New Delhi: Badminton fever seems to have swept the nation off its feet, ever since Saina Nehwal became the first ever Indian shuttler to reach the semifinals of the Olympics in 2012. PV Sindhu’s bronze at the World Badminton Championship as well as the recently launched Indian Badminton League have only served to tighten the… Read More Making a racket in a one-sport country
Flipping through the classified section of the newspaper, Nixon John sits in his Qusais flat that he shares with two others. Nixon came to Dubai in 2007. After a long waiting period where he anxiously ran from one interview to another, Nixon landed a job as a documentation assistant at an Italian Construction company here… Read More The man who dared to dream
New Delhi: A bevy of talented teenage scribes are putting their thoughts to paper in a bid to land publishing deals and make a place for themselves on Indian bookshelves. Simran Arora, a Class 10 student of Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, KG Marg, has been writing for as long as she can remember. “I approached a… Read More Bitten by the writing bug
In many ways, the CEO of Teach for India, Shaheen Mistri, is ushering in a wave of reforms in the Indian education landscape. Shaheen’s vision of social development reared its head at an early age. She has always loved working with children, having spent many a summer vacation volunteering with children, from the time she… Read More Shaheen Mistri: Be the Change
When addressing the problem of education in India, the lack of infrastructure never fails to rear its head. Aarambh, an NGO based out of Navi Mumbai (New Bombay), that works to provide education, health services and vocational skills to marginalised communities, has introduced an economical alternative in the form of the Help Desk – a… Read More Shobha Murthy: Development through empowerment
The movie making industry today is trembling at the sight of the black-flag atop a deck of intelligent minds working away at the computer screen, diligently sharing file after file of intellectual property. After having almost completely wrecked the music industry, these geeks then turned to the world of motion pictures. Online Piracy is the… Read More Piracy: Not Quite The Sinkhole
In his haste to jump off the cliff of material wealth, man has shamelessly exploited our natural resources. The earth is falling apart gradually. Recycling is hailed to be the way out because it is the only solution to environmental issues so far. There is no straightforward way of recycling metal, plastic and even defunct… Read More Recycling : The Pyrrhic Victory
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