EMERAld visitors Coming to think of it, it has been more than 25 years since I first saw a glow-worm in my garden. Ever since, I have seen it every year around Shivarathri festival.
Bash those EMAIL SCAMS The email had been a clever scam, designed to take gullible people for a ride, while also relieving them of their hard-earned money.
Little Miss Wordsmith! NANCY YI FAN, a fairly typical American teenage girl who loves birds, martial arts and writing, was 12 years old when her first novel, Swordbird, was published last year.
NOT FOR THE RADDIWALA ANYMORE Sending invitations is just the first step to The big, fat Indianweding These are beautifully designed using all sorts fancy papers, beads, sequins and kundans etc.
Many candidates have made it a habit to change parties just to contest elections. Should people of Karnataka reject the party-hoppers lock, stock and barrel? DH had invited readers’ opinion on the issue. Not surprisingly, most readers called the turncoats as a sign of decadence in democracy and ideology, and that they should be written off with the bullets of the ballot. Voting for stable, honest and ideal-driven candidates, requires maturity on the voters’ part, said some.
There were a handful who felt that it was okay to be search for “greener pastures” to seek gain and sure enough, hop and jump.