0407 IST, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 
Panorama
A Mumbai woman who loves to chase mothsBy Quaid Najmi
In her profession, she is known as a lepidopterist, a person who collects or studies butteflies or moths. And she is one plucky woman who strays into dangerous territory without any qualms to pursue her hobby-turned-obsession - chasing and studying moths, or nocturnal butterflies. |
Dispatches from an unfinished African revolutionBy Aman Sethi / The Hindu
For as long as anyone remembered, the border was a dusty track of red sun-baked earth that separated the tidy communal lands in Mhondoro, where the Shona people grew maize, from the fenced farms and private hunting reserves where white farmers grew tobacco and foreign tourists shot antelope. |
South Asia's craftspeople integrate threads of cultureBy Shilpa Raina
Promoters of hand-printed and handwoven textiles in the South Asian region have adapted different techniques to keep pace with changing times to cater to buyers who believe in promoting indigenous handicrafts without putting their fashion quotient at stake. |
Archers won World Cup with old equipmentBy Bharat Sharma
It is creditable for the Indian recurve trio of Bombayala Devi, Deepika Kumari and Rimil Buriuly to have shot their second straight Archery World Cup title with equipment they used at the London Olympics. What tilted the scales in their favour in Poland was the presence of Korean coach Lim Chae Woong. |
Indian astronomers help get peek into ancient cosmosBy Fakir Balaji
Stars born billions of years ago emit signals, and a specialised radio telescope can capture such signals. Indian astronomers have been part of an international team building such radio telescopes to increase our knowledge of the early universe. |
Technology is claiming yet another relic.By Aparajita Gupta
Remember those big fat books that made us proudly proclaim in the 1970s and 1980s that we owned a telephone? Alas, with the advent of the internet and smartphones that can store hundreds of numbers, the telephone directory got lost in the clutter of most households and offices to the extent that the majority of the current generation is unaware that such a publication once existed. |
Boundaries of history chronicled through maps
One way of understanding history is through reading books and another way is through analysing maps. Shaping the structure of the world are the lines that define the borders of each country. Mapping the Indian journey from the 18th century to the pre-Independence era is a fascinating exhibition of an unseen collection of historical maps - a nostalgic sojourn on our 66th Independence Day celebrations.
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Youth defines freedom differently this Independence DayBy Shradha Chettri
"I want the freedom to wander around safely without being questioned, the freedom to go anywhere to do anything, and not being stopped for being a girl" says Esha Kapoor, a German honours student at Delhi University.
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ASI unearths a slice Indus Valley Civilisation
Artefacts dating to the Harappan era have been excavated in Karanpura of Hanumangarh district in Rajasthan, the first time remains of the Indus Valley Civilisation have been found in this part. |
World's first silver bike in Mumbai
Style statement has reached a new height with the creation of a motorcycle made fully of pure silver by a leading jewellery house here and priced between Rs.5-10 million, a representative of the maker said in Mumbai. |
