Bhagawan Krishna spent his childhood in the green pastures of Vrindavan with his foster mother Yashoda to escape his uncle Kamsa, who wanted to persecute him. Young Krishna was playfully naughty, teasing his friends, stealing butter, and swimming in the river Kalindi. One day, while playing in Vrindavan, his friends complained to Yashoda that Krishna…

According to the Mundell-Fleming Impossible Trinity theory, an economy cannot simultaneously maintain: Core Mechanics: Bonds & Stocks When you subscribe to a company’s bond, you lend money to that company. When you buy a company’s stock, you own a small slice of the company. Globally, the bond market is two times larger than the stock…

GLIMPSES OF STRING THEORY AND MULTIVERSES. “Brahman is one, the world is Maya – many forms of the one.”                                                                          Advaita Vedanta (Adi Shankara) “The unseen worlds are folded within the seen.”                                                                          Sufi Tradition (Ibn Arabi) The universe spans two distinct realms: the macroscopic and the microscopic. Everything we observe around us – stars,…

J.C. Bose and S.N. Bose, Indian Scientists who walked ahead of their Time This is the story of a teacher who refused to patent his invention of radio waves, which he demonstrated before Marconi, and his student who earned the deep admiration of Albert Einstein and laid the foundation for discoveries that would win multiple…

Srinivasa Ramanujan: The Man Who Knew Infinity The objective of this essay is not to introduce the complex nuances of Ramanujan’s mathematical theories, but to tell his thrilling story of becoming the first Indian Fellow of the Royal Society and the first Indian elected Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, rising from extreme destitution. He made…

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 14, 1879. His family moved to Munich shortly after his birth. As a boy, Einstein was slow to develop, which worried his parents; he did not speak until the age of four. In school, he disliked strict discipline and rote learning. He once told a…

Rabindranath Tagore, The Universal Man It is a matter of great pride for all Indians that Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European and the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He received this honor in 1913 for Gitanjali (Song Offerings). While the original Bengali collection, written in 1910, contained 157 poems, the…

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…