Jan 8, 2023
“If you want something you never had, you have to do something you’ve never done”: Kuku Ram - Once a bonded laborer, drove rickshaw, and at present a raw sweeper in Municipal Corporation won a gold medal for India in World Body Building at the age of 53
PATIALA: At 53, former bonded labourer and second-generation contractual safai karamchari (sanitation worker) Kuku Ram, has returned with a gold medal for the country in body-building at Mr World championship in Thailand, while his disciple and colleague Mukesh Kumar of Rajpura took the silver.
Jan 7, 2023
“As long as poverty, injustice, & gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest”: Nelson Mandela’s First TV Interview of 1961, where Mandela explores the complex relationship between peace and violence as protest and negotiation tactics
The year was 1961. Nelson Mandela was already a wanted man.
Jan 7, 2023
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend”: AS Dulat, who coauthored a book with former ISI chief and described death penalty to Afzal Guru was "unfortunate" joined Rahul Gandhi in Bharat Jodo Yatra
For those unversed with his exploits, it needs to be reiterated that despite his popularity across board, this spymaster has delivered pretty little on the ground.
Jan 7, 2023
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”: Great banyan tree in Kolkata's Botanical Garden is world's widest tree with 3600 aerial roots spread in 156000 sqfeet area gives an impression of thick patch of forest
Nature has countless ways to express itself, and it is every expression is wondrous. The cycle of a seed transforming into a sapling and then growing into a massive canopy, eventually producing flowers, seeds and fruits is nothing short of a miracle.
Jan 7, 2023
“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore”: Skeletons of Roopkund Lake of Chamoli, India - legend of Nanda Devi so enraged at outsiders who defiled her mountain sanctuary that she rained death upon them by flinging hailstones “hard as iron”
IN 1942 A BRITISH FOREST guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That summer, the ice melting revealed even more skeletal remains, floating in the water and lying haphazardly around the lake’s edges. Something horrible had happened here.
Jan 6, 2023
"To no one we shall sell, to no one we shall deny or defer right or justice": Delhi High Court refuses to entertain Sameer Wankhede plea seeking protection in the disproportionate assets case, came to limelight as NCB questioned celebrities in drugs case
The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea by former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal director Sameer Wankhede seeking protection from search, seizure or arrest in a disproportionate assets case against him.
Jan 5, 2023
“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it”: Supreme Court stays Uttarakhand High Court order on Haldwani eviction, and disapproved the manner in which eviction was sought to be carried out by the Indian Railways, urges rehabilitation
The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order directing removal of encroachments on Indian Railways' land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani, which would have led to eviction of more than 4,000 families who are residing on land [Abdul Mateen Siddiqui vs Union of India and ors].
Jan 5, 2023
"There is no index of character so sure as the voice": Pahadi Mayna of Chhattisgarh reproduce an exact pronunciation as humans at times, it begin to learn human speech sounds under social relationships, for bird to talk you must intrude on its social life
What is it that enables your Mynah bird to learn to speak more than 100 words and utter as many as 30 sentences?
Jan 5, 2023
"It is in the roots, not branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies": Cherrapunji a North Eastern paradise in Meghalaya, land abundant in rainfall and popular for lush green hills and living root bridges, handmade from aerial roots of rubber fig trees
IN THE DEPTHS OF NORTHEASTERN India, within sight of the India-Bangladesh border, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren’t built—they’re grown.