Compiled bySwatiMisra With the much-hyped ArjunKapoor and Alia Bhatt starrer ‘2 STATES’ releasing this week, there is a lot of speculations going in and around this film. The North meets South love story directed by Abhishekvarman, has ArjunKapoor playing KrishMalhotra and Alia Bhatt as AnanyaSwaminathan. 2 States is a love story between two individuals from […]
I have an abiding memory of Manmohan Singh. It goes far back to the days when he was not the prime minister, not even the finance minister, when in the early ’90s he took transformational steps to open up and liberalise a collapsing Indian economy and got his name etched in the history of global […]
It’s true. People of this Pakistan want Narendra Modi to become prime minister of India. More than 250 residents, including over 100 voters of a village called “Pakistan” in Bihar’s Purnea district, are set to vote for the BJP to help Modi to fulfil his dream. “We want Narendra Modi to become PM,” said Hira […]
One has known the plants for majorly two things; oxygen and greenery. But think if these plants could detect explosions through chemical and pollution? Amazing isn’t it? Researchers have been successful in increasing their light-capturing ability by 30 percent. By embedding tiny structures called carbon nanotubes into chloroplasts — the energy factories inside plant cells […]
Shweta Sharma It was a hot, humid morning in old Delhi’s ChandniChowk area which was already humming with activity — and awaiting a politically tumultuous day ahead with balloting just a week away. ChandniChowk, the old “silver street” of the Mughal era that leads down from the majestic Red Fort and is now a centre […]
Isha Sahni The Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM), the southern hemisphere’s greatest annual celebration of Indian cinema will take place in the month of May. The festival this year will be exploring the richness of contemporary Indian cinema across four program streams, with films spanning Bollywood to art house and the subcontinent, as well as establishing an […]
Isha Shahni The Global Slavery Index 2013, compiled by non-profit Walk Free Foundation, presents quite a dismal picture about a reality in India: Modern slavery. It estimates that 13.3 million to 14.7 million people are enslaved in India, exhibiting the full spectrum of such rights violations. It is scary, heart-rending, exposes our underbelly and gives […]
Natural environment is the best place where one can experience the Street Art. Seeing a new muralor a piece of art on one of the street one is familiar with. The Steet Art Movement in India is a new milestone with St.ART. The St. ART in Delhi is the biggest street art festival the country […]
It is amusing how self-righteous the Indian media can get over a so-called threatening admonition from Arvind Kejriwal. If I was in Kejriwal’s shoes, I would be as angry and upset as he is with sections of the fourth estate, some of the electronic media in particular. In no general election in my over three […]
The way your heart functions is majorly determined by how you sleep According to a new study conducted by the Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, on the cardiac patients revealed, around 96 percent of patients having cardiovascular problem were also suffering from sleep apnea. Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), also called sleep apnea is a […]