SUNDAY QUIZ-INDIAN RAILWAYS
Please identify the names of the trains/series of trains based on the following clues:
1.Mathili Sharan Gupta
2.Mountain Peak
3.Palace
4.Kazi...
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Nazrul Islam
5.14/11/1989
6.Leaf
7.Mountain Range
8.Dam
9. Thiruvalluvar
10.Nobel Prize
11.15/8/1997
12.Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay
13.Lokmanya Tilak (not LTT)
14.Valley
15.Premchand
16.Lord Hanuman's father
17.Jaishankar Prasad
18.Anklet
19.King
20.Banophool
21.Empire
22.Lady
23.Rebellion
24.Non-violence
25.Peace
(Multiple answers possible)

NOSTALGIA (On the 38th anniversary of India's victory in the World Cup Final at Lords. A tribute to our wicket keeper in that match )
A HUMANITARIAN GESTURE BY A GOOD HUMAN BEING .
Once in June 2004, I had to return from Blore to Howrah by 2864 YPR-HWH Exp. I booked the tkt on the morning of the date of journey and it was WL 365. As I was then Chief Manager at SBI, Kolkata, I went to the Local Head Office of SBI in St. Marks Road, Bangalore for help in...
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confirming my tkt.
I saw a bald gentleman there whose face appeared familiar and I approached him. As I had gone to Blore for an emergency operation of my mother, that gentleman was very helpful and telephoned the PRO of SWR, saying that Mr. Venkatramani is my close friend and you must get him an HO QUOTA tkt for today. The PRO readily obliged him and my tkt was confirmed thro HO quota.
BTW do you know the identity of the GOOD SAMARITAN who came to my rescue ? Well he was the AGM (Public Relations) in SBI, Bangalore. and has since, like me, retired from the Bank's service. You may have heard of his name.
Well, he was none other than SYED KIRIMANI, former Indian wicket-keeper, and one-time Chairman of the Test Cricket Selection Committee. Although I met him then for the first time, he told the SWR PRO that I was a close friend of his and got my tkt confirmed. May God bless him.

This post copied & pasted from a WA forward does boast of an IR connection, however tenuous it may be. Enjoy the reading !
Ant and Grasshopper - Indian Version of story

Original Story:
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away. Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.
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Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs dances plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

NDTV, Times Now, CNN IBN, BBC, CNN , Asianet show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .

Mayawati states this as 'injustice' done on Minorities.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Railway minister allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the 'Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act'[POTAGA] , with effect from the beginning of the winter..

Education minister makes 'Special Reservation' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, it's home is confiscated by Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV, Times Now, CNN IBN, BBC, CNN.

Arundhati Roy calls it 'A Triumph of Justice'.

Railway minister calls it 'Socialistic Justice'.

CPM calls it 'Revolutionary Resurgence of Downtrodden'

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Many years later...

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley ,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India ,

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As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country...!!