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What was once called by Sukumar Sen as “curious senseless relic of the past”?

Q1

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Many women in Northern India were reluctant to register under their own names, wishing instead to identify themselves as A’s mother or B’s wife. Sukumar Sen was appalled by a practice and called it a curious senseless relic of the past.

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Sitter. Identify this movie, and why is this a question in this quiz?

Q2

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With a famous courtroom scene that lasted five minutes, Parashakti starring the legendary Sivaji Ganesan, had its dialogues crafted by future Tamil Nadu chief minister M. Karunanidhi. The film was also considered a DMK-vehicle as it dispersed the party's ideals and made Ganesan a DMK icon.

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Among the innovative ideas implemented during the 1951 General Elections were the use of indelible ink, the use of multiple ballot boxes, one for each party — voters were supposed to drop their paper into the ballot box of their choice. Something else was a real stroke of genius — a trend that we continue even today. What?

Q3

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Use of large pictorial symbols by which the illiterate voters could identify their party of choice. Drawn from daily life, these symbols were easily recognisable: a pair of bullocks, a hut, an elephant, an earthen lamp, and so on.

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This move by Sukumar Sen helped save Rs. 4.5 Crores during India’s second General Election (1957)?

Q4

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Sukumar Sen had safely stored the 3.5 million ballot boxes used during the first General Elections. They were reused.

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Identify this man, and the party he lead in the 1951 General Elections. What was his party’s symbol?

Q5

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Ramachandra Sakharam Ruikar of All India Forward Bloc (Ruikar)

Their symbol was ‘Hand’, now used by the Congress.

Ans 5

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