Railway GK Questions 2026

The Mando is a slow song in Konkani, sung by couples at weddings and gatherings, whose melody carries the mark of three centuries of Portuguese presence; the quick Dulpod usually follows it, and Dekhni is the third well known Goan form.

In Villu Pattu a large bow is set over an earthen pot and struck as a percussion instrument while the lead singer narrates a story from mythology or local history and a chorus answers him; the form is strongest in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu and in the neighbouring…

Kajri is sung in the month of Shravan, when the clouds gather, and its verses speak of dark skies, the separation of lovers and the longing of a woman for a husband who is away; Mirzapur and Banaras are its best known homes.

Bihu songs are sung at Rongali or Bohag Bihu, the spring festival that marks the Assamese new year in April, and they are accompanied by the dhol, the pepa made from a buffalo horn and the jaw harp called gogona.

The name means one string, and the instrument is a single string stretched over a gourd with a bamboo neck that the player presses to change the pitch; the Baul holds it in one hand while singing and dancing, often with a small drum called duggi tied at the waist.

In Pandwani a single performer tells the story of the Pandavas in song and speech, holding a tambura and acting out the scenes, and Teejan Bai, who received the Padma Vibhushan, carried the form from her village to audiences across the world.

A powada is sung in a loud, declamatory style by a shahir, who narrates a battle or an act of courage, and the deeds of Chhatrapati Shivaji are its favourite subject; Lavani, Bharud, Gondhal and the devotional abhang also belong to Maharashtra.

The Bauls are wandering singers of Bengal who reject caste and ritual and sing of the man of the heart, accompanying themselves on the one-stringed ektara and the small drum called duggi; their songs were inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008.

Lotia takes its name from the lota, the small metal water pot that women carry on the head in the procession with which it is performed, and it belongs to the folk tradition of Rajasthan, alongside Maand, Panihari and the Banna-Banni wedding songs.

India won the series in New Zealand in 1968 under Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, taking three of the four Test matches, and it was India's first series win on foreign soil after thirty-six years of Test cricket.

The Indian Premier League, the franchise Twenty20 competition run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, played its first season in April and May 2008, and the Rajasthan Royals, captained by Shane Warne, won that edition.

Gavaskar reached ten thousand Test runs in 1987, the first cricketer of any country to do so, and he had earlier passed Don Bradman's record of twenty-nine Test centuries, finishing his career with thirty-four.

The inaugural ICC World Twenty20 was staged in South Africa in September 2007, and India beat Pakistan in the final at the Wanderers in Johannesburg, Joginder Sharma bowling the last over and Irfan Pathan taking three wickets.

Kumar Shri Ranjitsinhji, the prince of Nawanagar who played for England in the 1890s and was famous for the leg glance, gave his name to the trophy for the national first-class championship, which was first played in the 1934 and 1935 season and was won by Bombay.

At the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in Delhi in February 1999 Anil Kumble took ten wickets for 74 runs in Pakistan's second innings, becoming only the second bowler in the history of Test cricket to take all ten in an innings, after Jim Laker of England, who did it against…

India beat Sri Lanka in the final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on 2 April 2011 under Dhoni, who finished the chase himself with a six and was named player of the match; it was the first time a team had won a World Cup final on its own…

On 25 June 1983 India, led by Kapil Dev, bowled out the West Indies for 140 while defending a modest total of 183, and won the Prudential World Cup against a side that had won the first two editions in 1975 and 1979.

Lala Amarnath scored 118 against England at the Bombay Gymkhana ground in 1933, in the first Test match ever played on Indian soil and in his own debut Test, and it was the first century by an Indian in Test cricket.

Nayudu. Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu led India in its first Test match at Lord's in 1932 and is regarded as the first great Indian cricketer; the Board of Control for Cricket in India named its lifetime achievement award after him.

India played its first Test match in June 1932 at Lord's in London, becoming the sixth country to be granted Test status after England, Australia, South Africa, the West Indies and New Zealand.