Willia Dalrymples Nine Lives tells the stories of nine people.

The first story tells the tale of a Nun who witnesses her friend doing a Jain ritual calledSallekhana. It is believed that Chandragupta Maurya also practiced this ritual. What is Sallekhana?

Voluntary death by fasting

BLACK HOLE TRAGEDY- The Black Hole of Calcutta was the guard room in the old Fort William, at Calcutta, India where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of the Fort on June 19, 1756. John Zephaniah Holwell claimed that following the fall of the fort, British and Anglo-Indian soldiers and civilians were held overnight in conditions so cramped that many died from suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing. He claimed that 123 prisoners died out of 146 prisoners held. Historians have a different view point.

G Shankara Kurup

The woman of the painting is _____ Olson (May 3, 1893 January 27, 1968). She had an undiagnosed muscular deterioration that paralyzed her lower body. X was inspired to create the painting when through a window from within the house he saw her crawling across a field. X had a summer home in the area and was on friendly terms with Olson, using her as the subject of paintings from 1940 to 1968. Although Olson was the inspiration and subject of the painting, she was not the primary model X's wife Betsy posed as the torso of the painting. Although the woman in the painting appears young, Olson was 55 at the time X created the work. ID X and the painting.

Andrew Wyeth-Christinas World

Who connects?

Ga(31)

Thierry Henry Hand of GAUL

X is a water-soluble mixture of different dyes extracted from Y, especially Roccella tinctoria. The change can be attributed to the presence of 7hydroxyphenoxazone chromophore. What is X and Y?

X- Litmus, Y-lichens