A statue of the late pop star Michael Jackson has been installed in the southern Indian city of Chennai. The 10ft (3m) statue was sculpted by “diehard fan” Chandrasekaran, out of a single piece of black granite. Mr Chandrasekaran said he had tried to donate the statue to Jackson’s family and install it in Neverland Ranch, but had been unable to do so. The BBC was unable to independently verify […]
Srikanth Bolla, CEO of Bollant Industries, has set his sights on changing lives Get rid of him. That was the first thing that neighbours told Srikanth Bolla’s parents when they came to see him soon after his birth in a remote village in the east coast of Andhra Pradesh 24 years ago. Bolla was born sightless. That’s what, he says, scores of parents ordinarily did and still do – abandon […]
She was buried in a churchyard of the Saint Petca Bulgarian Church in the Rupite region. Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova’s interest in politics was not incidental. She was born on the territory of modern Macedonia – the land which was an apple of discord for years between Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Serbia. Her native land experienced two World Wars in which the Bulgarians and the Serbs were struggling in different camps. […]
City boy Sumesh Dugar has developed a software that can recognize emotions. Dugar, who won the top honour among 10,000 startups at Launchpad by Google, was also awarded credit worth $20,000 by Google to develop ‘TrueEmoji’ further. “Humans have allowed emotionless technology to take over their lives, which has made us robotic. My city Kolkata, which is highly emotive, made me feel this deficiency. Moreover, all over social media, there […]
A diamond ring that belonged to former child star Shirley Temple is going up for auction next month at a starting price of $25m (£17.3m), Sotheby’s says. The auction house said the 9.54-carat “Fancy Deep Blue” ring was bought by Temple’s father in 1940 for $7,210. Temple, one of Hollywood’s most popular stars in the 1930s, died in 2014 at the age of 85. A private buyer bought the ring […]
The poor housewife! She has never had it so bad. many moons back film maker Mahesh Bhatt had kicked off a storm when he had equated a housewife with a prostitute, saying she provided sex to her husband in exchange of sustenance for herself and her children. And some years back, the housewife had been clubbed with more infamy – prostitutes, beggars and prisoners – in the National Census, as […]
Five Indian women have made it to the Forbes list of world’s richest people in the world, which saw 190 women billionaires – a little over 10 per cent of the total count. Globally, the number of women in the coveted rich list declined from last year. Of the total 1,810 billionaires this year, 190 were women, down from 197 in 2015. Moreover, women still account for just a small […]
Shrikant Jichkar: Man with highest number of degree Ever wondered as to how a single man can simultaneously be an IAS, IPS, Doctor, Lawyer, MBA, PhD, youngest MLA, Painter, Photographer and an actor, all in one lifetime? Here is what more you need to know about late Shrikant Jichkar. Limca Book of World Record holder Born into a Marathi family on September 14, 1954, based in Aajangaon near Nagpur, Shrikant […]
What does it take to raise yourself out of a life of poverty and deprivation and become a successful professional? It takes grit, perseverance and a little help from friends. The rags to riches (not just in terms of money) tale of Dr Suwas Darvekar, featured on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page, is an inspiring lesson in how to live life. “My father met with an accident while we […]
“Margakke Saavilla”, a documentary on the life of Kannada scholar and rationalist M M Kalburgi, who was murdered by two unknown men on August 30, 2015. The documentary, which will be finished by the third week of February 2016, will be released in Kannada with English subtitles. “Margakke Saavilla” is being funded by Kalburgi’s student Shashidhar Thodkar in Dharwad. It features over 50 resource persons including Kalburgi’s family members and, […]
