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Journey
of a newspaper
The Partition affected people and
institutions alike. This excerpt from The Tribune 130 Years: A
Witness to History by V. N. Datta
traces the newspaper’s tumultuous passage from Lahore to Chandigarh
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IT
speaks volumes of the strength and resilience of The Tribune
that it resumed publication soon after the Partition. It had stopped
publishing for 40 days. After the Partition, the first issue of the
paper appeared from Simla on September 25, 1947. The Tribune had
to find a suitable place for its publication. Amritsar was sulking on
the border, and was not considered the right place for the publication
of the paper. Ludhiana was not developed, and Ambala city had water
problems. A small printing press
near the Ridge known as Liddell’s was available, which The
Tribune trustees secured through the aegis of the Punjab
government.
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Thank
you mom
A recent survey has found
that 55 per cent people in India could not remember the last time they
thanked their mothers
Mothers
play an important role in shaping the lives of not just their children
but the entire nation. In a country like India where family values are
said to take precedence, it is surprising that mothers are not thanked
enough. A survey commissioned by Proctor and Gamble across 12
countries in the Asia-Pacific region, ‘P&G Thank You Mom’
throws light on how mothers are perceived across different nations.
For
the love of the nation
Aamir Khan’s
television debut show Satyamev Jayate can, perhaps, trigger a
tidal wave of social change and succeed in consciousness raising
Aradhika Sharma
India
is "rab aasre" we say, as we shrug off our responsibility,
passing it on to God or the government or any convenient scapegoat.
Thank goodness Aamir Khan does not take the same jaded path. He stands
up and decides to shake up the country, forcing people to awaken to
all the horrid social evils that gnaw at its fibre. He uses every tool
in the book — emotion, anger, drama, research, real-life episodes
— and he grabs people by the scruff of their necks and makes them
listen.
DEGREE
AT 90
Richard Garner
Bertie
Gladwin was just
looking for something to defy the onset of senility. having left
school at 14 to work as a greengrocer's delivery boy. The
country's previous oldest graduate was a mere 89 ("a
youngster", according to Bertie) although a 96-year-old has
graduated in philosophy in China.
Merchants
of Venice
A trip to Bangkok is
never complete without a visit to a unique floating market on the
outskirts of the city that has developed over time in the nation criss-crossed
by canals
Sujoy Dhar
Floating
markets are dime a dozen in Thailand. But on a trip to Bangkok, the
bustling Thailand capital, one of the major attractions on the
outskirts is the floating market of Damnoen Saduak. On
a busy day teeming with tourists across the world, Damnoen Saduak
offers a unique sight of a market that prospered in and around a
network of inland waterways that characterise Thailand.
On
Olympic track
Paddle
pushers
Ankita Das and Soumyajit
Ghosh are the youngest Indian players to qualify for the 2012 London
Olympics
Gagan K. Teja
Talent
has nothing to do with age and Bengali table tennis players Ankita Das
and Soumyajit Ghosh have proved this right once again by becoming the
youngest Indian players to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics. These
two have trained together in Siliguri under the former women's
national Table Tennis Champion Mantu Ghos.
A
‘Lovely’ year for India
With an entry in
virtually every section of the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, Indian
cinema has never had a more significant presence in the world’s
premier celebration of the movies
Saibal Chatterjee
the
world’s premier film festival has not traditionally been a happy
hunting ground for Indian cinema, certainly not in the past decade and
a half. The 65th edition of the Cannes Film Festival (which begins on
May 16-27) could, however, turn out to be a markedly different story.
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