by Darshana Ramdev | Oct 9, 2024
(October 9, 2024) Vivian Reddy’s first memories are of the narrow, dusty streets of Greenwood Park, Durban. Born in 1953 into a family of nine children, his father, a schoolteacher, earned a meager R3 a month, barely enough to sustain them. Young Reddy saw the...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 24, 2024
(August 24, 2024) The daredevils on motorbikes using centrifugal force to drive on the near-vertical walls of barrel-shaped structures is a popular stunt at carnivals in India. And it’s this very maut ka kuan (well of death) that forms the backdrop of the viral...
by Minal Nirmala Khona | Jul 28, 2024
July 28, 2024) With phrases like ‘Make in India’ and ‘Vocal for Local’ gaining momentum over the past decade, some locally made products make you sit up and take notice of the unusual ideas Indian entrepreneurs are working on. Successfully distilling a spirit made out...
by Charu Thakur | Aug 15, 2024
(August 15, 2024) It was in the April of 1984 that Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma along with two cosmonauts from the Soviet Union (flight engineer Gennady Strekalov and commander Yury Malyshev) flew on board Soyuz T-11 to the space station Salyut 7. This historic moment...
