IT'S CHAI TIME
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December 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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December 2020 -
At the turn of the century, if you had told a random group of Americans that over the next two decades, they would elect a president named Barack Hussein Obama, whose father was from Kenya, and a vice president named Kamala Devi Harris, whose mother was from India, they would have wondered what you had been smoking.
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December 2020 -
Azim Premji, founder and chairman of Wipro, has given away Rs. 7,904 crore of his wealth in 2020, making him the most generous philanthropist in India, according to EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2020. He has donated an average of Rs. 22 crore (almost $3 million) per day.
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December 2020 -
Celebrities often use their social media accounts to promote products and enrich themselves. But every now and then, they also use their huge followings to benefit the underprivileged.
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November 2020 -
The National Basketball Association’s Memphis Grizzlies have hired Sonia Raman as an assistant coach, making her the 14th female assistant coach in the history of the NBA. She becomes the third assistant coach of Indian origin in the NBA, along with Vin Bhavnani (Oklahoma City Thunder) and Roy Rana (Sacramento Kings).
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November 2020 -
Vimal Patel, a 48-yearold tennis coach in Naples, Florida, will be inducted next January in the Kentucky Tennis Hall of Fame for his achievements as a junior tennis player.
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November 2020 -
Zubin Mehenti, a studio anchor at ESPN since 2011, recently began co-hosting ESPN Radio’s weekday morning show, Keyshawn, JWill & Zubin, alongside former NFL player Keyshawn Johnson and NBA player Jay Williams. The show, which airs from 6 to 10 a.m., is also simulcast on ESPN2 (6 to 8 a.m.) and ESPNEWS (6 to 10 a.m.).
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November 2020 -
Quotes by Arush Mehrotra, a senior at University High School in Irvine, California, who created a nonprofit organization / Balachandran Gopalan, uncle of Democratic vicepresidential nominee Kamala Harris / Author Avni Doshi, whose debut novel, Burnt Sugar, was shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction / Tweet from actress Mindy Kaling, who
gave birth to a baby boy on Sept. 3.
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November 2020 -
How much do you know about current events in India and the U.S.? Try this short quiz!
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November 2020 -
A matrimonial ad placed by a 37-year-old man from West Bengal recently went viral on Twitter. It was first shared by Nitin Sangwan, an IAS officer in Ahmedabad, who made this intriguing comment: “Prospective brides/grooms, please pay attention. Matchmaking criteria are changing.”
