We live in a world where people from diverse regions, speaking a host of languages, following diverse religions and eating varied foods and dressing in different styles live together. They may be eating, dressing or worshipping in ways other than us. They are different. But because of this we must not look down upon them…
The slave trade was a three-way trade in human beings. The Europeans began to visit the African coast around mid-17th century. They would bring cloth, tools and weapons and give them to African tribal chieftains. These tribal heads would capture people from inner areas of their kingdoms and sell them as slaves. These would then…
Money is the medium of exchange of a certain value. We have reached the stage of exchange of this value through a long journey. Barter: This was the earliest system of exchange of value. People would exchange something they had with other things they needed. For instance, if they had wheat with them, they would…
On August 5 (only last month), the scientists produced cultured meat in a lab in the Netherlands and prepared a burger and served it in a press meat in London. The man who produced this lab-grown meat is Prof. Mark Post. He had taken a few stem cells from a cow and grew them into…
By M K Shihab and Sulaiman Azhari The most amazing part of Aurangabad in Maharashtra, is the Mini Taj Mahal. Though it is not one of the seven wonders of the world, Mini Taj Mahal has also a lot in it. We are thankful to God, and all who helped us to be here, to…
By A Staff Writer Little Tolly’s best friend was Gini, who was born on Tolly’s fourth birthday. Tolly couldn’t have asked for a better birthday present!.How she doted on the little lamb! ‘Gini’s my baby sister,’ she would say, thanking God for giving her such a cuddly ‘sibling’. The two were really quite inseparable. In…
Dolphins Call Each Other By Name Recently, scientists from St. Andrews University were studying bottlenose dolphins off of the east coast of Scotland when they found that the mammals used signature high-pitched sounds and noises to attract the attention of other dolphins nearby. Using plenty of research as a backdrop, the scientists soon determined that…
By Yoginder Sikand Grandpa Jigme hobbled through the dark corridors of the house as fast as he could on his one leg, shouting out orders. “Yeshe, rush up to the roof with a spade and begin shoveling the snow off. Dolma, bring in the yaks before they freeze. Thubten, start the fire in the kitchen…
There’s no excuse for not being able to learn because you are not in school By Samina Saifee Our lives are highly inundated with technology and it has becoming increasingly hard to distinguish the wheat from the chaff. People spend all of their precious time on social media gossip, but if you think, there is…
A human individual is endowed with the capacity to detect up to 10,000 smells. Our sense of smell is responsible for about 80% of what we taste. The tastebuds present on our tongues are limited to only the basic sensations such as sweet, salty, sour, bitter and cussed. Other flavours that we experience come from…
