India lost four of its finest and most beautiful citizens last week. Gangubai Hanagal and Damal Krishnaswamy Patammal were doyens of classical music who overcame economic and gender prejudices. Leela Naidu was the ethereal beauty of the Hindi film, Anuradha (1,2) also marked by its outstanding music score composed by Pt.Ravi Shankar. Gayatri Devi was in many ways the last of the Rajputana Royals with lineage, class and mass appeal. Rest in peace.
Thursday
Tuesday
Clones take on drugs
South Korea's Incheon airport has started using a group of cloned sniffer dogs to detect drugs. Science fiction is here and real.
Thursday
Wednesday
Monday
Follow the monsoon
Will there be sufficient rain this year? Regular updates via the Indian Met Department.
No charisma required
This article from Time magazine on the most Obama-unlike world leaders - Merkel and Manmohan Singh.
Spend,spend,spend!
Budget 2009 in India is a reaction to the current state of the world economy apart from rewarding the electorate for re-electing teh government- increase spending and cut taxes. With cold capitalism locked in the deep freeze especially in the West, what are the prospects of reforms -read here and here. Does anyone have a shadow budget to suggest?
Friday
For the off beat traveller
From the world's largest man-made swimming pool to a petrified forest, a collection of beautiful and bizarre tourist destinations.
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