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1 ‘Tryst with Destiny’.
2 Jawaharlal Nehru, to the Constituent Assembly at midnight, August 14, 1947
3 In Bengal, fasting to stop post-Partition riots.
4 Lord Louis Mountbatten.
5 The Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
6 At Birla House, Delhi. The Mahatma’s last words were “Hey Ram”. Martyrs Day is observed on January 30, 1948.
7 “We the people of India, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a sovereign democratic republic…”
Later: the words “socialist, secular” were added in the 42nd amendment, 1976
8 1948
9 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
10 1951-52, Sukumar Sen
11 Dr BR Ambedkar
12 India voted not to withdraw from the Commonwealth.
13 Lata Mangeshkar
14 Mehboob Khan’s Mother India
15 Goa, from Portuguese control.
16 Lata Mangeshkar. Aye Mere Wattan ke Logo, Kavi Pradeep
17 8 medals, 6 consecutive medals from 1928 to 1956, 1 in 1964 in Tokyo and 1 in 1980 in Moscow.
18 Potti Sreeramalu
19 1959
20 January 31, 1963
21 Rita Faria, 1966, in London
22 Lal Bahadur Shastri, India’s second prime minister (not counting Gulzarilal Nanda)
23 She split the Congress Party
24 The Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
25 East Meets West
26 Ajit Wadekar
27 Bishan Singh Bedi, EAS Prasanna and S Chandrashekhar.
28 In 1971, in the West Indies, a real baptism of fire
29 Lt General Jagjit Singh Aurora, accepted Pakistan’s Lt-General AAK Niazi’s surrender on December 16, 1971
30 CV Raman, for Physics, for his work in the scattering of light. He was the first Indian director of the Indian Institute of Science. He was awarded a Bharat Ratna in 1956. His nephew Subramaniam Chandrashekhar also won a Nobel in Physics in 1983.
31 Dr Vikram Sarabhai
32 The Chipko Movement
33 Kissa Kursi Ka, made by Amrit Nahata
34 Sholay, Ramesh Sippy, Basanti
35 1972
36 Jayaprakash Narayan
37 Amitabh Bachchan, and Rajesh Khanna
38 The IXth Asian Games
39 Kapil Dev captained the Indian cricket team to win the Prudential Cup, defeating the formidable West Indies.
40 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
41Bhopal, Union Carbide’s factory saw massive gas leaks due to faulty maintenance. Thousands died and many continue to suffer the effects to this day. One of the world’s worst industrial disasters.
42 Dhirubhai Ambani, Only Vimal
43 Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma of the Indian Air Force flew on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. He became an instant hero. Another Air Force pilot, Ravish Malhotra also went through the training and was put on standby.
44 Bofors
45 Hum Log and Buniyaad
46 Trunk calls
47 The Gulf War, and CNN
48 Nani Palkhivala
49 Harshad Mehta
50 Sushmita Sen won Miss Universe, Aishwarya Rai won Miss World.
51 Nothing. Both men stand at 1.65 metres.
52 Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan
53 IK Gujral
54 Free alcohol!
55 BPL Mobile and Max Touch
56 Sabeer Bhatia, Hotmail
57 Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
58 Chandrayaan 1
59 Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza
60 Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu
61 Indian Premier League, IPL and Lalit Modi
62 Rajinikanth
63 Abhinav Bindra, 10 m air rifle, Beijing 2008
64 Eight times
65 The late Sushant Singh Rajput
66 Yes, India managed to double the number of tigers in the wild from 1400 to about 3000 by 2018, according to some estimates. However, India has been steadily losing forest coverage for decades
67 Demonetisation, Rs 500 and Rs 1000
68 Sundar Pichai of Alphabet (Google)
Satya Nadella of Microsoft
Parag Agarwal of Twitter
69 UU Lalit
70 Covishield by Astra Zeneca, made at the Serum Institute of India and Covaxin made by Bharat Biotech
71 Droupadi Murmu
72 Air India has been bought by the Tatas, who founded the airline before it was nationalised
73 Mangalayaan
74 Neeraj Chopra, javelin, 2021 Tokyo
75 Pingali Venkayya
