Tuesday #05

1. The X is the main gate to the Red Fort, named for its orientation towards a certain destination city. During Aurangzeb's reign, the beauty of the gate was spoiled by the addition of bastions, which Shah jahan described as "a veil drawn across the face of a beautiful woman" probably due to Shah Jahan still having love for one of his creations. Rather ionically, every Indian Independence Day since 1947, the national flag is unfurled and the prime minister makes a speech from its ramparts.

Identify this particular iconic structure of Red Fort.

2. X was hand written by Y, who did not charge any money for this. However, he had one request that on every page his name is mentioned and on the last page, his grandfather's name is mentioned. Identify X and Y. 

3. X was one of the oldest newspapers In India,which discontinued its publication in 1991 after 123 years of publication.In the year 1891, a journalist of X rummaged(to move things haphazardly while looking for something) through the waste paper basket of the Viceroy Lord Lansdowne's office and pieced together a torn up letter detailing the Viceroy's plans to annex a Muslim majority state Y.

This news came out and the ruler of Ysailed to London and lobbied the authorities to avert the annexation . Had it not been so, the fate of X would have been different and so would have been the boundary of India.
Identify X and Y.

4. Identify this magnificent temple, which is believed to be originally constructed by Vajranabh, the great grand son of Krishna, over the residential palace of Krishna. And this was the place where Mirabai merged with the God.

It got major prominence due to being established one of the 4 peeths by Adi Shankaracharya and hence becoming part of the revered "Char-Dham Yatra" in Hinduism.

Answers:

1. Lahore Gate of The Red Fort. 

2. X: Prem Behari Narain Raizada who wrote Y: The Constitution of India. (The art on the original pages were Decorated by artists from Shanti Niketan, including Nandlal Bose)

3. X: Amrit Bazaat Patrika

Y: The state of Kashmir, 

Had it been under direct control of British Crown, there wouldn't have been need of Instrument of Accession.Story attributed to Shashi Tharoor

4. Dwarkadheesh Temple in Dwarka, Gujarat.