Volume 4 Issue 2 | July-September 2024 Quiz: Cruel and Unusual In this short quiz, we listed a number of scenarios and asked readers to select what they thought was a fair judgement. Here’s what happened in real life…   Sarah Reed, a British woman, had a history of mental illness. In 2012, she was […]

  #1-8     #9-16     #17-24     #25-33     Answers   Answers to the quiz questions asked along with the map information 1. Fearless Nadia 2. Chenab 3. Jawaharlal Nehru 5. ‘When Eight Bells Toll’ by Alistair Maclean 11. Kollam and Kharagpur 13. Gurkhas 14. Deen Dayal Upadhayaya 18. Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without […]

  #1-8     #9-16     #17-24     #25-33     Answers   25. The bombil fish popular on the west coast of India is known in English as Bombay Duck. While there are several different theories for how this name came about, one origin story suggests it is named for the Bombay […]

  #1-8     #9-16     #17-24     #25-33     Answers   17. The Palace on Wheels is a luxury train that’s a big favourite with well-heeled foreign tourists and a small proportion of Indian passengers who want to live life like the royals of past princely states. The carriages of the […]

  #1-8     #9-16     #17-24     #25-33     Answers   9. Occasionally running between New Delhi and Alwar in Rajasthan, but otherwise housed at the Rewari Railway Heritage Museum, the Fairy Queen is a steam locomotive built in 1855 and restored in 1997. In 1998, it was listed in the […]

The Romance of the Railways Art by Rai The railways in India have a lot of superlatives attached to them – oldest, highest, longest, most beautiful. Travelling by rail is an experience packed with incident (admittedly, not always pleasant). It will always hold a certain charm, in the face of all change, not least because […]

Quizzes and games This section consists of pages with answers to quizzes and games featured in Comixense magazine.   Quiz: Cruel and Unusual Vol 4 Issue 2 | July-Sep 2024 Imagine living your life, only to suddenly find yourself blamed for something you didn’t do. Sounds like a plot twist from a gripping novel, right? […]

Vol 1 Issue 2 | July-September 2021 Runs in the Family     1. An unlikely legume, commonly known as Palash in Hindi. The Battle of Plassey (Palashi in Bengali) was fought in a place named after this fiery tree. Identify. A. Sacred tree, or Butea teak (Butea monosperma)   2. Three plants from the […]