Joy Bhattacharjya Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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And, while doing all this, he managed to name another Indian Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, introduced Judo to India and perhaps the most important of all to Bengalis, celebrated the institution of 'adda.' Tagore started the “Khamkheyali Sabha” in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1897..

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In 2015, he helped put together the film 'Kaiser! The Greatest Footballer Never to Play Football,' about his life and career, probably the only time he actually played something! Incredible guy!

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On Jan 12th, 1976, Agatha Christie passed away at her home in Oxfordshire. That night the lights were dimmed at two theatres where her plays were being performed, St Martin's where her record-breaking "The Mousetrap" was in its 24th year and the Savoy, https://t.co/58ATj7Tymy

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The West End play based on the story had to have a different name as Three Blind Mice was already registered. Christie chose 'The Mousetrap' inspired by a dialogue from Shakespeare's Hamlet. The play started well in the 50s & the film rights were sold to John Woolf in 1956.

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People though that this was just another example of crazy rock star demands, but they had a very sound reason. Lead singer David Lee Roth explained that Van Halen had one of the most complicated and elaborate stage set ups which required huge attention to detail.

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Reading 'The Elements of Choice' by Eric Johnson. He designed this fascinating study where thousands responded in a survey of people above the age of 45 in the US When asked if there was a 50% chance of what age they would live till, the average answer was around 85 years https://t.co/oXe1vtCbje

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@PenguinIndia Godel Escher Bach, Douglas Hofstadter, totally changed my world view!

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One of the nurses in attendance, Marsha Maitland, had been reading Agatha Christie's 'The Pale Horse,' where a murder was committed by Thallium poisoning, and she thought the symptoms described looked very similar.

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"..rice-eating, malaria ridden barefooted Bengalis have got the better of beef-eating Herculean, booted John Bull in the peculiarly English sport" The Nayak(translation) This epic moment in Indian sporting history is described in detail in @ronojoy_sen's excellent Nation At Play.

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Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Vatican City. A) The fairly short list of countries never invaded by Britain. Courtesy British author Stuart Laylock in his work, 'All the Countries We've Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To...'