Emblem  The  National  Emblem  of  India  is  an  adaptation  of  the  Buddhist  Lion  Capital  of  India  of  Ashoka  at  Sarnath, near  Varnasi  in  Uttar  Pradesh. Animal The  Tiger  is  the  National  Animal  of  India . It  is  the  symbol  of  India  wealth  of  Wildlife. The  magnificent  tiger, Panthera  tigris, is  a  stripped  animal. Flag The  National  Flag  is  a  horizontal  tricolour  of  deep  saffron (kesari) at  the  top, white  in  the  middle, dark  green at  the  bottom  and  a  blue  wheel (chakra) with  24  sticks  at  the  centre. Saffron stands  for  Sacrifice and Courage, White stand  for ...

  Welcome to this edition of  The Hindu  on Books Newsletter. Salman Rushdie’s memoir,  Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder  came out in April, in which he recounts the stabbing attack of August 2022 and its aftermath. Another celebrity writer’s memoir is coming out end of October – Hanif Kureishi’s  Shattered , his account of a devastating fall in Rome in December 2022 which left him paralysed. He began dictating despatches of his time in hospital first in Rome, then in London, and they have been “edited, expanded and meticulously interwoven with new writing” into a memoir. “A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me. My partner, my children, my friends,” Kureishi of  Buddha of Suburbia  fame writes. Rushdie who had often encouraged Kureishi to go on writing during his traumatic days says that in the “moving memoir”, Kureishi deals with “personal calamity with wit, unflinchin...

 The Olympic Games These  games were first  held  in  776 BC  by  the  Greeks  in  honour  of  God Zeus  at  Olympus  Mount   in Greece in, hence the name and they continued till 394AD. They were held after every four years. The modern series of the game started in 1896 in Athens and since then these are being held every Fourth year. There are 5 rings of different colours that  show five different continents. What is the moto of olymic ? The moto of Olympic is   " Faster, Higher, Stronger " Olymics Venue Year                                                                                                            ...