What to do when the King and the rulers themselves steal from the Treasury of the nation? This is a tragedy that India has faced again and again. And now, this has become plunder! Here is a scene from the TV series “Chanakya” where the Chief Minister catches the swindling of the national treasury by the King of Magadha himself. He calls him on it and walks out. What he says is so relevant even today. Except, that we don’t... Read more
16 year old Kelvin Doe is a young kid from Sierra Leone, an impoverished African country. In his country, he is also known as DJ Focus, because he runs a radio station. A built a radio station that he has built from discarded parts. Because there are so many blackouts, he has also built a battery to help him work through his inventions without being hindered. He now wants to build a windmill to take care of the lack of... Read more
In a survey in Sweden by Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs, a strange fact came to light recently. 2.1 percent of Swedish males aged 16 to 25 admitted that they had offered their services in prostitutio, while only 0.8% of the girls admitted so. The authorities are scratching their heads at the strange phenomenon where more men in a society are involved in prostitution than women. They are trying to come out with explanations but these are more conjectures... Read more
In 1830, the British Governor of India, Lord William Bentinck, in the 1830s, thought of demolishing the Taj Mahal and auction off the marble to the landed English gentry of that time. Even the demolition crew and machinery had entered the grounds and were ready to begin work but were only stopped because Bentinck was unable to make the scheme financially viable. Earlier auctions of marbles hadn’t succeeded, so it was felt that this would be useless. Although some discard this... Read more
Here is a TED talk by Romulus Whitaker, who is a herpetologist and conservationist now residing in India. He shares how King Cobra and Gharial – two iconic reptiles in India are being used by him to get his message across about the water pollution that we are doing. His team inserts radio transmitters into King Cobras and even Gharial to see what they do. And he was able to capture footage of a King Cobra, who only eats Pit... Read more
Dr. Kumar Vishwas has revolutionized and popularized Hindi poetry and Kavi Sammelans like no other person has ever done. He is single handedly responsible for bringing in audience in thousands to a Kavi Sammelan. Numbers that were unheard of and even unimagined. Here is Dr. Vishwas reciting his most famous poem “Koi Diwana Kehta hai, Koi Pagal Samajhta hai” in a style and way that only he can. Enjoy! Read more
Guglielmo Marconi – the father of long distance radio transmission, developer of radio telegraph system and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics in 1909 was offered a free passage on Titanic which floated off on Wednesday 10 April 1912. But he had something to finish and needed to have a stenographer along with him. So, instead he took Lusitania – just 3 days earlier. In those days Lusitania would sail out of Liverpool while Titanic was to sail out of Southampton. ... Read more
One never knows but your browser history can tell a lot about you. Government and other agencies are probably always checking browser histories for different trends and cues. This is a must listen to program! Read more
Paris Hilton seems to be having fun in India – dancing around and doing some spiritual stuff for herself. American Socialite Paris Hilton grooved to Kareena Kapoor and Shah Rukh Khan’s song Chammak Challo at an orphanage in Mumbai on Monday. And soon after, deglammed and covered up quickly for a temple visit that followed. Hilton, who is on her second visit to India, went to Ashray, a part of the Committed Communities Development Trust (CCDT). Dressed in a floral... Read more
Zakia Jaffri was at Capitol Hill trying to lobby to deny Narendra Modi the US visa – as the US seems to have become a bit lenient with him and cozying up. “If he (Modi) succeeds to become the Prime Minister, my hopes for justice, along with the hopes of hundreds of thousands of Gujarat victims will be lost. I hope and pray that never happens,” Zakia Jafri, wife of the former MP, Ahsan Jafri, said at the Capitol Hill... Read more
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