As we settle down in relative calm in the country after the whirlwind of politics that rocked us until the general elections of 10 December, we have some
‘Politics should take up maybe a tenth corner of a good citizen’s life. The rest (of life) should be philosophy, friendship, romance, family, culture, and fun’ — David
Today ‘5000 searchable documents from the first 44 years of Einstein’s life’ will go online ‘free in their original German and in English translation. The letters, diaries and
Dr Paul Taikie, Orthopaedic Surgeon, passed away last Saturday morning at the age of 83. The religious ceremony was held at the St Andrews Church, Quatre-Bornes on Monday
A famous British mountaineer, George Mallory, died in his third attempt to climb Mount Everest in June 1924, and his frozen, well-preserved body was only discovered in 1999.
‘Happy Divali,’ said my fellow walker friend, ‘is, or should in fact be a matter of our daily life. I believe its strongest message is rather the “victory
When we become parents and grandparents, we delight in telling our little ones – even after they have become bigger, because in our hearts they ever remain little
When the Nobel Prizes are due to be announced, usually around this time of the year, there is always excitement in the air for the scientific community, as
Opening the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York last Wednesday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ‘scolded the powerful and power-hungry’ and said that ‘it has
This was the title of the first part of a public talk delivered at the Subramania Bharati Auditorium on Sunday last by Swami Brahmavidyananda who hails from Tamil
Like receiving an appreciative mail such as this one, which is self-explanatory: ‘Last week’s article brought fond memories of my childhood flooding back and I felt quite nostalgic,
On reading the article by Paramanund Soobarah in last week’s issue of this paper – ‘Growing up in the forties and fifties – and my introduction to painful
