World of Gujaratis

Gujaratis from western India, with their enhanced numerical skills, mental agility and speedy solutions to arithmetic problems and cognitive abilities, performed mentally without the use of calculators or paper, with their focus on the bottom line profit. Gujaratis in the diamond district of New York, Manhattans 47th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, follow the Jews in diamonds businesses as finished diamonds come here from all over the world where million-dollar deals are sealed to serve the elite. All diamonds of 47th Street are new ones, very few come from pawns or estate sales, as they arrive in New York by multiple … Continue reading World of Gujaratis

Hilarious plot twists

The Roses – would The hilarious Roses smell as sweet by any other name? – At a cinema near you now! 1 hr and 45 mins Couples and relationships especially marriages, can lead a merry path of love, trials and tribulations, jealousy, loathing, laughter, difficult times and ultimately may end up with a counselling service! What better way to start a story than on the couch then where the audience soon discovers why Theo and Ivy are there. The saga moves quickly on from the opening scene to “get down to brass tacks”. This is a tongue in cheek comedy … Continue reading Hilarious plot twists

World of British Aristocracy

Despite a decline since 1945, we view the Aristocrats or upper class as synonymous with glamour, adventure and whose status and fortunes inspired instinctive respect, you have look at the newspaper headlines about dukes and lords, continued interest in Lord Lucan’s 1974 disappearance.  The Duke of Westminster, whose wealth dates back to the 17th century, is worth £10bn, and according to Doughty some peers still live largely “Edwardian lives”. Heirs & Graces presents evidence that we would be better off if at least some stately homes were torn down, if hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords, and if the … Continue reading World of British Aristocracy

Reforms that shaped England’s school system

Nick Gibb, the long-serving schools minister of a series of Conservative administrations between 2010 to 2024, and headteacher Robert Peal, explores the key principles behind the reforms and reveals the impact they had on school leadership, accountability, teaching methods, curriculum design and pupil behaviour. Addressing the long legacy of “progressive” approaches to teaching in English schools, and the development of evidence-led alternatives, the book demonstrates the approaches to education such as “warm-strict”, “teacher-led instruction”, and knowledge-rich curriculum have been simultaneously both controversial and hugely successful. Tories put rocket boosters under the academies and free schools programme and how, those new … Continue reading Reforms that shaped England’s school system

Chasing peak sugar

Next time spare a thought when you are adding sugar to your morning English Breakfast Tea or coffee, the challenges faced by sugarcane farming. Inside the world of green sugarcane crops, world’s largest sugar farmers of Kolhapur district in Maharashtra spanning several thousand acres owned by the Maharashtra State Cooperative Sugar Factories Federation and Uttar Pradesh (India) are seeking the help of Artificial Intelligence aided by scientists from the Agricultural Development Trust of Baramati using Microsoft AI technology. Weather station is a tall metal structure with gauges for wind, solar, temperature and humidity are on the top and at the … Continue reading Chasing peak sugar

The New Normal…

Soviet Kurgyzstan-born poet, translator and student of literature of both East and West, Ismailov’s exploration of poetry, and digital artificial intelligence with infinite imagination crafting a post-modern ode to poetry across centuries and continents.  Crossing the poétes maudits with beloved Sufi classics, blending absurdist dreams with the life of the famed Persian poet Hafez, moving from careful mathematical calculations to lyrical narratives. He demonstrates a dazzling celebration of how poetry resonates across time and space, in We Computers, In the late 1980s, society has been obsessing over computers impersonating humans, Ismailov has been impersonating a computer.  Originally written in Uzbek and published … Continue reading The New Normal…

Soho House sold for £2bn

Soho House sold to MCR Hotels and Ashton Kutcher-led group (third largest hotel owner-operator in the US) for £ 2bn. Its new owner last year brought London’s BT Tower for £275 and also owns the High Line Hotel in New York. The London-based member’s club move back to private ownership after four years of uncertainty on the New York Stock Exchange. MCR’s founder Tyler Morse will join Soho House’s board of directors alongside Kutcher, while existing major shareholders including founder Nick Jones ( who founded in 1995, London) and Ivy Collection boss Richard Caring will certainly retain their stakes in … Continue reading Soho House sold for £2bn

Sholay fifty years on under starlight: comedy to heartbreak, action to tragedy

“Sholay” the Indian blockbuster celebrates its 50 years, whose journey began from an uncertain beginning to a monumental success, is a powerful reminder that once a spark ignites they can turn into an inferno that can’t be doused. This is the story of the team who smelled failure in the first week of releasing the film turned around by marketing in to the evergreen blockbuster. Sholay with stars like Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Baduri and Amjad Khan. Sholay inspired by Spaghetti Westerns and Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, the film had a flavour of its own, with … Continue reading Sholay fifty years on under starlight: comedy to heartbreak, action to tragedy

World of Organised Crime

A bandit becomes a monarch, a gang becomes a government and organised crime at the heart of every modern state. Homo Criminalis shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of the underworld and its crimes. From Chinese banditry and eighteenth-century English tea smuggling to today’s cocaine submarines and the high-tech crimes of tomorrow, showing how the world’s dark underbelly shapes us, no matter how we try to outpace it. Mark Galeotti, a prolific author specialising in Russia and organised crime, shows “our dynamic interconnected globalised networked cross-cultural world is so permeated by organised crime. It is very hard … Continue reading World of Organised Crime