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, 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 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 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, 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 Activities, Cultural, Delhi, Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Interesting, News and Views, Sports, tagged Aamir Khan, Beijing Olympics, Coca Cola, Coca Cola Environment Champions, India, Kiran Bedi, Olympic, Torchbearer, Water Conservation on 25 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Aamir Khan, accompanied by five other torchbearers Dr. Narayan G Hegde- President, BAIF Development Research Foundation, Dr. Kiran Bedi - noted officer in the Indian Police Service (IPS) and founder Navjyoti foundation, Ravi Singh- Secretary General & CEO, World Wildlife Fund India and Atul Singh, President & CEO, Coca-Cola India. Y. Subhash Chandra Reddy- [...]
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Posted in Entertainment, From Headlines, General, Indian History, Interesting, Movies, Mumbai, News and Views, tagged Ameen Sayani, director Shakti Samanta, Indian Cinema, Indian Post, Kiran Shantaram, Madhubala, Madhubhushan, Magic of Films, Mahafilmpex, Manoj Kumar, Mumbai, Nargis, News, Shashikala, Stamps on 19 March 2008 | No Comments »
Venus of the Indian screen Madhubala is honored by Indian Postal Service: on 18 March 2008 a stamp was released in her memory. After Nargis, Madhubala is the second Indian actress to have a stamp released in her honor.
The Indian Postal Service organized a special two-day event in Mumbai on Indian cinema titled Magic of [...]
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Posted in Chennai, General, Movies, News and Views, tagged Biography, Chennai, Cho S Ramaswamy, Dr, Gayathri Srikanth, Movies, News, Rajnikanth, Soundarya Rajnikanth, Taj Connemera, The Name is Rajnikanth on 6 March 2008 | 18 Comments »
Here is an excerpt of an interview with an ophthalmologist Dr Gayathri Srikanth, author of yet another biography on superstar megastar Rajnikanth. This one is called, ‘The Name is Rajnikanth’.
Why did you zero in on Rajnikanth and not Kamal Haasan for your first book?
I felt he was the obvious choice because he was the [...]
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