She is the daughter of a daily labourer construction worker. Her foot were on ground but she wanted to gallop into the sky. She didn’t have money to buy shoes, but her legs yearned to fly. She won India most laurels, put India on the world map. Until one day, she was stripped off her dignity. She is Santhi Soundarajan. Recently, the media has been abuzz with the story of […]
AHMEDABAD: He has earned the sobriquet ‘Guru’ amongst his peers in Kenya. With a net worth of $650 million, Gujarati steel tycoon Narendra Raval (53) of Devki Group is one of the wealthiest businessmen of Kenya today. The Kenyan government recognized his contribution and conferred one of its highest title, ‘Elder of the Burning Spear’, on him. But Raval is known more for his benevolence than his riches. Hailing from […]
Wolfgang Schauble has done right by the Euro zone, but the Greeks believe that doesn’t necessarily mean he has done right by them. A Greek publication recently carried a photo of a vampire with this caption: ‘For five years now he has been sucking your blood.’ The reference was not to any vampire, but to one of the key persons in the tough Grexit negotiations, the wheel-chair bound German Finance […]
It took Frank Gregoire six weeks to learn the lyrics and piano chords to popular Bollywood love song “Tum Hi Ho.” But with the expression left on the love of his life Simran Malhotra’s face, his effort was certainly worth it. Gregoire, who got married to Malhotra on June 27 in Baltimore, Maryland, performed the song during the reception after the couple’s Sikh and Christian wedding ceremonies. “My heart sank […]
What comes to your mind when you hear the word ‘bodybuilder’? Most would say a bulky man with bulging muscles seen on advertisements for gyms and covers of men’s magazines. Very few would equate bodybuilder with a woman, much less a Indian woman. Which is what makes Ashwini Waskar, India’s first competitive female body builder, so unique. She not only defies gender stereotypes but crosses cultural barriers as well. […]
Serena Williams made Wimbledon history as the world number one became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory against Garbine Muguruza in Saturday’s final. Williams was never at her overpowering best, but she recovered from a slow start to see off the Spanish 20th seed in an 82-minute Centre court triumph that will be remembered more for its historic implications than the quality […]
When I was a 13 year old kid, I was busy worrying about my pocket money and my morning cartoons. You know, the important things in life. It’s safe to say that my list of life’s achievements at that point did not include stunning the RBI Governor with a brilliant and incredibly well informed question. When RBI Governor, Raghuram Rajan, was addressing a group of students in Mumbai, he probably […]
Delhi’s Ira Singhal topped the Union Public Services Commission civil services exam this year. But celebrations at her home are a little muted, as her parents are apprehensive about whether she will get a posting. Ms Singhal is differently abled, and her parents say although she had cleared the revenue services exam earlier, she had not got a posting. The young woman is an engineer from Delhi’s NSIT (Netaji Subhas […]
The country’s well-known “encounter specialist” Daya Nayak was suspended on Thursday after the Mumbai police officer declined to join his new posting at Nagpur fearing his family’s safety. Best known for gunning down more than 80 Mumbai underworld gangsters in the 1990s, the officer has courted controversy several times in the past — especially when he was under scrutiny for allegedly amassing wealth disproportionate to his income. Like millions of […]
It is obvious that as most other women, I was outraged by the acutely sexist Outlook write-up about IAS Officer, Smita Sabharwal, titled ‘No Boring Babu’. Somehow the volume of work that she has done thus far, her dedication and hardwork all seemed to be belittled by the mere fact that she is good looking, wears pretty sarees or carries herself beautifully. That really set me thinking about the […]
