Archive for the ‘ India ’ Category

Break the silence

November 19 is earmarked as the World Day for Prevention of Child Abuse, but it is not just on that day alone that one must fight against this heinous crime – we must fight it every day.

Pegasus, in the sky

Belleraphon loved adventure. And when he got a chance to slay the chimera, it was like an answer to his deepest wish.

In the land of no stories

It was a boring town. Until something fell on Minky Binka’s head…

Backpacking through Bandipur

Sheroo is visiting his aunt in Bandipur. Taking an early morning stroll through the forest he is amazed at the sights.

It’s low cost

India? Simply incredible

The ‘Incredible India’ campaign, an initiative by the Indian government to promote tourism, has won the World Travel Award 2009 for being the best campaign of the year. The reigning Miss World, Ksenia Kukhinova of Russia, presented the …

Twenty years on

It’s been 20 years since the Berlin Wall came down. It stood for nearly three decades, as the most potent symbol of Cold War divisions. Its collapse helped herald the wider collapse of Communism across eastern Europe. The East began …

At the helm

Saved from the auctioneer’s block

Arare two-volume Bible, published in Venice in 1516-17, which included an Aramaic summary and a series of commentaries by medieval rabbinic figures from the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th centuries, came up for sale at the New York auction house, …

Celebrating the Indian Navy

Warships cruising at breakneck speed, guns firing and shells sizzling into the aquamarine water – the scene seemed straight out of a war film as the Indian Navy conducted an exercise in the Bay of Bengal off the port city of Paradip. Seven ships …