Made for each other
By Purba Kalita "In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow" Jonathan Cainer WHEN God created ' woman' and 'man', He envisaged the consummation of emotional and physical closeness....
View ArticleBeyond arms and armour
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Real cops, real wrenching cases, real scuffle, real risks, but hardly any real appreciation. Under the aegis of the police force, the citizens can afford to feel secure and...
View ArticleEnvironment is nobody's concern in AUDA areas
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Autorikshaw drivers in areas along the highway refuse to cross the limits and enter the city. The reason - their vehicles run on a mixture of petrol and kerosene. A case in...
View ArticleDo teachers practise the ban on corporal punishment?
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Ask any educator about corporal punishment and phut comes the reply that it is banned. As a law, physical abuse of students, in educational institutes, is forbidden, but the...
View ArticleRaj Bhasha or Rashtra Bhasha, it's Hindi all the way
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Gujarat is the only state in the country to have two official languages Gujarati and Hindi. It's a fact that may come as a surprise to many. On September 14, 1949, the...
View ArticleDoes `ozone' ring a bell of panic?
By Purba Kalita The Times of India News Service AHMEDABAD: Global Ozone Day completes its 12th year of existence today. The obvious reason of its birth is the depletion of ozone. The atmosphere is an...
View ArticleBeggars: Used to being served on platters
By Purba Kalita The Times of India News Service AHMEDABAD: An allusion to beggars conjures up in the mind people in tatters, and in all likelihood, homeless. But the ones, you find sprawling on the...
View ArticleWin my beloved country, this Olympics!
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: AS the greatest athletic and sporting event the 27th Olympic Games gets unfolded, life is as usual in this part of the world. Gone are the days when Olympics was awaited with...
View Article`The Sandra I knew'
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: When Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaveri Patel became the deputy prime minister of India in 1947, Mulshankar Chhotalal Bhatt was appointed as his personal secretary. A Sanskrit...
View ArticleJamshedjee was very much with us
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Jamshedjee Nusserwanjee Tata was one of the pioneers who brought about a transformation of an agrarian country to an industrialised one. The farsighted man could have hardly...
View ArticleThe right combination does wonders
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Young architects, wife, Dipti Ranpara and husband, Maulik Patel were just waiting for the right break to come their way when it finally did, this Diwali. Their happiness knew...
View ArticleMapping guides for communication
By Purba Kalita The Times of India News Service AHMEDABAD: After a graduation degree in painting from M S university, Mahendra Patel joined National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, in 1964 to...
View ArticleCarving a niche, literally
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Renowned sculptor, Narayan Laxman Sonavadekar, was in town recently on an assignment of the Tatas. Born into a family of temple sculptors in Maharashtra, studying sculpture...
View ArticleDay care centres
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: THE problems of a working women reaches its peak with motherhood. The moment of rejoice ceases to remain so, once maternity leave gets over. Then arises the issue of how the...
View ArticleLaw Garden
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Ghanshyam sells white metal jewellery from his van at Law Garden. One will find many like him stationed opposite their earlier post, under the girders. After a hiatus of...
View ArticleImmigrant artisans show their skills
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Their bread and butter is their skill: The expertise to give shape to wonderful creations that can be any possessor's pride. Had it not been for the immigrant craftspersons...
View ArticleA panoramic view of South Asia
By Purba Kalita The Times of India News Service AHMEDABAD: Sarupathar Sanmilit Silpi Gusthy, the troupe from Assam arrived with a strength of 15 artistes. They brought to Millennium Mahotsav the most...
View ArticleSchools abuzz with Christmas preparations
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: It's time again to unwind for students for having worked the whole year through! And tiny tots are not to be forgotten for having put their steps forward into the tedious...
View ArticleAttired to welcome the new year
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: People dressed in their flashy, glitzy, glittery and shimmery best. The visualisation is only a harbinger to the actual show. New year eve parties are a time for people to...
View ArticleNew Year bashes give a wide berth to old-age homes
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: The passing years have wisened not just their hair and skin, but also their spirit for life. These are the inmates of the various old-age homes spread across Ahmedabad....
View ArticleTantalising food to suit the festive mood
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: Sankranti celebrated by various names in different parts of the country, wears a different look everywhere but the commonest link running across the country is the 'must-eat'...
View ArticleIf only animals could speak
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: On the fateful morning of January 26, many Ahmedabadis, including pet-owners, realised that the animals around them had given out some signals of the imminent calamity. But,...
View ArticleAnother hope for the hopeless
By Purba Kalita The Times of India News Service AHMEDABAD: A fortnight after the quake, the formidable task of rehabilitation, both physical and psychological, looms large on society. And treading the...
View Article'Children can help one another overcome trauma'
By Purba Kalita The Times of India News Service AHMEDABAD: Little Sneha wants to know when she will get back her house. Her room that had been so lovingly done up to her taste doesn't exist anymore....
View ArticleNSW brings in feeling of being unsafe
By Purba Kalita AHMEDABAD: National Safety Week (NSW) which began on February 4, doesn't seem to have many observers in the city. What seems even more surprising is that even the earthquake failed to...
View ArticleEcdysone signaling underlies the pea aphid transgenerational wing polyphenism...
The wing polyphenism of pea aphids is a compelling laboratory model with which to study the molecular mechanisms underlying phenotypic plasticity. In this polyphenism, environmental stressors such as...
View ArticlePaawan Purba: Parents of woman, 20, killed by meningitis tell students 'have...
The parents of a London student who died less than 48 hours after falling ill with meningitis today urged young people to get vaccinated before starting university. ......
View Article‘23 lakh not included in Assam’s NRC are Hindu Bengalis’, says Mamata Banerjee
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View ArticleDPYSL3 modulates mitosis, migration, and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition...
A Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) proteogenomic analysis prioritized dihydropyrimidinase-like-3 (DPYSL3) as a multilevel (RNA/protein/phosphoprotein) expression outlier specific to...
View ArticleBardhaman Purba seat in Bengal: Trinamool aims to retain seat it snatched in...
Kolkata, April 11: The schedule for the 17th Lok Sabha election was announced by the Election Commission on Sunday, March 10. The election will be held in seven phases between April 11 and May 19 with...
View ArticleBardhaman Purba Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal: Full list of...
Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Bardhaman Purba Lok Sabha Constituency of West Bengal. ......
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