In India the oxen Are kept to do some work, But Oscar Ox was lazy And he tried his best to shirk. When harnessed to a plough He walked as slowly as he could And didn’t do one third as much As other oxen would. His Master thought him useless And one day he said aloud: “I’ll take this ox …

There are five ways that a franchise can acquire a player. In the annual auction, buying domestic players, signing uncapped players, through trading and buying replacements. In the trading window the player can only be traded with his consent. The franchise will have to pay the difference between the old contract price and the new contract price. If the new …

There is no hard and fast rule about choosing cricket colours. In most cases, the country adopts colours from their national flags – as Pakistan, Bangladesh, England, West Indies, Zimbabwe do. In some cases, the country wears the national colours – Australia wears green and gold, Holland wears orange, South Africa wears dark green and New Zealand wears black (silver …

I could paint a poem On your back With a Chinese brush And India ink. And then, with a razor Or pin or sliver of bamboo And a stolen hotel towel (to daub the blood and excess black), I could make it Permanent. I have seen this done Before on television And in movies. But You would never allow This …

New Amsterdam was established by Dutch colonisers in 1624 in what is known today as New York city. The town of New Amsterdam became a city in 1653 when it received municipal rights and was reincorporated as New York city in June 1665. The town was founded on the southern tip of Manhattan island as the most optimal place for …

Taj Trapezium Zone (TTZ) is a defined area of 10,400 sq km around the Taj Mahal to protect the monument from pollution. The Supreme Court of India delivered a ruling on December 30, 1996 regarding industries covered under the TTZ, in response to a PIL seeking to protect the Taj Mahal from environmental pollution. It banned the use of coal/ …

Nagpur is a city in the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in the central India and the third largest city by population in the state of Maharashtra.Nagpur lies precisely at the center of the country with the Zero Mile Marker which indicates the geographical center of India. Nagpur is also a major commercial and political center of the Vidarbha …

Our weddings may have become grander than life but the old marriage songs, associated with sangeet functions, have gone missing in the rising clamour of item numbers It is the evening before the wedding day of their daughter in Gupta household. Everyone is super excited. Almost all relatives and friends from far and wide have already arrived to give their …

MOTHERS are often taken for granted because they are always there for you. The thought that one should verbalise one’s emotions on a specific day takes a little getting used to. But, thanks to media hype and multinationals’ selling strategies, there’s a way to celebrate each and every day—Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day etc. Multinationals use all sorts of …

Christopher Columbus was an Italian from Genoa living in Portugal. Although in the fifteenth century most people still believed that the world was flat, others including Columbus, had come to believe it was round. If this was so, he argued, a ship could sail around the globe and return to its original starting point. Thus the shortest route to the …