Indian army is surely ruling the popularity charts on Facebook! For the second time in as many months, the Indian Army’s Facebook page has topped the People Talking About That (PTAT) ranking for Facebook pages. And with this, it has managed to leave behind a host of foreign government organisations including the CIA, FBI, NASA and even the Pakistani military. “It is big for the army’s social media. Only two […]
She won the election by leaning right on national security and left on the economy. Now comes the fallout AMERICA’S first woman president won last November by taking two large risks, transforming an election campaign that had seemed to be slipping away from her. One of those gambles, her hard-edged response to the Cuban-refugee crisis and post-Castro turmoil on that island, may yet pay off for her. The second, her […]
Mumbai has been ranked the most expensive among nine key Indian cities for the third consecutive year, while Chandigarh bagged the best value destination for a city break in a survey released on Monday. “TripIndex Cities” an annual survey by TripAdvisor, a travel portal, compared the cost of a three-night break during the summer travel months of June to August. The survey conducted in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, […]
1. Alleppey & Venice Labelling Alleppey the ‘Venice of the East’ might be cliche for travel writers, but this little town in true sense resembles Venice. Where else will you find a unique crisscrossing network of canals spread out across the center of town which thatched country boats punt along leisurely? HolidayIQ Traveller Abhishek Easwara says, “Whoever conferred the title of ‘Venice of the East’ to Allapuzha was spectacularly correct. […]
In the night of the tyrants, Who calls my name from afar? I must climb the scaffolding of the gallows to see beyond the prison parapets. Have they waylaid the caravan of the new dawn? “Majrooh Sultanpuri”I had turned up in Mumbai to cover the aftermath of the 1993 bomb blasts. On my way to meet Rusi Karanjia editor of Blitz and journalist Olga Tellis, at the US Club in […]
It was 31st July 1940, exactly 75 years ago to this day, when a man called Ram Mohammad Singh Azad went to the gallows at Pentonville Prison, UK and was buried within the prison grounds. He had killed a British General in cold blood. And during his trial he had laughed at the judges and had refused to take oath on a holy book, choosing instead, a love story for […]
If there is a single place that has been much maligned in an otherwise celebrated Kerala, it’s Malappuram in the north. In the past, what brought disrepute to the district was its disproportionate socio-economic backwardness; but since the emergence of the Hindutva forces, it has also been burdened with charges of fostering Islamic fundamentalism. Although still comparatively backward, the district today has a completely different socio-economic profile, with some sparkling […]
The ‘invisible’ man was in the audience. On stage, a woman grappled with the choices she’d made. “Yeh kaisi uljhan?” she asks. The audience watched as the dilemmas unfolded and he, the invisible man, was among them, submerged in darkness, wondering if this was the world for which he was destined. Vijaydan Detha’s play Uljhan is about a woman who falls in love with a feral man and leaves her […]
The lie of multitasking and why you need to stop If you think that multi-tasking is an indicator of efficiency and smartness, then this is the article for you!! Actually, multitasking is a bad idea; rather, frequent multitasking shrinks your brain and lowers your IQ. And wait, there is more….well, far from saving you time, multitasking cuts your productivity by a whopping 40 percent! That’s because as you switch from […]
