Nandan Nilekani, who heads the Unique Identification Authority of India aims at provide unique ID numbers to all Indians. Nandan Nilekani said the unique ID number will not substitute other existing numbers a person may have which includes PAN, passport number, ration number. Rather, it will be an additional, unique number to be cited along [...]

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The Great Hotels of the World released a list of the most extravagant and unusual guest requests they’ve experienced as part of their 91 Days of Summer campaign. News.com.au has compiled a selection of the 10 most extravagant requests and the 10 strangest, based on the Great Hotels of the World’s list. Simply strange requests [...]

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See this poignant music video “gaon chodab nahin’ directed by KP Sasi which speaks of the woes of the tribal people- the adivasis when their land and homes are snatched away from them in the name of development. The lyrics are touching- especially if you understand the language

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This one’s even more fascinating than the High Court decision legalizing homosexuality in India. Yoga guru, Baba Ramdev quoting Spanish psychiatrist Enrique Rojas, contended that homosexuality is a disease that is curable. “It can be treated like any other congenital defect. Such tendencies can be treated by yoga, pranayam and other meditation techniques,” he said [...]

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So you can roll out the perfect aalu parathas, thread a needle with dexterity and do embroidery as well? What’s so great about that? Can you do these with your feet? Confused? Watch this courageous lady brimming with confidence go through life with the normalcy of any of us. She has no hands. I couldn’t [...]

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Now you needn’t be plagued by your bai’s complaints that there’s no water to wash your clothes. A new environmentally friendly washing machine — that uses only one cup of water and leaves clothes virtually dry — is set to go on sale next year. The technology, developed at the University of Leeds, aims to [...]

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Why am I not surprised with the results of this survey? India’s babudom is under fire. A business survey showed that India’s ‘suffocating bureaucracy’ was the least efficient. The survey said working with the country’s civil servants was a “slow and painful” process. They are a power centre in their own right at both the [...]

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A young girl was barred admission into an MBBS course at the Sri Guru Ram Das Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Amritsar, a Sikh minority institution, on grounds that she plucked her eyebrows. Endorsing a hardline stand by high priests of Sikhism that she violated a fundamental tenet of the religion by plucking her [...]

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Even as the news channels flood us with a surfeit of visuals, telling us about the abominable attacks of Indians in Australia, a new fashionable term ‘racism’ enters our jargon. Racism is not a recent phenomenon, nor is it confined to one country or region. Racism is a global attitude, which strangely seems to be [...]

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I loved watching India’s youngest minister at 28, Agatha Sangma taking the oath. Determined to wade her way through tedious Hindi, she fumbled but finally managed to win applause and our hearts. Did you know that Agatha’s sister is called Christie? No big mystery this! Purno Sangma’s passion for Agatha Christie’s mysteries led to naming [...]

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