Category: India
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The Tokyo Games – Olympics #1
Welcome to a new series of posts on my. blog about the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games! This is going to be about just a fraction of the things that happened until now in the Olympics! So, here we go! ____________________________________ Let’s start from the huge number of countries that are participating in this years Olympic
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The Discovery of India #1
Bharat Ek Khoj (The Discovery of India) | Episode 3 is available with ENGLISH SUBTITLES HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slgzvgfzCeU&list=PL1EG23oYcaFu6SNAiofd0uco0sD0JeVji&index=3 Recently, we started watching an old Indian TV series that was re-uploaded onto YouTube called “Bharat Ek Khoj” (The Discovery of India, based on a book by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru). We watched an episode of
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Take a Chhalaang!
[P.C. Amazon Prime Video] Yesterday we watched the Hindi movie Chhalaang on Amazon Prime Video. It’s a really good movie about friendship, sportmanship and persistance. It is about two teachers taking part in a sports competition for the job as P.T. teacher at a school. One chooses a team with the most sporty kids in
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Mt Everest
“Do you know?” is back, with the latest episode’s topic being Mt Everest! In this episode, learn about how we know that Everest is 8,848 meters, what the date and time were when Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay reached the summit, who was the youngest person to reach the summit and more! We hope you
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Authors PARADE (Interview)
This morning, we had an interview with BOOKWHIG, for the Authors Parade, as I mentioned in my last post. Without any further ado, here is the whole interview!: BOOKWHIG – Welcome to BOOKWHIG’s #AuthorsParade moonstruck dad – Hello. How are you all. BOOKWHIG – Tell us little about yourself. moonstruck dad – I am originally from India but currently
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Happy Birthday, Netaji
[Information source: Wikipedia] Subash Chandra Bose was an Indian Nationalist who fought for India’s independence from the British. Today is his birthday. Bose was born on 23 January 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa Division, Bengal Province, to Prabhavati Dutt Bose and Janakinath Bose. He studied in Stewart High School (in his time, Protestant European School, in 1902), Ravenshaw Collegiate School (1909), the
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Gangsters
[moonstruck dad is now on Twitter! Please follow us 🐦] This nostalgic trip to Calcutta involves gangsters. Well, not really gangsters. More of a crazy guy. From lone protests to mad blessings, this video has it all. I present to you…….CALCUTTA DAYS EPISODE 4!!!!
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Ho, Ho, Ho!!!
[“Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!!!” Wishing all my readers a very Merry Christmas!] Christmas is near, and we thought that we should make our Calcutta Days episode festive. We created factual/fictional story about Kolkata Night Guards (a group of people that catch thieves and goons, formed my my granddad and some neighbours
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Calcutta Days
During our India trip this year, I have learnt a lot of things about Kolkata (or Calcutta). One of the things I learnt were that the name “Calcutta” was changed to “Kolkata” during the 1980’s-90’s. With this recording, we have started an original series we call: Calcutta Days. This is the normal father-son story experience
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