In wake of the recent controversy about a family being dragged out of a movie theatre for not standing up for the National Anthem, the real question remains unanswered. How many of us really know our National Anthem well? Here are a few facts of the National Anthem that will blow your mind False myth There was a false myth that Jana Gana Mana was written and composed by Rabindranath […]
When you meet a successful executive or business leader – I mean the real deal, not a shyster CEO of a one-person company playing make-believe – there’s a real tendency to assume he’s led a charmed life and everything just sort of fell into place. For the vast majority, nothing could be further from the truth. Many grew up with nothing and overcame significant adversity just to get to adulthood […]
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men may not have been able to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. Perhaps they should have handed the job over to these incredible elephants who worked as a team to rescue a calf from their herd stuck in a waterhole. Footage captured at South Africa’s Kruger National Park shows a tiny baby elephant stuck in a shallow ditch of muddy water. […]
Being an entrepreneur means signing up for a great deal of stress and a great deal of responsibility as you look to build your very own company from the ground up. In order to be a successful entrepreneur you not only need to have the right idea and the right work ethic to get your company off the ground, but you also need to be able to stay motivated. The […]
Faith in God and Goddesses help us in finding solutions to our day to day problems. Each mantra in Hinduism has great significance and by chanting them with utmost devotion, we derive strength to swim against the current. Dhanvantri – an incarnation of Lord Vishnu – is the God of medicines. By chanting the Dhanvantri Mantra, we can rid ourselves of all ailments, illness and sufferings. It is imperative that […]
Whether you caught a glimpse of it while flicking through the morning papers, walking past the newsstand, or while looking over at a fellow commuter on the train with his/her head buried in the newspaper, it’s unlikely you missed this advertisement today. Emblazoned with the words ‘Free electricity is coming’, the ad refers to a film on philanthropist Manoj Bhargava’s project Billions in Change — more specifically, a film about […]
In life, having just a small edge can make a super colossal difference. Many of us start our work day with an unmotivated, distracted, and foggy brain. We work all day only to realize we didn’t accomplish anything of true value. This type of performance is the enemy of success. Imagine having a powerhouse in your head that can stay laser focused on the task at hand, effortlessly learn and […]
Allahabad based chef, Ram Babu, has become a centre of attraction all over the world for his unique style of frying pakoras. Ram, 60, surprises his customers with his unique cooking techniques of dipping bare hands in boiling oil to fry pakora. He buries his naked hands into cooking oil heated up to 200C in the frying pan to fry pakora, several media reports said. People from far away come […]
With the hit television show, “Orange is the New Black” and Diane Sawyer’s primetime special, “A Nation of Women Behind Bars” the conversation surrounding female incarceration has undoubtedly expanded. The increase in incarcerated women is no recent phenomenon. Between 1977 and 2007, the number of women in prison or jail in the U.S. increased more than 832 percent—twice the rate (416 percent) men experienced. In fact, the United States has more […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday addressed the Indian community at the packed Wembley Stadium in London. Some 60,000 members of the Indian community gathered at Wembley Stdium, which hosts rock concerts and soccer matches, for what is billed as the biggest reception for PM Modi abroad. The crowd gathered here chanted Modi, Modi through his 80-minute speech. Before addressing the Indian diaspora here, the Prime Minister, in a rare […]
