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How does one depict something that humans spend most of their lives trying to understand and appease – something that has no definite form, shape or gender. Raja Ravi Varma did just that, by depicting scenes from Indian mythology and scriptures in his oil painting renditions.
Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906) was an Indian painter, whose paintings [...]

A bit about the history of the Commonwealth Games …
The Commonwealth Games had their grand origins in an 1891 editorial in the Times by the Reverend Astley Cooper who suggested a “Pan-Britannic-Pan-Anglican Contest and Festival every four years as a means of increasing the goodwill and good understanding of the British Empire”.
The idea began to [...]

Africa’s greatest predicament is how it will raise its people above the poverty line. Empowering a battered generation is a gargantuan task, further complicated by the constant threat of famines and wars that have afflicted this strikingly beautiful continent in the last century. It is no surprise then, that politicians globally have an apathetic view [...]

Africa’s greatest predicament is how it will raise its people above the poverty line. Empowering a battered generation is a gargantuan task, further complicated by the constant threat of famines and wars that have afflicted this strikingly beautiful continent in the last century. It is no surprise then, that politicians globally have an apathetic view [...]

Mathematics has always inspired tragic personalities, but one stands a class apart — Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan, a poor college drop whose ideas underpin the digital revolution, lived a poignant but immensely fruitful life. Ramanujan, who died aged 33, ended up at Cambridge in the early 1900s and was acknowledged as a mathematical genius.Later dubbed the [...]

An interesting article on BBC talks about how a temple in India delivers 15000 coconuts daily for its rituals. Coconuts are common offerings during Hindu religious ceremonies and are used for initiation and inauguration rituals.
The Devotees of Maa Tarini temples in Orissa, have a creative and ingenious and elaborate system in place. “It’s a religious [...]

Humans always hold institutions that survive despite numerous hurdles in high esteem. In India, Delhi Metro system has risen to become one such unassuming institution. The Delhi metro was completed in record time and roughly Rs 7 billion under projected cost.
At the age of 74, Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, the Managing Director of the Delhi Metro system, [...]

On his recent visit to Pakistan, US President George W Bush met with Pakistani cricket captain Inzaman-ul-Haq and opening batsman Salman Butt on the grounds of the US embassy in Islamabad. The baseball-loving leader was shown how to bat and bowl using tennis balls instead of harder cricket balls.
As an outcome of his visit, [...]

“Today, Mr. President, we have made history”, was how Mr. Manmohan Singh expressed his delight to his visiting dignitary, Mr. George W. Bush, and the barrage of media.
India and the U.S have signed a landmark nuclear deal that would ease the US Civilian Nuclear Technology to an energy deficient India. In exchange, the US [...]