Moon Impact Probe Lands Tri-color on the Moon

The Moon Impact Probe, painted with the Indian Flag, on board Chandrayaan-1, has successfully touched down on the Moon. ISRO has already put up images from the probe.

Mumbia: Hell or Paradise

Here the highest social boast is that you “just got back” from abroad; the loftiest praise for a restaurant is, “It’s like you’re not in India.” Mumbai’s globalized class hungers for it to be a world city, and its leaders pledge to make it Shanghai-like by 2020; the plan is, to put it gently, behind schedule.

By ANAND GIRIDHARADAS

Chandrayaan-1 Moon Image

Moon as seen by Changrayaan-1’s terrain mapping camera from a distance of ~311200 km.

Dhoni, The Modern Indian Cricketer

Peter Roebuck on Mahendra Singh Dhoni

“To him it is a job as much as a game, a profession as much as his passion. And he came to cricket as Dhoni the man, not Dhoni the boy cricketer. He plays hard because he lives hard. He fights to the last because Ranchi boys do not quit or cry.”