Gautam Mehrotra was sitting in the living room and reading the newspaper. It was a Sunday. He had just finished his breakfast and was trying to catch up with the rest of the world. Gautam had retired as a senior executive assistant in the Collector’s office, after thirty one year’s of service, ten month ago. Soon after retirement he had …

In 1963, when Mubarak Begum Shaikh’s soulful voice urged listeners “Mujhko apne gale laga lo…” few would have been able to resist the urge to hug their beloved. The famous duet between Mubarak Begum and the late Mohammed Rafi has enthralled music afficionados even five decades after it hit the Indian musical charts. Years later, in 2008 she gave a …

Katrina Kaif is a Indian Actress born on 16 July 1984 in Hong Kong. Katrina was born in Hong Kong to a Indian Kashmiri Father, Mohammed Kaif and English mother, Suzanne Turquotte. Her parents got divorced when she was very young. She is having seven siblings. From Hong Kong, they moved to China and then Japan. Then from Japan to …

Toronto, Canada – July 13, 2016 – To celebrate the company’s first Etch A Sketch Day – the anniversary of the day the first Etch A Sketch was sold – 440 Spin Master employees around the world set a brand new world record title for Most people drawing on an Etch a Sketch (multiple venues). Photo: Spin Master employees in …

सूक्तयः (सूक्तियां) Sanskrit Proverbs

Sanjeev Kumar or Harihar Jariwala (July 9, 1938 – November 6, 1985) was one of the most prominent Indian actors in Bollywood. Sanjeev Kumar was born in Surat, Gujarat to a Gujarati family living in Mumbai. A stint in film school took him to Bollywood, where he eventually became a star. He remained a bachelor all his life. He loved Actress Hema …

In the autumn of 1777 the English decided to attack Fort Henry, at Wheeling, in northwestern Virginia. This was an important border fort named in honor of Patrick Henry, and around which had grown up a small village of about twenty-five log houses. A band of Indians, under the leadership of one Simon Girty, was supplied by the English with …

In the year 1781 the war was chiefly carried on in the South, but the North was constantly troubled by bands of Tories and Indians, who would swoop down on small settlements and make off with whatever they could lay their hands on. During this time General Schuyler was staying at his house, which stood just outside the stockade or …

Father’s Day is a day dedicated to all fathers. Show your dad how special he is this Father’s Day with these clever and creative Father’s Day Slogans and Sayings.

London, UK – June 3, 2016 – Members of Staffordshire Young Farmers Clubs have broken the Guinness World Records world record for the largest cup of milkshake; the members from across the Staffordshire clubs were scrutinised by four independent witnesses as they mixed 828 litres of milk with 50 punnets of blended strawberries, 48 litres of strawberry ice-cream and a …