Most Beautiful And Youngest Economist Of The World

A 23-year-old from Kolkata, who works as a trade analyst in Mumbai, has become only the third Indian after Amartya Sen and Sir Partho Dasgupta to win one of Cambridge University’s highest honours.

Mahima Khanna, who has often been involved in Planning Commission assignments, has topped the 2010-11 MPhil class of economics at Cambridge and will receive the prestigious Stevenson Prize. Nobel laureate Sen was the first Indian to win the award in 1956. Dasgupta, the other Indian recipient, is a Cambridge professor emeritus who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his contribution to nutrition and developmental economics.

“Imagine sharing the roll of honour with the gods in my field of study,” Mahima gushes after being informed of the award through an email from the dean’s office. Her talent and academic accomplishments will take her places, but Mahima wants to work in India. The changing matrices of the Indian economy post-liberalization, says the young economist who aspires for a career in the World Bank, are of particular interest to her. “My MPhil papers were related to trade liberalization and informality, based on evidences from the manufacturing sector in India. The size of the informal sector in India is growing. The government should patronize it. India’s fiscal deficits and interest rates also interest me,” she says.

For a daughter of doctor parents and with golfing skills that Annika Sorenstam would be proud of, economics was an unusual choice. But Mahima’s heart lay in the intricacies of numbers and logic rather than those of the human body. After her schooling at premier institutions like Loreto House and La Martiniere for Girls, she cleared the medical joint entrance examination, but eventually took admission in St Xavier’s College. When she graduated in 2009, she had topped Calcutta University. She went to Cambridge on a Commonwealth scholarship for her PG degree. She excelled there, too, ranking second, and stayed on for her MPhil.

When she isn’t cracking mathematical puzzles or solving economic riddles, Mahima loves to tee off. While in Kolkata, she played amateur golf at the RCGC and Tolly Club. She went on to play in golfing events in the UK, UAE and Kenya. But the focus remains firmly on her career. Mahima attributes her success to grandfather Swarn Kumra. An engineer who studied in London University, it was he who instilled the love of numbers and logic in her. “The day after the JEE results were out and I got the chance to study medicine, I held his hands and went and took admission in economics at St Xavier’s. He remains my pillar of strength,” she says.

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Mahima Khanna, who works as a trade analyst in Mumbai, has been involved in several Planning Commission assignments. The 23-yr-old, who won the C’wealth scholarship to go to Cambridge, came 2 nd in MSc. She cleared med JEE, but chose eco at St Xavier’s & topped Calcutta University. Mahima is an amateur golf player and has played in the UK, UAE and Kenya.

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Weird and Tasteless-National Go Topless Day! (NSFW)

Dozens of topless women and men descended on Sunday, August 21. The purported cause: Gender equality. Free your breasts, free your mind! This was just one of many cheesy rallying cries heard during National Go Topless Day's annual protest against gender discrimination that prevents women from bearing their naked breasts in public. Upon meeting up with the protesters, what at first seemed like a just cause quickly transformed into a joke.

What we believe, Is there no other issue in this world to protest? Only bare breasts of women bring equality? 
A group of women and men gathered , protesting the idea that it's illegal for a woman to go topless, but perfectly legal for a man. 
Is this really any argument? 
Then some day few people may demand why women can't rape? Why rapist word inevitably belongs to male? So, we(females) also want to become rapists! 
Women liberalization does not mean obscene gestures publicly. Same is also true for men. 
It is nice feast of eyes for sex starved people of second and third world. But if these continues then unmistakably we reached there from where we began!
Please don't forget billions of girls/women/females are living in inhuman conditions all over world and these types of "protests" and movements only strengthen the male chauvinists. 
Save women. Liberate Women. Educate Women. That's real need,NOT THIS.

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Triumph of mankind - 1st human space flight!

On April 12, 1961, 27-year-old Gagarin completed a 108-minute orbital flight in the Vostok 1, making him the first man in space. According to NASA, Gagarin did not actually operate the spacecraft's controls. In 1961, the effects of weightlessness had only been tested on dogs, so officials did not want to take any chances putting Gagarin in full control of the spacecraft. The mission was controlled by a ground crew, though there was an override key in case of emergency.

Upon his return, Gagarin was received as a national hero, but this status actually prevented Gagarin from making any future space flights. NASA says the Russian government wanted to protect its national treasure, so he was relegated to training MiGs. Ironically, Gagarin was was killed when his MiG-15 fighter plane crashed in 1968 during inclement weather. He was 34.

Earlier this month, Expedition 27 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Flight Engineer Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko to the International Space Station. Their spacecraft was nicknamed the Yuri Gagarin in honor of today's 50th anniversary.

Tuesday is also the 30th anniversary of the first U.S. space shuttle launch, the Columbia. NASA administrator Charles Bolden will host an anniversary celebration this afternoon, when he will also announce where the agency's remaining space shuttles will spend their remaining days.

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