Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in 1880 in the village of Pairaband in the colonial British province of Bengal Presidency, which later became the northern part of Bangladesh. Born into an upper-class landowning Muslim family, Rokeya was not allowed to attend school, or even to learn Bengali or English, to prevent "contamination" from non-Muslim […]
The Myth of Internal Affairs
I read recently that Malaysia has advised India not to interfere in its internal affairs and wondered what that might mean. You open the newspaper and you find instance after instance of country after country interfering in the most blatant manner in the affairs of every one else and then wonder what really is going […]
Angoor – Confusion Unlimited
Willam Shakespeare’s work has been a favorite with many film makers, in all the ‘woods’ – Hollywood, Bollywood, etc. One of the best adaptations of his work in Bollywood is Gulzar’s Angoor, based on ‘Comedy of Errors’. The plot is so convincingly modified to suit the Indian social setup, that it feels original. The plot, […]
Mike Tyson jailed for 24 hours
FORMER world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has been sentenced to 24 hours in jail and community service after pleading guilty to drug possession and drink-driving. Tyson, 41, who also received three years’ probation, had faced a lengthy spell behind bars after prosecutors demanded he be jailed for one year in connection with an incident outside […]
Iranian Rock village beckons tourists
Kandovan (Iran): High in the northwestern mountains of Iranian lies the unique village of Kandovan. All the houses in this unusual village are entirely carved from the near-by mountain. Home to over 200 families, Kandovan is set in a tranquil and vegetated river valley. The architecture of the houses is thought to […]
High quality YouTube videos coming up !!
You should certainly be impressed with the service YouTube is providing you–‘Video Sharing’ which has been a huge hit!. But one thing – always disapponts it’s users.The quality of the videos that is.When a video is submitted to YouTube,the encoding process decreases the quality of the video to speed up the streaming process when a […]
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