Hanuman by Shraddha
Shraddha, the Tamil theatre group have been running their new play “Hanuman” for last few days. Today was the last day in Narada Gana Sabha, Alwarpet and I didn’t miss…
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Little known life forms
Last week “The Economist” in its Intelligent life feature carried an interesting article titled “Some like it very hot”. It talks about extremophiles. Wikipedia defines them as “organism that thrives…
Placebo is better than Drugs?
On June 15th, 2011 issue of Bhavan’s Journal I read this article “Placebo is better than Drugs” by Dr B.M.Hegde. The first thing I had to do was to do…
Research positions at Mile Lab, IISc, Bangalore
Today Prof.A.G. Ramakrishnan from IISc, Bangalore posted an announcement in INFITT discussion group announcing openings for BE Graduates for Research Positions at Mile Lab, IISc, Bangalore. This caught my eye…
Indian Tricolour Placed on the Moon
Yesterday was a proud moment for all Indians. It was the placing of the Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday. The Indian flag was painted…
India launches its Moon Mission
India has successfully launched its first 🛰️spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 today. The craft weights 1380 kg, planned for a mission life of two years, was launched by PSLV-C11 rocket from Sriharikota, India….
San Jose Tech Museum
I was in San Jose area and had the whole day to spend before my return flight (Jet Airways from SFO to BOM) in the evening. So I started the…
Vikram Sarabhai – by Amrita Shah
Few years back when I read a book about Tatas I realized that we know little about Indian Achievers, I got interested in reading more such books. Recently I bought from Landmark…