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Meltdown maladies
The melting Himalayan glaciers
are throwing the Ladakhi economy out of gear, writes Shiv
Kumar
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AT
92, Phuntchok Namgyal is still sprightly enough to guide
visiting journalists through his fields in Ladakh's Stakmo
village that are in lockdown mode for the harsh winter ahead.
Old
man and the glacier
Chewang
Norphel is known across Ladakh as the old man who builds
glaciers. The retired civil engineer, who drew on traditional
knowledge to build his first glacier 22 years ago, is very much
in demand across the tiny villages scattered across the
freezing, barren landscape of Ladakh. |
A NASA satellite picture showing the retreat of the Gangotri glacier over the
years
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Wanted
patents for Taj Mahal
Replicas of the Taj Mahal
have been sprouting since the 17th century,
writes K. D. L. Khan
IN
2008, alarmed at the replicas of the Pyramids being built all over the
world, the Egyptian Government thought of passing a patent law that
would make replicas of pyramids illegal and tantamount to patent
violations.
Tales
of valour
Rukhsana from Rajouri
district recently shot to fame for having killed a militant. There are
several other civilians in the region who have fought militancy but
their bravery has not been highlighted, reports Ashutosh
Sharma from Jammu
AFTER
having killed a dreaded militant and injuring another, a small girl,
Rukhsana, belonging to a remote village, Kalsi, near the famous shrine
of Shahdara Shahrief in Rajouri district, has shot to fame and is
being acclaimed as a mascot of civilian war against terrorism.
Camel
crunch at Pushkar
Sumrinder Singh Sira
THE
Pushkar Fair, the annual camel and livestock fair, held in Pushkar in
Rajasthan saw a marked decline in the number of tourists this year.
Whereas 1,35,000 foreign tourists arrived in Pushkar last year, this
year the number touched just 20,000 till the last day of the fair.
White
House romance
The Obama marriage represents
a modern kind of White House romance. Michelle and Barack are a happy
couple. They reveal signs of affection and mutual respect, says Elayne
Clift
IT
has been clear from the start. Michelle and Barack Obama are a
happy couple. Like no first couple before them, they frequently reveal
signs of affection and mutual respect, holding hands in public, gazing
into each other’s eyes, and alluding to private jokes in public.
Wedding
glow
As the wedding season dawns,
the trend of going to a clinic to have that perfect body and glow is
peaking, writes Shilpa Raina
NaLINI
SHARMA (24) is getting
married shortly this season, and is hard at work — at a slimming
clinic. She has already lost 5 kg but that, she says, is not enough.
A Danish heritage on Indian shores
Antony Kuriakose visits Tranquebar, a sleepy fishing village in Tamil Nadu, a former Danish colonial settlement
and a trading post of the 17th century
TO
visit the past, one does not always have to hop into a time machine.
Sometimes history lives on in tiny forgotten nooks and crannies of the
earth, waiting to be rediscovered, as it does in Tranquebar, a sleepy
fishing village in Tamil Nadu.
Bali’s
Indian connection
Azera Rahman
IN
all probability, the driver of the cab that you hire from the airport
to the town will be a Sanjay or a Ram. As you hit the road, you will
cross several yoga centres, ayurvedic spas, restaurants serving pure
vegetarian Indian food and even a mall named Ramayana.
Indian
flavour at Cairo
The 33rd Cairo International
Film Festival held recently had Indian cinema in spotlight, reports Shoma
A. Chatterji
CAIRO
is one of the most colourful cities in the world. Celebrating an
international film festival in this historic city with Indian cinema
invited as guest of honour made it extra special this year.
I
am very Punjabi in a British way
Rupesh
Sawant chats up UK-based director Gurinder Chadha, a
retrospective of whose films was held at IFFI recently
Jesminder
‘Jess’ of Bend It Like Beckham may have preferred a
football game to making aloo-gobhi but UK-based filmmaker
Gurinder Chadha is proud of her Punjabi roots.
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