1. Badminton on court, Sanskrit off court – the Sindhu way

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    After a three-hour long gruelling session on court, P V Sindhu is relishing her breakfast of puri-subzi and watermelon juice at the canteen at the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy. Destresser is in the form of a loud Telugu film showing on the 32” inch LCD, which Sindhu tells me, is...
  2. Kerala is not 100% literate

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    Blip in Kerala’s social indices. A study by the Kerala Institute of Local Administration finds about 2.2 lakh people belonging to the Scheduled Castes in the state are illiterate. This is 9.5 % of the Dalit population. Deccan Chronicle reports that this study on scheduled caste habitat and families also...
  3. Paging for unused pages

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    An interesting and a very important initiative by the DM Foundation in Secunderabad. All it asks you to do is not to throw away unused pages from notebooks. Instead, it requests you to donate them to DM Foundation. The intention is to bind them and distribute them to the ones...
  4. Thrilling moments

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    All of us go through the inevitable ups and downs in our lives. We have our happiest moments, saddest moments, and memorable moments. When someone asks you about the thrilling moments of your life, what would be your response? Is a thrilling moment any way different from a memorable or...

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