• Some interesting articles which I created or significantly contributed to
... that the 1899 play Sangeet Sharada was "a pioneer in social drama in India" and that the 1929 Child Marriage Restraint Act, called the "Sarda Act" for its sponsor, was soon known as the "Sharada Act"?
... that the soundtrack of the Marathi filmKaksparsh (2012) was released after the film's theatrical release on public demand and features songs rendered without any musical accompaniment?
... that the 1955–56 Marathi radio programme Geet Ramayan describing the events from an Indian epic Ramayana(central characters pictured) has been translated to eight Indian languages, English, and also transliterated in Braille?
... that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray(pictured) made his last documentary in 1987 on his father, as a tribute to celebrate the centenary of his birth?
... that Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray paid tribute to the silent film genre through his short film Two (1964), made without any dialogue, which also makes "a strong anti-war statement"?
... that when a French television channel approached Satyajit Ray for Pikoo (1980), he was told "you can place your camera at your window and shoot the house next door—we will accept that"?
... that for the film Rabindranath Tagore, Satyajit Ray did not use any of Tagore's poems as he believed that people who heard the English translations would not consider Tagore "a very great poet"?
... that Satyajit Ray's documentary, The Inner Eye (1972), features an artist's journey to blindness with his own words, "Blindness is a new feeling, a new experience, a new state of being"?
... that after a common career span of 27 years, Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla are costarring for the first time in the upcoming film Gulaab Gang?
... that when Charles O'Rear took a photograph of a green, lush hillside near Napa Valley, he did not expect it to be "the most viewed image of the world"?
... that during the 17th century many couples performed "erotic" acts near The Iron Lady(pictured), and it was thrown into the river twice for being an object of pagan veneration?
... that in 2013, the Bharat Ratna – India's highest civilian award – was conferred on Sachin Tendulkar, the youngest recipient and first sportsperson to receive the honour?
... that the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award, was instituted in 1954, and the "father of the Indian bomb" was one of its first recipients?
... that as of 2015, India's second highest civilian award has been conferred upon 18 non-citizen recipients including Edmund Hillary, one of the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
... that some recipients of the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, have refused or even returned their medals?
... that Sairat, which is set to be released today, is the first Indian film to include a symphonic score recorded in Hollywood?
... that when poet G. Sankara Kurup's (pictured) poem Odakkuzhal was nominated for the first Jnanpith Award, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi had opined that no Malayalam language work was worthy of this inaugural prize?
... that following the tradition of Urdu poets, Bollywood lyricist Naqsh Lyallpuri took his surname from his birthplace, and his family also adopted it?
... that during the Holocaust in Italy, doctors at Fatebenefratelli Hospital protected Jews from the Nazis by diagnosing them with a fictitious disease called "Syndrome K"?
... that Science Express, a scientific exhibition for children mounted on a train, is included in the Limca Book of Records for being the largest, the longest running and the most visited mobile exhibition?
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