Can you look past the coup?
Ten days into 2021, and it already seems like a whole year has passed. How much do you remember of the past week?
She’s 32. She’s Australian. Her international career began only 2015. But on Thursday, at a match between Australia and India, Claire Polosak became the first woman to do what in the sport’s 144-year history?
A Trump question, of course. Who made this statement last week before banning him indefinitely? “We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are too great”
In 1980, Satya Paul set up his first sari boutique, hoping to modernise the garment with polka dot, zebra print and geometric prints and party-ready flowing fabrics. What happy-hour name did the fashion world give to such a sari?
The Famous version of this whisky has been the top seller in Scotland since 1980. There’s a Black version
peat, a Snow version meant for chilling, even a high-end Naked version. And yet, when it was launched, it had no adjectives – just the name of a grumbling game bird. Name the brand that debuts in India this week.
You may remember Shilpa Shirodkar from her ’90 films Trinetra, Hum, Khuda Gawah and Aankhen. Or from her many films with Mithun Chakraborty. But for what pandemic-related reason was she in the news last
week?
His Kannada film KGF Chapter 2 isn’t even releasing until October. But its teaser just set a record for becoming the fastest promo to cross 2 million Likes on Youtube. One victorious name. Four letters. What?
It’s not every day that you become the world’s richest person. And yet, when he found out that he had overtaken Jeff Bezos’s wealth on January 7, he tweeted “How strange,” and followed it up with “Well, back to work ...” Who?
For ₹5,499, you’ll soon be able to buy the Z1. It’s the world’s first indigenous smartphone, designed in India by Indian engineers. Name the company manufacturing Z1 – its name calls to mind outpourings from Etna, Vesuvius, Fuji and Eyjafjallajökull.
Critics are calling it the “antislumdog” film about modern India. The drama, based on Aravind Adiga’s Booker Prize winner, follows the life of a chauffeur who fights his way to the top of the social order. There’s servitude, resentment and love. Connect a colour and an animal to work out the title.
It looks ghastly. Miley Cyrus has one, Billie Eilish and Rihanna too. David Bowie’s was the most famous. Sanjay Dutt had his for much of the ’90s. Name the hairstyle that’s so unflattering, it was even the subject of a documentary film in 2001.
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