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A medley of stories – features, oddities and a mix of everything beyond the day’s headlines.
Photo: TGCGlobal Business Turns Its Gaze to India’s Beauty Market
India’s beauty and personal-care industry is no longer simply an extension of glamour, fashion or celebrity culture. It is evolving into a serious consumer-business story, with Bollywood stars, digital-first entrepreneurs, global corporations and investors all seeking a share of a rapidly expanding market. The entry of celebrities such as Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif and Shilpa…
Photo: TGCGlobal History of Student Movements
Student movements have long been a powerful force in shaping modern history. Far from being isolated academic disruptions, student activism has historically served as a critical catalyst for political revolution, social reform, and cultural transformation worldwide. By virtue of their unique position—possessing intellectual resources, high social mobility, and relative freedom from full-time economic and familial…
Photo: AI imageScientists are growing mini human brains in labs
New Delhi: Scientists are successfully growing three-dimensional human neural structures — known as brain organoids — from reprogrammed adult skin cells (induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPSCs). Although these lab-grown tissues lack the structural complexity and vascularisation of a full human brain, they mimic key developmental features, offering unprecedented opportunities for medical research and biological…
Photo: IANSA Lens on Ageing: Big B’s Candid Revelation About His Signature Tinted Glasses
Mumbai: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan made a surprising yet emotional reveal on the sets of his quiz reality show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, after he revealed the reason for wearing the same goggles with a tint for the last 25 years. The veteran actor revealed that he had added a subtle tint to his glasses to conceal…
Photo: TGCWhere Five Centuries Live On
Discovering the Timeless Soul of Majuli On the world’s largest inhabited river island, history isn’t preserved behind museum walls, it is woven into everyday life. Imagine waking to the sound of temple bells instead of traffic, watching monks rehearse dance dramas first performed over 500 years ago, or meeting artisans who still craft bamboo…
Photo: TGCWhere faith meets the river: The enduring mystery of Rajrappa’s Chhinnamasta Temple
Barely 80 kilometres from Ranchi, where the Damodar and Bhairavi rivers converge amid rocky cliffs, stands one of eastern India’s most enigmatic places of worship. The Chhinnamasta Temple at Rajrappa is not simply a pilgrimage destination; it is a remarkable confluence of mythology, Tantra, landscape and living tradition. For centuries, devotees, scholars and travellers alike…
Photo: TGCAmrita & Sahir: Written in longing
The Love That Smouldered Between Poems BOX: Some love stories end at the altar. Theirs began with a cigarette. They never exchanged vows. They never built a home together. They were never photographed walking hand in hand through the streets of Lahore or Delhi. Yet, for decades, Amrita Pritam and Sahir Ludhianvi continued…
Photo: TGCRanchi Club: A colonial landmark that became a city institution
Few buildings in Ranchi reflect the city’s colonial past as vividly as the Ranchi Club. Established in 1886, the institution has stood at the heart of the city for nearly a century and a half, witnessing Ranchi’s transformation from a quiet hill station of the Chotanagpur Plateau into the capital of Jharkhand. More than a…
Photo: TGCHoly twin shrines gear up for devotion as Shravani Mela begins today
The State Shravani Mela came alive with vibrant inaugural ceremonies at Dumma on the Jharkhand-Bihar border in Deoghar and at Basukinath Dham in Dumka, marking the start of a month-long pilgrimage that will see the twin shrines of Baba Baidyanath and Baba Basukinath transformed into a sea of saffron-clad devotion. The administration has prioritised technology-driven…
Photo: TGCBefore the malls, Ranchi had its own shopping icons
Long before glass-fronted malls and air-conditioned retail chains altered the way Ranchi shopped, the city had already developed its own commercial landmarks. Along Main Road, around the historic GEL Church Complex and later at Firayalal Chowk, shopping was not merely a transaction. It was part of the city’s social life. The GEL Church, whose construction…
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