“As an Indian woman belonging to the 21st century, what I find disillusioning is the humiliating manner in which I was put up as a bait to try and pacify one of the disgruntled stalwarts of Indian tennis. While I feel honoured and privileged to have been chosen to partner Leander Paes, the manner and [...]
There are some franchises you can’t get enough of. Ice Age being a case in point. With Continental Drift set to hit screens this weekend, we take a look back at our favourite characters from the Ice Age universe as well as give you a preview of what to expect from the latest installment Manny [...]
Calm, confident, extremely accomplished, incredibly imaginative, IFS officer Sangeeta Bahadur is latest in the brigade of India’s best-selling authors Recently in the city at Landmark to promote her book Jaal (Book One of the Kaal trilogy), Joint Secretary at the Ministry of External Affairs, Sangeeta Bahadur talks to Postnoon about her career in IFS, writing [...]
It’s good to see Charlie Sheen back on TV but Anger Management is no Two and a Half Men “You can’t fire me, I quit. You want to replace me with some other guy, go ahead! It won’t be the same! You think I’m losing! I’m not! I’m–anyway, you get the idea…” As introductions go, [...]
If it were left to the government, the one lakh plus population of Rasoolpura would have little or no immediate access to medical services. As is always the story, it is NGOs to the rescue It is a truth universally acknowledged that the public health sector in India is at best, a farce and at [...]
Education is said to be the great equaliser. But children in Rasoolpura receive vastly different standards of education in government and private-run schools NGOs and civil society members working in the slum settlements of Rasoolpura have a pressing concern — where the children of the area should be going to school. The Government High School, [...]
Existing in the heart of Secunderabad is a universe unknown to most of us. Postnoon visits Rasoolpura, one of the City’s largest slum settlements, to understand an ecosystem that lives on the periphery Each year, India’s urban population grows faster than its total population. The UN estimates that in the next few decades, one in [...]
Cyberspace is buzzing with one word—Surface. And the question on everyone’s mind is the same: Will Microsoft’s debut tablet be the iPad killer? It’s an exciting time to be a tech-freak. The Apple-Google, Google-Facebook wars have been interesting to watch, no doubt. What with each doing what it takes, to keep us happy and willing. [...]
Even if you had no interest in baseball, Chad Harbach’s campus-baseball novel, The Art of Fielding will be one of the most absorbing reads you are likely to encounter this year If there’s something of a great story to be read in a book, its made greater only by the strength of its writer’s story. [...]
His is usually the last word when it comes to the welfare and protection of a child in the City. Meet the founder-director of Divya Disha and Chairman of Hyderabad’s Child Welfare Committee, Isidore Phillips Irrespective of who you are talking to in the child protection community, his name is bound to pop up at [...]
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Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
Kubra Fatima Ask any Hyderabadi what they love about the City and they will have many things to say — food, greenery and people being the usual suspects. On the contrary, if you ask them what they hate and ‘travelling in an auto’ will be the first response. Even though going around the twin cities [...]
Expecting a Sunday feast, I went to the dining table eagerly looking forward to the best of my mother’s cooking. I lifted the lid on the big casserole and found pulao with corn. I didn’t know what to make of it. I believe my mother makes the best peas pulao. But to have corn replacing [...]
Shraddha Jahagirdar-Saxena Just a few days ago, when Mumbai Indians played the Sunrisers in Mumbai, I found myself standing on Marine Drive, outside ‘D’ road, along with my brother, waiting for our sons to amble out after the match (which to the pride of this city’s dwellers, MI won). It took several moments for the [...]
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