Portal:India/DYK
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- ... that Zail Singh was the first Sikh and the first person from a backward caste to become President of India?
- ... that according to The Wire, the web application Tek Fog was used to "amplify right-wing propaganda" among Indians?
- ... that after activist Aakar Patel was prevented from travelling abroad, a court asked the director of India's Central Bureau of Investigation to apologise?
- ... that St Mary's Anglican Church, Busselton, Australia, has been a part of six dioceses, namely Canterbury, Calcutta, Sydney, Adelaide, Perth and Bunbury?
- ... that Indian harmonium player Appa Jalgaonkar stopped singing due to puberty?
- ... that Mansiya V. P., an Indian classical dancer, has experimented with choreographing a fusion of classical Bharatnatyam and traditional Sufi music?
- ... that Zakir Husain was the first Muslim and the first governor of a state to be elected President of India?
- ... that Indian aristocrat and photographer Umrao Singh Sher-Gil left more than 3000 prints and negatives, including many of his daughter Amrita Sher-Gil, documenting life in Europe and India?
- ... 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 the veto of an Indiana law that bans transgender girls from participating in school sports was overridden by the state legislature?