- Shahrukh Khan got a taste of his first lobster thermidor from the Malayalam actor Mohanlal
- 2000 Goans gave up their Indian citizenship and obtained Portuguese passports last year
- West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee chants Sanskrit shlokas when she works out on the treadmill every day
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living also owns a TV channel called ‘Anandam TV’
- Swedish giant Ericsson has been manufacturing in India since 1903, and 33 per cent of it all is in and around Pune
- A human body can be cremated in two hours using dried cow dung cakes instead of 200 kg of wood over 12 hours
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- There were 4,40,000 tweets a minute when Leonardo DiCaprio won the Oscar for best actor
Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta