Places She Loves
Founded in 1895 by four members of the Fabian Society. 18 heads of state and 29 Nobel Prize winners have come out of here. George Bernard Shaw was among its earliest supporters. What are we talking about?
London School of Economics and Political Science
A woman getting married on a Greek island invites three strangers she has never met — all of whom may or may not be her father — based on her mother's diary. Her mother, rather than having a straightforward conversation, sings about it. Twice.
Mamma Mia
The name entered English in the 1580s via Portuguese traders who first encountered it on the Malabar Coast in 1498 — they borrowed the word from the Malayalam "manga." A Mughal emperor planted 100,000 of its trees in a single orchard near Darbhanga, Bihar. It is the national fruit of three countries simultaneously. The country that produces 40–50% of the world's supply accounts for just 1% of international trade — it consumes almost everything it grows. It is a close relative of the cashew and the pistachio.
Mango
Its central finding: losing £50 feels worse than winning £50 feels good. What are we talking about?
Prospect Theory
What is she scared of?
Butterfiles
Its dome has watched over the city since 1710. It survived the WW2 Blitz.
St Paul's Cathedral
A man with £10,000 a year and no social skills meets a woman with five sisters and a mother in crisis. He proposes by listing all the reasons he shouldn't. She says no. He writes a letter. She changes her mind.
Pride & Prejudice
Botanically, it is not a berry. Its seeds — approximately 200 of them — sit on the outside of the fruit. Its name in English traces back to London street children who threaded the fruit onto pieces of straw and sold them at markets as _________ of ______________
Strawberry
You would rather have £10 today than £15 next week. But you would wait for £15 if both options were a year away. The preference flips depending on how close the reward is.
Hyperbolic Discounting
What subjects were there in her triple major?
Socio, Eco, Psych
Standing at 78 metres above sea level. It became a statutory protected viewpoint on 1 August 2012.
Primrose Hill
An old man who, by his own admission, raised the hero "like a pig for slaughter" — knowing the hero had to die, choosing not to tell them until the last possible moment, and is widely considered the good guy of the story.
The teacher everyone suspects is evil is actually just processing unresolved grief over a woman who chose someone else. The entire resolution hinges on a technicality.
The hero themselves, by their own admission, is not particularly skilled — just particularly bad at dying. What are we talking about?
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Present without question, non-negotiable, served without anyone asking — this is to a South Indian one. Except it is not a side.
Curd Rice/ Thayir Chadam
A student scores 100 on one test and 60 on the next. Praise and punishment had nothing to do with it. Extreme scores naturally drift back toward average over time.
Regression to the Mean
Has she every written a book?
Yes
Home to the National Theatre, the BFI, and the Royal Festival Hall — all built on land redeveloped after the Festival of Britain in 1951.
South Bank
A boy who runs a personal algorithm on every woman he meets — sorting them into "fling" or "forever." His turn-ons: drinking, adventure, spontaneity, and a girl who looks like the hero of a movie. His turn-offs: any other man within a three-foot radius of her. He falls for a girl — not because she has the skillset to save human lives, but because she is fun, hot, and adventurous enough to qualify as a lead role. The surgery, the medical degree, the actual competence? Largely irrelevant to him.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani.
In Sanskrit, the word for this dish translates to "the essential products of digestion."In 2020, an Indian chef in Princeton began supplying it to COVID-19 patients in hospitals as a complimentary dish. It went viral in the US as a "new immunity booster."
Rasam Rice
A technique that tests an entire web of relationships between variables at once — rather than one relationship at a time. What are we talking about?
Structural Equation Modelling
Where does she read most fan fictions
AO3
In 1977, Dieter Schwarz needed a name for his discount stores but couldn't use his own — it would have literally translated to "black market" in German. He found a retired painter and schoolteacher named Ludwig and bought the rights to his name for 1,000 German marks. First UK store opened in 1994.
Lidl
A hero who, upon acquiring an inexhaustible fortune, chooses to spend it entirely on revenge against three people — a project so elaborate and time-consuming it takes years, destroys multiple innocent families along the way, and concludes with the hero himself questioning whether any of it was worth it. The villain of the story is arguably also the hero. The treasure funding this entire operation was conveniently located on an island that he then named himself after.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu currently claim ownership of its invention. During World War II, when rice ran short in Bengaluru, one version of it was accidentally reinvented using semolina. What are we talking about?
Idli
One explains HOW a relationship between two variables works. The other explains WHEN it works, or for whom. Two questions, one answer. What are we talking about?
Mediation and Moderation
Who is Sanjana's Diss supervisor
Ganga