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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 influencedwith 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 morecelebrated . 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, Huxley’s novel Brave New

World, the title of which is derived from Miranda's speech in The Tempest, is ranked fifth

on Modern Library’s 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 Simpson’s 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 won’t have

complained had he been named Feluda either, instead of Apu. By the way, Apu’s 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.