A German hairdresser Klaus Baruck, has offered a lock of John Lennon’s hair, claims he held onto the former Beatle’s tuft after giving him a trim in Hamburg in 1967, which was sold for £24,000 ($35,000). Heritage Auctions in Dallas declared Mr Baruck cut Lennon’s hair in preparation for his role in the dark…
Kozhikode girl Jyothy Karat, an ace photographer,who is one of the first women to venture into an unconventional filed of photography in Kerala and one of the 29 emerging photojournalists in Asia who has showcased her works in Europe, North America and India. Her projects included Gudalur tribes, which will be exhibited at the UN…
Thirty elephants took part in the Elephant race (Anayottam) which marked the opening of10-day annual festival at the Shree Krishna temple at Guruvayoor on 20th February 2016 Saturday. Gopikannan, the elephant of Guruvayoor Devasom won the race and did a hat-trick. Elephants Chentamarakshan and Kanan finished second and and third respectively.
Two professors Shaojin Chai, a senior research fellow at the Ministry of Culture in UAE and Prof Haiyun Ma, a professor at Frostburg State University, Maryland US, came to Northern Kerala on January 7-9, 2016, in search of relics and final burial place of seven-foot tall Zheng He, (Cheng Ho), 1371-1435, Chinese naval explorer,…
Sunil Khilnani’s Incarnations, journeys across India and explores modern India spanning two and half thousand years, through lives of 50 historical phenomenal idiosyncratic people, including Birsa Munda. a young charismatic healer who led his tribal community in revolt against the British, Jyotirao Phule, the life of the lower-caste boy who rose to become a…