New Delhi: Born as Robert Allen Zimmerman, American musician Bob Dylan has turned 71 today. A hugely influential figure in American popular culture, Bob Dylan at times is described as one of the key people behind creating a social unrest of early 70s. Some of his songs such as 'Blowing in the Wind' and 'The Times' were treated as the vocal interpretation of civil rights, and anti-war movements. 'Like a...
11:21 AM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: Google today replaced its homepage logo with an interactive synthesizer doodle to mark the 78th birth anniversary of Robert Arthur 'Bob' Moog, who is better known as the self-described geeky-toolmaker-turned-visionary. Born on May 23, 1934 in Queens, New York, Bob Moog had a strong passion for electronics, and used to consider himself a geeky, socially awkward kid. Bob's father George Moog was an electrical engineer for Con Edison....
02:32 PM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: With the view to mark the 78th birth anniversary of Robert Moog, Google, today, replaced its usual homepage logo with an interactive synthesizer doodle. This interactive doodle features a synthesizer to let users compose music of their choice. To the right of the synthesizer is a 4-track tape recorder that lets you record, play back the recorded music and share songs via short links or Google+. You can...
11:24 AM, May 23, 2012
New Delhi: Most of us know Mark Zuckerberg as the CEO of Facebook, but there are a lot of interesting facts about this young billionaire that you all must know. Celebrating his 28th birthday, here we bring you 28 little-known, interesting facts about him. 1. Type @[4:0] in a Facebook comment, and Mark Zuckerberg's name will appear. 2. As a teenager Mark was an aethist. 3. Mark's father Edward Zuckerberg...
04:01 PM, May 14, 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
Saadat Hasan Manto, the celebrated Urdu writer, is best known for highlighting hypocrisy and evils of the society through his short stories. Saadat Manto is known to have written more than 200 stories in a span of not more than 2 decades. Toba Tek Singh, the story that captured the aftermath of the partition, is perhaps one of his most popular works even today. In fact, after 1947, Manto was ...
06:03 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: Literary icon Saadat Hasan Manto finds few takers among young readers because the stories are dark, disturbing and reflect a time they cannot relate to. But for the older generation of Indians, he still remains one of the most powerful writers of the 20th century. The writer, who died at the age of 43 in Lahore while struggling to keep the literature of truth alive, was born on...
05:56 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: The city surfaced in his stories. He even wrote scripts for its famous film industry and starred in some movies. Now, 100 years after Saadat Hasan Manto's birth, Mumbai is gearing up to remember the eventful time that the legendary Urdu writer spent here. Born May 11, 1912 in Samrala, Punjab, Manto arrived in Mumbai in the 1940s and spent four to five years here. Though not much is...
01:25 PM, May 11, 2012
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