In this year's edition (on 3 December 2009), Prof. M.S. Raghunathan will be speaking about the Queen of the Sciences. Mark your calendar. Here's the announcement from my friend and colleague, B. Anantanarayan: Prof. M. S. Raghunathan gives the 18th Meera Memorial Lecture The 18th Meera Memorial Lecture will be given on Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 6 pm at the Indian ...

thirdstitch: Chila Kumari Burman From the statement on her website says- Since the mid-1980s I have been exploring the experiences and aesthetics of Asian femininity in paintings and installations, photography and printmaking, video and film. In my more recent works, this theme has taken on a new power and vibrancy. I am currently making a new body of work to draw all of these together and to ...

JAMMU: Union Minister for Tourism, Kumari Shelija, J K Minister for Tourism, Nawang Rigzin Jora and Minister of State for Tourism, Nasir Aslam Wani today inaugurated World Travel Mart in London. The visitors from London and other places who intend to visit Kashmir have been given confidence that the place is now safe for all kinds of tourism.

In the 19th century the Roman Catholics built St. Thomas church at Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. Later it was rebuilt and named as Lady of Ransom. This tall white structure is located in a naturally beautiful area near the Cape Point . A statue of Virgin Mary, 3 ft. tall, has been erected inside the church. It is believed that this statue was brought from Portugal in 1543. Fourteen incidents in ...

... Mom, acting karogi? Ek zabardast role hai. Mom - Kyun nahin, main toh Meena Kumari hoon. But when I gave her the script, she got cold feet. Mom - Wait, who is Urv, again? Me ... the door!! She still wouldn't do it. "Baap re baap, no way!" She said. Me - Meena Kumari would have never turned it down, you know. This is the role of a lifetime. Mom - Nahin baba, I can't do it. Viv - ...

... to me is The Living Goddess photo gallery...where he captured luminous (and candid) images of the Kumari. He must have been granted special access to be able to make these images. There's no further information on his gallery, but the best known is the Royal Kumari of Kathmandu, who lives in the Kumari Ghar, a palace in the center of the city. Worshiping a pre- ...