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For 31 years after his death, Homi Bhabha’s office room was unoccupied

The secular condolence ceremony for Homi Bhabha of which no photographs were found has remained firmly etched in the scientists’ memory, and the religious one was forgotten. On 24 January 1966, Homi Bhabha, physicist and founder of India’s nuclear programme, died in a plane crash. The Kanchenjunga — a Boeing 707 aircraft — had crashed… Continue reading For 31 years after his death, Homi Bhabha’s office room was unoccupied

What Connects Jamsetji Tata and Vivekananda ? A Sea Voyage That Changed India!

The year was 1893. On May 31, aboard a steamer that sailed from Yokohama to Vancouver, two great Indians met for the first time. One was an industrialist who would go on to become one of India’s greatest visionaries, Jamsetji Tata. The other was a monk who would take India’s spiritual tradition to the West… Continue reading What Connects Jamsetji Tata and Vivekananda ? A Sea Voyage That Changed India!

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Frene Ginwala, the Lenin supplement, and the storm drains of history

THE LENIN SUPPLEMENT In his book The Press of Africa – Persecution and Perseverance (Macmillan, London 1979) the Commonwealth media specialist Frank Barton said that if an identi-kit picture had to be made of the most improbable choice of an editor for a newly-nationalised newspaper in Africa soon after independence it would be something like… Continue reading Frene Ginwala, the Lenin supplement, and the storm drains of history

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Forjett Street: Singer, sailor, soothsayer, Spy

What would Charles Forjett make of the colourful characters inhabiting the street off Gowalia Tank Road named for him? He was a top cop in the days when the term really meant something. Slipping into clever disguises just to bust 19th-century crime rings, he formed night patrols and rallied the city’s first force. Swarthy Charles… Continue reading Forjett Street: Singer, sailor, soothsayer, Spy

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Google Doodle on Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st Birthday

November 15, 2017:Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st Birthday Via Google…….Today we celebrate Cornelia Sorabji, who overcame numerous obstacles to become India’s first female lawyer. Sorabji was the first woman permitted to attend Bombay University, where she excelled. She then went on to become the first Indian woman to study law at Oxford University in 1892. However, women… Continue reading Google Doodle on Cornelia Sorabji’s 151st Birthday

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