Like the name says, I'm an idleguy. With time to kill, a brain that yearns for information and fingers that fly, I'm bound to do my bit in commenting on things and adding information which I've gleaned from many sources.
I'm an enigma. I'm so lazy to move my ass to work, despite being a Sun Certified Solaris System Administrator. Yet my hobbies include testing beta software, writing beta exams & certifications - though they involve some serious time to study. I'm also a gun lover, a gambler with a keen eye on Poker which requires patience and skill. As a quiz freak I've thumped the living daylights of my local opponents and was on national TV and local radio in India - where in turn I was thumped by national gorillas. I also managed to win a round of quiz in Wikipedia. See tag below.
This user was the winner of Round 6 of the India Quiz. |
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I've made several contributions; some entirely new while others expanding on existing ones. Hailing from the sub-continent, most of the topics revolve around issues where I'm from. Military history is one of favourite topics as is my interest in animals.
Beyond the first three new topics I would like to dwell on major areas and the new contributions I made in them.
Ber fruit, Drumstick (vegetable), Seer fish, Jamun, Indian Berry, Indian gooseberry, Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Envenomation, False water cobra, False Cobra, Bengal Quince, Gee's Golden Langur, Nilgiri Langur, Common Worm Snake, Perrotet's Shieldtail snake, Indian Python, Spotted Linsang, Indian Pangolin, Malabar Civet, Bengal monitor, Indian Desert Cat, Red Slender Loris
Limca, Arrack, Warrior Diet, Negative calorie diet
Pakistan Navy, Smart gun, Battle of Hilli, Battle of Basantar, Battle of Asal Uttar, PNS Ghazi, Aruval, Kanhoji Angre, Mountain warfare, Pakistan Army, Punjab Regiment (India), Vellore Mutiny, Breguet Alize, Dassault MD 452 Mystère II, Dassault MD 450 Ouragan, State sponsored terrorism
Indira Point, Pamban Bridge, Ranthambore, Kasauli, Khardungla Pass
Four card poker, Pyramid poker, Strawweight, Aussie millions
Monopoly Tycoon, Reddy, Mantrik, Malayala manorama Sharbat, Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space, Pinwheel calculator, Corporate terrorism, Parading on donkey, Photo CD, Gadar, Saint Gobain, Lahore Declaration
Did You Know... ...that
Khardungla Pass in
Jammu and Kashmir,
India is the world highest motorable road? ...that
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was independent
India's first individual
Olympic medallist when he won a
bronze medal at the
1952 Helsinki Games in
wrestling? ...that the
Battle of Asal Uttar was one of the largest tank battles in the history of the
Indian subcontinent? ...that
Gingee Fort in
Tamil Nadu,
India was called the "
Troy of the East" by the
British for its inaccessibility and is one of the few forts still surviving in the state? ...that the
Battle of Garibpur fought between
India and
Pakistan preceded the official start of the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, and was the first battle where
dog fighting occurred over
East Pakistan? ...that
Suhrawardy Udyan in
Dhaka,
Bangladesh was the scene of
Mujibur Rahman's historic speech on
March 7,
1971 that eventually led to the
Bangladesh Liberation War? ..that
Operation Safed Sagar launched by the
Indian Air Force in the
Kargil War was the first time airpower was used on a large scale in
Kashmir since the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971? ... Indiana Jones suffers from Ophidiophobia, the fear of snakes? |
Did You Know... ...that the only
active volcano in
South Asia is on
Barren Island, one of
India's
Andaman Islands? ...that the
University of Dhaka is the oldest and largest
public university in
Bangladesh? ...that the defeat of
Vijayanagar Empire in the
Battle of Talikota ended the last great
Hindu kingdom in
South India? ...that
booth capturing is a kind of
electoral fraud that is seen mainly in
India, where armed gangs belonging to
political parties try to "capture" a polling booth and indulge in bogus voting? ...that in 1969, a world record number of 15 million people attended the funeral of
C.N.Annadurai, the first non Congress Chief Minister of
Tamil Nadu, India? ...that
Operation Gibraltar was the name given to the failed plan by the
Pakistan to infiltrate
Jammu and Kashmir, India and start a rebellion and that it eventually sparked the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965? ...that
Yusuf Adil Shah was the founder of the
Adil Shahi dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of
Bijapur for nearly two centuries.? ...
Prathapa Mudaliar Charithram was the first
novel in
Tamil? |
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Hopefully I'll visit a few more countries.