MY STORY: My Husband Left My Daughter and Me for Dowry. Today, I Have a Happy Family of 54 Rachna Khanna and her 13-year-old daughter Roohani are together changing the lives of 50 children who come to their house to study every day. Here is Rachna’s journey – from the days when her husband and his family harassed her for dowry, to today, when she a proud teacher, mother, and […]
It is indeed saddening despite a stupendous number of people coming together, nearly 135 countries celebrating and the UN announcing the day as International Yoga Day, there is talk of Hindutva element in Yoga. Religion in its earliest form was seen as a binder for society, a means to bring together men and women under one umbrella. But the form that it has taken up in currently across the world […]
They live in a house that needs no fans, even when it is a blistering 40 degrees outside. They let their land bloom and bear like a forest, without any interference. They created a life for themselves that is close to nature. And the best benefit? They haven’t had to take any medicines in the last 17 years! When Hari and Asha married, they made their wedding a gathering for […]
Meera Vashisht was working on a science project in her school in Texas last year when she first heard about the Indian government’s move to replace each of the 77 crore existing bulbs with powersaving light-emitting diode (LED) ones.Meera, who was born and brought up in America and is a seventh grader in Sartartia Middle School in Sugar Land, began to think hard: would it be really possible for India’s […]
One of the healing powers in yoga lies in understanding the different chakras or the energy centres in our body and learning to work them in a way that can be advantageous to us. Yes indeed the seven chakras that are there in our body form the core source of confidence, creativity and joy. They are the source of not just effective body functioning but also the basis of systematic […]
Ahead of the World Yoga Day on June 21, on Clamorworld we have taken up the initiative to bring in a week of Yoga Awareness. In this series we will talk about the many facets of Yoga, its benefits, the reason why it is more of a way of living rather than a simple weight loss regime. The core purpose of our initiative is to break the many myths around […]
A special court on Friday convicted 11 perpetrators to life imprisonment, 12 others to seven years and one more to ten years in jail, in the 14 year old Gulbarg society massacre case. 69 people along with Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, were killed in the communal violence, that took place on 28 February, 2002 in Gujarat post the Godhra riots. As the court ruled out death sentence for the convicts, […]
Billionaire Warren Buffett has again auctioned off a private lunch to raise money for a San Francisco homeless charity, and this time the meal goes to the highest bidder for $3.4 million. The bid of $3,456,789 from Friday night’s winner, who wishes to remain anonymous, ties for the record highest. In 2012, the winner also paid $3,456,789 to become the most expensive individual charity item ever sold on eBay. The […]
No photos, no colour, but for the visually challenged – a newspaper in Braille, the universal language of raised dots and dashes, literally means a new window to the world. Government and civil society initiatives have pushed out enough books in Braille, but to know about their city, nation and world the blind need TV/radio or a patient voice to explain the news to them. India’s first registered Braille newspaper […]
A woman in Ireland carrying a dying foetus was the victim of “inhuman” treatment caused by the country’s strict abortion laws, United Nations experts said Thursday. The UN Human Rights Committee called on Ireland to “amend” its abortion laws and if necessary its constitution to protect patients and health workers who fear criminal punishment for even providing information about terminating a pregnancy. In November 2011, during her 21st week of […]
