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Mother Teresa saint of the media: Study -
Kounteya Sinha, Times of India
A study conducted by Canadian researchers has called Mother Teresa "anything but a saint", a creation of an orchestrated and effective media campaign who was generous with her prayers but miserly with her foundation's millions when it came to humanity's suffering. The controversial study, to be published this month in the journal of studies... |
Local flavour wins over the world -
Soumen Mukherjee, Pioneer
Among the neo-classical dances, the mask dance of eastern India Chhau is inimitable. The convoluted façades, the glittering ensembles of the performers, the cadenced thumping of the drums and the mellifluous tones of the sanai, have made Chhau popular not only in India but the world over. In Chhau repertoire there are several dance numbers which are based on episodes from the Mahabharat... |
Pamban bridge is 100 and still going strong -
DJ Walter Scott, Hindu
The Pamban rail bridge, an engineering marvel and India’s first cantilever bridge stepped into its centenary year on Sunday. The 2.06 km long bridge, the second longest sea bridge after Bandra-Worli sea link was thrown open to traffic this day in 1914 and is still going strong, providing the much needed rail connectivity to the pilgrim centre of Rameswaram. |
I used Google Glass: the future, but with monthly updates -
Joshua Topolsky, Verge
The frosted-glass doors on the 11th floor of Google’s NYC headquarters part and a woman steps forward to greet me. This is an otherwise normal specimen of humanity. Normal height, slender build; her eyes are bright, inquisitive. She leans in to shake my hand and at that moment I become acutely aware of the device she’s wearing in the place you would expect eyeglasses... |
Can Vidya Balan do an M.S. Subbulakshmi? -
Shoba Narayan, Mint
So Vidya Balan will play M.S. Subbulakshmi in Rajiv Menon’s biopic of the Carnatic legend? This is exciting news for Chennai’s music lovers. Chennai wakes up to M.S., as she is called. Her rendition of the Suprabhatam and Vishnu Sahasranamam (1,000 names of Vishnu) still remain the versions that are played at south Indian homes and temples in the morning. |
26 years ago, real special 26 shamed police & state -
Vikram Doctor, Economic Times
On the afternoon of March 19, 1987, Arvind Inamdar received an urgent phone call at his office at the Police Headquarters in Mumbai. Inamdar would retire in 2000 as director-general of police for Maharashtra, but he was in the crime division then and this call was about something odd happening in Opera House where the city's most exclusive jewellery stores... |
Pulling new strings -
Anjana Rajan, Hindu
“From Rikhi Ramji to Sanjay… I want to help propagate this tradition,” says Sanjay Sharma, grandson of the legendary instrument maker Rikhi Ram, whose name at one time spelt perfection in pitch, tonal quality and craftsmanship of every kind related to instrument making. Sharma, who spearheads an NGO called Sanjay Rikhi Ram Vadya Parampara and also retails instruments and musical aids... |
Fireball meteor rattles Siberia, 1,200 hurt -
Ellen Barry & Andrew E Kramer, Business Standard
Gym class came to a halt inside the Chelyabinsk Railway Institute, and students gathered around the window, gazing at the fat white contrail that arced its way across the morning sky. A missile? A comet? A few quiet moments passed. And then, with incredible force, the windows blew in. The scenes from Chelyabinsk... |
From Kerala to Karachi -
Thulasi Kakkat, Hindu
For more than a century, betel leaves from Tirur in Kerala have beenmuch in demand in the paan mandis of Pakistan. But rising train fares,Indo-Pak tensions and the demand for paan masala have seenthese paan mandis reduced to memories. Mustafa, 57, a betel farmer in Tirur, steps into the fields every morning with a prayer that the friendship between India and Pakistan should last and grow. |
Kumbh’s lap of luxury -
Man Mohan Rai and Ravi Teja Sharma, Economic Times
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel, the high priestess of haute couture, once famously remarked that the opposite of luxury was not poverty, but vulgarity. Chances are that she wouldn't have nurtured any second thoughts in picking up one of those uber-rich tour packages had she been alive to attend the Maha Kumbh 2013, an event where the poorest of the poor joins the mighty... |
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