London: India's surrogacy industry is being used by Britons to become parents, a media report said on Sunday. There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping Britons become parents. Couples and single people are paying an average of 25,000 pounds a time to have children, getting around rules in Britain which make commercial surrogacy illegal. It is estimated that 2,000 births to...
08:57 PM, May 27, 2012
When Alison Bechdel wrote, 'Fun Home', a graphic novel about her closeted gay father and her relationship with him, it was received with great aplomb. Critics loved it and so did the regular readers. I read it last month and was in absolute love with it. At the end of the book, I wondered, What about Alisons mother? What about her point of view and her life? and the wonder...
01:57 PM, May 22, 2012
MUMBAI: Actress Shabana Azmi said that she doesn't have a problem with item numbers but they should be situational. "I have far less problem with women doing item numbers than them falling on men's feet. Item numbers will continue to happen. It is part of what women do and what they are. Whether it is required on the situation or not that matters," she said during the release of book...
11:49 AM, May 19, 2012
New York: Indian-American corporate leader Rajat Gupta has been warned by a US judge that he cannot beat insider trading charges by trumpeting his history of philanthropy any more than Mother Teresa could use her missionary work to fend off bank robbery charges. "If Mother Teresa were charged with bank robbery, the jury would still have to determine whether or not she committed a bank robbery," US District Judge Jed...
06:35 PM, May 18, 2012
CHENNAI: Becoming a mother on Mothers Day is special for just about any woman. But for women who have been battling with fertility issues for years, Sunday was a particularly great day. We had three women who delivered children through Caesarean operations this mothers day, said Dr Jeyarani Kamaraj, infertility expert at Aakash Hospitals. And for all three women, motherhood has come after a long medical struggle.Rekha Sundaresan, who just...
08:23 AM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Almost 5,00,000 women in the world will become mothers on Mother's Day, 2012. There is a custom of wearing flowers in southern USA on Mother's Day. If a girl or woman is seen wearing a pink or red flower, it is assumed that her mother is alive. On the other hand, a white flower stands to signify that the girl or woman's mother is dead. Carnation is the...
08:20 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: If you are planning to drop into the neighbourhood greetings card store on the Mother's Day eve, think again. At least that's what the founder of the Mother's Day would have liked you to do. Anna Jarvis, who started a campaign on May 12, 1907, to see the day officially being recognised in the US in 2014 dissociated herself from what Mother's Day had become by 1920. Anna's...
12:49 PM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: Though every child wishes her mom Mother's Day, but there is someone who is omnipresent and wishes Mother's Day to all moms of the world. Ubiquitous Google, with its today's heart-touching doodle, wishes all moms "Happy Mother's Day". It's just an amazing doodle from Google this Mother's Day. As you open the Google homepage in your browser, the second "G" of the term Google will appear that symbolises...
12:27 PM, May 13, 2012
If you haven't been screamed at, hated, or blocked off from a child's life, you haven't really been a good mother! I learned that when ...
10:21 AM, May 13, 2012
Although Mother's Day, in its modern avatar, was started by Anna Jarvis, an American woman, in West Virginia in 1907, Nepal has had the 'Mata Tirtha Aunsi' tradition for very long, possibly since the starting days of Hinduism. Mata Tirtha Aunsi literally means 'Mother Pilgrimage fortnight' and it is celebrated in Nepal amid much fanfare. It is typically celebrated on the day of the new moon in the month of...
10:15 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: It's the second Sunday of May and Google is wishing all the mothers with its characteristic doodle on Mother's Day. In the animated doodle on the Google home page the two Os in the Google logo turn into kids and give their mother - the second G - a purple flower. Google has been celebrating Mother's Day with its doodles for a number of years now and the...
07:30 AM, May 13, 2012
A Time Magazine cover showing a mother breast feeding her 4-yr-old son has sparked a parenting row amongst its readers. ...
06:12 PM, May 12, 2012
New York: What were they thinking? Through plastic smiles or gritted teeth, moms have to suck it up sometimes when Mother's Day means a gifted toilet, unsolicited wash tub or anti-aging cream. It wouldn't be Mother's Day if some mom somewhere wasn't disappointed or downright piqued at gift time. Many aren't looking to break the bank, though the National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend $19 billion on the holiday...
12:43 PM, May 12, 2012
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