Posted in Cultural, From Headlines, General, News and Views, tagged Entertainment, Father of the Nation, Lost Speech, Mahatma Gandhi, News, Politics, Rajmohan Gandhi, Rare English Recording, Religion on 22 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
Mahatma Gandhi rarely spoke in English. He would address crowds in Hindi, Gujarati and even other Indian languages but never in English. There have been only two instances when he addressed people in English.
A rare recording of his speech in English made 7-8 months before his assassination has been found in Washington DC. This speech [...]
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Fashion Designer Satya Paul has done it again. This time for designing a Google inspired saree called Ooogle / Oogle. Satya Paul has been known to be inspired by nature, people, and beautiful things around him.
Indian Actress Aditi Govitrikar, Mrs. World of 2001, modeled for (g)oogle saree in India Fashion Week 2007 under Pop Art [...]
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Amitabh Bachchan and Anil Ambani have come together to form a new film production company. This deal is worth Rs. 1500 Crore. The deal includes film production, television series, reality shows, Internet and mobile content besides live shows. Reliance Big Entertainment will be taking care of the managerial aspects of the projects in the deal [...]
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Indians want Obama as the new President of the United States. In India, Obama leads McCain by 33 to 28 percent, according to the survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. The survey covered 24,000 people in 24 countries between March 17 and April 21.
Mc Cain is not the preferred candidate in any country except [...]
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Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal along with wife Supriya are spending the Memorial Day weekend at Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s ranch in Arizona. There is speculation that Jindal might be called Mc Cain’s Vice President. Mc Cain may present Jindal with the opportunity to speak at the 2008 Republican National Convention, in a similar fashion [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Cultural, From Headlines, Metro News, Mumbai, News and Views, tagged Architecture, First Billion Dollar Home, Mukesh Ambani, News, Nita Ambani, Reliance India, Technology on 4 May 2008 | 15 Comments »
To everyone’s surprise, price tagged at $ 2 Billion, Antilla (named after the mythical island) is in India and is World’s First Billion Dollar Home. Indeed, like its name, it houses stuff that surrounds myth!
Owner is India’s richest, Mukesh Ambani of Reliance fame whose net worth was 43 Billion in March of this year and [...]
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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 | 6 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 | 13 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 In My Opinion, Information, News and Views, Observation, tagged India, News, Male Child, Daughters, Feticide, Ifanticide, Son Preference, Sex Ratio, Abortions, Save Girl Child 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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Posted in Education, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Observation, Tech News, tagged Evaluseserve, Indian Economy, News, NRIs, Reverse Brain Drain, Technology, US Economy on 31 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
India has initiated reverse brain drain. Realizing how many scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionals they loose every year, Indian government is taking steps to lure them back to the country.
The scheme for NRIs, though still in infancy, has already netted at least 40 PHDs and MTechs working in academics or industry in countries like [...]
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Posted in From Headlines, Information, Interesting, Movies, Sports, TV, tagged Animation, Comic, Davis Cup, Jai Natarajan, Leander Paes, Leander Sport Private Limited, News, Sports, Superhero, Tennis, The Magic Racquet on 31 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leander Paes, who has saved India from several Davis Cup disasters and a medal hope at the Beijing Olympic Games in August, is going to play a miracle man who helps school kids in cartoon television series called The Magic Racquet.
Not much has been disclosed about the story line. Paes will play roughly his [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Delhi, Indian History, Interesting, News and Views, Society, Travel, Writing, tagged Author, British School, City of Djinns, Fiction, India, Jaunapur, Mother Teresa, Olivia, The Last Mughal, William Dalrymple on 31 March 2008 | 5 Comments »
William Dalrymple’s love for India is not unknown. He has penned six books, of which five have embraced Indian life as their storyline and have been award winning. India has sewn itself into his life since long now with him spending a lot of time in New Delhi India apart from London and Edinburgh.
However, [...]
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Posted in Announcements, From Headlines, Interesting, News and Views, Tech News, tagged 612 Scaglietti, Ferrari, Gabriel Lalli, Harvey Nichols, India, India's Billionaires, Luxury, News, Rattan Tata, Retail, Rolls Royce, Tata Motors on 31 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ferrari has announced that they will soon open 6 showrooms in India by 2010. There are about 36 Ferrari cars plying in India which were sold through Ferrari’s Singapore hub. Ferrari has five models which range between $276,280 on the lower side to $ 363,120 at the upper end.
Ferrari recently - and rather bravely [...]
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Posted in Announcements, Chennai, Delhi, From Headlines, General, In My Opinion, Interesting, Kolkata, Mumbai, News and Views, Observation, tagged 2008, carbon emission, Earth Hour, global warming, India, March 29, San Francisco, Sydney on 28 March 2008 | 12 Comments »
India has decide to stay illuminated when the world will switch off for Earth Hour between 8 and 9 pm on March 29. As of today no Indian city has officially joined the campaign to black out to show that India too is in the crusade to reduce global warming.
So far, 35 nations, 370 cities, [...]
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Posted in Books and Literature, Cultural, Dance and Drama, Entertainment, General, Interesting, Kolkata, Metro News, Movie Reviews, Movies, News and Views, tagged Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Jaya Bachchan, Director Jayabrato Chatterjee, Usha Uthup, Mir Taqi Mir, Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali, Cinema, Om Puri, Mallika, Shahana Chatterjee, Dom Mores, Last Train to Innocence, MAMI International Film Festival on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
Kolkata is celebrating Jaya Bachchan’s latest in Bengali cinema Lovesongs -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. However Bengali has been used sparsely in [...]
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Posted in Announcements, Cultural, Entertainment, From Headlines, Interesting, News and Views, tagged Altagamma, Brad Pitt, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, CII, Diesel, DKNY, George Clooney, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Tom Cruise on 27 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do not be surprised if you see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Tom Cruise wearing a Sherwani. Italian fashion giant, Giorgio Armani, has included sherwani in its collection.
India is 3rd most brand conscious country in the world with Greece leading the way followed by Hong Kong.
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