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The “Description of the character, manners and the customs of the people of India” (pages 269-271 ) published in 1817 ( translated from a Fr...

Let’s say that you are in the park with your 5-year old son. Suddenly, another kid who is playing there comes over and slaps your son on the...

At the California Academy for Liberal Studies Early College High School at Los Angeles, Shannon Meyer threw a challenge to her students. Th...

If you had been a British historian of the eighteenth century, with some exposure to the methods and rigour of scientific research gaining ...

In the eighteenth century, education in India was all about learning the languages from different tutors and acquiring knowledge of the sacr...

In the cartoon world, the effort has primarily been to anthropomorphise the characters drawn by artists and imbue them with human skills of ...

Daughter was inconsolable after Chennai Super Kings lost in the semi-finals. “You don’t know how much I wanted them to win” she cried. Me: ...

The break of the nineteenth century was the time when the British traveler to India started to seriously record and publish observations on ...

Wayne Allwine, the American actor who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years has died at the age of 62, says this report. Amazing how so...

I recently watched a documentary on great movie-makers, in which Alfred Hitchcock explained some of his techniques. Don’t worry too much abo...

The Calcutta Review (published 1855) devoted an entire chapter (pages 158 to 196 ) on the nuances of the Tamil language, drawing upon rese...

In a Sad Sack cartoon, the Sarge would order Sad Sack, early one morning, to cut down a tree. “Smaller” he would bark after some time. “Smal...

“There is a large inverse relationship between someone's greatness of character and the likelihood that that person will one day be immo...

“Be thankful we are men of the south,” Junior said, stretching and yawning. “Southerners are we, in the south of our city in the south of ou...

"Being an Indian it is our duty to come out and vote," said Aamir Khan. "People expect politicians to solve problems immedia...

The Eclective Review ( page 523 ) published in 1821 reviews the book Sketches of India, written by an Officer for Fireside Travellers at ...

Malcolm Gladwell begins his book, “Outliers” with a story on the town of Roseto in Pennsylvania, USA. (you can read the entire first chapter...

I overheard a passenger on a plane telling his friend seated next to him that the swine flu was just a conspiracy hatched by drug companies....

“In a cavern, In a canyon, Excavating for a mine, Dwelt a miner forty-niner, And his daughter Clementine” goes the popular song. “O my darli...