Manipur’s Mirabai Chanu tweets, “Finally, its a dream come true for me,” as she wins India’s first silver medal at Tokyo Olympics 2020 in the women’s 49-kg weightlifting category on Saturday. Mirabai lifted a total of 202kg (87kg + 110kg) to finish second to China’s Hou Zhihui, who won the gold with an Olympic record total of 210kg.
Rashmoni was born on 28 September 1793 in Kona village, (in present-day Halisahar) to the blissful couple Harekrishna Das and Rampriya Devi. Her mother passed away when she was just seven years old. She was married to Babu Rajachandra Das, the wealthy scion of a zamindar-businessman family of Janbazar, Kolkata, when she was just eleven years old.
AUTHOR: Sayan Dasgupta Any theoretical formulation or analysis of property must at the outset be noted as to what can be a theory of property, and what it entails to…
Several studies have highlighted that women’s economic empowerment is central to realizing women’s rights and gender equality. Women’s economic empowerment includes women’s ability to participate equally in existing markets; their access to and control over productive resources, access to decent work, control over their own time, lives and bodies; and increased voice, agency and meaningful participation in economic decision-making at all levels from the household to international institutions.
By Advocate Meenu Padha; Co- Authors – Tavleen Kaur & Vinayak Sonkar India needs an instant nationwide awareness and campaigns against the child labour to protect and safeguard children from…
Author of 66 crime novels, 6 non-criminal novels, 150 short stories and whose career spanned more than five decades, Agatha Christie is undoubtedly the Doyenne of Murder Mysteries. With more than 2 billion books published, she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have been published in over 100 languages, making her the most translated writer of all time. She wrote the world’s longest-running play, ‘The Mousetrap’, which was performed in the West End from 1952 to 2020. As if mysteries were embedded in her DNA, she wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies till date.
From connecting millions to another millions, a global network “The Internet” keeps on expanding itself from information to communication and many more. Today, it’s quite hard to even imagine a life without this global network. It’s just not a hub of knowledge, but a way to do things in more efficient way. A way that reduces time consumption and cost, resulting into profit maximization and what’s not?
The sporadic distribution of persons, identity, culture, language has always been a part of the Indic civilization. This heterogeneity implied a myriad of personal laws; both codified and uncodified. Where such diversity is engrained in the social fabric of India, such diversity could also mean plurality of gendered injustices. Delhi High Court on this note grappled and encouraged the Centre to act on the idea of Uniform Civil Code such that it doesn’t “remain a mere hope”. However, the Courts’ activism is not recent. Kerala HC in Agnes Alias Kunjumol v. Regeena Thomas also highlighted the need for such a legislation for subsistence of marital institution.
I had only seen the Madhubani style paintings in Dilli Haat Market in Delhi. I was blown away with the intricate design, bold use of colours and the selection of the themes that felt almost surreal. So, when I got a chance to visit Madhubani, a small city, 26 kms away from Darbhanga in eastern Bihar, I was delighted beyond words. Madhubani is the origin place of Madhubani paintings, also known as Mithila paintings.