Historical clue formulations

• Best-selling novel that begins in Pondicherry, India — 2022-06-18
• 2012 Ang Lee film set largely at sea — 2020-11-17
• 2001 best seller with a tiger on its cover — 2019-08-24
• Backstory for TV's Magnum? — 2019-07-18
• Biography of Archimedes? — 2019-03-17
• Ang Lee film about a shipwrecked boy and a tiger — 2015-04-06