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- ... that after Chandigarh fell from being the second-cleanest city in India to the 66th, the residents voted out the incumbent party?
- ... that Gita Sarabhai was among the first women to play the pakhavaj, a traditional musical instrument of India?
- ... that Grandpa Indian, created in the 1930s to replace Santa Claus in Brazil, was portrayed as adorned in colorful bird feathers, bringing gifts to Brazilian children?
- ... that in 1927, Native American activist Chauncey Yellow Robe and the Lakota Sioux tribe "adopted" President Calvin Coolidge to thank him for supporting the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act?
- ... that the 2020 case Henderson v. Box held that the state of Indiana must list same-sex parents on their child's birth certificate?
- ... that Self-Portrait as a Tahitian depicts Indian artist Amrita Sher-Gil standing in the shadow of an unknown man?
- ... that Indian cricketer Mukundrao Pai's altercation with a British army major, J. G. Greig, resulted in the Bombay Quadrangular introducing neutral umpires in 1916?
- ... that in 2022 Sandhya Dhar has received both a Nari Shakti Puraskar and a bronze medal in boccia at the Indian national championships?
- ... that Colonel Hugh Pettigrew observed that troops who thought that the Scottish Highlands resembled Waziristan on India's North West Frontier were "of little use to anyone"?
- ... that Akbar Bhawan, which houses the South Asian University and offices of India's Ministry of External Affairs, was originally a hotel?