On 9th July, 2017, the World Heritage Committee voted the historical city of ‘Yazd’, formerly known as ‘Yezd’ in central Iran, as the country’s 22nd World Heritage Site, ranking first in the Middle East and eleventh, worldwide. Announced during the Committee’s 41st session in Krakow (Poland), Yazd is the only UNESCO-listed Iranian city where people […]
Meherbai arranged for an evening of monsoon melodies at the party-room of the Wodehouse Gymkhana over tea and steaming hot assorted pakodas. Her entire Mandli turned up in spite of flooded roads, late trains, traffic jams and the ‘dhoom-dhadakas’ of thunder, streaks of lightning, savage winds and trees swaying like Hawaiian dancers. Tehmulji Tansen started […]
This one is for the ladies. Ever wanted to try out the new hair colour and check out how it would look on your hair? Or a new shade of lipstick or eye shadow? Would be messy to really try it out in real, and messier to remove it immediately, if you don’t like it. […]
CRICKET India Win Series Against West Indies: India put up a great all round show to win the 5th ODI by 8 wickets and thus clinched the series in Jamaica. Virat Kohli’s heroic performance of 111 with Dinesh Karthik’s 50 helped the men in blue to seal the ultimate deal. West Indies notched up 205-9 […]
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Thou didst ordain, Ahura, the night for all to rest and commissioned Thy Sraosha to guard the sleeping world. Peacefully we sleep and peaceful dreams attend us for Thy ever-wakeful angel guards us. At the break of the dawn, Atar, the genius of the fire of the hearth, sounds his warning voice against the stratagem […]
Whatever little success the film is likely to enjoy would be largely due to Ranbir’s histrionics, as also the free-flowing lyrical nature of the dialogues – especially in the first half. Young Jagga (Ranbir Kapoor) is adept at investigating cases and arriving at theories. When his father ‘Tooti-Footi’ (Saswata Chatterjee – the assassin in ‘Kahaani’) […]
Charlton Heston’s ‘Planet of the Apes’ (1968), almost a half century ago, set the tone for ‘War’ – the eighth overall and the third in the trilogy – a distinctly refreshing and inspired film, helmed by Matt Reeves. Following the earlier two – ‘Rise’ (2011) and ‘Dawn’ (2014) – the apes having suffered huge losses […]
Your dog has the same senses as you do – smell, sight hearing, touch and taste – but of all the sense his sense of smell is the most powerful. Here are some interesting facts on a dog’s scenting powers. Scent Cells A dog has around two hundred million sensitive cells in its nose compared […]
Neomi Rao, the second Zoroastrian Parsi to head an office in the current US Administration, who had been picked to become the ‘Regulatory Czar’ in the Trump White House, has been confirmed by the US Senate (by a vote of 54-41) to lead the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). In this […]
Aspandarmad or Spendarmad is the twelfth and last month of the Zoroastrian calendar, dedicated to Spenta Armaity – the Divinity that presides over Mother Earth. The term ‘Spenta’ has been variously translated as increasing, growing, good, holy and benevolent; while the term ‘Armaity’ has been variously translated to mean devotion, piety and peace. In other […]