Harishchandrachi Factory: The story of beginning of film in India

I hardly knew anything about the versatile writer, director and theatre personality Paresh Mokashi till I watch the movie Harshchandrachi Factory. Earlier I had seen some movies of Amol Palekar, Dada Kondke and...

A comic comment lands actor Jayaram in fire

Chennai: Noted Malayalam and Tamil actor Jayaram never thought in his wild dreams that a simple comic comment he passed recently during a television chat show would land him in a big trouble.   Jayaram's...

India become World's No.1 Test Cricket Team

Mumbai: History created on Sunday, the 6th December 2009, in Mumbai at the Brabourne Stadium: India become world number one in ICC test ranking. The Brabourne Stadium immersed with emotions, the Indians converged...

Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak : Social reformer and sanitation innovator

Today is November 19. What is the importance of this day? Indians in India and across the globe will say it is the birthday of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. They are right. But, I am discussing about another importance of this day. Today the World Toilet...

The dangers of Bt brinjal farming in India

India is the second largest brinjal producing country in the world after China. Others are Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, Iraq and Japan.  Brinjal, which is known as eggplant or aubergine, is cultivated by a total of 14,00,000 poor and middle-class farmers on over 5,50,000...

Vandalism of Indian national pride by a small regional party

Mumbai: While the new members of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly were being sworn in on Monday at Mantralaya in Mumbai, Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Nava Nirman Sena (MNS) party MLAs pounced on Samajwadi Party leader and MLA Abu Azmi and attacked him. What provoked them...

Innalaye Thedi: A Malayalam children's film that moves adults and

The concept of yesterday, today and tomorrow is esteemed in Indian traditions and culture.  Our great scholars widely discussed the thought of yesterday while rendering discourses on our Vedas and Puranas.  In other words yesterday was our strength and...

Soumya Swaminathan wins World Junior Chess Championship

Puerto Madryn, Argentina:  Pune based Indian girl Soumya Swaminathan achieved what only five other Indians have achieved in world chess - she has won the World Junior girls chess championship at Puerto Madryn in Argentina on November 3, 2009. The 20-year-old woman...

Renowned Writer Kamala Das Passed Away

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Pune, India: Well-known writer Kamala Das alias Kamala Surayya alias Madhavikutty passed away in a private hospital at Pune, India, on Sunday early morning, the 31st May 2009,...

Renowned Writer Kamala Das Passed Away

<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Pune, India: Well-known writer Kamala Das alias Kamala Surayya alias Madhavikutty passed away in a private hospital at Pune, India, on Sunday early morning, the 31st May 2009, family sources said. She was 75. She had been undergoing...

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