Last Sunday, as you watched Mohun Bagan clinch their first I-league title in over thirteen years at Bengaluru’s Kanteerava stadium, you would have easily overlooked the man who refereed the match. Running alongside players that rainy evening was MB Santhosh Kumar, one of only six referees accredited by FIFA from India. Sadly, being one among the six in a billion is not good enough. When the 40-year old is […]
Stan Wawrinka shattered Novak Djokovic’s dream of completing the career Grand Slam on Sunday when he became the oldest winner of the French Open in 25 years. The 30-year-old Swiss claimed a famous 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4 victory to secure his second career Major after the 2014 Australian Open. It ended world number one Djokovic’s bid to become only the eighth man to secure a career Slam as he […]
Bill Gates is something of a model for education skeptics. Gates – like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Oprah Winfrey – dropped out of college. If they didn’t need a college degree, the skeptics suggest, maybe you don’t need one, either. Gates has just published a blog post with something of a reply: Yes, you do need one. “Although I dropped out of college and got lucky pursuing a […]
Siraj-ul-Haq, Jamaat-e-Islami party chief announced a 100 crore rupee bounty on the head of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Hindustan Times reported. Speaking in Rawalkot (PoK), he slammed Pakistan’s attempts to build better ties with India. “I want to say to Modi that you and your agents cannot arrest Salahuddin… And you say whoever will arrest Salahuddin, we will give him Rs 50 crore. I too say that whoever arrests […]
Varun Agarwal is a 25 years old filmmaker, entrepreneur and a bestselling author. He is the co-founder of Alma Mater, India’s biggest college apparel/memorabilia company, author of bestseller ‘How I braved Anu Aunty & Co-founded A Million Dollar Company’, and also the co-founder of Reticular, a social media marketing firm. The pursuit of his interests brought about collaborations with A.R. Rahman, Preity Zinta, and many others. In a world where […]
You would think that Bill Gates, the ever-so-friendly richest man in the world, wouldn’t be afraid of much. But as he recently told Ezra Klein at Vox, he does have some major fears for humanity. “I rate the chance of a nuclear war within my lifetime as being fairly low,” says Gates. “I rate the chance of a widespread epidemic, far worse than Ebola, in my lifetime, as well […]
A brief class by his teacher on the Rameswaram seashore on how birds fly and the locomotive force behind their flight gave former President A P J Abdul Kalam his aim in life and helped him in understanding physics better. This and several nuggets about Kalam’s life besides advice for young people on careers in areas like robotics, aeronautics, neurosciences, pathology, paleontology and material sciences find mention in a […]
Jayanth Reddy, who holds several records, believes in not only improving the state of Indian martial arts, but also says that people can live upto 150 years if only they are aware of the potential their bodies hold Watching 53-year-old Jayanth Reddy dishing out a flurry of kicks and punches during his morning training session at Jalagam Vengalrao Park can make one question if age was ever a factor for […]
A little over four years ago, I landed at Manabi Banerjee’s doorstep – armed with an idea of a person I was sure she was going to be. Between me and Banerjee, who has now become the first transgender college principal in India, stood a pile of stereotypes. Clinging steadfastly on to my new-found sympathy – yes, sympathy was what it was at best – for fringe sexual groups, […]
Mathematician John Nash, the Nobel Prize winner who inspired the film A Beautiful Mind, has been killed in a car accident along with his wife in New Jersey. He was 86. Nash and his wife, Alicia Nash, 82, were in a taxi accident Saturday, New Jersey State Police Sergeant First Class Gregory Williams told CBC News. Police responded to the accident at 4:30 p.m. local time on the New Jersey […]
