Hello & welcome to this fortnight’s GK nugget.  December has seen the birthdays of some iconic figures-  the original showman of Hindi cinema – Raj Kapoor – was born on 14th December 1924 .  The Lord of tamil cinema – Rajnikanth – was born on 12th December 1950 .  Dilip Kumar was born on 11th December 1922 while 11th December 1969 was when India’s first chess grandmaster Viswanathan Anand made his first appearance on planet earth. Of course there are many more names to add to that list, but while going through all these dates I realized that this will be the last GK nugget of 2016.  So instead of sharing trivia on a single topic, this weekend’s GK Nugget will do a quick recap of the momentous events that unfolded across the globe on its this year’s journey around the Sun. January 2016: Jan 16 – Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party chairwoman and nominee Tsai Ing-wen garnered 56.1% of the presidential vote thus becoming the First Female President of Taiwan. Sh

Hello & welcome to this weekend’s GK Nugget. While demonetization has clearly not left the front pages of our newspapers, a headline that caused quite a ripple (if not a rumble) through the news media last week was the death of Cuban leader, Fidel Castro on 25 th Nov, at the age of 90. While we’ve read about his politics, his views and quite a few jokes about him (My favourite being a CM, on being informed of Castro’s death, asks “Outside which bank branch was he queueing up when he died?”), here are some lesser known facts about the man who was never far from the front page of global newspapers. Diplomatic relations between the US & Cuba have been far from friendly since the 1960s. Depending on which side of the Gulf of Mexico you live in, Fidel Castro was either a visionary or a dictator . He converted Cuba into a one-party socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. In 1959, at the age of 32, Castro and a small band of revolut