News that won?t make it

Software Braille for the blind

New Delhi 15/4: Indian software company Enabling Dimensions has developed a module that teaches visually challenged people to spell.

March and the Mahatma

sabarmati 12/3: A group of Gandhians re-enacted the historic Dandi March 75 years later.

Song, not the singer

mumbai 31/7: Mohd Rafi?s songs are still hummed. But his 25th death anniversary passed by unsung, unf?ted.

First parting

calcutta 16/10: Few remembered Lord Curzon?s decision to partition Bengal 100 years ago today.

The forgotten document

Bhopal 12/1: When released three years ago, ?The Bhopal Document?, a vision paper for Dalits, was applauded by many intellectuals. Now, the cheers have died, the document forgotten.

At home with genius

lamahi 31/7: The ancestral house of Hindi-Urdu litterateur Premchand, whose 125th birth anniversary falls today, was converted into a museum.

How green was my city

Bangalore 1/6: In 2003, satellite pictures showed Bangalore had only three green patches left. Today the ex-Garden City?s shrinking lung space doesn?t make news.

No longer in prime

mumbai 10/4: Ten years after his demise, Morarji Desai, staunch Gandhian and India?s first non-Congress Prime Minister, is forgotten.

Eco kids vow to save the world

tokyo 26/7: Children are doing what adults aren?t: saving Mother Earth. The first ever Children?s World Summit on environment starts here today with over 1,000 participants.