Posted in Activities, Cultural, From Headlines, News and Views, Observation, Society, Stories and Experiences, tagged Art, Artes Mundi Prize 2008, Community Installations, Mass Marriage, Murals, News, NS Harsha, Paintings on 28 April 2008 | 1 Comment »
NS Harsha is a gifted story teller who captures everyday life from India as seen through the lens of news and world events on his canvas through the medium of paints and color.
Miniature art form is not unknown in India. In fact, it has been used through the ages to depict life from courts of [...]
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Posted in Activities, Books and Literature, Cultural, General, News and Views, Observation, Writing, tagged Arundhati Roy, Bandit Queen, Book Relase, Books, God of Small Things, India, Massey Sahib, News, Politics, The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations wit, The Shape of the Beast on 28 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
Eleven years after she won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things, 14 conversations (2001-2008 ) with Roy on her social and political activism appear in a new book The Shape of the Beast.
Even before The God of Small Things hit the world of fame, this female Rushdie of India attracted lot [...]
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Posted in Cultural, From Headlines, Humor, News and Views, tagged American Gandhi, Bernie Meyer, Dermot Butterly, Irish Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Peace Walk, Soro Orissa, White House on 15 April 2008 | No Comments »
Mahatma Gandhi never got an opportunity to visit USA and carry out a Peace Walk on its streets. But now he will.
Mahatma Gandhi has influenced leaders and people of America as much he did every where else. He kept special contact with people in USA through his letters to them. Gandhi was aware of his [...]
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Posted in Cultural, From Headlines, General, News and Views, tagged Azmet Jah, Chowmahalla, Christie's, Diamond Suit, Forbes Wealthiest, Jacob Diamond, Kohinoor, Mukarram Jah, Nizam of Hyderaband, Nizam's Jewels, Operation Polo, Out-of-court deal to unlock Nizam's millions, Privy Purse, Sardar Patel, Sotheby's on 11 April 2008 | 11 Comments »
Nizam of Hyderabad, is Fifth on Forbes ‘All Time Wealthiest’ list of 2008 with Net Worth: 210.8 Billion USD. Bill Gates is twentieth, Net Worth: 101.0 Billion USD. This is a list of historical figures who lived during the Industrial age, Information Age, Middle Ages, Ancient world and is solely based on net worth accumulated [...]
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Posted in Activities, Cultural, Indian History, Kolkata, News and Views, Observation, tagged Bengali Art, Indian Painters, Kolkata, Oil Painting, Portrait of President of India, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Water Color, Young Painter of Bengal on 7 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
“In the silence of the night when I take a break from my work, and sit alone in the balcony, I see a young boy with a bag on his shoulder and a drawing board in his hand. Black clouds cover the sky while people take shelter from the rain, but the boy sits on [...]
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Posted in Activities, From the Past, General, Observation, Photography, Travel, tagged Brahma, China, Himalayas, India, Kailash Mansarovar, Lingam, Mansarovar, Ravana, Shiva, Tibet, Travel, Trek, Vishnu on 4 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
To the Hindus, the Himalayas are central to their cosmology. The peaks are the petals of the Golden Lotus which lord Vishnu created as a first step in the formation of the universe. On one of these peaks - Mount Kailash, sits Shiva in a state of perpetual meditation, generating the spiritual force that [...]
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Posted in In My Opinion, Information, News and Views, Observation, tagged Abortions, Daughters, Feticide, Ifanticide, India, Male Child, News, Save Girl Child, Sex Ratio, Son Preference on 3 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
Son preference in India is a well documented fact and its implications on skewed sex ratios, female feticide and high child morality rates is no news either. For over a century India has shown marked gap in the number is boys vs girls born each year. With technological advancement this gap is only increasing.
Indians [...]
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Posted in Cultural, Entertainment, General, Metro News, News and Views, Observation, tagged A Ramadoss, Alcohol Consumption, Dry State, India, Law of Prohibition, Mahatma Gandhi, Pale Ale, Rt. Hon. Mike Rann, Sommelier, Tharra, Toddy, Whiskey on 2 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
Some Facts:
India is the only country in the world where age bar for alcohol consumption is 25 years.
It is illegal to directly or indirectly advertise alcoholic beverages in India.
Hinduism declares alcohol consumption as one of the five heinous crimes and is comparable to murder and adultery. A drunkard is a dead body, say the scriptures.
Broadcasting [...]
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For the travelers to the mysterious land of Indian Culture we know how confusing it can be at times. It is an ancient culture rich with confusions and contradictions that we Indians learned to live with - do we have a choice. What is merely a daily matter to us, my foreign wonderer, for you [...]
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