Mallika Sarabhai, one of the leading exponents of Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi, is the daughter of the dancing legend Mrinalini Sarabhai and the renowned scientist Vikram Sarabhai. A multifaceted personality, Mallika is not only a dancer, but also a noted film-maker, internationally known choreographer, an actress, a TV anchor, an editor, a publisher and so on. Throughout her different careers dancing …

Ma Jun is a Chinese Name. Ma is the Family Name of this Chinese environmentalist, non-fiction writer, environmental consultant, and journalist. He was born in 1968. In 1993, the Ma Jun, graduated from the Institute of International Relations, to a newspaper as a reporter. He became known as an investigative journalist while working with South China Morning Post(1993 – 2000). …

Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist, author, journalist and political analyst, well known for having calculated the size of the terror economy. Napoleoni was born in Rome, and was an active member of the feminist movement in the 1970s. She has a Masters in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, and an M.Phil. in Terrorism from the …

Lallan Singh Gahmari, lives in Allahabad though he belongs to the Bhojpuri region. He is deeply interested in research on music and keeps traveling to dig out forms which are not sung or remembered by too many people. Apart from performing on a regular basis, he also teaches folk music- passing on some of his vast collection.

The bhut jolokia variety which grows in north-eastern India, was given a rating of 8,55,000 Scoville heat units by Ritesh Mathur and his colleagues at the Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior. They reported their finding in an August 2000 issue of Current Science. The scientists tested a Tezpur variety of the bhut, or Capsicum Frutescens var. (botanists know it …

Kerry Emanuel was born on April 21, 1955. He is an American professor of meteorology (atmospheric science in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences) currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He has specialized in atmospheric convection and the mechanisms acting to intensify hurricanes. He coined the term “hypercane” in 1994. In 2007, he was …

It is probably sate to say that some of the largest animals that have ever lived on the surface of this planet are members of group of animals which have been collectively called dinosaurs. These ‘terrible reptiles’, as their name means, have excited the imagination of men ever since bones of the first dinosaur were discovered in rocks of Upper …

Kelly Brownell — Kelly D. Brownell is an American scientist, professor, and internationally renowned expert on obesity. Brownell is Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, where he is also Professor of Psychology and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. His research deals primarily with obesity and the intersection of behavior, environment, and health with …

Katie Couric — Katherine Anne “Katie” Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist, currently the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, and host of @katiecouric (her twitter handle), a webshow on CBSNews.com. She is the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three …

The sweet scent of flowers is designed to attract insects; who seek food in the shape of pollen and the fragrant-smelling nectar. This nectar is a solution of sugars produced in little sacs called nectarines at the base of the flower petal. The insects have a part in the process of fertilization. Almost all plants perpetuate themselves by mean of …