19May2012

Fairness Products And The Unusual Racism In India

(By Sanika Natu) Every time I turn on that idiot box they call Television, apart from those daily soaps or cranked up reality shows, I stumble upon innumerable commercials. From cold drinks to toilet cleaners and automobiles to cell phones, [...]

Athirathram – The oldest Vedic ritual

12-day ritual to preserve environment, usher global peace: In April 2011, a 12-day ritual is came to a grand, majestic end in a little village in Kerala. Athirathram, or Atiratra Agnicayana, a 3000-year-old (some say 4000) Vedic ritual to [...]

(Satire) Who owns the media in India?

Thanks to Satish Oberoi who send this email… Let us see the ownership of different media agencies. NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner [...]

Changing times: More women go abroad to work

More Indian women are leaving home turf for professional, rather than personal reasons. Deepa Gupta, 22, a mathematics graduate from Ludhiana, thought it a great opportunity to go to a postgraduate course in Michigan University. Two years [...]

50 paise on its way to the oblivion?

The fifty paise coins may soon be thing of the past as there are few takers for them, despite they being a legal tender. From small retailers, auto drivers, bus conductors, grocers to customers, everyone seems to be blocking the circulation [...]

‘Women need to know their strength’

Some views of some women who made their mark Poonam Dilawri The Women’s Day has a special role in the life of those women, who work and earn for their family. Women are secure here and can work till midnight in any nook and corner of the city. [...]

Inventions that made millions!

Success stories of some people who had faith in their dreams and had the courage to follow them. It’s raining and well, I’ll pretty much do anything to keep my feet dry and odour-free. Of course, the feet-biting gumboots that I [...]

The World’s Richest Self-Made Women

Only 14 women in the world have amassed personal fortunes of $1 billion or more–just 2% of all self-made billionaires. Why so few? When Meg Whitman won the Republican nomination for California governor on June 8 it was a first for a Republican [...]

Breaking Stereotypes

Is there a place for fine arts in the modern world of science Namrita N and Sailakshmi A find out? GEORGE Santayana,a Spanish-American philosopher, once said, An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. In the current digital [...]

Face-to-face time makes us happier than Facebook

Nothing makes us happier than our families and loved ones, a new study shows, with face-to-face socialising beating reaching out to people online hands down. The Happiness Barometer, conducted in 16 countries across the globe, was based [...]