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Id the Person
X was born in the city of Calcutta in pre-
independence India to a Bengali family. He studied
science and graduated in chemistry from
the University of Calcutta.. X chose to begin
working, initially as a cameraman, and then film
editor, in B. N. Sircar's New Theatres in Calcutta in
the late 1940s.He then worked with Bimal Roy
in Mumbai as film editor and assistant director from
1951,participating in the landmark Roy films Do
Bigha Zamin and Devdas.His debut directorial
venture, Musafir(1957), was not a success.

Id the Person
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X married a Hindu Brahmin widow named Y
and was deeply influenced by Bengali culture
and language, as well as the Hindu religion.
Eventually, X came to learn the language and
composed a number of noted religious songs
in devotion to the Goddesses Kali and Durga.
X also helped construct a temple to Goddess
Kali in the Bowbazar locality of
North Calcutta.

Name The Movie
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X is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language road thriller
film directed by Rajesh Pillai. It is a remake of
the 2011 Malayalam film of same name.
Originally written by brothers Bobby and
Sanjay, the film's screenplay has been adapted
into Hindi by Suresh Nair, while the dialogues
were penned by Piyush Mishra. The story of X,
takes place over the course of a single day and
is inspired by a real-life incident from Chennai,
as shown in the credits.

Who’s Tomb in Bangladesh
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Id the Person?
Rajinder joined Film and Television Institute of
India (FTII) for acting, but seeing other actors
like Satish Shah and Suresh Oberoi, realised that he
can't act. So he took up editing as an option. but
when he was growing up, his neighbours, who
were Christians, used to lovingly call him ‘X,' and as
time passed, he was known by that nickname and
even his parents stopped calling him by his real
name. When he got through Film and Television
Institute of India (FTII), it was his father who
surprisingly asked him to get his name officially
changed to ‘X' from 'Rajinder' reasoning that he had
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Answer
1– Hrishikesh Mukherjee
2– Anthony Firingee
3– Traffic
4– Lalon fakir
5– David Dhawan
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1--He Debuted As A Child Actor In Hrishikesh
Mukherjee Directorial Chotto Jigyasa
2-- He Played The Role Of Anthony Firangee In
The Movie Jatishwer
3-- He Also Acted In The Hindi Movie Traffic
4-- He Played The Role Of Lalon Fakir In The
Movie Moner Manush
5-- He Made His Debut In Hindi
Cinema With David
Dhawan Directorial Aandhiyan
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Id the Sweet
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◈ X is a local confection from the Indian
subcontinent, notable in eastern India and
Bangladesh. It is a traditional Bengali
sweet made of deep-fried balls of
semolina, chhana, milk, ghee and sugar
syrup. X range in colour from pale brown
to nearly black depending on how long
they are fried. Rose water, cardamom or
other flavorings are sometimes added to

Id the word
X means, the ultimate trickery. The
word ‘X' fabulously sums up what
a Soldier resorts to ultimately in
the face of extreme crisis. His
intelligence, sharpness and wit
not only bedazzles his own troop
but also earns him the respect of
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Id the Goddess
The name X means "Terror" or
"awe-inspiring". She is the Fifth
of ten Mahavidyas. Her dhyana
shloka in the Devi Mahatmya
describes her form. She is
seated on a lotus with four
hands, one with a book, one
with rosary beads, one with
abhaya mudra and another with
varada mundra. She wears red
garments and wears a garland
of severed heads around her
neck. She has three eyes and
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Id the Place
◈ Legend says that around 1592 CE, Raja Man Singh of
Amber had come to conquer Bengal on behest of
Mughal Emperor Akbar the Great from Rajputana
(Rajasthan) to expand the Mughal Empire to Eastern
India. He appointed one of his loyal officers in the
army, Sarveshwar Singh, to defeat the local rulers of
the region known as Junglekhand. This area is also
mentioned in Ain-i-Akbari, and it was populated by the
Santhal, Munda, Bhumij and Lodha people groups.
The area belonged to the Mal Raja. The Mals were
ancient warriors and were powerful people in the
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Id The Author And The Novel
The novel follows the journey of Biju, an illegal
immigrant in the US who is trying to make a new life;
and Sai, an Anglicised Indian girl living with her
grandfather in India. The novel shows the internal
conflicts in India between groups, whilst showing a
conflict between past and present. There is the
rejection and yet awe of the English way of life, the
opportunities for money in the US, and the squalor of
living in India. Many leading Indians were considered
to be becoming too English and having forgotten the
traditional ways of Indian life, shown through the
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◈ Kiran Desai and The Inheritance of Loss
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Id the Cricketer
X is a former Indian cricketer, who played tests and ODIs.
He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm off break
bowler. When he retired in 2015, he was one of only
three batsmen to have scored 8000-plus runs in the
Ranji Trophy and also only captain in the Ranji
Trophy's history to lift the Elite and Plate league titles.
In 2011, X was appointed as assistant coach of Kochi
Tuskers Kerala but walked out of the contract even
before the IPL season began. This was due to
disputes with the owners.
X was named as head coach of Goa cricket team for
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Id the series
DQE Productions made a 13-episode animation
series named Mysteries and X after the
animated TV film for Disney XD. The series
including the TV film was set into a new
universe, where X have many gadgets. In this
universe X doesn't smoke. The series was
criticized for a vast difference with the
source elements, but was praised for its
animation quality. The series was cancelled
in 2011.
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Name The Movie(NOT THE HINDI DUBBED
NAME) And The Director(Y)
The film's main theme is revenge; the soul of a
murdered man is reincarnated as a --- and
seeks revenge against his killer. Y thought
of X as a "socio-fantasy" rather than a
science fiction film. At a meeting with
students at the Annapurna International
School of Film and Media Campus (AIFSM),
Y compared the battle between the -- and
villain, which the underdog -- wins, to
David's triumph over Goliath and India's
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Id X
There are over 400 temples
dedicated to X in the Indian
states of Andhra Pradesh,
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and
other countries like Sri Lanka,
Singapore, Malaysia,
Mauritius,South Africa. In these
communities, X is worshiped
mainly by people of the
Vanniyar caste. There are a few
processions and festivals
which are conducted for about
3 weeks a year. The most
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Id X and Y
◈ Demanding Rs 5 crore in compensation
for Pratyusha Banerjee’s family, X said that
banning Y from homes is more important
than chanting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.
◈ “Banning Y is more important than chanting
‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ because many daughters
and daughters-in-law are committing,” said
X. X also claimed that Pratyusha Banerjee
was murdered and her boyfriend Rahul Raj
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◈ Rakhi Sawant Demanding Banned of
Celling Fans
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Id X and Y?
X founder of the Y family, was a prominent Raja and
close confidanteally of Robert Clive. He was the key
figure in the plot against Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula
although some believed him to be the greatest
traitor of India, who sold his motherland to the
British and enabling them to rule India for 200
years. X was appointed Persian teacher of Warren
Hastings in 1750. X had carried out confidential
work for the British East India Company, prior to
and during the Battle of Palashi. After the death of
Siraj ud-Daulah, X along with Mir Jafar, Amir Beg
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◈ Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb and
founder of Shovabazar Raj family
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Id The Cricketer
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X was an Indian cricketer from
Pune and a legendary
cricketer in the domestic
circuit of India. By
profession, he was a
professor at SP College in
Pune. In 1996, the Indian Post
issued a commemorative
stamp in his honor and
further in 2012, a statue of
him was unveiled at the
Maharashtra Cricket

Id X and Y
X was born in the historical township of Y, West
Bengal. He was involved in active politics in his
teens. This involvement and immense interest in
the social and political history of the nation
designed his art work into an apt commentary on
the national scenario of things. He began his
career in 'Dainik Loksevak' newspaper as a
journalist in 1951. He started drawing cartoons
officially in 1961 and joined Anandabazar Patrika
in 1962 as a cartoonist where he worked for
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◈ Chandi Lahiri and Nabadwip
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◈ 5 Visual Of Indian Celebrity Who
Started Their Career As A Backup
Dancer
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◈ Arshad Warsi
◈ Remo D souza
◈ Farha Khan
◈ Sushant Singh Rajput
◈ Sajid Khan
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Why This Genre Of Songs are Very Much In
News Recently and also Id X
Mappila Paattu or Mappila Songs are a folklore Muslim
song genre rendered to lyrics in colloquial Mappila
dialect of Malayalam laced with Arabic, by the
Mappilas of the Malabar region in Kerala, India.
Mappila songs have a distinct cultural identity,
while at the same time remain closely linked to the
cultural practices of Kerala. It is widely believed
that Mapila Pattu are mainly written in praise of X,
but the researchers said that was not true. “It is
wrong to make such an assumption as the first
song in praise of the X was written 130 years after
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Id The Poet
Mappings is a first book of poems by X originally
published by the Writers Workshop, Calcutta as a
hand-set, hand-printed and hand-bound volume in
1980. With the growth of X's reputation, the volume
has been reprinted by mainstream publishers.
Original poems range from a cautionary tale in
rhyming couplets ("The Tale Of Melon City"),
through X's characteristic musings - some serious
and some light-hearted - on life, love and
landscape, to the title poem reflecting on the
different selves "mapped" by his earlier writings.
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Id The Place
◈ There are some legends that X was owned
by Dwarkanath Tagore. He and some local
zamindars are said to have started a
business at X. Kamal Haasan's movie
Mahanadhi has a storyline based on the X.
◈ In his documentary The Five Obstructions,
renowned Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier
asks poet and experimental filmmaker
Jorgen Leth to name the worst place in the
world he's ever visited, and immediately
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Id the sweet
◈ X is a sweet made in the Indian states of Bihar and
Jharkhand. It is made of pounded sesame seeds
and jaggery or sugar. The best X is said to be from
Gaya. References to this dry sweet is found in the
Buddhist literature as palala.
◈ Normally, three types of X are available — the
refined sugar X is white in colour, the sakkar X is
made of unrefined sugar and is light brown in
colour and the gur X is made of jaggery and is dark
brown in colour. X is generally associated with
Makar Sankranti, the harvest festival and eaten
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Id The Dance Form
◈ The ladies that perform X wear a long sari length
around 9 metres. They form a bun with their hair.
They wear heavy jewellery that includes necklace,
earrings, payal, kamarpatta(a belt at waist),bangles
etc. They usually put a large bindi of dark red color
on their forehead. The sari they wear is called
nauvari. The sari is Wrapped beautifully and is much
more comfortable as compared to other sari types.
There are also men that dance in X along with the
ladies. They are the called nat(male dancer) usually
the kinnars. These men dance in support with the
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Id X
When X heard of the impending Kurukshetra War, he
marched forth with his army to join his nephews.
On the way, X was tricked by Duryodhana, who
arranged a huge feast for X and his men,
entertaining him for hours. Impressed, X is
generous with his praise and asks to see
Yudhishthira, who X thought was his host. When
Duryodhana reveals the treachery, X is astounded
but is compelled to grant a boon due to the
hospitality. Unable to turn down Duryodhana's
request to join the Kauravas, X met the Pandavas
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Id X and why this book in news
in India
◈ Brad Cohen is an American motivational speaker,
teacher, school administrator, Cohen described his
experiences growing up with the condition in his
book, Front of the Class: How X Made Me the Teacher
I Never Had, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky. The
book has been made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV
movie titled Front of the Class.
◈ During his childhood, Cohen was accused of being a
troublemaker in school and was punished by his
teachers for the tics and noises caused by X. He
decided to "become the teacher that he never had".
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◈ Tourette Syndrome And Hichki Movie
Inspired From This Book
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Id X and Y
X later said that he liked the novella because "it has
a western quality to it and the film obviously
shares that quality. That's why I can speak of
Mozart in connection with Y quite validly. X
decided to set the film in the 1880s instead of in
1901 and spent many months researching the
historical background. For the first time in his
career he worked without a deadline both during
pre-production and during the shooting. X
worked closely with art director Bansi
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◈ Satyajit Ray and Charulata
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Id the Fort
Several groups have raised concerns regarding the
abuse of elephants and their trafficking and have
highlighted what some consider the inhumane
practice of riding elephants up to the X. PETA as well
as the central zoo authority have taken up this
serious issue. The Haathi gaon (elephant village) is
said to be in violation of captive animal controls, and
a PETA team found elephants chained with painful
spikes, blind, sick and injured elephants forced to
work, and elephants with mutilated tusks and ears. In
2017, A New York-based tour operator announced it
would use Jeeps instead of elephants for the trip to X
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◈ Amber Fort or Amer Fort
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By Which Name He Known To Us
X was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in British
India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in
the Opium Department of the Indian Civil Service. His
birthplace and ancestral house in Motihari has been
declared a protected monument of historical
importance. Working as an imperial police officer gave
him considerable responsibility while most of his
contemporaries were still at university in England.
When he was posted farther east in the Delta
to Twante as a sub-divisional officer, he was
responsible for the security of some 200,000 people. At
the end of 1924, he was promoted to Assistant District
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Id X
◈ On 13 March 2014, The Times of India reported
that The National Centre for the Performing
Arts (NCPA) had issued a public notice inviting
developers and investors interested in
purchasing Mehrangir, the sprawling colonial
bungalow at Malabar Hill where X, spent most of his
life.
◈ After X died in 1966, his brother Jamshed became the
custodian of the X estate. Being an avid patron of arts
and culture, Jamshed, who died in 2007, aged 93, had
willed the property along with paintings, jewellery,
artefacts and furniture to the NCPA, the property is
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Kis Ki Bhasa Hai Vai
X Farsi s a secret language spoken mainly by
South-Asian X communities.. The language, also
known as Koti Farsi, is spoken by the X
community throughout Pakistan and North India
(except West Bengal). The language is based
on Hindustani and not Farsi, as suggested by the
name.The sentence structure is similar to Urdu.
Even though the language is not actually based
on Persian (Farsi), the X consider the language to
be related to the language of the Mughal Empire,
which they associate with the origin of X identity.
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Name the most popular children
rhyme of this writer
Khan, Rokanuzzaman (1925-1999)
journalist and founder of the children's
organisation, Kachi-Kanchar Mela
(1965), Rokanuzzaman Khan was
popularly known as 'Dadabhai'. He was
born in the PANGSHA Upazila
of FARIDPUR in a literary family and
spent his life in a literary and cultural
milieu. Rokanuzzaman worked
tirelessly to nurture the mental
faculties and talents of children. He
wrote poems and nursery rhymes for
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Hattima tim….bengali children rhym

Legend Of Which Indian Temple
◈ Legend has it that Laxman, X's stepson (or the son
of one of her storytellers), drowned in a pond in
Kapil Sarovar in Kolayat Tehsil while he was
attempting to drink from it. X implored Yama, the
god of death, to revive him. First refusing, Yama
eventually relented, permitting Laxman and all of
X’s male children to be reincarnated as Y.
◈ Eating food that has been nibbled on by the Y is
considered to be a "high honor". If one of them is
killed, it must be replaced with one made of solid
silver.
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◈ Karni Mata Temple of Rajasthan
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Id The Indian Politician
◈ He is the son of Late Shri Ved Prakash who had served
as a Union Minister for shipping in the Atal Bihari
Vajpayee cabinet and was also in Bhartiya Janta
Party (BJP) for a long time.His mother Chandrakanta was
a three time MLA from Maharashtra.
◈ He has had a strong academic record - all-India second
rank holder Chartered Accountant and second rank
holder in Law in Mumbai University. He has participated
in Leadership Programs at Yale University (2011), Oxford
University (2012) and Princeton University(2013) and is
currently pursuing the Owner / President Management
(OPM) Program at Harvard Business School. He did his
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◈ Piyush Goel, Railway Minister Of
India(Present)
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Kaun si Movie hai vai
X is a 1969 Hindi film directed by Y. It was Y's first
feature film, based on a short story of the same
name by Mohan Rakesh, who also wrote the
dialogue for the film. The film won the
1970 Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie, and
is considered a seminal work of the Indian New
Wave. Due to its radical departures from the
prevalent cinematic norms, the film did not get
commercial theatrical release. However, it did
win the debutant director the 1970 Filmfare
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◈ Uski Roti of Mani Kaul
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Id X
X was born on 23 March 1880 to Baradanath
Haldar, a diwan (financial minister) in Assam
state under the colonial rule of British. X
studied at the Loreto House, Kolkata and
married at the age of seventeen. In 1920–21, X
was instrumental in collecting gold ornaments
and 2000 gold coins from Jalpaiguri towards
the Tilak Swaraj Fund. Subhash Chandra Bose
considered X as his "adopted mother" and X is
noted to be amongst the four prominent women
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Yeh Place Kiyun Hamesha
Controversy Me Rehta Hai
The Roza Bal or Rauza Bal or Rozabal is the name of a shrine
located in the Khanyaar quarter in Downtown area
of Srinagar in Kashmir. The word rauza means tomb, the
word bal mean place. Locals believe a sage is buried
here, alongside another Muslim holy man, Mir Sayyid
Naseeruddin.
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◈ Some People Believed It Is A Tomb Of
Jesus Christ
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Kaun si indian prince hai vai
◈ Kasur or Qasur is a city located to south of Lahore
in the Pakistan province of Punjab. Kasur derives its
name from the Arabic word qasur meaning
palaces,” or “forts.” Hindu traditions claim that
Kasur was founded and named after, Prince X of
hindu Mythology. Historical record rejects an
ancient mythological founding for the city, and
instead dates the city to around 1525 when the city
was founded as a fortified settlement by
the Kheshgi tribe of Pashtuns who had migrated
from what is now Afghanistan
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East India Company ka malik
kaun hai
◈ Intending to learning film making, X left his
graduation midway and moved to Mumbai. Here
he started assisting in serials and films. In 2003,
he became a unit director in Anurag Kashyap's
film Black Friday (2004), the music video X
directed for the song Arey Ruk Ja Re Bandeh of
the film soundtrack album, performed by
band Indian Ocean, got him noticed. X made his
feature film debut with, 033 in 2010. Now X soon
open his film company name EAST INDIA
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Mamla kya hai vai
◈ A different version of X’s identity, however, emerged
soon after. On November 2, 1985, Janmorcha, another
Hindi paper in Faizabad, received an anonymous letter
claiming “the name of the X, who is being projected as
Y, was KD Upadhyay, who had disappeared after killing
Pandit Brahmadev in a meeting at Gayatri Bhawan”. It
went on to say that Upadhyay was also known as
Kaptan Baba, that he lived in a temple in Ayodhya, and
that before disappearing, he had left his personal
belongings on the banks of the Saryu river to give the
impression that he had committed
suicide. Janmorcha published a single-column item
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◈ Mystery of Gumnami Baba project as
Netaji
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