6 years of Life in Sankalp!!
Here is what Ankita, a volunteer of Sankalp had to say on the event of 7th Anniversary of Sankalp.
Man donates blood on his 100th Birthday!
Two days after celebrating his centennial birthday on Feb 12, a retired oil worker from California, Louis Kerker marched into Houchin Community Blood Bank and donated blood on National Donor Day (in United States of America), which was also Valentine’s Day.
Shaheed Diwas 2011
For many of us 23 March may be just another day in the calendar year when we get on with our daily routines. However, it is a day where we need to remember the greatest of sacrifices made by three young men in India’s quest for Independence and Freedom from British rule.
Is high GDP really a curse?
Many economists, leaders and intellectuals of today believe that the development rate India being close to 9% is a curse for India. They are partially right in saying so as their concern is the 'have-nots' of the nation who neither neither contribute nor benefit from our spiraling GDP. Life for these people becomes difficult day bay day. These people have strong concern for equality. But believing that high GDP is a curse, the right thing?
Pyramids were not built in a day
Many of my friends claimed that the revolution in Egypt was a Facebook or Twitter revolution. This belief has spread so far that many Indians have notched up their participation on social networking sites in hopes of revolution (revolution who?) Well, as a matter of fact, 17% of Egyptians have internet access which was severely blocked during the revolution. Egyptian revolution was 'not' a social media-inspired revolution.
Dharwad- where Purandara Dasa meets Kabir!
Kumar Gandharva, Basavaraj Rajguru, Puttaraj Gawai, Mallikarjuna Mansur, Gangubai Hanagal, Bhimsen Joshi, Venkatesh Kumar... The list of musical supremos from Dharwad is endless. But how did Dharwad, a small poor man's town in Karnataka become the hub of Hindustani and Carnatic music?
No more starry night?
Recently a friend complained that the sky looked pink to her in even at 10 in the night. Reddish sky in the evening is a common phenomenon due to refraction of sunlight, which I can understand. But I couldn't understand why at late in the night the sky looked pink? I Googled and the results depressed me.
Father of medicine- Sushruta
Father of medicine, Sushruta was born near Bihar. In an era when the world didn't know a bit about medicine, Indian sages were masters of ayurveda. Sushrata was the first man to practice surgery, rhinoplasty or nose job, and cataract surgery.
The discovery of zero
Mathematics today owes its existence to the discovery of zero. For the purpose of calculation, it needed a short symbol. India for ages has denoted this number 'sunya' by both a dot (.) and a small circle (o). Let's look back at the journey of this magic number- the number that represents absence when placed independently, and fullness when placed among other numbers!