Meet the Indian gurus who took yoga to the world
Kundalini, Kriya, Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, aerial, acrobatic… there’s a yoga type to suit all kinds of needs and lifestyles. In fact, the yoga industry is so popular that it is worth more than $84 billion today with more than 300 million yoga practitioners across the...
Subashini Iyer: The India-born engineer who will give wings to NASA’s ambitious deep space project
(Our Bureau, June 14) Coimbatore-born Subashini Iyer is the backbone of NASA’s ambitious Artemis mission that will take humans to the Moon and planet Mars. Subashini, who is a Spacecraft Engineering Integrator at Boeing, has been associated with Space Launch System...
Moments that changed the world: Gandhi’s eviction from a South African train
What and When Mahatma Gandhi was unceremoniously evicted from the first-class carriage of a train in South Africa’s Pietermaritzburg on the night of June 7, 1893, for being a person of color. How Gandhi was on his way from Durban to Pretoria in the train when a...