Month: April 2007 Articles

Perin Ferrao: Activist refused to accept a woman’s lot in India

Even as a youngster Perin Ferrao never accepted the conventional view in her native India that women were subordinate to men. Committed all her life to the emancipation of women, the Montreal teacher and former international secretary of the All...

“Memoirs of Zarir” in Tehran

Iranian director and actor Qotbeddin Sadeqi plans to stage "The Memoirs of Zarir" at the Chaharsu Hall of Tehran's City Theater Complex in the near future. His troupe, consisting of Mikaiil...

The King of Cobra is in town

HYDERABAD: It's not exactly the return of the prodigal, because Karan Billimoria has been coming home to Hyderabad every year from London, the city that he has made his own for the past two decades....

300 Evil-Doers

It's been said that the movie "300" draws certain analogies about the US and its fight for freedom. People say that the Spartan's fight with the Persian armies is a lot like the American struggle...

Inbred Investment Eyes Genomes

Bangalore-based biotech firm Avesthagen is studying an inbred Indian population. Bangalore-based biotech company Avesthagen said Wednesday it has launched a genome project to build a genetic...