Advances in marketing and technology have propelled India’s book publishing industry forward into a rapid and glorious expansion. By the estimation of Shakti Malli, president of the Federation of Indian Publishers, the Indian publishing sector is currently “worth Rs.80 billion and it is growing by over 15 percent every year.” The country is seeing fresh [...]
Madras University’s recent announcements of the creation of a virtual university and a digital library are being echoed around the country. The august institution may not be the trendsetter in these circumstances, as technological expansion is spilling out too concurrently for any one source to be the inspiration.
Even before Madras University’s 150th anniversary celebrations kicked [...]
Do moustachioed men garner more respect? This is precisely the question that occured to Jhabua district police chief Mayank Jain as he watched local people at a seminar defer to a number of constables in particular—those with moustaches. “There were two or three moustachioed constables in the gathering and I saw people were looking at [...]
Welcome to the festival season! Today marks the beginning of the festivals with Raksha Bandhan, or, as it is more commonly called, Rakhi. Whether you are a brother, a sister, or even an only child with a “sibling” outside of your family, you no doubt are familiar with the tradition in which the sister ties [...]
And no, I’m not talking about the India/Pakistan ODI series…
Five first-class cricketers sharing an allegedly haunted house in the South Island city of Dunedin have been hit by a “spooky” run of injuries since taking up residence in the former home for the terminally ill. Otago provincial representatives Greg Todd, Aaron Redmond, James McMillan, Neil [...]
There is an interesting array of different health and fitness techniques and developments in India which attest to the tie between old and new, eastern world and western world values.
Natural Concepts, a Mumbai based company, has created a new exercise machine which is currently being featured in Goa.
“Natural concepts has arranged free demonstration for [...]
Little India magazine put out a duo of articles in it’s January 26 issue about Bangalore. The first half of the partnership is called “Bangalored,” and is about outlying cities outstripping Bangalore as a world tech capitol. For years “Bangalored” has been a word used by American tech workers to describe the changing [...]
Many articles regarding India’s gender gap saw publication on the web today, including Abortion blamed for ‘missing’ Indian girls and Indian Women Forever Victims. Of course this comes as no surprise to anyone who has experienced and lived in India, but now the world is taking note. Most notable is a quote from [...]
In Delhi, at least, men seem willing to go the extra mile for their good looks: more and more men are getting cosmetic surgery. Delhi is leading the world in male cosmetic surgery with 30% of all procedures done on men. As basis for comparison, in the U.S. it is 20% men.
Men chose [...]
The November issue of Little India magazine is out with two page article on Indian ex-pats who return to India. Until recently, more and more Indians were going to America to find their fortunes. Now, many of them are taking their new skills (and money) with them back to their homelands. [...]