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thakara's avatar

1. Kipling, (Half read the question and my answer for the rest was Fuzzy Wuzzy and Khartoum. Will take an L on that.)

2. Sitter for us subcontinentals :)

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4. N₹ruda

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7. Octavio Paz, Humayun's Tomb?,

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9. Soviet-Germany non-aggression pact

10. Googled this and the answer is incredible! My problematic-fav director Emir Kusturica created an entire town named after Andric as the setting for a film. EK moved in there for a while, iirc.

11. Poet: Derek Walcott; Giant: Sir Vidia. Aside: There is an ornamental relative of star apple tree near Model School. Local name is സ്വർണ്ണപത്രി (swarnapatri - golden-leaved)

12. Pi

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14. Wole Soyinka

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Karthika Sasikumar's avatar

1. Rudyard Kipling, Mandalay,

2. Rabindranath Tagore, India and Bangladesh

3. Gabriela Mistral

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6. Greece, Cyprus

7. Octavio Paz

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10. Gavrilo Princip

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12. Pi

13. Seamus Heaney, Ireland

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