I remember a very interesting conversation with my grandfather about Kashmir relating with the remarkable speech made by K Krishna Menon at the United Nations in January 1957. Menon was at that time commanding the Indian delegation to the United Nations. Menon in a marathon 8-hour address to the world body had left Pakistan stumped and red faced as he presented the Indian defence point by point, tearing into the […]
Poovalur Jayaraman’s story is one of constant struggle. As we enter his cramped one-room house, Poovalur Jayaraman, an 80-year-old writer, is sitting on an old chair. He smiles, despite all that life has put him through. At 4am every day, Jayaraman takes out his pushcart from Nehru Nagar on Kalapatti road in Coimbatore, selling vadas and bondas for a living. But unable to put in the long hours at his […]
Bollywood has seen many successful sequels in the past, and one such highly anticipated film sequel this year happens to be ‘Rock On 2’. The movie is the second instalment of ‘Rock On’, which was a blockbuster musical outing in 2008 The high-octane trailer of ‘Rock On 2’ is out and we can safely say that the new star cast has definitely added a freshness to the sequel. The film […]
What does a water tanker driver do? Presumably, the obvious answer is that he transports water. 99% of the time, that would be right. However, this water tanker driver from Bengaluru had a relentless dedication towards his passion for bodybuilding and achieved an almost insurmountable feat. G. Balakrishna, a tanker driver from Bengaluru, just earned the title of Mr Asia 2016 in the Philippines. This was a culminating achievement in […]
Read how one man’s vision and perseverance led to the creation on India’s only man-made sanctuary. It took 15 years of convincing villagers and enlisting their participation, but the beautiful forest is now replete with fauna and flora. Although the man is no longer among us, his legacy still exists for all to see, appreciate and enjoy. Truly, a life well spent! When a journalist named D. M. Mohite visited […]
Shivaay trailer 2 is more impressive and sees Ajay Devgn as a protective father who goes at length to rescue his daughter, played by Abigail Eames. Shivaay has a new trailer and Ajay Devgn has revealed a new facet, both of his personality and of the film. While the first Shivaay trailer was high on action sequences, this trailer is all about beautiful bonding between a father and daughter. Ajay, […]
You are from good families right?” “You will not get boys home? See you can have friends but not boyfriends” “No loud music or boys. And no parties” “You are single girls. We don’t want nuisance.” “You work late nights? So you will come home late?” “Why are you unmarried and living alone?” Why? What? When? Where? Who? How? Women in India don’t have to be journalists to know about […]
“These women are role models. This is an investigation into why very few women enter science. And we are looking for answers,” says Aashima Dogra. Sushama Agarwal has been a mathematician at the Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Madras in Chennai for almost two decades. Her expertise lies in “functional analysis”, a branch of applied mathematics. Sushama is also possibly, one of the first […]
She weighs half a tonne, believe it or not. This Egyptian woman, tipping the scales at about 500 kg, is thought to be the fattest woman alive, media reports said on Sunday. Only 36, Iman Ahmad Abdulati has not left her home in Alexandria for 25 years and is unable to move from her bed or even roll over because of her enormous size, the Daily Mail reported. She relies […]
According to a new study, a natural compound found in onions may help treat the most common type of ovarian cancer. Researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan studied the effects of a natural onion compound, onionin A (ONA), on a preclinical model of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) both in vivo and in vitro. Previously, researchers found that ONA suppressed pro-tumour activation of host myeloid cells. According to a 2014 review […]
