Dehradun based Sarthwak Bharadwaj was judged the winner of the first season of Kids’ cooking reality show ‘Junior MasterChef – Swaad Ke Ustad’. Saturday,November 02nd, 2013.
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India’s First Celebrity Chef . 1974 .
Tarla Dalal – India’s first celebrated chef and cook book author. Her first publication ‘The Treasures of Vegetarian Cooking’ was published in 1974. This was the beginning of her enormous contribution to expanding the culinary horizons of her compatriots.
Milestones: (1) Tarla Dalal has a legacy of over 17,000 recipes created by her (2)Penned over 100 cookery books which have sold over 3 million copies (3) Popular television show ‘Cook it up with Tarla Dalal’. (4) Conferred Padma Shri in 2007.
Tarla Dalal passed away at the age 77 at her residence in south Mumbai on Wednesday, November 06th, 2013.
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U.S. Congress Jointly Celebrates ‘Diwali’ – the Festival of Lights for the First Time. November 2013 .
Democrats and Republicans in Congress joined to-gether for the first-ever celebration of Diwali on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. A historic Diwali moment – Festival of Lights. November 03rd, 2013.
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First Time Exhibit on ‘ Art of Yoga ‘ at the Smithsonian Museum. October 2013 .
Yoga moves from the studio mat to the museum gallery. A first time exhibition about the visual history and art of yoga, its origin and evolution over time, at the Smithsonian Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States. October 19th, 2013.
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First Indian iconic ‘ Guess Girl ‘. October 2013 .
Priyanka Chopra, Bollywood superstar, former Miss World has been selected as the face of Guess.
She will be featured in the brands’ Holiday 2013 advertising campaign in leading fashion magazines.
Priyanka is not only the first woman to be named a ‘Guess Girl’ but the first non-white woman in the 30 years the company has advertised.
The other famous faces, fashion icons posing for the Guess clothing line include, Claudia Schiffer (twice), Alessandria Ambrosio, Kate Upton, Adriana Lima, Paris Hilton and Drew Barrymore.
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First International Indian Men’s Rights Conference held in London. October 2013 .
The first International Men’s Right Conference was held on October 19th, 2013 at the University of Greenwich, London, U.K.
The Conference was organised by Martial Justice, an organisation seeking gender neutral laws from the Indian Government.
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India’s First Woman Bishop elected by Church of South India (CSI). September 2013 .
In a first for the Indian manistream church, the Church of South India (CSI) created history by appointing Rev.Eggoni Pushpalalitha as its first woman bishop in India. September 25th, 2013 .
The bishop-designate E.Pushpalalitha is to be installed at a consecration ceremony to be held at the historic Anglical cathedral at Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh on Monday – September 30th, 2013. The moderator of the Church Rev. Devakataksham will adminster the oath and grace the occasion alongwith other dignitaries of the church. She will assume charge as Bishop of Nandyal diocese which is spread over 5 districts in Rayalaseema and part of Prakasam with a membership of over 90,000 people.
She is the first amongst 3 surviving children and was born to a family of agriculturists in a small village Diguvapudu in Kurnool district in 1956. She became a pastor in 1984. Rev. E. Pushpalalitha earned her B.A. degree from Andhra University and then went on to do BD from the Andhra Christian Theological College in Hyderabad. She also attended a few courses in theology in UK and USA.
Rev. E. Pushpalalitha is the second woman to become bishop among all churches of the country. The Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Mission located in Bhadrachalam appointed Rev. A. Katakshamma as their bishop in 1996.
The Church of South India ( CSI): Inaugrated in 1947 is one of the 38 member Churches of the Anglican communion. It is a ‘United’ church – the result of the Union of Churches of varying traditions Anglican, Methodist, Congregational, Presbyterian and Reformed.
The CSI has 22 bishops across all dioceses in the country and Sri Lanka. The mission has over 3,000 presbyters of which around 120 are women.
In India, the Anglican family of churches, include Church of South India, Church of North India, Methodist Church and Marthoma Church amongst others.
India’s First Film Screening . 1896 .
Films shot by the brothers Louis Lumiere and Auguste Lumiere, were screened at Bombay’s( now Mumbai) Watson’s Hotel on July 07th, 1896.
The first ever Films screened in India pre-independence were by the Lumiere Brothers.
The First Indian-American to be crowned ‘ Miss America 2014 ‘. September 2013 .
Nina Davuluri, the 24-year old Miss New York won the 2014 ‘Miss America 2014’ competition, held at the Boardwalk Hall Arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey. September 15th, 2013.
Nina Davuluri has become the first American woman of Indian descent to claim the ‘Miss America’ title. This event has once again put the Indian-American community in the spotlight.
For more information: Please use the ‘Search’ facitlity to view the Post of July 20th, 2013 OR ‘Search’ for Nina Davuluri to view the post with the Headline ‘First Indian Crowned Miss New York 2013 at Staten Island, New York. July 2013.
Nokia’s Launches First Device in India with Urdu Language Capability. September 2013 .
Nokia launched the Nokia 114 model, the first ever device with Urdu language capability / option in India.
It was launched at an event by Kapil Sibal, Hon’ble Minister of Communications & Information Technology in the presence of P.Balaji, MD Nokia India in New Delhi. The Hon’ble Minister handed over the first Nokia 114 to Muzaffer Ali, noted filmmaker, poet, a revivalist and a social worker.
The launch is a part of Nokia’s strategy for democratising the reach of mobile telephones. India has over 15 crore urdu speaking people making it one of the largest urdu speaking populations in the world.