Generally, it’s just about knowledge.
It’s at times a scary term. General Knowledge (G.K) isn’t always about winning quizzes or getting through IAS exams or facing interviews, debates and group discussions. It’s very, oh so very essential for chit-chatting, a word very similar to the infamous gossiping. Everything, from the limited edition Mont Blanc Gandhi pens to Sania Mirza ’s latest beau, comes under G.K. Just think, without speaking about things other than our family or our society, how lifeless our conservations will be? What can two elderly, retired men talk about when they settle down at their neighborhood park bench? How can they keep conversing without finding fault, atleast once, with Mayawati ’s garland of money or Pranab Mukherjee ’s Budget (though they might get little of it)? I’m a G.Kish person. I adore facts, just the facts. I wouldn’t read a 19 page long story about how tribals are being ill-treated in our country word by word (I bet most of the readers don’t) I’d just see where, when...