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unusual facts about St. Columba's School, Delhi


B. M. Shah

Shah was also a well regarded Sanskrit teacher at St. Columba's School, Delhi for several years, before he became Director, National School of Drama (New Delhi).


Allan Watkins

During that tour, Watkins battled his way to a nine hour long, unbeaten 137, in Delhi, his best Test score.

An Awesome Wave

St Ronan's Chamber Choir – additional vocals ("Bloodflood", "Taro")

Ashish Nehra

Nehra started playing first-class cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997/1998 season and made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999 and his ODI debut against Zimbabwe at Harare in 2001.

Asoka Handagama

Novel in the form, this minimalist film travelled all around the world, was critically acclaimed at more than 50 international film festivals, and won numerous awards in Singapore, Chonju, Delhi, Houston, Bangkok and Tokyo.

Babyji

In Babyji, Dawesar paints a Delhi of crime, rape, dirt, blackouts, backwardness, residual colonialism, domestic violence, and arranged marriages, a city where promising young people often see their only option as going to the United States, thus contributing to the brain drain and setting in motion a vicious circle.

Baghdad Central Station

The station was built by the British to designs by J M Wilson , a Scot who had been an assistant to Lutyens in New Delhi and who subsequently set up a practice of his own in Baghdad .

Balharshah railway station

With the completion of the Kazipet-Balharshah link in 1929, Chennai was directly linked to Delhi.

Bega Begum

Before starting, she made arrangements for building at her own cost her husband's mausoleum at Delhi.

Bhaskaracharya Tripathi

He has received many awards, including the Nirjhariṇī Award by the Uttar Pradesh Sanskrit Academy for his work Mṛtkūṭam kāvyaśatam, the Paṃ jagannātha Award by the Delhi Sanskrit Academy, the Cārūdeva śāstrī award for his work Saṃskṛta jīvanam, Madhya Pradesh Sanskrit Academy's Bhoj Award for Bāla rāmāyaṇam and the Vachaspati Award by the K. K. Birla Foundation for Sāketa saurabham.

David Bensusan-Butt

A nephew of the French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro, and the son of Dr Ruth Bensusan-Butt (1877–1957), the first woman doctor to work in Essex, Bensusan-Butt was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and King's College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes and indexed Keynes's magnum opus, the General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Deepa Sahi

An alumnus of National School of Drama, Delhi, Sahi started off with a theater career, with strong Leftist leanings and social activism a core value of the productions she was involved with.

Delhi, Colorado

Delhi was the location of one scene in the 1973 film "Badlands" with Martin Sheen.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

Educated at St Paul’s School, London, Janner was evacuated to Canada during the war and attended Bishop's College School, Lennoxville, Quebec.

Harold Iremonger

Harold Edward William Iremonger, eldest son of the Rev. E R Iremonger, vicar of Goodworth Clatford, Andover, was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and was gazetted to the Royal Marine Artillery in 1900.

Harry Easterly

He was a graduate of St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia where he was the president of the Class of 1944.

History of Hindustani

The language went by several names over the years: Hindawi or Hindī ("language of India"); Dehlavi ("of Delhi"); and Hindustani, ("of Hindustan").

Institute of International Education

Current REACs are located in the following cities around the world: Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, Kyiv, Bratislava, Amman, Accra, Johannesburg, Lahore, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Jack Cotton

Jack Cotton was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, then at Cheltenham College.

Jakhal Mandi

It is connected directly to national capital Delhi and provides connectivity to important towns of Punjab & Haryana like Ludhiana, Bhatinda & Sirsa.

Jalandhar district

During the Sayyid dynasty (1414–1451) Delhi's authority waned and the area was theater of numerous rebel movements and especially the head Khokhar Jasrath.

Kali for Women

When they decided to take this step, Butalia had worked with Oxford University Press and Zed Books in Delhi, while Ritu Menon was a well known scholar.

Kartar Singh Duggal

Duggal had been a member of many literary and cultural centres including being the President of Punjabi Sahitya Sabha (Punjabi Literary Society), Delhi.

Lakshmi Mazumdar

Lakshmi Mazumdar of Delhi was the National Commissioner of the Indian Scouting organization Bharat Scouts and Guides from November 1964 to April 1983, and supervised the construction of the Sangam World Girl Guide/Girl Scout Center, which was inaugurated on October 16, 1966 by the World Chief Guide, Lady Olave Baden-Powell.

Manoj Srivastava

Manoj Srivastava aka Robbin was born and brought up in old Delhi, south of the famous Jama Masjid as the eldest of three brothers.

Matthew Garber

Born in Stepney, London to parents who had both performed on stage, he attended St Paul's Primary School in Winchmore Hill and Highgate School in Highgate, North London from September 1968 until July 1972.

Migration Period art

The spirals and scrolls in the enlarged opening letters—found in the earliest manuscripts such as the 7th century Cathach of St. Columba manuscript—borrows in style directly from Celtic enamels and La Tene metalworking motifs.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Nalini Ambady

A native of the state of Kerala, India, Ambady did her schooling at the Lawrence School, Lovedale, and joined college at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi.

Naya Kashmir

The actual writing of this memorandum took place in "Delhi Hotel" at Lahore and at Mr.Bedi's residence at Model Town Lahore.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

Robin Singh, Jr.

He currently serves as one of the cricket experts for All India Radio and as a tax inspector for ITO, New Delhi.

Rokni Haerizadeh

Haerizadeh is in a number of notable collections globally, namely the Tate Modern, London, UK, Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran, Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK, JP Morgan Collection, NY, USA, Devi Art Foundation, Delhi, India, British Museum, London, UK, Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France, Rubell Family Collection, Florida, USA, UCCA, Beijing.

Rugby Group

Five of the Rugby Group schools, Charterhouse School, Harrow School, Winchester College, Rugby School and Shrewsbury School are members of the original nine 'Clarendon' public schools defined under the Public Schools Act 1868, with the other Clarendon schools (Eton College, St Paul's School, Merchant Taylor's School and Westminster School) having other affiliations.

Saleem Kidwai

With Ruth Vanita, he is co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (New York: Palgrave; New Delhi: Macmillan, 2000), a pioneering work documenting and exploring the indigenous roots of same-sex desire in South Asia.

Sansad Ratna Award

Delhi based NGO PRS Legislative Research closely monitors the performance of all the Members of Parliament and releases the data of their individual performances in the areas of: participation of debates, raising questions, introduction of Private Members Bills and attendance at the end of every session.

Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh

The mazar of Hazrat Shaikh Sama'al-Din is located in Delhi where the Zubairies of Panipat used to assemble every year for offering Fateha in pre-independence days.

Shanti Devi

Shanti Devi (11 December 1926 – 27 December 1987) was born in Delhi, India.

Sidique Ali Merican

He acted as deputy chef de mission for the Malaysian team at the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi, and chef de mission at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

Skybus Metro

Cities such as Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Kanpur, Lucknow, Mumbai, Pondicherry, Pune, Ranchi, Shimla, Thane etc. are considering Sky Bus although the system has not been adopted anywhere.

St Faith's School, Rusape

St Faith's School, Rusape is a mission school 17 km from Rusape, Manicaland, Zimbabwe.

St. Mary's School, Pune

From 1866 to 1977, the school was run by the Sisters of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, an Anglican order based in Wantage, England.

Sufi saints of Aurangabad

Shah Nasir ud din or Shah Nasir Alla Kadar was instructed by Said ud din of Delhi to accompany Burhan ud din to the Dakhan on a religious mission.

Sunita Godara

She became the national marathon champion first time in 1984 by winning Delhi Marathon She won medals in the Penang and Kedah marathons.

Swami Keshwanand

Thakarsi, who used to escort prosperous Seths (Businessman) from Ratangarh to Delhi on his camel, died in 1890 when Birama was seven.

The Vinyl Records

Tekseng earned a University degree in English from Miranda House, Delhi

United States Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School

The U.S. Naval Reserves Midshipmen's School at Northwestern University was established in September 1940, and was in operation until 1945.

Visa policy of India

Currently visas on arrival may be obtained at international airports of Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram and the list will be expanded with more airports like Goa, Gaya, Chandigarh and Amritsar.

William P. Greene, Jr.

During his career as a Judge Advocate, he completed his military education at the Basic, Advanced, and Military Judges' courses at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia; the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; and the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

William Valentine Mayneord

He was educated at Prince Henry's School, Evesham and gained a Bachelor of Science at the University of Birmingham

World Association of Nuclear Operators

December 2008 - The Governors decide to postpone the 67th Governing Board meeting planned for Delhi, India following the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.


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