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New Zealand school teaches Sanskrit and claims it helps children understand English

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Nevada (US), Jan 25 (ANI): A school in New Zealand has a 'Sanskrit Language Studies' program and claims that learning Sanskrit accelerates a child's reading ability. Ficino School in Mt Eden area of Auckland (New Zealand), calls itself a 'values-based academic institution' and offers education for girls and boys from year one to eight. It says about Sanskrit: "It has a wonderful system of sound and grammar, which gives the child an excellent base for the study of any language. Children love its order and beauty." Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has applauded Ficino School for fostering universal virtues and encouraging Sanskrit studies and adds that Sanskrit has a close relationship with other classical languages like Latin, Greek, French, German, etc. According to Peter Crompton, principal of this school founded in 1997, where curriculum includes "food for the mind, food for the spirit, food for the body", "Sanskrit wit

Child forced to feed on dog milk

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A 5 year old boy Chotu drink milk of a dog.

Google’s privacy policy raises hackles

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IST TNN [ Javed Anwer ] NEW DELHI: Have you ever used Google to search for a restaurant while you were logged in its network using your Google id? Or shared information about your trip to Goa with your friends on Google +? Or watched belly dance on YouTube? Or looked for Sunny Leone pictures on Google images? If yes, Google knows about it. And according to its new privacy policy it is going to put this information to some use. The web giant says the new privacy policy will allow it to offer better services, including more relevant search results. But web experts have raised concerns over potential misuse of data and breach of privacy. According to Google's new privacy policy that will come into effect from March 1, the company is "getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google services and replacing them with one that's shorter, easier to read" and something that will enable it to "create intuitive experience across Google" . Unlike in th

Kamal Haasan wants Shah Rukh Khan for Menon`s remake

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Mumbai: If Kamal Haasan had his way, superstar Shah Rukh Khan will be the only actor to step into his shoes for the Hindi remake of Gautham Menon`s Tamil film ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’. Shah Rukh is currently in a dilemma as he has to choose between the remakes of two Tamil films – ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’ and A.R. Murugadoss`s ‘Ramanna’. Both offer the picky King Khan a chance to do something he hasn`t done before - a south Indian remake with parts that he hasn`t tried before. "While Murugadoss`s film casts SRK as a social crusader, Menon`s film casts him as a cop, a role he has played just once in Shashilal Nair`s ‘One 2 Ka 4’ and that too, a plain-clothed cop. SRK has never got a chance to get into khaki uniform. This, ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’ will let him do," said a source. Haasan, who played the role of the cop on the lookout for a serial killer in the original movie ‘Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu’, has expressed keen interest in Shah Rukh reprising the role in the film

SRK and Gauri’s sizzling chemistry silences detractors

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New Delhi: Shah Rukh Khan has put to rest rumours suggesting that there was tension brewing between him and his wife, Gauri, due to the actor’s alleged closeness with actress Priyanka Chopra. The Bollywood couple’s amazing chemistry was for everyone to see during an after party of an awards night, which the couple attended in foreign lands. “Shah Rukh invited Gauri for a dance and expectedly she graced the dance floor. The couple indulged in a love-soaked ball-dance on some beautiful numbers and their chemistry was for everyone to see,” a source present at the party said. source:ANI

Dheeraj Kalgutkar's photostream

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Dheeraj Kalgutkar's photostream on Flickr. Photographer:Koushik Nayak,Gokarna

Shame India shame to ban Salman Rushdie!!!

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In the beginning the revered Jaipur Literary Festival begins on low note but as the organizers revealed that most eminent writer Salman Rushdie is going to visit the fest, India started to show its shine! We know his book Satanic Verses has been banned in India and even are well aware that its contents were objectionable which raised many a eye-brows and he too was restricted from visiting his birth place/country. Leave all behind and think with open mind for some time; has Salman Rushdie written only one book to his kitty, nah but many! Even we shouldn’t forget his marvelous work Midnights Children , which own him Booker prize. Lets for the god sake forget Satanic Verses and invite him to have good debate as a writer of Midnights children . People are fully not understanding what really is occurring in the name of Islam people are bullied and meanwhile government is roasting its electoral dreams in the wake of Rushdie. Congress is evident that if he’s supported than in th

X-ray of rare Shiva statue surprises Amsterdam museum

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Nevada (US), Jan 9 (ANI): Prestigious Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam recently conducted an X-ray of its thousand-year-old monumental Shiva-Nataraja statue as a part of research and was surprised to know that it was cast in solid bronze. Hollow sculptures have reportedly been a common practice in Europe since the Greek Antiquity. The museum discovered that even the aureole and the demon under Shiva's feet were also solid. Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed has applauded Rijksmuseum for its interest in Hindu artifacts. This Dancing Shiva statue was X-rayed using high-energy digital radiation, along with the lorry transporting it, in the most powerful X-ray tunnel for containers of the Rotterdam customs authority, normally used to scan sea containers for suspicious contents. It is said to be the first research of its kind on a museological masterpiece. At 153 cm x 114.5 cm, this 300 kilograms Shiva statue is claimed to be the largest known bronze statue from the Chola Dynasty kept

A lesson from the tiny Butterfly!

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An object or organism which seem so small or tiny to us, might make us learn the biggest chapter of our life; which no other mighty object could achieve in teaching us. I'm in no way talking of any unseen or celestial body but just wondering about the lessons a butterfly could teach us in its short span of life for which we strive to live! Yes, indeed it’s the same colourfull, yet witty, hard to achieve, mesmerizing insect which could teach us a lesson or two. There is no one who might have spared from the lust of its scintillating & bewildering colours which it displays on its flight; and to the natures dismay we in our childhood had made a wild run to own the glistening fly but had ended up mostly defeated to the natures wonder. The very butterfly behind which we ran could make us aware of the bewildering and lustfull world we live in. Mostly to the cunningness of man, we ran behind a thing which is though precious, is hard to achieve. From its very birth from the caterpi

Shahrukh kisses Katrina at the Screen Awards

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The King of Romance Shahrukh Khan may have romanced his heroines in many films, but this time he recreates the magic on the stage of Colors Screen Awards. Interestingly, Shahrukh kissed Katrina Kaif at the award function. SRK's performance with Katrina became one of the highlights of the super successful show. Katrina looked stunning in a pink sari while Shahrukh looked handsome in a black blazer. courtesy: GlamSham