Raising a toast to the spirit of wines
And much as wine has played the Infidel,
And robb’d me of my Robe of Honour — well,
I often wonder what the Vintners buy
One half so precious as the Goods they sell
‘As an actor, you live many lives’
Mita Vasisht has an indomitable image of an independent and strong-minded woman on screen. In real life, too, she is a reflection of all that and much more.
Maths, too, can be fun. Kolkata forum shows how
At school, we all fear the demon called maths. This is a common disease that every child and his parent complain while coping up with it.
Celebrating for posterity
The time for celebration of the International Day for Biodiversity, which falls on May 22, has come once again. On May 22, 1992, the work on the agreed text of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was culminated at Nairobi. However, in 2010, a serious retrospection of the issues concerning biodiversity is needed to understand the gravity of the problem.
Beep, beep, beep
Imagine this. You are in a mall and having splurged on clothes and perfumes, you stand in the queue waiting to pay the bill.
Manipur’s impasse: Efforts for Resolution on despite glitches
“Manipur has been blockaded for 40 days now.
Bengal draws up action plan to tackle human trafficking
Only recently, Mithu Das could trace her tormentors back in Gujarat where she was shuttled from town to town by her traffickers and raped by the so-called money-spinning clients.