Wonder Woman Named Honorary U.N. Ambassador For Gender Equality

The United Nations has announced a new honorary ambassador for women and girls, and she's not a human woman or girl. She's a comic-book...

Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize In Literature

Singer-songwriter takes award for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’ For more than...

In The World’s Biggest City, The Past Offers Lessons For Surviving The Future

A major campaign, “Cool Japan”, is underway to promote the nation as a “cultural superpower”. As part of a resurgence of interest in the Edo era (th...

Crystal Bowersox Named As Newest Spokesperson For Lilly Diabetes

Crystal Bowersox understands how crucial it is to properly manage diabetes and find a healthy balance on and off the stage. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 6, Crystal...

Kaleidoscope - Precious Friendships

Two books about enduring friendships, both beautiful and heartwarming are very different—one about two female friends and the other about four male friends.  The...

Marvel's New Iron Man Is A 15 Year Old Black Girl

Tony Stark is hanging up his Iron Man suit, but it will be quickly donned by a new hero, a 15-year-old black girl named Riri Williams. And that’s canon. ‘Riri i...

Bhagwan Dada: India’s First Dancing Superstar Who Was An Inspiration To Amitabh, Mithun And Govinda

Bhagwan Dada was the first dancing super star of Indian cinema. Here are some unknown facts about his tryst with stardom.
Bhagwan Dada had the body of a wrestler and t...

“An artclass on the footpath…”

Interns Pranoy Shaiva and Shreyas Nair contributed both words and photographs for this writeup.

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