Posts Tagged 'India'
Protecting Endangered Vegetables [video]
Published April 24, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: agriculture, cooking, Dr. Prabhakar Rao, farming, food, gourmet, heirloom, India, industrial farming, seed bank, vegetables
Harvesting Saffron [video]
Published January 22, 2019 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: cooking, food, gourmet, India, Kashmir, saffron, spice, video
4 Of the Best Street Food Finds In Mumbai [video]
Published December 4, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: cooking, food, gourmet, India, Mumbai, street food, video
The Great Wall of India [video]
Published September 28, 2018 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Great Wall, India, Kumbhalgarh Wall, Rajasthan, tourism, travel, video
Flatworms Can “See” Without Their Heads
Published August 3, 2017 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Akash Gulyani, Bangalore, decapitate, eyesight, India, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, light sensitivity, planarian flatworms, science, vision
Off with their heads. Light-averse planarian flatworms, known for their incredible ability to regenerate lost body parts, shy away from light even after they have been decapitated. This suggests they have evolved a second way to respond to light that doesn’t involve eyes.
90 Years Of Wedded Bliss
Published December 16, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Bradford, England, Great Britain, India, Karam Chand, Kartari Chand, longest marriage, marriage, United Kingdom
BBC reported in October 2016 –
A man who was one half of what is believed to be the longest-married couple in the UK has died aged 110. Karam Chand, of Bradford, died on Friday after 90 years of marriage to his wife Kartari. The pair, who tied the knot in India in 1925 during the British Raj and moved to England 40 years later, have eight children and 27 grandchildren.
4 Tiny Islands That You’ll Never Visit
Published September 8, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Bouvet Island, Brazil, golden lancehead, Home Reef, India, island, North Sentinel Island, Snake Island, tourism, travel
All That Is Interesting.com posted a list of four islands that very few people will ever visit. One is inhabited by poisonous snakes, another by a isolated tribe of humans. One island is an icy rock in the middle of nowhere, another may not be there when you arrive.
Holi Festival Of Colors [pics]
Published February 25, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: colors, colours, cooldigital.photography, festival, Holi Festival Of Colors, India, photography, pic, picture, pigment powder
Photo set from CoolDigital.Photography –
Holi – An Indian festival of joy, colors and happiness. People play with colors with their family members and friends wishing them happy and colorful life. Holi is among the major festivals of India signifying victory of good over evil. It is celebrated with colors and sweets, on the full moon day in the month of March. This year it is going to be celebrated on 23rd March 2016.
First Person Killed By Meteorite Under Investigation
Published February 9, 2016 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: astronomy, India, meteorite, one in a million, sky is falling, space debris, space junk, Tamil Nadu
For the first time in recorded history, a meteorite is reported to have killed a person. The incident happened Saturday (Feb. 6) when an object, thought to be a meteorite, hit a college campus in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India …
This Airline Goes Nowhere [video]
Published October 14, 2015 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: airline, airplane, Bahadur Chand Gupta, Haryana, India, NEW DELHI, staycation, travel, travel experience
India’s Poorest Attend School Under Bridge
Published June 13, 2013 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: bridge, education, highway ramp, India, NEW DELHI, poorest, school, under the bridge
According to The Sacramento Bee –
Underprivileged children attend a free school run under a mass transit bridge in New Delhi, India. The students, ages 4 to 14, study everything from basic reading and writing to the Pythagorean Theorem.
World’s Smallest Woman [video]
Published August 15, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: India, Jyoti Amge, Nagpur, shortest, video, World's Smallest Woman
The description of the video on YouTube begins…
A teenager the size of a large watermelon became the world’s smallest woman after turning 18 today