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 …
Category: Stories from Indian Religious History
Sec 377, LGBTQ Rights and Lessons from Indian History
The Honorable Supreme Court’s recent admission that it may have erred in 2013 when it reversed a Delhi High Court order from 2009 decriminalizing homosexuality is a shot in the arm for all LGBTQ activists. It is also an honest confession by India’s top court that archaic laws, dating back to 1861, which are not only primitive in thought, but also liable to be …
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Ganapati: A Microsurgeon’s God
Microsurgery is a young speciality, being not more than forty or fifty years old. It is the surgery of the structures too small to be seen by the human eye. The magnifying loupe or the operating microscope is the microsurgeon’s constant companion, operating without them is a near impossibility. Microsurgery was born sometime in the 1970s and has grown by leaps and bounds since …
