An experiment of its own kind, this vedic rock album “Mrityunjaya” from the Indian band “Agni” is based on ancient Indian classical music and mainly on vedic chants. This particular song is called Tandav. But I doubt if there is anybody today who can perform an actual “Tandav” dance, especially the aggressive Rudra Tandav. Tandav is said to be originated

The british who ruled India wanted Indians to feel that everything west, english and european to be superior, and anything that had to do with Indian culture and history as inferior, unscientific and stupid. Macauley introduced the english education system in India which enforced these thoughts about western superiority and Indian inferiority in the minds of the Indian children. Max

In one of my earlier blogs , I had mentioned that India alone needs one and a half times the energy currently consumed by entire world, if India were to be a nation as developed as USA. The living standards of a developed nation like USA is completely dependent on the availability of energy for all the necessities and luxuries

This is the age of information. Internet is the sum of all knowledge gained by humans throughout our recorded history, (of course except for those behind the scenes R&D and classified information and technology in NASA, Pentagon, etc). In this IT age, what should be taught to children as part of their education. Do we need to focus on piling

We cannot deny the fact that humans are intelligent. If not for the human intelligence you would not have been reading possibly even within seconds of my writing this blog, given the fact that we both may be on opposite parts of this globe! Thanks to technology, we can communicate with each other at lightning speed, we have mapped the

A friend of mine wanted to smoke a Wills cigaratte and I just created a funny two liner on the fly and warned him about the dangers of smoking saying, Where there is a will there is a way, Where there is a Wills cigaratte, there is only one way and pointed upwards towards the sky As we all know

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made . – Albert Einstein The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays

<< Alien Twist to God Series I suggest that you read the following earlier blogs of mine (if you havent read them already!) before we untie the next knot of the alien twist. This will give you a clear picture about the basics before we move forward Modern Science and Ancient India Ancient Nuclear War Iron Pillar What the ancient

While writing a piece of software I got this thought about a feature that could be provided in programming languages (at least I am not aware of any language which has this feature) Usually when we want to assign a value of a variable “a” to another variable say “b” all we do is write b=a; Now consider this case.

“Indeed we had arranged for five people to sing the anthem. But then we cancelled it as we have foreigners on-board here. They should not be embarrassed while we sing the anthem.” These were the exact words used by Mr N R Narayan Murthy when asked about why the singing of Indian national anthem at a recent function held by

Every time God wanted to do something good to this world, he did not come here to do it by himself, instead he created a Child. Thats how Einstein was born, Buddha was born, Swami Vivekanada was born, Lincon was born, Ilayaraja was born, Basavanna was born, and so are we all So the idea of life is to identify

1/6 of humanity lives in India! 1/6 of India is at polls now! Yes I am talking about the UP polls, where 1/6 of India live Elections are going on at UP for the state assembly. The so called IT folks of UP are all over India ranging from the silicon valley of India, Bangalore in the south to Gurgaon

Well, many of you may not be aware that OBC (Other Backwards Classess) are not a constitutional creation in India unlike the SC and ST When the constitution of India was created under the supervision of great people like Dr B R Ambedkar, they saw the needs to provide reservations for the socially backward classes categorized as Scheduled Castes (SC)