French descent who predominantly works in Bollywood. After studying
drama at Goldsmiths, University of London, she made her screen debut in
the drama Dev.D in 2009, winning a Filmfare Award for Best Supporting
Actress. She starred in and co-wrote the screenplay for the crime
thriller That Girl in Yellow Boots (2011). She has starred in two top-
grossing films, the coming-of-age film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011)
and the romantic drama Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013). Her work in the
independent drama Margarita with a Straw (2014) earned a National Film
Award – Special Jury Award. Her commercially successful films include
the political drama Shanghai (2012) and the supernatural thriller Ek Thi
Daayan (2013). She won The MetroPlus Playwright Award for co-writing the
dramatic play Skeleton Woman (2009), and made her directorial debut on
stage with the tragicomedy Living Room (2015). She hosted a travel show
entitled Kalki's Great Escape in 2016. Koechlin promotes causes ranging
from health and education to women's empowerment and gender equality.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki_Koechlin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
9:
The Western Han dynasty of China ended after the throne was
usurped by Wang Mang, who founded the Xin dynasty.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_dynasty>
1776:
Common Sense, a pamphlet by Thomas Paine denouncing British
rule in the Thirteen Colonies, was published.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_(pamphlet)>
1923:
Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebelled against
the League of Nations decision to leave the area as a mandated region
under French control.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaip%C4%97da_Revolt>
1985:
Sir Clive Sinclair launched the Sinclair C5 personal electric
vehicle, "one of the great marketing bombs of postwar British industry",
which later became a cult collector's item.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5>
2007:
A general strike began in Guinea as an attempt to force
President Lansana Conté to resign, eventually resulting in the
appointment of two new prime ministers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Guinean_general_strike>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yucca:
1. Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long,
pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a
large panicle of showy white blossoms.
2. (now proscribed, obsolete) The yuca (cassava).
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yucca>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the
majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that
succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
--John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton>
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