Article taken from HT epaper. Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in 1948 forced the Nobel Prize Committee which had “unanimously” decided to confer him with the top honour after short-listing the Indian leader for the five times – to abandon the plan. “(Mahatma) Gandhi was short-listed for the Nobel Prize five times,” Norwegian Nobel Committee chief Ole […]

Who in the right mind would climb on a fireplace… ever worse, sit on it?

Think twice the next time you leave food on your plate, there are so many hungry people out there in the world who deserve more. The least you and i would could do is not to let food go waste down the drain. (1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger)