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Tamil Nadu flush with pride -
Somya Sethuraman, Hindu
In December 2011, the Government of Tamil Nadu declared that it would take steps to provide safe sanitation to all its residents by 2015. This ambitious goal led to sanitation being recognised as a priority “State” issue. In pursuit of improving sanitation services, a multidisciplinary team was formed to look into various aspects of urban sanitation. The lessons learnt in the early stages of this exercise... |
Kota’s coaching ecosystem -
Sudhanshu Mishra, Mail Today
ANAMIKA Rai left her job as UNICEF’s district mobilisation co- ordinator in Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras in 2011 to be with her son Vishvesh, who had joined Bansal Classes in Kota to prepare for IIT- JEE ( Joint entrance Examination). Reason: Vishvesh was missing homemade food. After landing in Kota she opened a mess in a double- storey house and became an entrepreneur. |
The future of the car: Clean, safe and it drives itself -
Economist
Some inventions, like some species, seem to make periodic leaps in progress. The car is one of them. Twenty-five years elapsed between Karl Benz beginning small-scale production of his original Motorwagen and the breakthrough, by Henry Ford and his engineers in 1913, that turned the car into the ubiquitous, mass-market item that has defined the modern urban landscape. |
South African cricket's star is a performance analyst from India -
Bharat Sundaresan, Indian Express
Till last year, despite his association with the South African team, Prasanna Agoram was just one of the numerous inconspicuous video analysts in IPL. Times have changed for the 37-year-old in the Royal Challengers Bangalore corner. Prasanna is now an integral part of the support staff that has led the Proteas to the top of the Test rankings. |
Mango nation -
Mint
The International Mango Festival, which has been organized by Delhi Tourism every June since 1987, showcases traditional and hybrid mangoes—from the famous Alphonso to the little-known Benishan. There are quizzes, competitions, folk performances and children’s shows, along with processed mango items for purchase. The tentative dates for the festival this year are 28-30 June. |
Coffee and the selfish gene -
D Balasubramanian, Hindu
How did coffee become more popular in south India and tea in the north? History appears to give the reason. Legend has it that in the late 16th century while Haji Baba Budan was returning from Haj through Yemen, he found people boiling coffee beans in water and enjoying the “decoction”. He then smuggled a handful of the (forbidden to export) beans with him and planted them on the Chikamagalur... |
Garam Masala: Explosive vessels -
Vikram Doctor, Economic Times
The news that the bombs used to target the Boston Marathon were made from pressure cookers will come as sadly familiar news in India. Pressure cookers may not be that common in the USA, but they are in India, and unfortunately the perverse desire to turn them into instruments of destruction and terror is well known to us too. This piece was written in 2006 and looks at our history with pressure cookers... |
Life’s about living healthier, not longer -
Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times
You may have heard it, the story about Stamatis Moraitis, the Greek who moved to the US in 1943 from his home in the island of Ikaria in the Aegean Sea. In 1976, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and given nine months to live. When nine other doctors confirmed the diagnosis, he refused to get treated and went home to Greece to die. But he didn’t. |
God of small things -
Sweta Goswami, Pioneer
For hundreds of Pakistani nationals who migrated to India in search of a better life, 60-year-old Nahar Singh has come as a saviour. Singh has given shelter to around 625 Pakistani Hindus in his two-storey residence at Bijwasan in the national Capital. Singh accommodated the victims from across Pakistan in his house, which used to bring him Rs70,000 per month from rent. |
One up on Einstein -
Paromita Chakrabarti, Indian Express
Is their child exceptionally gifted or is she just a cut above the rest? When UK-based Neha Ramu, 12, took the Mensa test (an association of people with high IQ with branches across the world) in February this year, it finally ended the suspense for her ophthalmologist parents Ramu Muniraju and Jayashree. Neha achieved a score of 162 on the IQ test — the highest score possible for someone under 18 years... |
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