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Pegasus, in the sky
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
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
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
It was a boring town. Until something fell on Minky Binka’s head…
Backpacking through Bandipur
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
Sheroo is visiting his aunt in Bandipur. Taking an early morning stroll through the forest he is amazed at the sights.
India? Simply incredible
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
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
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
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 …
Saved from the auctioneer’s block
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
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
Author: The Hindu - Young WorldNov 17
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 …