by Namrata Srivastava | Jan 4, 2024
(January 4, 2024) “We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills,...
by Minal Nirmala Khona | Sep 10, 2023
He brought broccoli, cherry tomatoes and other then-considered-exotic-ingredients into our kitchens, has been the first Indian to work as the Executive Chef for Cunard Line, written two award-winning cookbooks; and has literally done everything a career in the...
by Namrata Srivastava | Oct 13, 2022
(October 13, 2022) About 15 minutes into our conversation, Dr. Ravi Margasahayam told me that he once had a chance meeting with mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, who taught him a very important lesson – something he still lives by. “It was 1973, I was in...
by Namrata Srivastava | Jun 15, 2022
(June 15, 2022) The year was 2003. The unfortunate news of Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating over Texas during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere had overwhelmed the entire world. While India mourned the demise of Kalpana Chawla, a young girl in...