AS I WRITE this piece, my mind wanders to the strife at Westgate Mall in Nairobi. My prayers for the 10 hostages reportedly stuck in the centre of a gun battle between Kenyan Army and (allegedly) al-Shabab militants. I cannot pretend to imagine what the 10 stuck hostages must be going through, just ...
The first Indian in Formula 1, and the first athlete from motorsports to win the Padma Shri Award, Narain Karthikeyan can easily shift gears from being the fastest Indian in F1 to being a devoted family man. Days before the Indian Grand Prix, DW managed to talk to the man—who’s raised our collec...
Misappropriate Behaviour Started Fights? RIOTS \\ Days after the Muzaffarnagar riot, which left 44 people dead and several more injured, people in the affected area started revealing the allegedly ‘real incident’ which triggered the violence. According to media reports, the riots allegedly star...
UN Report States Use of Chemical Weapons CIVIL WAR// The revolt against the regime led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad continued in September 2013 with world leaders gearing up to step into the civil war. Experts looking into the matter believe that several reasons led to the situation especial...
First Indian Beauty Pageant Winner
Faces Racism Slurs CONTEST \\ In September, for the first time in its 100 year pageant history, America’s top beauty queen was a woman of Indian origin. Nina Davuluri, a 24-year-old from New York, who wants to be a doctor, performed a traditional Bollywood-style dance during the contest. Even bef...
Indian Godman Booked For Sexual Assault
Asaram Bapu Allegedly Attacked Minor ASSAULT // India’s self-styled godman Asaram Bapu managed to land himself in yet another controversy when a 16-year-old girl student of his gurukul alleged that he sexually assaulted her at his Jodhpur ashram in Rajasthan early in September. The godman had p...
Varsities Must Increase Appetite for Risks”
THERE ARE several aspects to a university becoming world class. The most important aspects of these are—faculty, students and the research and learning that occur as a result of the interaction between the two. The university facilitates interaction between teachers and students resulting in resea...
Here are some of the toolkits in social media space that will make your task that much simpler Making the decision for your organisation to be on the social media bandwagon is really the easy part these days, a no-brainer even. It’s when you get down to business do you come across one of the most...
The Saga of the Facebook Feet Photos and the Tales They Tell IF YOU’VE EVER posted a photo of your feet on Facebook, chances are that you have been reminded of those famous words from the Hindi film Pakeezah while doing so: ‘Your feet are very beautiful, don’t put them on the ground’. I say...
How Anasuya Gupta transformed CICO Group, an 80-year-old construction chemicals company against formidable challenges—little business experience, a huge personal loss and tangible scepticism from those around her The article got us thinking: all things remaining the same— customers, products, e...
Cinema, and its struggles, with the depiction of the Bharatiya nari THERE HAS BEEN much discourse recently on depictions of women in Indian cinema, with anger expressed about manifestations of misogyny—from “item numbers” that objectify women to scenes where the hero “woos” an reluctant h...
Ride handcrafted Made-in-India Bambikes to derive extra mileage for a greener environment How about taking a Bambike ride to office today? It promises physical exercise, fresh air and in addition reduces your carbon footprint on Mother Earth. Sounds interesting, right? The architect of India’s Ba...
India’s future roadmap through the eyes of its young parliamentarians. INDIA–THE FUTURE Now is a promising book. It promises a greater future for India, as envisaged in the 12 essays penned by the country’s young, dynamic under-40 parliamentarians. The writers through clear prose develop argu...
Old wine in new bottle, but good wine nonetheless YES, JUDGE us, we are so reviewing a book that belongs to young-adult (YA) fantasy fiction genre. But before you do, hear me out; prophecies (newspaper articles as a matter of fact) have foretold that Shannon is the next big thing in the YA fantasy ...
For the best view of four of the five highest peaks in the world head to Sandakphu Sandakphu may not ring a bell for many travellers. But for the inveterate adventure seeker or the bona fide trekker, it is the ultimate destination. Tucked away in the eastern edge of India in the Darjeeling district...
A fledgling effort to get rural art its due space in urban intellectual imagination A 10-day exhibition of select paintings by village artists of Madhubani concluded recently in New Delhi. The unexpected showcasing of grassroots art of artistes residing in India’s rural interiors of Bihar in the ...