India

Great Women
Mother Teresa
As the day is a remembrance to great women for their outstanding achievements that are indefinable, let’s have a feel of their feats. Mother Teresa, the idle women, born for a cause and died for that cause and the cause was ‘serving Humanity’. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was the birth name assigned to the [...]

A celebration of the mystery called ‘woman’
Yes! It’s International Women’s Day (March 8th). A universal day for all women around the world to celebrate. It endows them with a sense of honor, dignity and self respect for being the person that they are. This day marks a celebration of the economic, social, cultural and political [...]

Dance in India
Dance in India, is rooted in age-old tradition. This vast sub-continent has given birth to varied forms of dancing, each shaped by the influences of a particular period and environment. These pristine forms have been preserved through the centuries, to become a part of our present culture, a living heritage which is both [...]

By Yahoo! India Movies
Wednesday Feb 17 7:43 PM
The fast, furious and fleeting appearance of King Khan in Gurgaon takes the revellers’ breath away. Even more breathtaking, however, is that SRK flew back to Mumbai the next morning, richer, reportedly by Rs 5 crore that was paid for his 10-minute cameo.
By: Dhiman Chattopadhyay and [...]

Valentines Day in India
Valentine’s Day celebration is a recent phenomenon in India but has caught the fancy of people to a great extent. Though some see it as a western import and hesitate to celebrate, there exist a large and growing number of those who love the feeling behind the beautiful and romantic festival. Especially [...]

Radicals protest against Valentine’s Day revelry across India
by Bhavesh on Thu 11 Feb 2010 01:22 PM IST |
Coimbatore /Bhopal: Ahead of the Valentine’’s Day, activists of a radical group gathered here to chart out their protest against the celebrations of romance by the courting friends and couples.
Under the banner of Hindu Makkal Katchi [...]

-Solar eclipse brings Maha Kumbh to a standstill
Last updated on: January 15, 2010 17:46 IST

The longest solar eclipse of this millenium was witnessed by a huge crowd at Dhanushkodi, in Tamil Nadu. Dhanushkodi is only 18 kms from Thalaimannar in Sri Lanka. The center line of the eclipse was at sea. Astronomers, students, tourists assembled [...]

INTERNATIONAL KITE FESTIVAL
Makar Sankranti
Colourful kites of sizes and hues.
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International Kite Festival is held at Ahmedabad on January 14 every year, to coincide with the festival of Uttarayan or Makar Sankranti. Makar Sankranti is a festival that heralds a change of season marking the movement of the sun into the northern hemisphere – [...]

Indian Mathematics
The first known use of numbers in India was in the time of the Harappans, about 3000 BC. Around this time, people in India [View map] began using the counting tokens that people were already using in West Asia [View map] . Soon afterwards, people changed over to writing their numbers down, using pictographs. [...]

MiraBai (1498 – 1547) was a Rajput princess who lived in the north Indian state of Rajasthan. She was a devout follower of Lord Krishna. MiraBai was one of the foremost exponents of the Prema Bhakti (Divine Love) and an inspired poetess. She sang in vraja-bhasha, sometimes mixed with rajasthani, in praise of Giridhara Gopala [...]