Taak is the Bengali word for bald. During the shooting of Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) by Satyajit Ray, three bald actors Santosh Dutta, Ajoy Banerjee and Kamu Mukherjee used to share rooms at hotels. They were referred to as the ‘Taak Trio’.
Bob Marley, the famous Jamaican singer, Alvin Kallicharran, the stylish left-handed batsman of West Indies and Sunil Gavaskar, the little Master of India named their sons Rohan in appreciation of the famous West Indies batsman Rohan Kanhai, who played 79 test matches and scored 6,227 at an average of 47.53. He has also played 7…
The countries which won the Olympic Football Gold during the period 1952–1980 were all communist countries. 1952 – Hungary 1956 – Soviet Union 1960 – Yugoslavia 1964 – Hungary 1968 – Hungary 1972 – Poland 1976 – German Democratic Republic 1980 – Czechoslovakia
In the spellings of the first 100 natural numbers, ‘a’ does not occur even once. One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen, Eighteen, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty One, Twenty Two, Twenty Three, Twenty Four, Twenty Five, Twenty Six, Twenty Seven, Twenty Eight, Twenty Nine Thirty. Thirty…
In the 78th minute of the Federation Cup final 2004, Cristiano Sebastião de Lima Júnior collided with Mohun Bagan’s goalkeeper Subrata Paul. All this happened in the process of scoring a goal while chasing a pass inside the penalty box. It was incidentally the second goal in the 2–0 victory of Dempo Sports against Mohun…
Tripos is the final honours examination for a BA degree at Cambridge University. This word originates from the Latin word tripus, which means ‘tripod’. Tripus refers to the three-legged stool on which a graduate sat to deliver a satirical speech at the degree ceremony.
