It’s that time of the year when the mind is still swirling in a festive fervour. Like every year, the celebrations kick-started with the beating of the dhak and blowing of conch shells welcoming Ma Durga followed by the towering flames of the burning Ravana effigy touching the skies, purging us ...
In US Presidential election debate who said what. The Nobel Prize in Literature Legendary American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature for “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. Following the announcem...
War on Terror and it's Mothership
Apart from pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to tighten screws on state-sponsored terrorism and seeking global isolation for Islamabad, PM Modi must also build trade ties with China. At Lucknow’s Aishbagh Ram Leela, believed to be staged for over 600 years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was pres...
Why the Industry Welcomes RBI's New Monetary Policy
During the busy financial season when the demand for bank credit is anticipated to go up, the RBI intervention to reduce interest rates would enable banks to transmit the cut to borrowers and thereby support the growth cycle. The maiden monetary policy announced by the new RBI Governor Urjit Pate...
In today’s gender-neutral time, do we need women centres of learning? A look at the literacy and enrolment rates at women’s institutions says we do. Captain Ramya Kirti Gupta, 36 years, was the toast of the nation few months ago as part of the Air India operated historic longest (17 hrs) flig...
Rebuilding the Spirit of a Nation
IT IS IN THE LOSS OF HERITAGE THAT PEOPLE APPRECIATE THE ROLE IT PLAYS TOWARDS REBUILDING THE SPIRIT OF THE COUNTRY AND ITS CULTURE. A LOOK AT PEOPLE PARTICIPATION IN REBUILDING NEPAL’S HERITAGE SITES. In the earthquakes that struck Nepal on April 25 and May 12, 2015, the country lost about 900...
Hugo Weihe, CEO, Saffronart & former International Director of Asian Art at Christie’s says the world is finally paying attention to the ‘neglected’ Indian art market Globally-acclaimed as one of the foremost connoisseurs in the field of Asian art, Hugo Weihe moved from Christie’s to ...
Tamana Chona was born with spastic symptoms and cerebral palsy. She spoke her first words and took her first steps at the age of nine. At 46, she is preparing to run her third half-marathon, teaches nursery kids, plays tennis and does yoga, setting an example that a special needs individual could ...
Increasingly corporates are consulting spine specialists and physiotherapists to modify their workstations as per ergonomics. So don’t just park yourself in the office. Sit. Stand. Move. That’s the new office mantra for redemption. For nearly three long years, Divya Ahluwalia Sethi inched her...
Living legend Lata Mangeshkar, who completed a 75-year-career in music, discloses some of the lesser-known facets of her life including fighting for music royalty to working as a music director for Marathi movies under a man’s name. Even though she is not singing as frequently as she used to, t...
Telescope in Pune tracks spacecraft on Mars mission
In a major achievement, the Giant Metre-wave Radio Telescope at Khodad detected and tracked the landing of a European Space Agency spacecraft on a Mars mission Driving from Pune to Nashik, one is greeted by a variety of landscapes – mountains at a distance, villages, towns, even a brief stretch...
Camera Cuisine The New Haute Food
The images captured by people of their food, experiences and observations are connecting unknown worlds together. Be it the farmers from Uttarakhand winnowing rice or the arrival of kinnows from Nagpur, today everything reaches every quarter, thanks to this constant intrigue on what’s on the nei...
New Indian tales for young ones
Is your child on a steady diet of Geronimo Stilton, Noddy, Enid Blyton and the Ladybird series, with the odd Amar Chitra Katha thrown into the mix? Here are some books by Indian authors that are immensely relatable and delightfully illustrated. Pick up these books for a child you love and he or she ...
India is a diverse country with various linguistic and ethnic influences and when we speak of Indian-ness we actually attempt to address the most important ingredient of it all – our culture. What defines Indian culture today is the context in which we look at our history, traditions, folklore,...
We all run away from enervators, preferring the breath of life an energiser can infuse in the world around! Amongst people around, you will notice two kinds of people, the energisers and the enervators. You feel automatically drawn towards the former, while even the thought of the latter tires yo...