Entries from April 2009
319
April 29, 2009 · 13 Comments
319: Bilbo, meet Gandalf. Identify the man with the cigar, seen here in a meeting with Nehru, in his capacity as the Chairman of President Truman’s Famine Emergency Committee. He gives off the appearance of being only slightly smaller than the most famous thing named for him. :)
318: Ipsita Roy Chakraverti, a promoter of Wicca and a self proclaimed witch. The film Sacred Evil was based on her “case files”.
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318
April 28, 2009 · 14 Comments
318: Identify the kooky lady and the not-quite-well-received film based on her.
317: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Macaulayism
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315
April 25, 2009 · 2 Comments
315: These three people link to Chennai institutions. Identify.
314: Emperor Kanishka – Ganishka from the Japanese series Berserk based on him, the artifact known as the Kanishka casket and a coin bearing his image.
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314
April 24, 2009 · 2 Comments
314: Connect.
313: Kalki Krishnamurthy – he named one of his works after the “Poimaan Karadu” – a natural formation near Salem, Tamil Nadu.
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