Well known democratic fact: India is the world’s largest democracy with a population of over 1 billion. In other words, one in every six humans on this planet is an Indian! Averagely known democractic fact: America, the world’s strongest democracy today was discovered in 1492 AD when european countries sent sailors to discover a sea route to India ! Which

Snake and Ladder is an ancient Indian game which was brought to west by the British in 1892. It was called Mokshapath meaning Path to Salvation. In sanskrit Moksh=Salvation and Path=Path !! Let us understand its basics. The vedic (hindu) belief about life and death is of rebirth. One life form might be reborn as any form of life after

I have been fed up repeatedly being asked the same silly question about caste system in Hinduism, so thought will write a post on it to clarify things once and for all. Caste system as it exists in modern hindu society is definitely bad. It is wrong to label a person as inferior or superior based on his birth. No

Hashing algorithm used in naming of the raga (raag); in the melakartha system of Indian classical music

Speed of Light mentioned in Rigvedic hymns and its commentaries – Research done by SS De and P V Vartak

Hashing algorithm used in modern search engines are also found in ancient indian classical music systems. A detailed explanation of the Indian katapayadi hashing algorithm

Ayurveda is the oldest known systems of medicines in the world. As the name suggests has its root in the vedas and means the science of longevity. It is a completely herbal based medicinal system. Has zero side effects. More importantly it does not cure any disease independently of the body’s natural immune system. Instead it helps the body’s immune

This has been one of my thoughts since long back. About the auto mode of brain where brain works without our mind consciously being aware of it. I feel that we need to concentrate to do things only when we are not used to it, in other words when we are not experienced in it. Things that we are experts

Pay to die ? Well, yes. Atleast thats what I feel about smokers. When somebody asks me, why I dont smoke, my response is I dont want to pay to die!! Well, I even dont like free cigarette. I hate passive smoking. And today I saw this image which shows how ugly, dirty, disgusting, pathetic, the lungs of a cigarette

Every form of life is being genetically engineered today. Humans are playing the video game of life! Cows are being genetically engineered to produce more milk. Chickens are being genetically engineered to produce more meat. Sheeps are being genetically engineered to produce more wool. Plants are being genetically engineered to produce more fruits and vegetables. Bacteria are being genetically engineered

Two Indian workers were killed by the natives in a violence in the african country of Uganda a month bank. I do protest these killings, so do all other Indians. But I stop there. As for the cause goes, I am with the Ugandan people and not on the side of those who are opposing the native Ugandans there. The

Suddenly got a doubt today while thinking about archeopteryx. Archeopteryx is the fossil of a creature which is said to have been in a transition phase from dinosaurs to birds. If life evolved as darwin had said say from one species to another, then where are the other fossils of intermediate species? Why havent we found any ? How can

India and US are talking about a nuclear deal where in US will provide nuclear fuel for Indian reactors to generate power using nuclear energy. In other words, for the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Hyde’s act is the act which allows US govt to sell nuclear fuel to India. What does the US need in return? Separation of Indian

Disclaimer: This post will make sense only to those interested in physics, more precisely to those who know general relativity and cosmology, and want to have a deeper insight into the mathematics of general relativity without having to do any actual Math. Nice to see you continue reading this post, Welcome aboard This is a slightly non technical version of

We classify time as past, present and the future. Past is what has passed off, and future is the unseen, while present is the ongoing transition from past to future. This is what our entire life is all about. A transition from past to future. Lets talk about this present. What we see, is it really the present thing ?

What we see is not what it is! What we see is just a custom mapping and interpretation by the brain of the data received from the eye. What we hear is a mapping of the data received from the ears. What we smell is a mapping of the data received from the nose, etc Lets take for instance, sight.

I Robot – Remember this movie ? Robots made up of intelligent software, want to overtake human beings and rule the earth, bla bla bla The key is artificial intelligence, software that could mimic human intelligence and by the sheer processing power of the processors even overcome(?) human intelligence. Some fear that one day computers will be more intelligent than

Came across this video while doing some research on tilak’s “Arctic home in the vedas” which says that during the Vedic Age India was alongside current arctic region. According to the continental drift theory, all present 7 continents we see now were once attached to each other (as a giant continent called pangea) and then started moving apart giving rise

I am fed up repeatedly hearing the totally illogical, stupid argument some people put forward saying “It was the british who created a united India, and before the british came, there was no concept of India at all!” Forget uniting, the British actually divided India into three pieces before they left in 1947! Let’s start with the very basics of