Cultivate Study

  Read more A Suitable Boy 1) “A Suitable Boy” is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. 2) “A suitable boy” is one of the longest novels published in a single volume having 1488 pages. 3) The story of the novel ‘a suitable boy’ is based upon the arranged marriage of a girl Lata who is university student. 4) It has 19 parts. 5) “A Suitable Boy” is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. 6) “A Suitable Boy” also depicts a story of young girl Lata who is Hindu and loves a Muslim boy Kabir Durrani. In this love story Lata was ready to run away with Kabir but Kabir is depicted as responsible person who had refused to run away with Lata. Finally this love story ends and a saga of arranging her marriage with a suitable Hindu boy starts. 7) Seth has stated that the biggest influence on writing A Suitable Boy was the five-volume 18th century Chinese novel The Story of the Stone by Cao Xueqin. 8) On 5 November 2019 BBC News included A Suitable Boy on its li

  Read more Agatha Christie 1) Full name: Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan. 2) Birth: 15 September 1890. 3) Death: 12 January 1976. 4) Agatha Christie was an English writer. 5) She also wrote the world's longest-running play “The Mousetrap”. 6) Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies. 7) Initially Agatha Christie was an unsuccessful writer with six consecutive rejections. 8) In 1920, her popular book The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published, which featured detective Hercule Poirot. 9) Her first husband was Archibald Christie; they married in 1914 and had one child before divorcing in 1928. 10) Following her marriage to archaeologist Max Mallowan in 1930, Agatha Christie spent several months each year on digs in the Middle East and used her first-hand knowledge of this profession in her fiction. 11) During both World Wars, Agatha Christie se

  Ten little niggers 1) “And Then There Were None” is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie . 2) It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers . 3) The title f the book “Ten Little Niggers” is inspired by the children counting and minstrel song. In this song word “Indian” was used instead of niggers. 4) The counting and minstrel song “ten little niggers” or “ten little Indians” eliminates each person by certain mishap which kills or injures that person. 5) Meaning of niggers is indigenous North American people. 6) Both Indians and indigenous North American people are of generally brown or black race. 7) The book “ten little niggers” was renamed as “And Then There Were None” for its US edition. 8) The phrase “And then there were none” is the last line of the counting and minstrel song “ten little niggers” or “ten little Indians”. 9) Further American editions of the novel “Ten little nigg

21) The union territory in the Arabian Sea made up of islands is known as Lakshadweep,  22) the union territory which lie between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea is known as Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 23) The Himalayas is the loftiest mountain system in the world. 24) Geologically Himalayas mountain arc is about 1,550 miles (2,500 km) long, stretching from the peak of Nanga Parbat (26,660 feet [8,126 metres]) in the Pakistani-administered portion of the Kashmir region to the Namcha Barwa peak in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. 25) The Western Ghats, also called the Sahyadri, are a north-south chain of mountains or hills that mark the western edge of the Deccan plateau region.  27) Between the Aravallis and the Vindhya Range lies the fertile, basaltic Malwa Plateau.  28) More than 70 percent of India’s territory drains into the Bay of Bengal via the Ganges-Brahmaputra river system and a number of large and small peninsular rivers.  29) Wular Lake is the largest natural fre

11) Three other Indian cities—Bengaluru (Bangalore), Chennai (Madras), and Hyderabad —are among the world’s fastest-growing high-technology centres. 12) India’s frontier, which is roughly one-third coastline, abuts six countries.  13) India is bounded to the northwest by Pakistan, to the north by Nepal, China, and Bhutan; and to the east by Myanmar (Burma).  14) Bangladesh to the east is surrounded by India to the north, east, and west.  15) The island country of Sri Lanka is situated some 40 miles (65 km) off the southeast coast of India across the Palk Strait and Gulf of Mannar. 16) The land of India—together with Bangladesh and most of Pakistan—forms a well-defined subcontinent, set off from the rest of Asia by the imposing northern mountain rampart of the Himalayas and by adjoining mountain ranges to the west and east.  17) In area, India ranks as the seventh largest country in the world. 18) India’s territory is surrounded by the Arabian Sea to the west and the Bay of Bengal to th

1) India occupies the greater part of South Asia.  2) The capital of India is New Delhi 3) New Delhi was built in the 20th century just south of the historic hub of Old Delhi to serve as India’s administrative centre.  4) The government of India is a constitutional republic that represents a highly diverse population consisting of thousands of ethnic groups and likely hundreds of languages. 5) With roughly one-sixth of the world’s total population, India is the second most populous country, after China. 6)  a highly sophisticated urbanized culture—the Indus civilization—dominated the northwestern part of the subcontinent from about 2600 to 2000 BCE. 7) India functioned as a virtually self-contained political and cultural arena, which gave rise to a distinctive tradition that was associated primarily with Hinduism or Hindutva. 8) When British rule came to an end in 1947, the subcontinent was partitioned along religious lines into two separate countries—India, with a majority of Hindus,