Category: Essays

  • Please play the audio for an enhanced reading experience. Do you know who the second-fastest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Science is? It is a matter of great pride that an Indian, Sir C. V. Raman, is credited with this enviable record. Usually, it takes anywhere from 10 to 20 years for the award…

  •                                        Please Play Audio for an Enhanced Reading Experience Let us see how Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, fondly called Chandra, wrote the Jataka of Stars. Life of a star. A typical star like our sun has various layers. The core is the central region where nuclear fusion happens. A hydrogen atom is converted to Helium through…

  • Please play the audio for an enhanced reading experience.                                                  Most of the Indians are familiar with horoscopes. For many, despite their educational, professional, and religious background, they are curious to get their child’s horoscope written by Pandits or astrologers. Anxiety to know about the baby’s future is not the only reason for writing the…

  • Please play the audio for an enhanced listening experience. The Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 2025 was recently awarded to three physicists, John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis, for their discoveries in the field of Quantum tunneling. We know that this is not the first time the Nobel Prize has been awarded…

  • Please play the audio for an enhanced reading experience. All religions say that God created the Earth, and after creation, provided air, water, and all other ingredients required for life to sprout on Earth. To provide light, the sun and moon were placed in the sky. Then came all sorts of plants, animals, both on…