45% of land in India were under 500 Princes which was merged by Nehru and Sardar Patel. British left India with 11%suffrage and 10%literacy and an economy in which foreigners had no confidence.Today the whole world is trying to get its foot into India....
POST: 2011-07-18T15:51:35+05:30
The Parliament of Poland unanimously decided to declare 2011 as the as the Czeslaw Milosz Year since it happens to be the birth centenary of the great polish poet,who was a noble laureate....
POST: 2011-07-13T15:09:46+05:30
Our Choice of Prepositions may not always be the Queens English,we might occassionally split the infinitive and we may drop an Article here and add extra one there,however English in India today is just another indian language said Dr Manmohan Singh in April 2005@Oxford University
POST: 2011-07-12T16:57:55+05:30
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book,Books are well written or badly written said Oscar Wilde....
POST: 2011-07-12T16:52:00+05:30
Being British is about:Driving in a German Car,Go to an Irish Pub for a Belgian Beer then at home grabbing an Indian curry or a Turkish Kebab on the way to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV and the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything Foreign!!!
POST: 2011-07-11T17:30:20+05:30
Nobody trips over Mountains.It is the single pebble that causes you to stumble!
POST: 2011-07-11T17:29:06+05:30
Martha Graham(1895-1991) revolutioned dance and introduced the art of choreography to the 20th century.She said if you are stuck for a gesture,say the word,the sentence,the action will come.Words were a major source for her dance compositions.Her Last dance was at her age of 72 ....
POST: 2011-07-07T16:29:02+05:30
By 2017 Delhis Underground Metro will be larger than the London Underground with 417 Kms!
POST: 2011-07-07T16:27:28+05:30
We have the second largest road network in the world-about 34 million Kms,only 2% are National Highways,i.e.,70,000 Kms and out of this about 16,000 Kms are one-lane-just one rickety lane and 70% of goods and trade moves by roads in India. Wealth does not generate roads,Roads generate Wealth!
POST: 2011-07-06T13:17:48+05:30
The man who won the first nobel peace prize died a pauper