Definitely not news to wake up to, I tell you. Summary:TRAGEDY ON WHEELS A private school in Channarayapatna, Hassan district, organises film outing for schoolchildren After the movie, the school bundles more than 140 children into a goods vehicle that can accommodate not more than 20 adults Children complain of suffocation,…
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Eunuchs were those castrated servants who performed a wide variety of functions for kings in ancient and even more recent times. The special value of eunuchs (literally bed-keepers) to kings and other high-ranking officials was that they could be better trusted since they had no desire for the wives and other…
in 1952, the introduction of Charlie Brown and the comic strip Peanuts, with its clean drawings and psychological orientation, made for a stark contrast with both the clutter and the vaudeville-gag orientation in cartoon strips of the time: “Most cartoon drawing is about distraction: popular masters like Walt Kelly and Al…
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It is scary to read the statistics worldwide, and scarier to see the prognosis for India. It is still crazy how people do not understand the basic facts about AIDS AIDS = Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The villain here is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The bad news is, the HIV…
But I came across someone else that did – someone who was pretty close to one of the locations when it happened – and here is the link to his blog where he describes his experience:A Night Out In Mumbai Mumbai, or Bombay as we think of it, is where I…
It’s Thanksgiving Day across the world. It is not a traditional holiday for me; nevertheless, I’d like to take the opportunity to thank Time. Good ole Time, the Healer, the smarty who waits for no (Wo)Man.. Its best to see Time as a gift rather than as a possession. Our daily…