They Make you Swallow a Fish for a Herbal Cure
June 17: As the northwest monsoon strikes India in the first week of June, people from all parts of India, and abroad, make a …
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Chitra Padmanabhan
All features, stories and articles authored by: Chitra Padmanabhan
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Super Moms
Japan: Mothers for peace Did you know that mothers in Japan were among the first to protest against nuclear weapons? This happened …
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The World's First Floating Airstrip
July 8: It was a day like any other. A light aircraft prepared to take off from an airstrip south of Tokyo, Japan. But it was no …
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Indian chess queens make their move
Check Mate, says Koneru Humpy In 1997, a smiling, curly-haired, nine-year-old Indian girl announced her arrival in the chess …
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The Emperor and Chitranjan Cheetah
Mughal emperor Akbar loved hunting. Four hundred and twenty eight years ago, when he was passing through Rajasthan, he decided to …
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The Emperor who Rolled his Eyes
At the age of 18, Akbar had been emperor of the Mughal empire for four years. This was 440 years ago, in the year 1560. But the …
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Lucknow Students Win Robotics Trophy in Canada
July 1: It’s a long way from Lucknow to Calgary, Canada. But five schoolboys did it very easily. The students of City …
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Angry Little Girls
August 26: She is a cute little Korean-American girl with pigtails, and her name is Kim. Like so many others, her parents, too, …
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A Salty Life
It is one of the most common scenes in Bollywood films. There has been a jewel robbery in the house of a rich man. He comes …
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The Multicolour Earthworms
Red, green, yellow, mauve What’s happened these days to earthworms? Have they gone multicolour? There was a time when they were …
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Pretty bird no more
Where: London, England April 24, 2007: For 40 years, the people of London have been happy to spot in their parks a bird that seems …
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The Only Time when the Emperor Smoked
It was the year 1604 — 392 years ago. An officer under Mughal emperor Akbar had just got back from the south. And this time the …
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