The state of Gujarat is known for its splendorous celebration of Uttarayan, also known as Makar Sankranti. However, not just the people of Gujarat but people from across the nation come together on this day and fly kites. Ahmedabad has been hosting the International Kite Festival to celebrate Makar Sankranti since 1989. Extraordinary kite makers […]
The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup 1996 was the sixth Cricket World Cup organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The tournament winner was Sri Lanka, who defeated Australia by seven wickets in the final match at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. While it was an intense competition that […]
An epoch ago, in 1932, Charles Todd, a Philadelphia businessman, and his wife, Olive, introduced their friends Charles Darrow and Esther Darrow to a real-estate board game. Charles Darrow developed a great fondness for the game as both couples sat around the board, passionately rolling the dice. But neither Todd nor Darrow knew the name. […]
The first social media site SixDegrees.com was born in 1997. Then came AmIHotorNot.com, a website that allowed users to submit their photos so that others could rate their attractiveness, which is rumoured to have influenced the creation of Facebook and even Youtube and nurtured millions of insecurities. How that happened was that in 2004, a […]
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” The first mention of St. Stephen’s College in Delhi occurs in the Report for the Delhi Mission of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1864. The roots of […]
