August 7 1998
Hundreds of people were killed when simultaneous truck bombs exploded at the US embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya.
US had faced one of the largest terrorist attacks outside US.
Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility to the attacks saying, it was in retaliation for the [...]

The above newspaper clipping, I saw it in the online edition of the Gujarati newspaper Sandesh (page 15), dated Yesterday Dec 14 2007! Look at the advertisement there on the bottom right corner.
Wondering who the person is? Well, he is the dreaded Pakistani terrorist, Masood Azhar, the leader of the terrorist group Jaish e Mohammed.
Wondering [...]

In a Debate on The Ethics of Religious Conversions with the Archbishop of Hyderabad, below is a amazingly beautiful speech by eminent Indologist David Frawley .
Date: February 9, 1999 Venue: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Hyderabad.
I completely subscribe to the views in this speech. Also, I do not believe that all religions are one [...]

The former prime minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee had once said
We can choose our friends, but not our neighbors
Look at the current state of the four big neighbors of India where the rights of the people are suppressed by their own governments.
Pakistan – is under military rule
Bangladesh – is under military rule
China – [...]

Amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic

Thanks for the blog reader who shared this beautiful video with me and also suggested that it be shared with you all!

India Inc continues to be on a shopping spree , with the Tata Group leading the race.
After their $12 billion acquisition of the Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus early this year to create one of the world’s largest steel company, the Tata automobiles are now eying to acquire the Jaguar and Land Rover brands from Ford in [...]

This is a continuation of the series History Demystified .
Click here to read the previous article of this series.
The ancient Indian vedas (vedic texts) are the most ancient literature known in the world.
Dating of the vedas and vedic culture
The dates of these vedas, especially that of Rig Veda as we read in the text [...]

Enjoy this kannada video with an english audio

Kadalekaayi is groundnut, Timepass kadalekaayi is.
Read below
Thank you for confirming of having so much time to pass.. now continue to read below
A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine!
Why? Because sun wont shine without nuclear fusion
And a day without sunshine is like a night without day!
Why? Because without sun shining bright, [...]

Man being an animal who can think, reason and conclude on the one hand, also believes in things for which no known solid scientific proof exists. Why is that?
There are things like astrology, god, prayer, omens, etc and many of us believe in it. And yet there is no solid scientific basis for it. Why [...]

Was playing some random drums on my synthesizer today and then in the end when I tried to play some other earlier recording of mine, it started writing to memory all that I had played till then. Then realized that I had turned the recording option on.
When we consciously switch on the recording option , [...]

History is the biography of mankind. It is never complete, and will continue to be updated as tomorrows continue to vanish into yesterdays . And these yesterdays continue to influence and shape the tomorrows of mankind.
History is the echo of past in the future. History is the reflex of future acted upon the past.
So [...]

Indian supercomputer Eka (meaning one in sanskrit) built by the Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) of the Tata Group is the fourth fastest supercomputer in the world! Great going! The top two fastest ones are from US and the third one is from New Mexico.
Then, read a news report which said that MDGRAPE-3, a new [...]

One of the greatest mysteries of quantum mechanics is non-locality.
Non locality is if you take two quantum particles that were twins and separate them billions of miles apart, and then do something to one particle here, the other particle billions of light years away will immediately come to know about what you did to that [...]

Just had a passing thought while thinking about the reason as to why modern science is finding it difficult to come to terms with the finest details of universe like consciousness, awareness, particle non-locality, quantum teleportation, etc.
The reason I think is,
Modern science tries to formulate everything into the way our human brains can understand. It [...]

I was eagerly waiting for something like this to be initiated for mobile users in India.
I have a mobile number which I have shared with all my friends. Then I find that some other service provider is offering a better service than my current provider. But now, in India changing my service provider also means [...]

I was riding my bike down the street on a late evening.
Vrooom! Two missiles flew by!
There were bombs set off all around..
Right in front of me two big ones went off.
Could hear Bofors guns firing continuously in the next street..
As I continued to ride, I had to zig zag to avoid the land mines laid [...]

I was always wondering how come China gets so much more FDI than India?
FDI or Foreign Direct Investment is the money invested in a country by foreign companies. Foreign companies might invest money in another country either to expand their existing facilities there, or to acquire/merge with existing companies there or to start new branches [...]

For a change, lets have a unique quiz
Where do most of the meteorites hit on earth?
No no, its not a general knowledge question. Its a common sense question, where this sense is common only amongst the Indian explorers!
So, once again..
Where do most of the meteorites hit on earth?
Where else? Of course on [...]

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 [...]