Neerja Bhanot biopic is a reminder of the glamorous lives of ’80s Indian air hostesses
Photo Credit: Courtesy Mahrukh Chikliwala 95.2K Total Views Some people called them "glorified ayahs”, while they were patronisingly referred to in Hindi as hawayi sundaris. Yet, in the 1970s and…
Full text: Name and shame the states behind non-state actors, says Foreign Secretary Jaishankar
Photo Credit: IANS 11K Total Views Full text of the address by Foreign Secretary at the Counter-Terrorism Conference-2016 in Jaipur I am very pleased to join you all this afternoon…
Why did Ai Wei Wei risk public outrage by posing as the iconic drowned child on a pebbled beach?
Photo Credit: Neil Hall/Reuters 19.1K Total Views Thousands objected to the publication six months ago of photographs of the three-year-old Alan Kurdi’s body lying face down on a Bodrum beach.…
Did the Vikings use crystal ‘sunstones’ to discover America?
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons 26.7K Total Views Ancient records tell us that the intrepid Viking seafarers who discovered Iceland, Greenland and eventually North America navigated using landmarks, birds and whales,…