A person who works on the move is called a digital nomad. Such a worker may or may not be on the rolls of a company, and could be a consultant / freelancer / a writer on the move. They are persons with a free spirit who like a remote lifestyle and earn as they move, and believe that with …

A deleb is a dead celebrity, who is used to endorse products and continues to earn good revenue even after death. Good examples are Elvis Presley, Lennon, Yves St Laurent, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Johnny Cash and now, Michael Jackson. But a deleb is not short for delebrity, which means a ‘designer celebrity’.

One of the earliest antecedents to the modern speech bubble was the speech scroll – wispy lines that connected first person speech to the mouths of speakers in Meso-American art. In Western graphic art, labels that reveal what a figure is saying have appeared even in the 13th century. Word balloons began appearing in 18th century printed broadsides and political …

The board game, today called Snakes and Ladders, originated in ancient India, where it was known with the name Mokshapat or Moksha Patamu. It’s not exactly known when or who invented it, though it’s believed the game was played at a time as early as 2nd century BC. According to some historians, the game was invented by Saint Gyandev in …

Shorthand is believed to have been invented by Tiro, a slave of Marcus Tullius Cicero, to keep pace with the speeches his master delivered. Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC), a statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and philosopher, is considered one of Rome’s greatest orators. His political speeches are well known, and he delivered these in an elaborate and flowery style, …

There was no single ‘inventor’ of photography. It evolved through the combined work of many people of many different nationalities. One Frenchman, Joseph Nicephore Niepce (1765-1853), often gets the credit, however, since he was the first to obtain a picture ‘from nature’ with a camera, in the modern photographic sense. He was also the first to ‘fix’ a picture, so …

हिमाचल में एक ऐसा मंदिर है यहां दंपत्ति एक साथ दर्शन नहीं कर सकते। अगर वह एक साथ दर्शन करते है तो उन्हें सजा भुगतनी पड़ती है। जानकारी मुताबिक शिमला के रामपुर में समुद्र तल से 11000 फुट की ऊंचाई पर मां दुर्गा का एक स्वरुप विराजमान है जो कि श्राई कोटि माता के नाम से बहुत प्रसिद्ध है। दरअसल इस …

अक्सर पति-पत्नी के बीच न चाहते हुए भी मामूली बात को लेकर तनाव हो जाता है। जो बातें हंसी-मजाक में टाली जा सकती हैं वह भी विवाद का रूप ले लेती है। इस लड़ाई-झगड़े में वास्तु महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाता है। वास्तु की चाबी से खोलें बेडरूम में रोमांस और प्रेम का दरवाजा

I’m Larry the. The tale of my tail Is perfectly wizard. If you grab it you’ll fail To catch me as well, For I’ll leave it behind, And soon grove another Of the very same kind. ∼ Porter G., Hilda Offen, Pradera, Esme Eve, Alan Jesset, Richard Hooke

I am the Lion, the King of the beasts – They all are my subjects, you see. I say what I mean in a very loud voice, And everyone listens to me. I call to the monkeys who swing in the trees: “Don’t chatter so much, or so loud.” It’s fine to give orders which others obey – No wonder …