If winter’s gone… Winter is on the wane and the smell of spring speaks of new hope, fresh makeovers once again. After a winter of de-monetisation, a resilient nation wakes up again to embrace the oncoming spring, getting ready to celebrate the most colourful and joyous of all festivals, Holi....
ISRO’S RECORD 104 STEALS A MARCH IN SPACE SPACE// Indian space agency, ISRO made history last month by blasting 100+ satellites into space, all aboard one of its rockets. On February 15, ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C37, carried into space a weather satellite for India (Cartosa...
PRIYANKA GANDHI RELUCTANT PRINCESS
Is it time for Priyanka Gandhi to claim her stakes in the political space? DW takes a look... It was a balmy day in March 2008 when a determined Priyanka entered the gates of Vellore Central jail in Tamil Nadu to come face to face with a woman inmate serving a life sentence for being part of the ...
Social media is redefining our daily consciousness-its relevance the excess and the banality ‘Small is beautiful’, wrote EF Schumacher. In his classic arguing for a meaningful ‘way of life’ he said that the gigantic can be ugly and overwhelming, a monster, driven by profit, unsustainable,...
VR THE WORLD: HOW DEEP THE RABBIT-HOLE GOES
Virtual Reality (VR) blurs the line between the physical and digital worlds. And as Pokémon Go showed us in 2016, there’s a huge appetite for well-designed augmented reality games. While we can’t predict what game will get kids off the couch this coming summer, it wouldn’t be surprising if ...
RUBRAN POWER ENGINE OF TOMORROW
Small-town and rural Indian are the New Growth Engines THE IMAGE OF, rural and small town India as one dominated by bullock carts, thatched huts and dung fires is in need of a makeover. The dust remains but the smoke is clearing and soaring aspirations of this population segment is proving to be ...
In sharp contradiction to the law of political participation the world over, in India it is the uneducated, and the poor who vote more than the educated middle class; Dalits and members of the “lower caste” vote more than upper castes, rural areas vote more than urban areas, women vote almost ...
Built by Dubai Parks and Resorts LLC, a Meraas holding company, the destination has 16 rides and attractions within five theme areas which are Bollywood Film Studios, Mumbai Chowk, Hall Of Heroes, Regal Plaza and Rustic Ravine. There is live entertainment and street theatre as you enter at the Bol...
CUBA WITHOUT FIDEL It was the nervous Nineties in the communist world. The Berlin Wall had been breached and the Soviet Union as the Father of the Great Communist Bloc was cracking and would soon crumble. But the little island nation of Cuba despite the overbearing capitalist/imperialist America ...
OUR OWN HEAVEN STREET AND A YOUNG GIRL WITH A PLACARD
We can’t give up hope. Even with all of the negative events that are happening. We can’t be distracted by that, we can’t let the negativity convince us that nothing can be done. Giving up without a fight is worse than giving up while fighting. For all the vicious, threatening and sexist tro...
Tharoor’s flashlight on an Era of Darkness
An Era of Darkness ranges through an impressive body of works and presents itself as an informed polemic on the ravages of colonial rule. HE’S HIGH ON the list of India’s most successful people and practically became UN secretary general. Shashi Tharoor, the most popular Member of Parliament,...
POLITICS OF RAEES; DARING OF MIYANBHAI
Badshah of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan as Raees proves that he is not only a superstar but that he has the dimaag of a baniya and the daring of a miyanbhai. The Bollywood media, obsessed with box office stats, has keenly followed, blow by blow, the battle between Shahrukh Khan’s Raees and Hrithik ...
Satish Bala Malhotra is the Chairperson of the MBD Group. She has been a pillar of strength for her entire family. She has always chosen to stay away from the limelight and has silently supported her husband and daughters in all their endeavours. Whether it was the initial days of MBD Group or the...