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...

Hello & welcome to another GK nugget. It’s the start of a week that will define the next 4 years and possibly the future of not just one of the most powerful countries in the world, but the entire world.  That’s right, America goes to vote on Tuesday 8 th November to decide whether Melania Trump becomes the First Lady or Bill Clinton returns to the White House, albeit this time as the First Gentleman (1 st time in history). (Though some say that as per protocol a former President is always referred to as “President So – and – so”. So, if Hillary wins, there’ll be 2 President Clintons in the White House – another 1 st . Formally, though, they would be introduced as "The President of the United States and President Clinton”). There’s been a lot said & written about these 2 candidates and many wish that Barack Obama could continue for another 4 years. But the US Congress passed the 22 nd Amendment to the US Constitution in 1947 that limited a US Presid...