** World’s Only Hindu Sheikh Departs – Om Shantih: Kanakbhai!

For the Khimji Ramdas business conglomerate and the close cluster of families running it in the Sultanate of Oman, he was a patriarch, who was at the helm for five decades.

For the Indian community in that Gulf country in general and the non-resident Indians in particular, he was the ever-helpful father figure “Kanakbhai” – Sheikh Kanaksi Gokaldas Khimji, to address in full form by way of the protocol.

** A day of faith – Lessons from the death of two remarkable women

The 22nd of February — tomorrow — is the deathday of a woman who did her life proud by her death. Valliamma R. Munuswamy Mudaliar belonged to a Tamil family from the village of Thillaiyadi, now in the state’s Nagapattinam district. Her ancestors had been indentured, like several others from the Indian peninsula and even from ‘up North’, to work on plantations and in mines in South Africa.

Thirty years later, her jail-mate was in prison again, this time in India. Kasturba had been permitted to join her husband, imprisoned in the Aga Khan’s Palace Prison in Poona, for having heralded the Quit India resolution, asking Britain to exit from India. And she was gravely ill.

** This ‘Postcard’ serves the best of taste from 12 states

When Ashish Nichani and Sudarsan Metla first met while working together at the ING Group, they bonded instantly over a common love for food and travel.

Driven by passion, both quit their banking jobs to foray into the world of speciality food.

The duo founded Postcard in November 2019 to elevate the experience of enjoying traditional Indian snacks procured from 12 states

** Best out of waste: Professor forms team, transforms metal scrap into pieces of art

Nothing in this world is useless. Believing in this concept, a professor has been turning scrap into pieces of art. Professor Srinivas Padakandla, HoD, Fine Arts in the University College of Architecture and Planning, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, has been transforming recycled automobile metal scrap into sculptures.

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