World’s first smartphone for the visually impaired A post-graduate diploma in information and interface design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, SumitDagar has developed a smartphone that can convert any SMS or email sent in any 14language into Braille. The phone is based on...
Indian bravery showcased in Brighton museum Sussex’s Brighton Museum and Art Gallery held an exhibition of photographs and letters to mark the 100th anniversary of World War I, from July 12, 2014, to March 1, 2015. The bravery of Indian soldiers and their sacrifices were...
Excavation site at PuranaQila For the first time, visitors witnessed an open excavation site in early 2014 at PuranaQila, one of the oldest forts situated in the heart of Delhi. Enclosed with a glass covering, the visitors were able to see without climbing down into...
Gargoti – the mineral museum A treasure trove of precious/ semi-precious minerals and stones has been recreated on land at the Gargoti museum in Nashik. The soft lighting lends an eerie glow to the giant-sized ‘half-coconuts’ of gleaming semi-precious stones in their natural form. Apart...
Most privately owned museums Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, boasts of some of the most diverse privately owned museums in the country. Apart from the world-renowned Kite Museum and the Calico Museum, which has a rare collection of textiles, there are the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum of Indology,...
Butterfly Museum, Shillong, in Meghalaya Shillong, in Meghalaya, is home to a Butterfly Museum, with butterflies and beetles from all over India displayed here. The museum, also known as the Wankhar Entomology Museum, is the private, lifetime collection of the late SK Sircar and his...
Airport terminal, one of India’s finest museums India’s latest and largest museum, which may well become the ‘most visited’ in the world, is actually Mumbai’s new airport terminal, T2. ‘Jaya He’, as the museum is called, greets visitors coming to or going from India on...
Unique museum of police wireless sets. GSM and telephone networks can get jammed at the most crucial times, as they did during the 2011 serial blasts in Mumbai. During such times, the police have to resort to their wireless networks. To highlight the important role...
Smuggling wares on display at Alfandega, Goa Housed in the Blue Building, a heritage structure built-in 1800 in Panaji, Goa, is the first Customs and Excise Museum in India. The two-story building got its ‘blue’name from indigo, the dye the Portuguese traded in from here....
End of the telegram era in India After 163 years of acting as a messenger of good and bad news, the Indian Telegram Service came to a stop on July 15, 2013. All over the country, there was a rush to send off the ‘last’...
