I got to see only brief glimpses of it on the TV, but the moment I came across this video below I decided I must have it here to share with my readers.

That he is close to the Congress party was evident when he got that party’s nomination for the prestigious Trivandrum seat in the last elections. But given his high profile and international repute, it remains a mystery how he could agree to slip into a much smaller shoe of a minister of state.

Thinking about it a little differently I believe that the comment-makers feel so near to the environment causes that the last thing they need to bother is sharing their personal details. If you read the comments you’ll see I’m not off the mark.

You can’t blame him for aiming something improbable. Because Usain Bolt, for all his superhuman effort, was like a man possessed as he ran the fastest 100m ever. He broke his own Beijing record a year back with a scorching 9.58 seconds for the dash.

A story in today’s Telegraph informs that a single bolt of lightning killed 9 people in a village in Burdwan, 135km from Kolkata. They were part of a gathering that in fact assembled to mourn the death of a person. As a cruel twist of fate, the son and daughter-in-law of the man in whose […]

This one statistic has a strong potential. It conveys the impression that India is a highly literate country. The truth is however vastly different. What’s the stat anyway…! Well here it is. Mohan Jatua, the MoS for I&B, informs, “More than 74,000 newspapers are registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (RNI).” But wait, […]

It’s hardly a surprise that Bollywood makes more than what Hollywood makes in a year. But if the ‘more’ is nearly double, then one needs to sit up and take note. I said ‘nearly’, because according to the figures by Times Insight Group, India with prime producing centers at Mumbai, Chennai, and Hyderabad made 1132 […]