Daily Happenings

In today’s weekend blog, I am back with Bollywood. Every year hundreds of movies are released in India, some of them run very successfully and earn huge profits, some of them are able to recover their cost of production/marketing, and the rest of them flop. But when a film of a very big banner with…

Friends, do not get confused with the title of this blog. I am not going to write about painting , sculpture etc, for today’s article ART means “ Assisted Reproductive Technology”. As per definition, ART includes all fertility treatments in which either eggs or embryos are handled. In general, ART procedures involve surgically removing eggs…

Friends, you must have read in the print media about the new ‘The Criminal Procedure (identification) Bill, 2022.’ This bill has been introduced in Parliament two days back. As usual, the discussion has started in the media about the pros and cons of this bill. This bill replaces the Identification of Prisoners Act, 1920. The…

The political parties have a habit of announcing freebies before elections, and sometimes to save their power they announce mid-term freebies to voters and even the MLAs. They announce these freebies as if they have the funds in the state kitty to full fill the promises made, but they forget whatever funds are available in…

After partition when the first census took place in1951,  that time the division of population-based on religion was Hinduism- 84.1%, Islam-9.8%, Christianity-2.30%,  Sikhism-1.79%, Budhism-0.74%,  Jainism-0.46%, Zoroastrianism-0.13 %. The corresponding figures after 2011 census were Hinduism-79.8%, Islam-14.23%, Christianity- 2.3%, Sikhism-1.72%, Budhism-0.70%,  Jainism- o.37%. You will observe from these figures that there was no appreciable change in…

This weekend I am writing about a film which was released in 1994, which was a comedy film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. It starred Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Karishma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal (in a dual role), and Shakti Kapoor in lead roles. Although the film was a semi-hit at the box office, the…

In a metro city like Mumbai, where people do not have time, and everybody is so busy in their own daily  routine. And when in Mumbai some incident happens and people come forward to help others, then you feel “ Humanity is still alive”, and this happens many times in the city. One such incident…

As opposed to appetizers that the West use, we in India have quite a few of those foods that we eat after a meal. Most of these habits are handed down through generations. Today, most of these are also backed by scientific evidence and we can only salute the wisdom of our ancestors. Without a…

A nineteen year old Indian has received several offers of help after a video of him returning from work went viral on social media. The video was shot by filmmaker Vinod Kapri, who offered a lift to the 19 year old Pradeep Mehra as he ran past his car. But Pradeep turned down the offer,…

Using earthen or clay pots to store water is not a new phenomenon for Indians. For many Indian households, it is not something fashionable, but just a healthy living. Though many households have a refrigerator, they still use ‘matka’ for storing drinking water during summer. The water from the matka, is not just cooled naturally,…