Tag: Tribute

This 55M American is soon leaving Amsterdam after seven unforgettable years. To have made Amsterdam my home, three decades after a 1989 spring visit here on a Eurail pass, messes with my mind as much as the space cake I swallowed back then at the long lost Wish You Were Here Coffeeshop — a moi...

‘The band that could have, but didn’t.’ That was how music critic David Carr described The Replacements, a four-piece punk band hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Replacements stemmed from the punk explosion that engulfed Britain, and soon after America, in the late 1970&rsqu...

Born on July 1st, Anum Nawaz completed her high school from St Anthony’s where she indulged in various curricular and extracurricular activities such as being the school prefect for 4 years and having to work as the Chief Editor for the School Magazine, in 2006. Anum further pursued Advance...

Christopher Columbus was looking for a new route to India when he discovered the Americas. I was still living in India when I discovered America. It was November 1963, and the entire country of India — about half a Billion people then — shut down for three days. Every office, every sh...

The origins of Black History Month may be traced to the early 1900s. It was created to honour and recognise African Americans’ sometimes underappreciated contributions to the growth of the US. Negro History Week was the forerunner to Black History Month, having been started in 1926 by histo...

Forests irrespective of the tree type, are soothing. Unfortunately, we regularly hear how the Bornean rainforest are being wiped out for palm oil plantation. We read how Amazon forests are being destroyed to create field for soybean cultivation. If you visit the famous Yosemite national Park and ...

Last week on the 14th of September we celebrated Hindi Diwas in India. The day marks the anniversary of the Munshi-Ayyangar formula, a compromise reached between two political camps divided on the status of language in the Indian constitution. One from the Hindi belt voiced for Hindi to be the offic...