Nirmala Deshpande - A Truly Great Soul
Juan Sandoval May 3, 2008 interacts: 233Nirmala Deshpande a dedicated Gandhian was a true peace activist.
Judah Folkman
Syed Shah Feb 13, 2008 interacts: 5History may yet end up remembering Judah Folkman, who passed away earlier this year at Denver International Airport, as the man who cured cancer.
Searching for Qurratulain Hyder in a Delhi Kabristan
Mayank AustenSoofi Nov 14, 2007 interacts: 10
I was looking for a grave. In the next hill perhaps? For Qurratulain Hyder. She was an Urdu writer who
In the Loving Memory of Waleed Iqbal
Zara Hafeez Nov 6, 2007 interacts: 9
Waleed Iqbal is known in the debating fraternity of Pakistan as being one of the finest members of the Pakistan
Periyar An Iconoclast and a Reformer
Shantanu Dutta Sep 20, 2007 interacts: 15
Dr. Ambedkar found his answers (to caste problem) in Buddhism, Periyar felt the answer lay in humanism and he became
Dev Anand - Romancing Life at 83
Shantanu Dutta Sep 19, 2007 interacts: 12
The launch of Dev Anand's autobiography Romancing with Life is being done by no less than PM Manmohan Singh.
Stephen Gill on his Writing and Diaspora
Nailanshu Agarwal Aug 15, 2007 interacts: 2Multiple award-winning author Stephen Gill was born in Pakistan, grew in India and has settled in Canada after staying in Ethiopia and England for a
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mohammad Gill Jun 15, 2007 interacts: 140It is said that Archimedes knew all the mathematics that was developed up to his time and some more. The same is said of Newton
Alex
Beena Sarwar May 17, 2007 interacts: 6A tall, broad, handsome 21 year old who loved basketball, on the outside he was the same old Alex. But he had become someone he
A Profile In Courage
Rakesh Mani Apr 22, 2007 interacts: 6A recipient of the Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award in Pakistan and the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious human rights honour, she declined an offered post as
An Evening with Ustad Asad Amanat Ali Khan: A Tribute
Asif Naqshbandi Apr 17, 2007 interacts: 31I met Asad Amanat Ali Khan a few years ago; I didn't think I'd never meet him again.
Honored
Chowk Staff Mar 28, 2007 interacts: 24Humanists honour psychiatrist and writer Dr. Khalid Sohail
Jaane kahan gaye voh din!
Dost Mittar Mar 22, 2007 interacts: 138But a new generation of the young and restless cine fans had replaced the old generation and they had neither the time nor the taste
Schumi No More!
farheen zehra Oct 24, 2006 interacts: 4You might hate him or love him, but no matter what you feel about him, you do know him. The one person who comes
The Birdman of India
Mohammad Gill Jun 1, 2006 interacts: 38I had never heard of Salim Ali before in my life because I was not interested in the birds and bird-watching. Seabrook’s article intrigued my
Growing Up Red
Ali Hashmi Sep 28, 2005 interacts: 84My maternal grandfather, ‘Nana’ to us kids, who I later found out was one of the root causes of my ’trouble’ was mostly absent. He
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