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- ... that Indian footballer Narender Thapa played for both of Calcutta's football clubs Mohun Bagan and Mohammedan Sporting at different times in his career?
- ... that the India national team were victorious in football at the 1951 and 1962 Asian Games?
- ... that the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, which examines the career of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, was banned in India?
- ... that Zail Singh was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to become President of India?
- ... that the Clock Tower of Haridwar in India provides a good location from which to watch the evening prayers at Har Ki Pauri?
- ... that the Gyarah Murti statue was featured on the Indian 500-rupee note?
- ... that an Indian rhinoceros, sent as a gift to Pope Leo X
- ... that Indian historian R. Champakalakshmi was a script consultant for Bharat Ek Khoj, a television series based on Jawaharlal Nehru's The Discovery of India?
- ... 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 deadly attacks from stray cows in India have become an electoral issue?