The launch of the second edition of the Indian sign language dictionary here saw the demand for making sign language “official” resurface, as representatives of the deaf and hearing-impaired sought the government’s intervention in the matter. Pointing that there was no immediate plan to do so, minister for social justice and empowerment, Thaawarchand Gehlot said…
Why are the Jindals of JSW group of companies, the Goenkas of Welspun group and Goels of Essel group making a beeline to the world headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) at Mayapur in West Bengal, the birthplace of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu? It is raining US dollars here from all over the globe…
For the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination scheduled to begin on Friday, the Mumbai division which consists of Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad has seen a 5% jump in the registration of candidates. This year, 3.99 lakh students will appear for the exam as against 3.8 lakh students last year. The spike is a result…
Samuel Osborne A DNA test has debunked the enduring conspiracy theory that Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess was replaced by an imposter in prison. An analysis of blood samples showed the man imprisoned in Spandau Prison in Berlin was indeed Adolf Hitler’s deputy. Hess was captured after flying solo from Germany to Scotland in May…
Allahabad: What is it that indigenous people like Cherokee and Navajo of the US could learn from ethnic groups like Garo and Khasi of northeast India? Turns out a lot, but for starters, it could be ways to protect water bodies or preserve the environment through ageold methods followed by these groups. The ongoing Kumbh…
Allahabad: She was 13 when her identity as an intersex person, or kinnar, was revealed to her family and friends and life was never the same again for chirpy Bhavani. Ostracised, she dropped out of school. Her parents, too, thought of her as an embarrassment. A year on, the teenager walked out, never to return…
Becoming a true individual is a long process and requires considerable effort: it is about becoming an authentic human being. If we make no effort, we become slaves to conditioning; we go through our lives half-asleep and slide down into darkness and ignorance. The work begins through the ego, which is why so much effort…
It was the first peshwai, or ‘Devatva Yatra’ as they preferred to call it, taken out by the Kinnar Akhara in the Prayag Kumbh on Sunday. Despite being denied recognition by the 13 main akharas, the kinnars literally stole the show with their procession, drawing the largest crowd one has ever seen at a peshwai….
