Identify areas of opportunity and work together like never before. No mere promises from world’s top body, not anymore. Empower people to make a real difference. Let not the UN become a fiefdom of few. Continue reading
Logging into Twitter is a different experience now. It has really changed for better. Look at the picture posted above, that greeted me when I opened this social networking site to tweet this Tuesday morning. Truly, my association with Twitter is growing. Are you on Twitter? My handle is @neerajbhushan. Let’s connect there, too. One … Continue reading
There are prizes for guessing what’s going on in this traditional Vietnamese print? Okay, I shall give you some hint too — This painting has something (no no, everything) to do with corruption. Continue reading
On 6 February 1952, Princess Elizabeth received the news of her father’s death and her own accession to the throne, while staying in a remote part of Kenya. The tour had to be abandoned, and the young Princess flew back to Britain as Queen. In 2012, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations begin. Are you game? Continue reading
What Melinda Gates thinks of quacks? Has she decided to work for healthcare in India and to get the quacks recognized as lawful doctors? Yes, she says they are in fact entrepreneurs. She was in Bihar last month and she writes that… Continue reading
He rescued Sultana Begum — a descendant of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar — from a Howrah tea-stall, ensured her financial help and a dignified life. Before this, he raised funds for Bharat Ratna Ustad Bismillah Khan when the beloved doyen of Shehnai was passing through the last stages of his life. … Continue reading
Let’s talk about Han Han, who reads the world and writes the future. He is actually a rally driver who blogs by mixing his wit and criticism of corruption, injustice and incompetence. I look to Han Han as the voice of the Chinese people. He has a cause. And I have been taught that the purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. I want people like Han Han to rise both in East and West. I want them to be beyond anybody’s control. Continue reading
A journalist is a gentleman with a glass of red wine. And this gentleman today asks where the injustice is! He is right. All is quiet. Media people love to loudmouth about others but when it comes to issues concerning them, they prefer ignorance. A work which was once considered a mission is now a profession … Continue reading
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, it took 17 years and an army of 29,000 workers to construct this magnificent palace with 340 rooms. But where’s this palace? Parliament, Rajpath, Vijay Chowk and India Gate are situated near the Rashtrapati Bhawan which make every Indian to dream, connive and strategise to come close to its vicinity. … Continue reading
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