“If any large state intrudes the sovereignty of a smaller state, that amounts to be an act of aggression.” These are the words of Mohammad Jahangir Khanji, the current Nawab of the lost state of Junagarh. A princely state geographically dead in India but politically alive in Karachi, Pakistan, where in the Junagarh House, the […]
The city of Angoon on Admiralty Island of Alaska has been the home to members of the Tlingit Bear Clan for thousands of years. In fact, some residents still make a living from hunting and fishing just like their ancestors did. Glancing through the ancient Tlingit histories tell us of a world full of spirits […]
https://smedia2.intoday.in/indiatoday/images/stories/1982November/tata%201_080213113837.jpg “My first important memories…were about cars and airplanes.” Jeh used to play with the son of the legendary Louis Bleriot, the first man to fly across the English Channel, during his summer holidays at Hardelot, a beach resort situated near Boulogne, on the Channel coast of France. Occasionally, the boys would see Bleriot’s chief […]
“Bond. James Bond.” With these words, a hero of the modern world was born. Ian Fleming’s gentleman spy hero and masculine icon, James Bond, has served as a worldwide inspiration in terms of lifestyle, gear, and sophistication. In the early 1960s, American producer Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli and Canadian producer Harry Saltzman teamed up to […]
After our hopes of having flying cars in the 2010s were shattered, the world has seemingly moved on to a much more down-to-earth, but almost equally unattainable hope of going green using electric vehicles (EVs). The premise being the International Energy Agency’s ‘Net Zero’ emissions target by 2050, with the world solely dependent on clean […]
