Born: October 10, 1906, Chennai Died: May 13, 2001, Chennai Awards: Padma Bhushan, Filmfare Award for Best Story, Padma Vibhushan Nearly 70 years ago, India’s greatest living writer in English, took out a brand new exercise book and wrote in it: “It was Monday morning.” With those four words, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan (just R.K. Narayan to most) took off on …

Kiran Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking (retired in 2007) woman officer who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her experience and expertise include more than 35 years of tough, innovative and welfare policing. She has worked with the United Nations as the Police Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations. She …

Charlottetown, PE, Canada – October 3, 2016 – The Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association broke the Guinness World record for the World’s Longest Lobster Roll at the Prince Edward Island International Shellfish Festival; the final lobster roll length measured in at 120 Feet (36.5 metres). The Prince Edward Island Fishermen’s Association broke the record for the World’s Longest Lobster Roll …

Publisher: G.P. Putnams Sons/Penguin Random House Pages: 448 Price: Rs 399 India, losing its patience over continuing acts of hostility emanating from its neighbour, and Pakistan, where jihadi elements are gaining primacy, seem to be drifting towards war and an audacious terror operation seems to make it a certainty. But is it just the inimical forces responsible for what is …

Dhirubhai Ambani — Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani, one of the leading Indian businessmen, was born on December 28, 1932 in Chorwad, Gujarat. Popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani, he heads The Reliance Industries, India’s largest private enterprise. Dhirubhai started off as a small time worker with Arab merchants in the 1950s and moved to Mumbai in 1958 to start his own business …

Daler Mehndi (Born: 18 Aug 1967) is a bhangra / pop singer from India. Mehndi was a student of traditional Punjabi music and his first album broke sales records in India. Since 1995 he has recorded several highly successful albums in India, and also sung in several Bollywood movies. His international popularity has grown in recent years allowing him to tour …

India’s hockey legend Mohammad Shahid was known not just for his excellent dribbling skills, but also considered as one of the greatest players of all time. The 56-year-old, who was battling kidney and liver problems, breathed his last on Wednesday at a Gurgaon hospital. He was part of the Vasudevan Baskaran-led Indian team that clinched the gold medal at the …

Katrina Kaif is a Indian Actress born on 16 July 1984 in Hong Kong. Katrina was born in Hong Kong to a Indian Kashmiri Father, Mohammed Kaif and English mother, Suzanne Turquotte. Her parents got divorced when she was very young. She is having seven siblings. From Hong Kong, they moved to China and then Japan. Then from Japan to …

Today marks the end of one of China’s most controversial practices. Consider that statement for a moment. June 30 is the end of the 10-day Yulin Dog Meat Festival. Despite staunch international criticism, the Chinese government allows the bizarre and cruel event to occur. With so much information distributed about the event, it can be difficult to get at the underlying issues. …

Hong Kong, SAR China – May 31, 2016 – A matte white Diamond Himalaya Niloticus crocodile diamond Birkin 30 with 18k white gold and diamond hardware, was sold by a private Asian collector for $300,168 – making it the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction. Photo: This Hermes signature Birkin is made with white matte Himalayan crocodile leather, and …