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A lake comes to life -
Pankaja Srinivasan & Subha J Rao, Hindu
It feels like a carnival at Ukkadam, home to the Periyakulam Lake. It is the final Sunday of volunteering, as the monsoons are expected any time now. School children are shrill with excitement, college students jump out of buses laughing and shouting out greetings; picnic umbrellas dot the area. The CRPF, the police and people from the Armed Forces work together in precision, as if performing a drill. |
They have the answers -
Mayank Austen Soofi, Mint
Entry restricted—this office in south Delhi’s Zamrudpur village is for quizzers only. Books, eclectically dissimilar books, everywhere. Pakistan: A Hard Country next to World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary. And Puranic Encyclopaedia atop Larousse Gastronomique. The readers of these well-thumbed volumes are the people who should be your new best friends—they frame questions... |
Revealed: Prince William's Indian ancestry -
Mario Ledwith, Daily Mail
DNA testing has revealed that Prince William will become the first British monarch of Indian ancestry. A clear genetic line has been drawn between the Duke of Cambridge and a half-Indian woman, potentially marking him as the first King whose bloodline is descended from the country. Analysis of saliva samples on relatives of Prince William... |
160 years on, the telegram retires to the museum -
Chandan Mitra, Pioneer
This had to happen sooner or later. Barring Generation Ex, probably none will shed tears over its demise. The once-ubiquitous telegram lost its utility with the advent of mobile telephony and the internet. The world’s way of communicating changed dramatically and what was once a revolutionary and the fastest mode of communication became redundant... |
Indonesia gifts U.S. a Saraswati statue -
Hindu
Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, has gifted an imposing 16-foot-high statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of education and wisdom, to Washington DC. The goddess’ statue, on top of a lotus, stands tall a block away from the Indian Embassy in front of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi. Hindus constitute just three per cent... |
Bangalore’s rain-catcher: A man who never had to pay corporation for water -
Nilofer D'Souza, FirstPost
Heavy rains in the past three days have cooled Bangalore and also helped raise water levels in dams that supply water to the city. But there is one man in the city who is unhappy. “We should learn to keep the rains in our homes,” says AR Shivakumar, senior fellow and principal investigator- RWH, Karnataka State Council... |
How two former i-bankers of Indian origin are re-engineering dosas to please American palate -
Sanjay Vijayakumar, EconomicTimes
Two former investment bankers, who have together managed about $1.5 billion (nearly Rs 8,500 crore) in assets, are convinced that the dosa has what it takes to help Indian cuisine enter the big league in the West. For more than a year now, Jawahar Chirimar and Sam Subramaniam, who have more than 20 years of experience... |
Bronze bonanza -
Pushpa Chari, Hindu
The Nataraja icon has been variously described as “the most perfect representation of rhythmic movement in art,” “a visual sermon expounding compassion and universal power” and as portraying the “very essence of the ongoing unending cycle of life, death and rebirth.” In his superbly crafted collection of Natarajas now on view at an exhibition, shilp guru L. Rathakrishnan captures... |
In the Himalayas, journeys of faith and flowers -
Michael Benanav, NYT
Deep in the gorge that it carves through the Himalayas, the Alaknanda River rushed beneath a footbridge. On the right bank sat a busy Indian village, Govindghat, its one street lined with spartan hotels and shops brimming with Sikh religious items and souvenirs. On the left bank, a man wearing a frayed sweater-vest and a ski cap greeted me imploringly. |
The extraordinary dream of ordinary lives -
Shamik Bag, Mint
As a commanding officer in the Indian Air Force, retired Group Captain Samarjit Dhar believes he’s always had an eye for achievers. And there she was—the young girl from whom Dhar had bought eggs at the Dum Dum Park bazaar in Kolkata for the past 12 years. Dhar knew she had lost her father when she was 10 years old, but she had completed her schooling... |
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