A few years ago, Amit Onkar, a fashion technology student from Chennai, met with a terrible accident. A truck hit him when he was crossing a road, leaving him with severe brain haemorrhage. Doctors at the Columbia Asia Hospital, Bengaluru, where he was
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The summer that the Indian men’s cricket team recorded a memorable home series win against the Australians, my 11-year-old came down with chickenpox. Predictably, I followed suit, and as we were the only two in the house and life had to move on, my aunt moved in
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District Governor Elect Sayantan Gupta, D 3240, along with Dr Bina Biswas, recently called on the then President of India Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. They presented an English version of the Bengali ballad, Meghnad Badh Kabya, originally written by celebrated 19th century Bengali poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Gupta and
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Jatin Sharad Patel (47), a Rotarian of RC Bombay North West-Malad, D 3141, is the present Chair of the International Fellowship of Rotarian Photographers (IFRP), which has 390 members. The other board members — Vice Chair T Saravanaraj and
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The Jaipur Central jail has evolved into a complete sudhar ghar (correctional home) with the Rajasthan government undertaking a unique and innovative measure to transform the lives of the jail’s inmates by
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The Annual Wildebeest migration is one of the travel wonders of the world and is the largest animal migration on our planet. The sight of 1.5 million wildebeests and 200,000 zebras braving
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An estimated one million visitors thronged the two-week Surajkund International Crafts Mela at Surajkund in Haryana. Talented artists come from India and across the world to showcase the traditional handicrafts of their region. In 2013, it was upgraded as an international fair and in
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Drinking water supply is now regularly reaching to all households in Khongwing, a remote village in Ri Bhoi district, Meghalaya. Thanks to Delhi-based NGO, The Society for Action in Community Health (SACH) and CSR activities of HDFC Bank.
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Meet Kajal Roy, a village ward
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The late Prof K N Raj, one of India’s most influential economists in the 1950s and 1960s, once said that the cow was the only multipurpose animal in the world, beating even the horse. This was because a cow could produce milk, which is
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When you blend Indian cooking and German technology, the result will be some amazing mouth-watering dishes. In a live cooking demo organised by Häcker Kitchens, in association with Siemens, celebrity chef Debabrata Mukherjee from Mumbai demonstrated how even
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