|
|
 |
|
|
 |
| Tiger, tiger burning bright |
| Tribute to a man who played cricket |
| Tiger Pataudi was the hero of my adolescence. I dare say many other cricket lovers in India of my generation also hero-worshipped him. Heroes never die, so Tiger in my eyes is the Peter Pan of Indian cricket. His cricketing career was made of stuff o... |
Read.. |
|
| |
|
|
| To torture is human |
|
Sir — It is a sin to torture innocent animals. Chopping off a cow’s tail is a common practice in th ... |
Read..
|
|
| |
| Dangerous roads |
|
Sir — The massive traffic jam stretching for about five kilometres on either side of National Highw ... |
Read..
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
 |
| TIME’S ARROW |
| When, in the 16th century, a certain Prince of Denmark warned one of his friends that there are “more things in heaven and ea...|
Read.. |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I have got the North Pole out of my system after twenty-three years of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering, and some risks... The work is the finish, the cap and climax of nearly four hundred years of effort, loss of life, and expenditure of fortunes by the civilized nations of the world, and it has been accomplished in a way that is thoroughly American. I am content. — ROBERT EDWIN PEARY
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
