royal curse

Ghost from the past

It’s time for revenge! A few days ago, in Berlin, a German returned a package containing part of a Pharaonic carving to the Egyptian embassy along with a note. The note said that his late step-father had suffered the “curse of the Pharaohs” for stealing it. The man returned the carving to make amends for the mistakes of his step-father so that his soul could rest in peace. The man had stolen the antique piece in 2004, while on a visit to the country. But after he returned to Germany, he suffered from unexplained fever, nausea, paralysis and cancer before dying recently. The belief in the curse that kills anyone who disturbs the tombs of the Pharaohs goes back to 1922. It originated when Lord Carnarvon, an Egyptologist, died mysteriously after he entered Tutankhamun’s tomb.

having fun

Hi-tech games

Recently, funskool India Limited organised a ‘Transforming Contest’ for six to 12-year-old boys at Emami Starmark, in Calcutta. The Transformers’ toys are an

Electrifying series of transformable robots that can morph from a robot to a

Vehicle in the blink of an eye. In this contest, participants had to transform robots from robo mode to the vehicle mode and vice versa. In the final

Egment, the fastest contender from each round competed against each other. Stanley Paul of St Lawrence High School was declared the

Winner.