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A young British Indian boy from Kent has achieved the highest possible score in the IQ test conducted by Mensa, the world’s oldest and largest IQ society. Ojas Tiwari’s score of 162 puts him in the top 1% of those who sit Mensa’s IQ test paper, joining luminaries such as Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein. […]
A few weeks ago, I had attended a birthday party of my daughter’s friend. There they played a game, the age old ‘Passing the parcel’, however, what was different was the way it was played. The child who was caught with the parcel when the music stopped was asked to leave the circle, but with […]
Since it washed over the planet in early 2017, Ed Sheeran’s infectious and beautiful ‘Shape of You’ has become as much a staple of the music scene as a new food fad – enhanced, added to, fused and turned over innumerable times. The song has been covered as many times as it has been downloaded […]
Women have been serving the Indian army for 25 years now. However, only recently it was decided that they would be inducted in combat roles, starting with the Indian air force. While this is very much likely to increase the number of women in the armed forces, one wonders why it wasn’t done before. Following […]
Something funny happened at a recent event. The event was yet another awards ceremony – one of the innumerable Asian Awards ceremonies that pepper the British Indian calendar here in the UK. The chief guest was Dinesh Patnaik, a veteran diplomat who had days before been made the Deputy High Commissioner and a man, it […]
The legendary actress Shabana Azmi is no stranger to delivering magnificent and mesmerizing performances on screen and on stage and she proved her grace and calibre yet again in a slightly more unusual arena on Thursday (09 March). Ms Azmi, who is in London for a one-off performance of her latest critically acclaimed play ‘Broken […]
“Why do we fall? So that we can pick ourselves up” The above dialogue from the movie “Batman Begins” isn’t just an iconic one, but is also a very inspirational one. Real life inspirations like Shantabai prove it to be true every day. Who is Shantabai? She is India’s first female barber. Let us take […]
Pregnancy is a time when a woman needs to be surrounded by her loved ones. However, not every woman gets to have that. Following is a heart-wrenching account of an Indian woman about how she handled her pregnancy all by herself. The pregnancy test which I had just taken was still in my hands. I […]
Madonna was recently honoured as “Woman of the year” at the “Billboard’s Women In Music Awards 2016”, on 9th December at New York City. She was also recognized as the highest grossing touring (female) artist of all time. Her last tour had raked in as much as $170 million. While accepting her award, the 58 […]
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