Mandakini, meaning she who flows calmly is a tributary to Alakananda, which in turn is

one of the major tributaries of Ganga. So, it is quite apt that Mandakini , born as Yasmeen
Joseph, is best remembered for Ram teri Ganga maili, which has Ganga in it. Ram teri
Ganga maili is loosely based on And Quiet Flows the Don, one of the most significant
literary works of the respective country in 20th century, for which the author Mikhail
Sholokhov won the Nobel prize in literature in 1965. Pete Seeger got deeply influenced
with the following passage in the novel And Quiet Flows the Don: "Where are the flowers,
the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they've all taken husbands. Where are the
men, they're all in the army." and immortalized the same as "Where Have All the Flowers
Gone?". While working for the Voice of America, Kabir Suman came in contact with Pete
Seeger, and carried on his legacy ever since. Kabir Suman composed a song on Feluda in
the year 1995 as part of the commemoration of 30 years completion of Feluda.
Two other small tributaries of of Ganga, give their name to Varanasi, one of the oldest
continuously inhabited cities in the world, a city where Feluda went for a holiday during the
Pujas in 1975, he went there before as well to play cricket, but his second trip was far more
celebrated . Aldous Huxley the English novelist, essayist, humanist, pacifist, and satirist; in
his essay Benares, mocked at the corrupting influence of religion and the associated
disillusionments in social life. Set in a futuristic dystopian society, Huxleys novel Brave New
World, the title of which is derived from Miranda's speech in The Tempest, is ranked fifth
on Modern Librarys list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Huxley
also earned some Hollywood income as a writer and he received official screen credit for
1940 film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Gurinder Chadha, a
British film director of Sikh origin, came up with a Bollywood style adaptation of Pride and
Prejudice in 2004.BBC gave 4 out of 5 stars to another Gurinder Chadha film, perhaps the
best one in the lot so far, and argued that "Mr. Beckham ought to be proud to have his
name on such a great film." Mark Simpson, an English journalist, writer, and broadcaster
specializing in popular culture, media, and masculinity, is credited with coining the term
metrosexual in a 1994 article. This was also the first citation of David Beckham as the
ultimate example of a metrosexual. Now had Mr Simpsons first name been same as an
ancient Greek poet, he would have musty came across the signature catchphrase "Thank
you, come again" from the proprietor of the Kwik-E-Mart(a popular convenience store),
called Apu , whose name is off course a homage to the great Satyajit Ray, we wont have
complained had he been named Feluda either, instead of Apu. By the way, Apus namesake
(the one he was named after) lost his father at Varanasi. In the year 1951, when the director
Jean Renoir was filming The River, A fairly faithful dramatization of an earlier literary work
of the same name authored by Rumer Godden, Ray helped him to find locations in the
countryside. This is when Ray met Subrata Mitra, a production assistant on this film for the
first time, and thus formed an association that was to work wonders in time to come. The film
The River revolves around an upper middle-class English family residing on the banks of the
Ganga.