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AS Dulat: A spymaster who presided over one disaster after another — yet was never left out in the cold
Jan 7, 2023

“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend”: AS Dulat, who coauthored a book with former ISI chief and described death penalty to Afzal Guru was "unfortunate" joined Rahul Gandhi in Bharat Jodo Yatra

For those unversed with his exploits, it needs to be reiterated that despite his popularity across board, this spymaster has delivered pretty little on the ground.
Great Banyan Tree
Jan 7, 2023

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”: Great banyan tree in Kolkata's Botanical Garden is world's widest tree with 3600 aerial roots spread in 156000 sqfeet area gives an impression of thick patch of forest

Nature has countless ways to express itself, and it is every expression is wondrous. The cycle of a seed transforming into a sapling and then growing into a massive canopy, eventually producing flowers, seeds and fruits is nothing short of a miracle.
Skeletons of Roopkund Lake
Jan 7, 2023

“Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore”: Skeletons of Roopkund Lake of Chamoli, India - legend of Nanda Devi so enraged at outsiders who defiled her mountain sanctuary that she rained death upon them by flinging hailstones “hard as iron”

IN 1942 A BRITISH FOREST guard in Roopkund, India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons. That summer, the ice melting revealed even more skeletal remains, floating in the water and lying haphazardly around the lake’s edges. Something horrible had happened here.
Delhi High Court refuses to entertain Sameer Wankhede's plea seeking protection in the disproportionate assets case
Jan 6, 2023

"To no one we shall sell, to no one we shall deny or defer right or justice": Delhi High Court refuses to entertain Sameer Wankhede plea seeking protection in the disproportionate assets case, came to limelight as NCB questioned celebrities in drugs case

The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea by former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai Zonal director Sameer Wankhede seeking protection from search, seizure or arrest in a disproportionate assets case against him.
"Troubling": Supreme Court stays Uttarakhand High Court order on Haldwani eviction; urges rehabilitation
Jan 5, 2023

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it”: Supreme Court stays Uttarakhand High Court order on Haldwani eviction, and disapproved the manner in which eviction was sought to be carried out by the Indian Railways, urges rehabilitation

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the Uttarakhand High Court order directing removal of encroachments on Indian Railways' land in Uttarakhand's Haldwani, which would have led to eviction of more than 4,000 families who are residing on land [Abdul Mateen Siddiqui vs Union of India and ors].
Mynah Bird Can Talk Like a Human
Jan 5, 2023

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice": Pahadi Mayna of Chhattisgarh reproduce an exact pronunciation as humans at times, it begin to learn human speech sounds under social relationships, for bird to talk you must intrude on its social life

What is it that enables your Mynah bird to learn to speak more than 100 words and utter as many as 30 sentences?
The Root Bridges of Cherrapunji
Jan 5, 2023

"It is in the roots, not branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies": Cherrapunji a North Eastern paradise in Meghalaya, land abundant in rainfall and popular for lush green hills and living root bridges, handmade from aerial roots of rubber fig trees

IN THE DEPTHS OF NORTHEASTERN India, within sight of the India-Bangladesh border, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren’t built—they’re grown.
Hate Speech Denies Human Beings The Right To Dignity: Justice Nagarathna
Jan 4, 2023

Supreme Court of India Justice Nagarathna ~ Hate Speech denies human beings the Right to Dignity, and a greater responsibility is cast upon public functionaries and celebrities against vitriolic statements owing to their position

The Supreme Court Constitution Bench has held by way of a majority that statements made by a Minister, even if traceable to any affairs of state, cannot be attributed vicariously to the government. Justice Nagarathna, who was also a part of the constitution bench, though held that greater restriction cannot be imposed on free speech, she has added that in case a Minister makes disparaging statements in his "official capacity", then such statements can be vicariously attributed to the government ~ Synopsis
Why Hindu female teachers before Savitri Bai Phule are not recognised ?
Jan 4, 2023

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite": Hotee opened a School in Varanasi for women, taught Poetry, Law, Maths & Ayurveda, awarded title "Vidyalankar" by Kashi Pandits long before Savitribai Phule was even born

Hotee was a Bengali Hindu widow. She was a scholar of Sanskrit Poetry, Law, Mathematics and Ayurveda. She established a School in Varanasi for women. She was awarded the title "Vidyalankar" by Kashi Pandits.