A Greek monk, Mihailo Tolotos, who lived upto the age of 82, never met a women in his life. Thay makes him the only monk on Earth, Monk who never saw a woman, though he not blind. Few days after Mihalio’s berth, his mother died. Hence the baby whisked off to the Monastery in Mount Athos
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Once a hapless little kid, 16 year old, Hepsiba never travelled in an express train in her life though once her home was just a stone throw away from South India’s largest railway station, Chennai Central . But last month this wonder girl made her first flight and travelled more than 14000 km crossing oceans from
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When I met him first, he was making photocopies of Newspaper cuttings and said that he ran an NGO, for helping the underprivileged. I was curious to know what kind of support S. Devender Singh Anand, 67, was providing for helping the needy. “I keep all the Newspaper cutting of News that benefit the public,
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The auditorium was jam packed during Amartya Sen’s reflection on contemporary issues at the India International Centre, in Delhi where he had come to discuss his new book, “The Country of First Boys“. “This book is a celebration of the mind which sees, judges but does not necessarily pass a verdict on,” says Gopalkrishna Gandhi,
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“My name is Usha Chaumar, I am from Alwar, Rajasthan………….” Usha speaks confidently in English to a jam packed audience at Constitution Club, Delhi, on World Toilet Day. This is a transformed Usha! A decade back she used to clean septic tank from a very young age. Belonging to the scavenger community,things were no different when she
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When professional sportsmen hang their boot at 40, Daisy Victor began participating in athletic events when she was just a few days shy of her 50th birthday. “I am only 83 years old,” says Daisy who runs and exercises every day in the ground near her house in Madhavaram, Chennai, and she also hits the Gym for
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