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Na Khowa Feasting Festival – Assam Harvesting Festival

Na Khowa Feasting Festival - Assam Harvesting Festival

With the mercury dipping, people in Assam, particularly in the rural areas, are switching to celebration mode with the Na Khowa festival, an age-old ritual of community feasts organised to thank the gods for a good harvest. The Na Khowa festival is essentially a prelude to Bhogali Bihu or Magh Bihu, the state’s annual feasting festival. While some families organise …

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Leo Grasset Book Review: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories

Leo Grasset Book Review: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories

Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor) Publisher: Profile Books / Hachette India Pages: 162 Price: Rs 499 It was birthplace of the human race but that is not the only contribution of Africa to life on our planet. On its sprawling savannah can be seen many intriguing and inexplicable natural phenomena, spanning morphology (stripes/long necks), behaviour (deer warning signals) …

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Switzerland sets world record: Largest one-piece meat pie

Switzerland sets world record: Largest one-piece meat pie

Lausanne, Switzerland – December 21, 2016 – Chefs from the Swiss hotel management school Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne (EHL), in Lausanne, Switzerland, have created a giant meat pie: it weighed a giant 86.75kg and measured 160cm long, 78cm wide and 11cm high, thus setting the new world record for the Largest one-piece meat pie. Photo: This team of chefs created …

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What is unusual about Holland?

What is unusual about Holland?

There is saying: ‘God created the world but the Dutch created Holland‘. Holland (more correctly called the Netherlands) is a low-lying country where more than two-fifths of the land is below sea-level at high tide. Since early this century Dutch engineers have reclaimed much of this flat land by building dykes (sea walls) to hold back the sea. The marshy …

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Italy sets World Record: First person in the world to have a kidney transplanted in place of her spleen

Italy sets World Record: First person in the world to have a kidney transplanted in place of her spleen

Rome, Italy – December 16, 2016 – A hospital in northern Italy had achieved a world first by successfully transplanting a kidney in the place of the spleen in a six-year-old girl; the child had been on dialysis since birth because of a rare kidney anomaly and a malformation of the abdominal blood vessels, the Molinette hospital in Turin said, …

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