By Jaydeep Yeole Thailand a land of Smiles, a land of spectacular beaches and islands, is the most popular tourist destination and has been hitting the top charts since many years. Indeed, its wealth of history, culture, world class resorts, adventure sports, water sports, tropical forests, graceful highlands, developed infrastructure and hi-tech urban life makes […]
The Gurukull is an organisation where educational activities are held in a fun filled manner. Children and senior citizens are the prime focus of this organization. The Gurukull aims to keep the cultural and traditional practices strong among the kids by teaching Hindi, arranging cultural activities, etc.,it also aims to help the senior citizens with […]
To suit the present times, mythology has its own interpretations by present generation writers. Read this unknown side of Shakuntala, a little different from what the Mahabharata had to say. Also to read are tales on the Allahabad of yore and of underage CEOs who are raising their ideas into careers. 1. Book: Shakuntala: The […]
An Indian-American teen may soon feature in International Tennis Federation (ITF) top 200 rankings after she won the girls’ singles and doubles titles at the 2015 Atlanta ITF tournament. The first Indian-origin player to achieve the double feat in an international tennis tournament, 14-year-old Natasha Subhash, from Virginia, played on hard courts at the Life […]
An Indian-origin researcher in the US has won a $150,000 grant to study genes linked to the deadly melanoma skin cancer, a media report said. Anurag Singh, an assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine at Boston University, won the grant from the Melanoma Research Alliance to study as to why some forms of melanoma with […]
Two Indian-origin entrepreneurs in New Zealand are among the finalists for the 2015 Women of Influence Awards in the community and not-for-profit category, a media report said on Monday. Founder of East Tamaki Healthcare Group Ranjna Patel and Westpac and Massey University’s Financial Education and Research Centre director Pushpa Wood will compete with 18 other […]
He never minces his words. And looking at the scenario where creative minds of the country are returning their awards and honours, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap feels suppressing voices of artistes can only put a civilisation into “grave danger”. Multiple writers, filmmakers and historians have returned their national awards over the past few weeks, as a […]
A riot of colour and cackle has returned to the wetland reserves of Jammu and Kashmir with the first arrivals of thousands of migratory birds from far off lands this year. Migratory birds from Siberia, China, the Philippines, Eastern Europe and other areas arrive here every year to spend winter months in the Kashmir Valley […]
Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen, who recently returned her Sahitya Akademi award, on Monday said the Akademi has written to her requesting she take it back, but that she will follow through with the ‘award wapsi’. “My stand remains the same. I still refuse to take it back. Even though the Akademi has condemned the killings […]
Veteran actress Shabana Azmi says the decision of several artistes and filmmakers to return their awards in protest against “a culture of intolerance” is a “symbolic gesture” of bigger things to come. “It’s not an either or. Artistes returning awards will also reflect their concern in their work but making a film, writing a book […]