I feel like there's bugs in my skin... I've gone too long without a new 20Q

Thanks! And me too - for a second I thought it was a Disco Elysium reference.

Hominidae wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 10:47 pm

Also I learned a new word: Insulindia.

I asked someone who is from Insulindia, and she had never heard of the term Insulindia.

Also I learned a new word: Insulindia.

Great first pick, DreamTrawler!

I hope to have the next thread up in a few hours.

Thank you! Was fun, hope to keep participating in these threads.

Well done to our first-time QM!

Phew. Yeah I think the "involved in politics but not an elected official" + the postage stamp + the time period made me pretty confident someone would get it.

DreamTrawler wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 6:22 pm

JECE wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 6:18 pm

Bhagat Singh?

Yes! Congrats. Was worried I went too obscure but you got it.

I don't think that he's obscure at all!

Pretty interesting guy if people aren't familiar. Atheist communist agitator but well-remembered across the political spectrum. From wiki: "Bhagat Singh represents a challenge to almost every tendency in Indian politics. Gandhi-inspired Indian nationalists, Hindu nationalists, Sikh nationalists, the parliamentary Left and the pro-armed struggle Naxalite Left compete with each other to appropriate the legacy of Bhagat Singh, and yet each one of them is faced with a contradiction in making a claim to his legacy. Gandhi-inspired Indian nationalists find Bhagat Singh's resort to violence problematic, the Hindu and Sikh nationalists find his atheism troubling, the parliamentary Left finds his ideas and actions as more close to the perspective of the Naxalites and the Naxalites find Bhagat Singh's critique of individual terrorism in his later life an uncomfortable historical fact."

JECE wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 6:18 pm

Bhagat Singh?

Yes! Congrats. Was worried I went too obscure but you got it.

Bhagat Singh?

cdngooner wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 5:58 pm

Who's got the time to cross-reference these two lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_independence_activists

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_the_postage_stamps_of_India

I don't. Kudos to you if you get it.

so weirdly enough the person is not on the second list despite being on an official commemorative stamp listed elsewhere on Wikipedia

I'm playing phone-an-Indian right now.

Who's got the time to cross-reference these two lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_independence_activists

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_on_the_postage_stamps_of_India

I don't. Kudos to you if you get it.

Hominidae wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 4:36 pm

JECE wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 4:01 pm

DreamTrawler wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2024 9:37 pm

Yes.

DreamTrawler wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 3:10 am

No.

DreamTrawler wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 2:00 pm

No.

han-shahanshah wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 2:58 pm

I think this question was missed.

Not missed, but certainly a waste of a question

(No questions for QM in this post.)

How was it a waste of a question? It narrowed this person's area of fame down to politics. We now know that this person was famous for something to do with politics, but not a political officeholder.

Fine, I guess that your gamble paid off, but the other question ("Born in what is now India?") was certainly a waste.

JECE wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 5:23 pm

On this list?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_independence_activists

Yes.

On this list?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_independence_activists

cdngooner wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2024 5:04 pm

Muslim?

No.