For any mess caused due to lack of administration, lapse of duty and sense of responsibility – it is always easy to put the blame on somebody who cannot defend the accusation on them in the court of law – And Rains are a favorite excuse offered by Indian Politicians
I continue to pen down my thoughts like this with a hope that our future generation who read this article will laugh at me saying “This guy must be joking”, because the India they live in will be an India that I WANTED to live in.
Who wrote the Vedas? If Vyasa wrote them, then why is it said that different vedic hymns were authored by different Rishis?
What do you think is a good policy decision? Allowing tonnes of food grains to rot in the open due to lack of storage and mismanagement? OR to distribute these food grains to the poor for free there by ensuring that the produce does not go waste? While common sense believes in the latter, our government does not believe in common sense.
Cyberchants – A world where technology is the religion, science is the prayer, universe is God, Knowledge is Wealth and sharing knowledge is the divine purpose of life.
Does the Mayan calendar predict a doomsday scenario for the civilization and life on earth. Is December 21 2012 the end of the world as we know it?
What came first? Chicken or an Egg? Is it only a Metaphor? What does evolution and science has to say about this puzzle? Is this still a mystery or is there an answer to this puzzle?
Scientists at CERN are trying to smash particles into each other at highest possible velocities to just get a glimpse of this particle, even at the risk of creating a black hole and annihilating earth say critics. What is this Higg’s Boson which the modern physicists are so interested in, some even calling it the God Particle ?!
One of the biggest assumptions of modern society is that, anything that is being discovered or invented today is being done so for the first time in Human history. In other words, in spite of having the same brain for over two million years, and known history of ancient civilizations for over past 10000 years or so, we assume that only in the last 4-5 centuries did the human beings started thinking scientifically and are doing technological inventions and scientific discoveries.
Not so long ago, I was one of those outputs of the modern Indian schooling system, which was introduced in India during the British colonial (mis)rule, which makes you believe that everything that is west is scientific and great and everything that is Indian is unscientific and full of blind beliefs.
Not any more though…
Well known, little known and unknown facts about spider. What is common between God and a spider? Why is black widow a widow? What did Bruce learn from a spider?
98% of the universe is made up of only 2 chemical elements. Only 25% of the known chemical elements can be created inside a star. Where did the other 75% elements we see on Earth come from? What are we humans finally made of?
He called himself Turkmenbashi, which means leader of all Turkmens ie the people of his country. Not so bad, he was a leader after all. And he is popularly known with this name. Read on to know more.
The ministry of Finance of the Government of India had announced an open competition in 2009 to design a currency symbol for Indian Rupee that would represent the cultural and historical ethos of India. Note that Russia has been trying ever since early 1990s to find a brand symbol to its currency Rouble!
Is it sufficient enough if your computer has latest and updated best of the industry security software? Is it possible that somebody can LISTEN to your keystrokes as you type them without even having to be in the same room as yours? Is your keyboard broadcasting what you are typing?
In 1997 Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers had said that “Apple should close its shop and return the money to its shareholders”! 13 years later in 2010 Dell is just one tenth of the size of Apple.
What would happen when all the secure transactions, RSA algorithms, encrypted data would fail with the arrival of the first quantum computer? How would securely transmitting sensitive information and encrypting data be handled in an Internet full of Quantum Computers? Read about the wonderful world of Quantum Computing and Quantum Security in the most non-technical form possible.
If you create a visual to represent something, and use it to represent something else which is not accurately represented in the given visual – then either there should be a motive behind it or there should be ignorance.
When the moon acts like a slow Shutter to the celestial camera, and when the shutter closes completely the beautiful celestial photograph of a night sky with Sun and its Corona becomes visible.
The most popular sweetener in the world – Sugar – was invented in India. Prior to the introduction of Sugar in the west, the most popular sweetener in the western world was – HONEY!
