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VII Things We Learnt Last Week

  • RBI governor Raghuram Rajan draws a salary less than four of his colleagues
  • Only 155 of the 4,045 reviews on Amazon for Barkha Dutt’s book This Unquiet Land are positive
  • Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has managed to lose 18 kilos in the past three months
  • In the reign of Emperor Ashoka, animals were considered to be citizens just like human beings
  • Mossack Fonseca named companies in the Panama Papers after James Bond movie titles and villains
  • It takes 6,000 emojis in one WhastApp message to crash the application on your phone
  • Old Monk rum was foun­ded in 1855 by the father of Col Reginald Dyer, who oversaw the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919

Compiled by Uttam Sengupta and Alka Gupta

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