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Yoga is entirely gentle and safe: Sure, yoga can be very good for you, but some schools can subject you to rigorous strain and should be followed under supervision.

WHO Twenty-eight-year-old detective Ray created 40 years ago in the short story, ‘Feludar Goyendagiri’.

QUIRKS Charminar fags, jotting thoughts in Greek alphabet, learnt kung fu by watching ‘Enter The Dragon’ 10 times.

SIDEKICKS Cousin Topshe, and bumbling thriller writer, Jatayu.

ACCESS Most stories translated in English. Films: ‘Sonar Kella’, ‘Joy Baba Felunath’ by Ray; ‘Bombaiyer Bombete’ by son Sandip (making ‘Tintorettor Jishu’).

At 8,126m, the earth’s 9th highest peak. Southern Rupal face is a 4.5 km high wall, a most awesome sight. Among the hardest ascents anywhere, killed 31 men before the legendary Hermann Buhl’s 41-hour solo slog—one of climbing’s greatest feats—took him to the top in 1953.

Best known for his ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’—the film made $21.7 m on its just-completed first weekend. What’s amiss about its late creator?

A. The title struck him while lying drunk in an Austrian field in 1971.

B. Had terrible writer’s block. "I love deadlines...the whooshing noise they make as they go by," he would say.

C. A good guitarist, he owned possibly the world’s largest set of left-handed guitars.

D. Performed several times with musician Paul Simon.

E. Apart from creating zany sci fi, he campaigned for animal rights.

Answer D. The height-conscious Simon (5’2") refused to play alongside the 6’5" Adams.