A Reconstructive Destruction?
A section of the Indians still exhibits satisfaction with the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Otherwise, the National Democratic Alliance, led by the PM, would definitely have failed to […]
Life From The Ice Age…
Well, Researchers have managed to grow a plant from 32,000-year-old seeds, thus, breaking the previous record of antiquity! Earlier, the oldest seed from which a tree was born was 30,000 […]
Games, Gender &…
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has made an unprecedented decision for women footballers, with the FIFA Council approving new rules, including a minimum 14-week Maternity Leave for Women […]
Up Against Orthodoxy…
Indian Historian Ramchandra Guha has described Marathi writer Hamid Umar Dalwai (September 29, 1932 – May 3, 1977) as India’s Last Liberal in his publication ‘Makers of Modern India‘. The […]
Excavated & Inferred!
They were lying in a layer of gray ash at least 2mt deep for the last 2,000 years, unnoticed! The Officials in Italy recently discovered their skeletal remains during excavation […]
The Silently Sonorous Structures
Since 1350 BC, the Colossi of Memnon – two massive stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III who reigned in Egypt during the 18th Dynasty – have been standing in […]
Larger Than Life
The phrase ‘Irreparable Damage’ has been rendered as cliché due to overuse. However, the loss – felt after the demise of some – seems indeed irreparable. Those personalities create not […]
Time Tells…
The time difference is exactly 60 years… Six-year-old Ruby Nell Bridges Hall had entered William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana, New Orleans on November 14, 1960! In a rare first, […]
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall…
The principal quality of the Great Dictators of all countries, and of all times is that they love themselves the most. They are reluctant to see anything except their own […]
