Kapila Vatsyayan, who died on 16 September 2020, was the architect of cultural institutions from IGNCA to the Central University of Tibetan Studies. She advised Nehru, Indira, and Rajiv Gandhi.
No direct observations of any star exceed the Chandrasekhar limit. The theoretical physicist's calculations have helped so far to understand supernovas, neutron stars, and black holes.
Persis Khambatta rose to international fame in 1979 after playing Ilia in Star Trek, for which she shaved her head. Actor Kabir Bedi remembers her as 'a kind, sensitive person.'
Protima Bedi was a model, Odissi dancer and sanyasin before a landslide claimed her in August 1998. In one of her last letters, she wrote she was ‘finally at peace’.
From the Sangh agenda to Pakistan policy, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a man of contradictions. On his death anniversary, a look at a political life that defied pinning down.
In a generation when women’s aspirations were often softened to fit domestic frames, Mangala Narlikar refused to choose between academic pursuit and caregiving.
Dadabhai Naoroji was part of the 'Young Bombay' reformist clique group, which had progressive views on women’s education and rationalisation of religious practices.
Manekshaw was gravely injured at the battle of the Sittang Bridge in 1942. That didn’t stop him from cracking up the doctor treating him with his trademark humour.
Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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