[ad_1] A Successful Function MARCH 23, 1925: The Hindu had the honour of receiving Mahatma Gandhi in its offices, in Mount Road, yesterday afternoon [March 22] on the occasion of the unveiling by him of the portrait of the late Mr. S. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar. The function was simple and impressive; and was largely attended…
[ad_1] The average city Indian speaks three or four languages and has a nodding acquaintance with a couple more. | Photo Credit: Getty Images My wifeâs maternal grandparents were a Rajput and a Malayali. Her mother married an Andhra, her sister a Punjabi. Their sonâs wife is Algerian, our sonâs is a Scot. That should…
[ad_1] A sati-stone at Veerabhadra temple in Andhra Pradesh In Europe, Christian clergy burnt alive women suspected of being Satan-worshipping witches. In Arabia, the âPeople of the Ditchâ were martyrs who chose death by fire rather than giving up Islam. The theatre of death in matters of faith is very much part of human culture….
[ad_1] To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it, mapping was an obsession. The empires that came before them, such as the Mughal and the Marathas, did not engage in cartography in quite the same way. The British needed to study the topography of what was to them very foreign territory…
[ad_1] Our schools teach us nothing about avoiding asteroids. That part of our education is left to Hollywood. | Photo Credit: Getty Images It might sound like one of Elon Muskâs children (three of whom are named X, Techno Mechanicus and Exa Dark Sidereal), but 2024 YR4 might be more destructive. For it is an…
[ad_1] I had just finished my first year at medical school, and was visiting Phuphee for the summer holidays. The days were hot but a constant breeze made the heat tolerable, even pleasurable at times. One such hot, breezy afternoon, an elderly gentleman and his wife arrived. When it was hot, Phuphee usually made ice…
[ad_1] A sentence in the first paragraph of an article, âManipur is in need of `greater common goodâ politicsâ (Editorial page, February 20, 2025), should have said: âThe State Assembly, however, has not been dissolved but kept in suspended animationâ…â, and not âanimated suspensionâ. Published – February 22, 2025 12:32 am IST [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Research has worked out that the time it would take for a monkey to write Shakespeare would be longer than the lifespan of our universe | Photo Credit: AFP There is a rite of passage in life that has been generally ignored. I was told when I was a child that beating your father…
[ad_1] Stories of the folk goddesses of India are often lost in myriad oral versions. Which ones do we consider authentic? A common thread is some form of sexual violation followed by brute violence. We can say these are tales of (almost) marriage and (almost) murder. Are these to be taken literally or metaphorically? In…
[ad_1] Things happen at home that donât happen anywhere else. At a physical level, the home provides organization, with different rooms for different activities; it is a place of comfort, cleanliness, intimacy, solitude, and creativity. And disagreements, conflicts, loneliness too. Where else but in our homes do we rip off the masks we wear to…
