There is a highway of sorts which leads from Lucknow to Varanasi. It is about 300 km and so straight for the first half that the Romans would have been jealous. They promised us that it would not take...
Read MorePrabhat Singh is a fountain of knowledge and a scholar of Buddhist Iconography. I had to look up the word; a branch of art history which identifies, describes and interprets images. His information was...
Read MoreShe can't be more than 12 or 13 years old and we can only imagine what her life must really be like and I am ashamed that I can't even remember her name because I bet she can remember mine.
Read MoreIt's perhaps not as exciting as splitting the atom but it is a whole lot easier and the results are very pretty. Pass a light through a prism or diffraction grating and the white light miraculously splits...
Read MoreThe Canary Islands is an archipelago and semi autonomous community of Spain comprising of seven islands located some 100 miles to the west of Morocco. Although visited by a string of visitors, including...
Read MoreTwo people told me the story of an Englishwoman, who, while travelling through New Zealand, thought it a good idea to sprinkle lupin seeds over the countryside as she trecked through the South Island....
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