Shiva stood up, slowly. His movements deliberate, trance-like. His eyes were still half-closed, they always were. His forehead glowing with a soft crimson light, his throat blue with the ‘halahal’ he had swallowed for saving the world from destruction. The moon glistened softly from behind his head framed by the furious locks. The lord of the moon, the Somshekhar, stood up and raised his arms …
Gangadhar: Part II of III
Bhagirath’s great grandfather was Sagar, King Bharat’s illustrious son. He had been without progeny till he had performed great tapa and had pleased Brahma, who gave him the boon of progeny from his two wives. His eldest son Asmanja, had been a wayward prince and had reveled in acts of cruelty towards man and beast alike. When he did not mend his ways even after marriage, and …
Gangadhar: Part I of III
The eight cardinal directions resonated with the sound of ‘Namah Shivay’, high in the cold environs of the Mount Kailash, the land of the Gods, the ‘Devbhumi’. No one sang it; no singing was necessary; nature herself sang praise to her lord, the Mahadev, the master of all realms. Near the very top of the mountain, on a stone platform, in front of a cave hewn …
Time travel — From Revati to Einstein’s Relativity and beyond (Part 3)
In April this year ( 2018), the International Astronomical Union on the recommendations of NASA scientists, named a crater on the largest moon of planet Pluto — ‘Revati’ , on — ” a character in the Hindu epic narrative Mahabharata “ I am sure most of us have no idea of who Revati was in Mahabharata, atleast I didn’t. I looked up to find …
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Theoretical Physics,The Big Bang and The Vedas ! (Part 2)
” No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory , you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory. On the other hand, you can disprove the theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the prediction of the theory” – Stephen Hawking in the Brief History of Time That’s …
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प्राणवायु
तुम्हें न जानने से जानने तक की यात्रा में फेसबुक भी देता है एक रास्ता या- कहूँ कि एक वातायन जो खुलता है निरभ्र नीले आकाश की तरफ जो देता है हौसला ‘कल्पना’ के पंखों को खोलने का जिधर से आती रहती है कुछ रोशनी ‘प्रेरणा’ की… और जरूरत भर ‘प्राणवायु’ भी जीवंत रहने के लिए …! ____________________
Golu Tea Stall
We strolled hand in hand, on the nearly deserted mountain road, in the evening. We had come to Kasauli, a small town nestled in the hills of Himachal Pradesh, for our vacation, after I completed my training from the medical college. Kasauli is a perfect mountainous getaway. It has a population of barely a few thousand people, and is clean, green and devoid of …
