If you want to get something that you never had before, do something that you had never done before! Let us try to do a simple and straightforward astronomical dating of the actual vedic period. In the ancient vedic culture, people used to consider the beginning of a new year on the day of the vernal equinox. Now a bit [...]

Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else. – Thus goes a line in the first chapter of Mahabharata In the 21st century, the same could be said about the Internet Internet has become the sum total of the entire knowledge collected by humans all over the known history. Thousands and thousands of new [...]

Wanted to make a prophetic prediction Searched the search engines for a popular question Started thinking about the day on which the world is going to end, As that was the current trend. think.. think.. think deeeply deeeeeeply deeeeeeeeeplyyyyy So deep that the pacific depth reaches everest height! And lo, saw light at the end of a tunnel rain And [...]

Disclaimer: Trying to be as non-technical as possible, requires basic physics at the level of quantum mechanics and relativity Scene I Unlike other physicists, Einstein developed almost the complete theory of relativity based on this thought experiments. In other words, he carried out the experiments of his theory in his mind! He set up the required experimental setup, conducted the [...]

This is a post in response to the comments made by the readers to my previous post Moral Vegetarianism . In the earlier post I had cited that choice of diet is a personal matter. I might not like eating animals, while others might not mind it. Debating whether meat is healthy or unhealthy is altogether a valid scientific issue. [...]

One of the site visitors asked a question . Isnt vegetarianism violence against plants ? Vegetarianism is very popular life style amongst many hindus. It is compulsory among Jains. It is considered good for two reasons. 1) Animal meat is detrimental to human mind, spirituality and health. 2) The principle of ahimsa or non-violence against animals. Those who are vegetarians [...]

Today is the tomorrow that we used to worry about yesterday So folks, stop worrying, for worry is the misuse of imagination. Use your imagination wisely, and think about the shape of time! Shape? Yes, not a physical shape, but an imaginay one. As we are aware, time flows at the rate of one second per second, locally! Why only [...]

How is it possible to see the past via a live telecast? Live means present, right ? How can past be telecasted live? Clue: Light cones. So here we go Wouldnt it be nice if we can watch the actual video of the evolution of our solar system? How were the planets around the sum formed? How were the outer [...]

Who is wise? The one who thinks otherwise Who is a fool? The one who thinks otherwise Who is ignorant? The one who doesnt know that there is something to think! Or in other words. People who know that they know, and also know that there is only what they know are not wise. People who know that there is [...]

Prabhudeva – The great Indian dance choreographer/actor/dance master is also my most favorite dancer in the movies. He dances as if there are no bones in his body! His acting is also great, especially in comedy scenes. Below is one of his great dance numbers from the Tamil movie Gentleman. Another great song from the Tamil movie Kaadhalan, the one [...]

The greatest asset of being a human is the ability to imagine When there is a problem at an unknown level, one of the ideal ways to solve it quickly would be to look for a symmetrical existence at a known level. For instance, while trying to imagine how a 4-dimensional Cube or a 4-dimensional sphere would look for us [...]

I was trying to search for some information about the nature of monkey like characters in Ramayana and any related research about these beings called vanars. Note that its not only monkey like beings, but also bear like beings that are mentioned in Ramayana. Given the ancient timescale of Ramayana occurring in Treta yuga, were these some kind of hominid [...]

One of the greatest music directors ever, the one and the only Maestro Ilayaraja. Below is a beautiful composition by this great man, the uniqueness of this tune being that its composed using only three notes of an octave. In other words, out of the sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, da, ni notes, Ilayaraja has used only three notes ie [...]

CNN-IBN recently came up with an in-depth analysis report by looking at the Sethusamudram controversy, not just in terms of its religions nature, but also in terms of security risks, the ecological disaster, loss of livelihood for the local people, etc that would be caused by this project. The most important thing that has to be noted in this report [...]