Eminent physicist Albert Einstein was born in the year 1879. Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of peace, was born in 1869 and Adolf Hitler, the epitome of terror, in 1889. Hence the expression that Einstein was born between peace and terror. Einstein admired Mahatma Gandhi. He even expressed this admiration in a letter written in 1931 addressed to the Indian …
The Himalayas are the world’s highest mountain range. They are also the youngest. Like any adolescent youth, this mountain range is continuously growing and changing every year. The current highest point of the range is at 29,035 feet above sea level. This is a full 7 feet higher than the previous record. Professor Bradford Washburn of the Boston …
Asia, the largest continent on Earth, has a total land area of 44,579,000 square kilometers. It constitutes 30 per cent of the total available land area. The continent tops the list even in terms of population. More than 4.1 billion people reside in Asia, which is60 per cent of the entire global population, with a population …
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum based in London and currently has branches in several major cities. The eponymous Madame Tussaud (1761–1850) was born Marie Grosholtz, in France. She learnt the art of wax modelling from her mother’s employer, Dr Curtius, an expert in wax modelling himself. The first statue Madame Tussaud designed was that of the French philosopher …
Also known as Kargil Vijay Diwas, on this day in 1999, the Kargil conflict between India and Pakistan officially came to an end, when the Indian Army announced the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders. The Indian forces successfully took command of the outposts lost to the Pakistani army.
Before the beginning of the Dandi March on 12 March, 1930, Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Gandhiji and Ba to millions of her children, applied the benedictory tilak on Gandhiji’s forehead. She garlanded him with khadi and handed him the stick. Tilak, khadi and the stick were respectively the symbols of devotion, simplicity and strength.
