Tattva

Across:

3. India’s 1st satellite was named after this mathematician.
5. Famous surgeon in Bharat (6th century BC)
6. In India, this state is the first to view the sun daily.
8. Wrote Arthashastra, known as Kautilya (first name)
9. India’s first supercomputer
12. Mathura, birthplace of Krishna, is on the bank of this river
13. Suzuki collaborated with this company to provide afford-able cars to Indian consumers.
14. Name of the magazine you are reading
16. Indian hockey ace in the golden era of 1930s
17. Buddha preached the “fire sermon” here.
19. This place is also called the Pink City.
20. He wrote our national song.
21. Seeta’s father in the Ramayana.
25. He invented Mohan Veena (first name).
26. This Veda talks about the sacred hymns.
27. Astrophysicist known for development of the equation used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars (see photo 1) (surname)
29. The world famous Sun Temple is located here.
30. Tamil festival marking the beginning of the sun’s north-ward journey.
31. His debut soundtrack, “Roja,” turned out to be the world’s 10th Best Soundtrack ever, as rated by Time (surname).

 

Down:

1. India recently set a world record launching 10 satellites in one go using this launch vehicle.
2. Father of the person after whom our nation is named Bharat
4. This freedom fighter started the Marathi newspaper Kesari in 1880 (see photo 2) (surname).
7. First name of this scientist whose surname appears in “Bhabha Atomic Research Centre”
9. A venue of Kumbh Mela (ancient name)
10. 1729 has been given a special name after this mathemati-cian showed that it is the smallest number that can be ex-pressed as sum of cubes of two numbers in two ways (10,9) and (12,1)
11. Gifted Indian director who received an Oscar (first name)
15. Player who won the man-of-the-match award in the 1983 cricket world cup final (surname)
18. First Indian astronaut in space (see photo 3)
19. Rani Lakshmibai fought from this kingdom.
22. Kanchenjunga, the word’s third highest peak is located in this Indian state.
23. Awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the molecular scattering of light (see photo 4) (surname).
24. The Kedarnath temple in Uttarakhand is devoted to this God.
28. She was the cause of Bhishma’s death in the Mahabharat. 

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Ankit Gupta is a PhD student at University of Washington, Seattle. You can contact him at ankit2935@gmail.com.

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