1966 is the year when London was swinging, the Beatles and the Stones were at their height of their popularity and there was full employment and England’s football team was on the verge to make history. Peter Chapman’s humble beginnings in a grammar school in Islington, taught him to be sporty and had the gift…
Mark Braude, Canadian born historian, looks behind the creation of Monte Carlo, how a small town grew into a prosperous resort and its rapid rise, luring of Monte Carlo’s gambling tables, and the desperation on the faces of gamblers who lost left a lasting impression on Edvard Munch. In 1891, the Norwegian painter described the…
Kathleen Kennedy and Billy, Marquess of Hartington, had an encounter during the summer of 1938 and fell in love at first sight. He was the oldest son and heir of the Duke of Devonshire, she one of the nine children of the American Ambassador. But there was trouble ahead as the Kennedy’s were prominent…
Duncan Clark a former Morgan Stanley investment consultant who runs the Beijing-based tech consultancy BDA, was invited to visit the lakeside apartment of Jack Ma, in 1999. The story of the evolution of Chinese Internet, particularly the rise of the south of China, Clark tells an interesting story about a conference for entrepreneurs held in…
The South Indian State of Kerala recorded a 96.59 percent for the SSLC exam results. 457, 654 cleared the exams and 22, 870 students secured A+ in all subjects, out of a total number of 473. 803 candidates who sat the exam. Pathanamthitta district recorded the maximum pass percentage in the state while Wynad went…
Gates and Melinda Foundation and University of Cambridge, announced one of the world’s largest scholarships programs ever for University education, valued at £150million ($210m), where 55 scholars were selected from 29 countries representing 68 universities, from 3730 applicants, for their exceptional academic performance, including intellectual ability, leadership skills, academic eligibility and their commitment to improve…
Sean Carrol, an award-winning scientist, writer and educator, found how life works at vastly different scales and one of the most important revelations about the natural world is that everything is regulated, even there are rules the amount of every molecule in our bodies and rules that govern the numbers of every animal and plant…
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…
Aaron Swartz, born on November 8, 1986, a blogger, programmer, activist and an online prodigy, who died in 2013, left behind strong writing that still has the power to rally others behind his causes of freedom of information, revolutionising government and fighting corruption. Some of his quotes strike a raw nerve “Information is power. But…
Despite challenging obstacles schemes to bring technology to the forefront are bearing fruit in India. Nandan Nilekani’s legacy to India, World’s largest Democracy, was not only as a c0-founder of Infosys – the Indian Information Technology group, but also gave every 1.3 billion Indian a biometrically verified digital identity, but when he stood for the…