Going to School
I am sharing a small, yet the most important part of my life, with you. You may think “What the dickens have we got to do …
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Hungry in the land of plenty
One day I came back from school, I was hungry… I looked for a samosa but my sister had eaten it all up. I guess she was as …
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The Master of 'Mithaai'
It was the summer of 1997. I was travelling through the villages of West Bengal in search of the famed folk musicians of Bengal. …
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Insensitivities of people
There are so many sensitivities and insensitivities taking place around us. In this project we have tried to discover few of them. …
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His Master's Voice
Over seventy years ago, a 15-year-old boy recorded an anthem, ‘His Master’s Voice’. He never recorded another …
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Chintu Pintu Talk on the Net Again
Do you send E-mails to your friends? E-mails in which you write in words how you are feeling — happy or sad? Do you want to …
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Life inside a Public Transport Vehicle
It’s interesting how people make use of the time they spend in travelling from home to office and back, in Indian cities like …
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Pablo the Pigeon Painter
Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano Santisma Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso. Phew! A …
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Romance of Postage Stamps
In earlier days the stamps of British Guiana were printed by a British printer, Waterlow & Sons. In 1856, the stock of stamps …
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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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Chip off the Old Block
Long ago in the year 1853, one Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, a big business tycoon , was having dinner at a resort called …
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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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