Archive for the ‘Events’ Category

It seems like yesterday; a nation was born on 15 August 1947 amidst the cacophonic cheers of the freedom fighters and the stoic silence of the martyrs. “At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom…”, so began Pt. Nehru’s speech.
But, why was the midnight [...]

Now the Bombay High Court has managed to place a big obstruction in the path of the Lord of Obstructions himself.
Ganesha, the presiding deity of a Sangli-based religious trust, was not allowed to open a demat account for trading in shares. “Gods and goddesses are meant to be worshipped in temples, not dragged into commercial [...]

That is what US President Obama might have felt on the eve of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding on July 31.
After all, his presence would have got all the President’s men to put the wedding guests on a security drill. Which parent would want that, especially when father Bill would be busy wondering how to pay the [...]