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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... |
The happy marriage of technology and tradition -
Gowri Ramnarayan, DNA
Technology and tradition. Uneasy partners? Enter the world of Carnatic music, Chennai, and see their happy, happy marriage. For Indian musicians, earning dollars-pounds-euros through intercontinental Skype teaching is the obvious gain. But the hi-tech skills of present-day Carnatic musicians have also reduced the menacing colossus of yesterday — the reviewer/critic... |
At Nalanda, science first met spirituality -
Claude Arpi, Pioneer
Recently, I had the chance to listen to a long talk by the Dalai Lama. I was surprised as he repeatedly said that there is no such thing as ‘Tibetan Buddhism’, even less ‘Lamaism’. The so-called ‘Tibetan Buddhism’, he said, has entirely been borrowed from India, more precisely from Nalanda. In recent times, the name of the ancient university has been in the news... |
Thatcher, Chandraswami and I -
K Natwar Singh, Hindu
India House is among the better known diplomatic establishments in London. I first set eyes on the imposing building in 1952, when I was a student at Cambridge University. Thirty years later I entered India House as Deputy High Commissioner. One of my less attractive duties was to meet the unreasonable demands of visitors from India. Not all were disagreeable but many were. |
Jasuben Pizza: Success story of Gujarati enterprise? -
Partha Ghosh, Economic Times
In Narendra Modi's Gujarat, the pizza is certainly not Italian. Enterprising Gujarati entrepreneurs have converted the oven-baked, flat, round bread, which took birth in Naples, into a desi delight. It has a crunchy and biscuit-like crust, is laced with sweet tomato puree (no seasoning, just black pepper to flavour it), and has a humble topping of finely chopped onions... |
The Marwari business model-II -
Harish Damodaran, Business Line
The Marwaris represent the only business community one would truly call pan-Indian. For a cluster of Bania/Jain merchant castes originally from the Marwar (Jodhpur), Bikaner and Shekhawati desert tracts of Rajasthan, their sinking roots into the business landscape covering virtually the whole of the country is a remarkable phenomenon. Till around the 16th century... The Marwari business model-I |
Rolling Kal strikes gold -
Rasheeda Bhagat, Business Line
I am mad at Kal Raman — he’s kept me waiting for 45 minutes. I threaten to leave, but don’t because he has a great story to tell — a textbook rags-to-riches tale. When he finally arrives, I mention punctuality, but he is sufficiently, and smartly, contrite. He isn’t feeling too well, and so on. In two minutes, I can see why the man who couldn’t “even say ‘My name is Kalyan Raman in English without shivering’”... |
An Indian races to the moon -
Devangshu Datta, Business Standard
In the bureaucratic universe, projects going over schedule are the norm rather than the exception. But in the physical universe, astronomical bodies keep to rigid timetables and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has to meet one of those immutable deadlines. ISRO is scrambling to ensure that its Mangalayaan mission, which will put a spacecraft in orbit around Mars... |
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