A lawmaker in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh has been praised for using his own money to save four trees. Bode Prasad spent 100,000 rupees (£1,200; $1,546) to relocate the peepal trees which were due to be cut down to make way for a section of the Vijaywada-Machilipatnam highway. Mr Prasad said he had seen these trees since his childhood and did not want them to be destroyed. […]
Before he met Michelle, former United States President Barack Obama asked another woman to marry him. But then politics got in the way. These revelations have been made in a new Obama biography titled Rising Star. Its author, David J Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who won the prize for his biography of Dr Marin Luthor King, talks of Obama’s rise to the top. “Garrow portrays Obama as a man […]
A 106-year-old YouTuber from Andhra Pradesh is winning hearts with her cooking videos. Mastanamma has more than 2,63,000 subscribers to her channel `Country Foods`, which is managed by media persons from Hyderabad, K Laxman and Srinath Reddy. On her channel, Mastanamma is seen making various local delicacies, like egg curry, fish fry, watermelon chicken, using easily available ingredients. Always clad in a simple saree, the 106-year-old chef cooks delicious dishes […]
Being honest is tough in today’s world. It gets tougher if you are in the civil services. Because everything around you is corrupted – the system, the babus, the politicians – everything. That’s why there are so many civil service officers who made it big by just giving in to the corruption. They accepted bribes in the tune of crores of rupees and until ACB or CBI showed up at […]
One part Woman, the English translation of Perumal Murugan’s novel Mathorubhagan, has just won the Sahitya Akademi award. Based on a possible ancient cultural practice among people living around Tiruchengode in Tamil Nadu, the book faced much chagrin back in 2014 from many right-wing outfits and triggered animated debates over the freedom of expression. Many vociferous protests led by local groups alleged that Murugan had hurt community sentiments, defamed women, […]
“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.” That’s the Charlie Chaplin quote I thought of when I saw Miss Imsong’s satirical video ‘Presumptous Chinky Assumes North Indian Stereotypes’. What a way to turn the tables on the very people who pigeonhole you into a stereotype, I thought. Imsong has cleverly taken all the stereotypes imposed on the seven (mostly ignored) Northeastern states and turned […]
Men should not clip the”wings of women and let them fly”, Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai said as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres designated her as the youngest-ever ‘Messenger of Peace’. “The role of men, fathers and brothers is really important. There were so many girls just like me in Swat Valley who could have spoken out but their fathers did not allow them, their brothers did not allow them to do […]
CRPF Commander Chetan Cheetah was finally discharged from the hospital after an admittance of 50 days, most of which was spent in intensive care, on Wednesday. Chetan was not shot just once or twice, but nine times, in an encounter with a group of terrorists in Kashmir. This happened nearly two months ago, with Chetan suffering bullet injuries in several places, including his brain, abdomen, and eyes. “His blood pressure […]
After 51 years of existence, the Border Security Force (BSF) has made history by appointing its first woman field officer. Tanushree Pareek, a 25-year-old from Bikaner, Rajasthan, became the first woman to join the BSF in the officer rank. She had been selected after clearing the all-India examination conducted by UPSC in 2014. She had to undergo 52 weeks of an intensive training programme that comprised of training, intelligence gathering, […]
By Gemini Dhar (Take Charge expert and author) Single women, yes. But by choice or compulsion or fate? Being single or becoming single after years of marriage is a rising trend. The relationships of yesteryears when men and women stuck together through thick and thin or tolerated each other till death is now history. Modern-day girls, women, and even grandmoms are learning and earning. Some of them are doing it […]
