This Week I Learned - Week #33 2022

This Week I Learned - 

* Reliance Industries signed a 10-year partnership with Microsoft Azure in 2019. Jio will set up datacenters in locations across India, consisting of next-generation compute, storage and networking capabilities, and Microsoft will deploy its Azure platform in these datacenters to support Jio’s offerings. 2 regions in India, Jio India Central and Jio India West can be seen on the Azure Status page. Jio regions are available to Jio customers only.

* At age 35, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. 

* In 1920, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose stood 4th in the Indian Civil Service exam.

* Tax loopholes billionaires use

* Do Aankhen Barah Haath (transl. Two Eyes, Twelve Hands) is a 1957 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by V. Shantaram. The film was inspired by the story of an "open prison" experiment: Swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara. The real experiment was conducted by Maurice Frydman aka Swami Bharatananda, who refused to have his name credited at the end of the film. He went so far as to tell the movie maker, V Shantaram, that he would sue him in court if his name were to appear anywhere in the credits. 

* Types of biryani found in India:

• Awadhi - or Lucknowi - biryani is a north Indian dish, usually eaten as a celebratory dish and is spiced with temperamental and delicate spices like saffron, star anise and cinnamon, and is cooked slowly, overnight.
• Hyderabadi biryani is of two types - pakki (cooked) and kacchi (raw) don’t be fooled though - the meat is still perfectly cooked in both, but in different ways. Pakki Biryani layers previously cooked meat with the rice and spices, while Kacchi biryani is slow cooked with the marinade from the meat together with the rice and spices. 
• Sindhi biryani has its origin in Sindh. (now Pakistan) This is a spicy biryani, which makes generous use of chopped chillies, mint, yoghurt, dried fruits and chopped onions. Usually, this Biryani also includes potatoes. 
• Kolkata biryani also has potatoes, mild spices, eggs and spicy chicken. This is a milder biryani, and although a variant of the Awadhi and Hyderabadi biryani, doesn’t carry the heat of either. 
• The Thalassery biryani takes after local flavours from Kerala. An indigenous species of rice - Khyma -  is used instead of the regular Basmati rice. It is  flavoured with Malabar spices. 

* Obscurantism is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or full details of something from becoming known.