Everyone has a story to tell……
It had been so many months that I had almost forgotten the smell of the mountains, the touch of the cool mountain air on my skin, the clouds that tumbled gently over the mountaintops and the wind that rustled through the trees. It had been a long time since my last trip to Naukuchiatal and... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
" 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" - ... Continue Reading →
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... Continue Reading →
My mother and I had lived in the backyard of that house for as long as I remember. I do not know how or why we came to be there, but I liked it there with my mother. I often asked my mother how we came to be there and how long would we be... Continue Reading →
On March 14, Stephen Hawking departed from our world. Regarded as one of the brightest cosmologist and theoretical physicist, he was known the world over for his brilliant theories of the big bang and the black holes. He caught the fascination of almost every science student in the world by his immensely popular science books... Continue Reading →
In the last few days 'Heroes' of two countries had been in news for the wrong reasons or should I say found themselves on the wrong side of the 'Law'. Both were very popular national icons, both had their careers on the line and both had millions if not billions of rupees/dollars riding on them. What set... Continue Reading →
Some time back the sports section of the Times of India, carried a small story at the bottom of the page about our 83 World Cup winning team's famed wicket keeper Syed Kirmani - first pledging his eyes for organ donation and then very soon retracting from his pledge ! Before we discuss about the... Continue Reading →
As any other child growing up in the late seventies and eighties I had a lot of 'free time' to ponder about questions like who made the universe, how big is it, what lies beyond and so on. Incidentally, God was also a past time topic of thoughts. Our interaction with God was limited to... Continue Reading →
