala]] to the venue for the opening match of [[2019–20 Indian Super League season|the 2019–20 season]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that teenager '''[[Jyoti Kumari]]''' travelled {{convert|750|mi}} on a bicycle with her injured father, during [[COVID-19 lockdown in India|India's COVID-19 lockdown]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Karan Johar]] launched the pop song "'''[[Genda Phool]]'''" on social media during [[2020 coronavirus lockdown in India|India's coronavirus lockdown]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Vikram Misri]]''' was the [[List of ambassadors of India to China|Indian ambassador to China]] during the [[2020–2021 China–India skirmishes]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Ceroplastes ceriferus|Indian wax scale]]''' was [[Species description|first described]] in 1798 by [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], but was wrongly attributed to another author for nearly two hundred years?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after a secret purchase from Europe, the '''[[Special Group (India)|Special Group]]''' became the first Indian troops to be equipped with the [[AK-47]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the Indian [[Folktronica|folktronic]] duo '''[[Hari & Sukhmani]]''' combine traditional [[Folk music of Punjab|Punjabi folk music]] and [[Sufi poetry]] with [[electronic music]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Spilosoma obliqua|jute hairy caterpillar]]''' is a serious pest of fibre crops in India, sometimes occurring in epidemic outbreaks?
+:{{*mp}} ... that as a child, Indian archery champion '''[[Pravin Jadhav]]''' was undernourished and lived in a shack near a drain?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Alexander Lindsay (East India Company officer)|Alexander Lindsay]]''' served as a general in the [[East India Company]] while remaining a [[half-pay]] lieutenant in the British Army?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Barrackpore Trunk Road]]''', the oldest [[Road surface|metalled road]] in India, was built in 1775 to connect the first British [[cantonment]] in India with [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], then the country's capital?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[East Bengal Ultras]]''', founded in 2013, became India's first [[ultras]] group?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Farooq Khan]]''' headed the Kashmiri [[Special Operations Group (India)|Special Operations Group]] credited with the killing of more than 2,000 militants between 1994 and 1996?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''''[[Mahanati]]''''' is the highest-grossing [[Cinema of South India|South Indian film]] to feature a woman as its primary character?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Paleo-Indians]] began '''[[Native American tribes in Maryland|inhabiting Maryland]]''' around 10,000&nbsp;BC?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[All India Conference of Indian Christians]]''' was [[Opposition to the partition of India|opposed to the partition of India]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that after suspected '''[[2020 coronavirus pandemic in Maharashtra|coronavirus patients in Maharashtra, India]]''', started fleeing hospitals, the government directed officials to stamp the left hand of those quarantined at home using [[Election ink|indelible ink]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Zeng Rongsheng]]''' organized a Sino-American joint investigation of the geology of the [[Tibetan Plateau]] and examined the collision process of the [[Indian Plate]] with the [[Eurasian Plate]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that a tournament in which a goat is awarded as the top prize was used by the selectors of India's '''[[Special Area Games Scheme]]''' to scout for field hockey players?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Hadassah (dancer)|a Jewish girl from Jerusalem]]''' became an acclaimed performer of [[Indian classical dance|Indian]], [[Javanese dance|Javanese]], [[Balinese dance|Balinese]], and other ethnic dance forms in the United States?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Robert Fletcher (East India Company officer)|Sir Robert Fletcher]]''' rose to command the [[East India Company]]'s [[Madras Army]], despite being cashiered for his involvement in the 1766 '''[[Monghyr Mutiny]]'''?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the first batch of cadets from the '''[[Indian Military Academy]]''' included the future army chiefs of Pakistan, Burma, and India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that five-time world chess champion [[Viswanathan Anand]] and India's first woman Everest climber [[Bachendri Pal]] '''[[List of Arjuna Award recipients (1980–1989)|received the Arjuna Award in the 1980s]]''', then India's highest sporting honour?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Khin Maung Lat]]''', a servant at the king's palace in [[Ratnagiri]], India, eloped with Princess [[Myat Phaya Lat]] against the will of the king and queen?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Colonel '''[[H. R. C. Pettigrew|Hugh Pettigrew]]''' observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled [[Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)|Waziristan]] on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Acorn Creek]]''' is named after an extinct [[Muscogee|Creek Indian]] village and plantation on the [[Chattahoochee River]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that in 1957, a '''[[United Kingdom–India bus routes|bus ride from Calcutta to London]]''' cost £65?
+:{{*mp}} ... that a scheme for declaring ten public and ten private institutions as '''[[Institutes of Eminence]]''' has been approved in India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Radio Quarantine]]''' was founded in India by a group of professors, directors and PhD students in response to [[social isolation]] protocols following the outbreak of the [[COVID-19 pandemic|coronavirus pandemic]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that food writer [[Vir Sanghvi]] called '''[[Indigo (restaurant)|Indigo]]''' "one of the most important establishments in Indian restaurant history"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the American merchant ship '''''[[USS Herald (1798)|Herald]]''''' served in the U.S. Navy against France before becoming a French [[privateer]], was sold to Britain as a [[Slave ship|slaver]], and ended her days as a [[West Indiaman]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that around 200&nbsp;CE, the Indian monk [[Nagarjuna]] exhorted a king to make "Images of [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha]] with fine proportions&nbsp;/ Well designed and '''[[Lotus throne|sitting on lotuses]]'''"?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Lac La Croix Indian Pony]]''' was recreated from a breeding population of four [[mare]]s by crossing them with a [[Spanish Mustang]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that hundreds of stockbrokers protested outside the [[Bombay Stock Exchange]] demanding removal of the '''''[[Big Bull, India|Big Bull]]''''' after the market crashed?
+:{{*mp}} ... that [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] politicians [[Maneka Gandhi]] and [[Santosh Gangwar]], current members of the '''[[17th Lok Sabha]]''', have been elected to the [[Lok Sabha|Indian lower house]] for the eighth time?
+:{{*mp}} ... that badminton player [[P.&nbsp;V. Sindhu]] became the inaugural recipient of the '''[[BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year]]''' award in 2020?<!--Special occasion hook for March 8-->
+:{{*mp}} ... that, unusual for a [[Sikhism|Sikh]] place of worship, '''[[Guru Ram Rai Darbar Sahib]]''' in India was influenced by [[Islamic architecture]]?
+:{{*mp}} ... that '''[[Swarup Rani Nehru]]''' appealed to women to make salt in defiance of the [[History of the British salt tax in India|salt laws]] in British India?
+:{{*mp}} ... that Australian soprano '''[[Ada Baker]]''' toured India and China before becoming a singing teacher in [[Perth]] in 1889?
+:{{*mp}} ... that the '''[[Famine Inquiry Commission]]''' has been criticized by scholars and Indian nationalists for exonerating the British government of responsibility for the [[Bengal famine of 1943|1943 Bengal famine]]?
+</noinclude>
 |}
 {{-}}
-<div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">'''[[Bharatpedia:How_to_write_Indian_English_articles|Start a new article]]'''</div><noinclude>
+<includeonly><div style="text-align: right;" class="noprint">'''[[Template:Did you know|See complete list]]'''</div></includeonly><noinclude>
 [[Category:Bharatpedia Did you know]]
 </noinclude>