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“The computer industry is more fashion-driven than women’s fashion industry” -Richard Stallman (founder of the GNU project and the Free Software Foundation). I really don’t understand the hype behind cloud computing. Isn’t cloud computing simply a trap aimed at forcing more people to buy into locked, proprietary systems that would cost them more and more…
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Pi or Π is the most interesting number in mathematics. Its history is one of the most fascinating stories mathematics has to offer. Π finds its usage in geometry, trigonometry, analysis. Π generally is associated with a circle. Indians were the first to observe that the perimeter (circumference) of a circle increases in proportion to its…
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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 ‘shunya’ 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…
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I was browsing through the list of highest grossing films of 2010, when I decided to write this article. The highest grossing films of the year are Housefull, Dabangg, Golmal 3 and Once Upon a Time in Mumbai. I felt disgusted! I need not elaborate how pathetic these films are. Our film industry tends to…
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“If I am asked which nation had been advanced in the ancient world in respect of education and culture then I would say it was- India” – Max Muller, German Indologist. The word veda is derived from the Sanskrit word vid- “to know”. These are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. The…
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According to Advaita Vedanta, there is a beginning-less and endless cycle of creation, maintenance and dissolution or resolution, called ‘srishti’, ‘sthiti’, and ‘laya’. This is indeed fascinating as it strongly complies with the concept of matter converting into energy and back.
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Yoga is one of the most important of the five techniques contained in Ayush. Yoga is not a fitness technique. It is a lifestyle. It is disheartening to see Yoga as a multi-billion dollar business today. Yoga, today is misinterpreted as sitting in difficult postures and performing difficult exercises. Yoga is much more than that.
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Vatasseri Paramesvara (1380–1460) was a mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. He proposed several corrections to the astronomical parameters which had been in use since the times of Aryabhatta! He was a genius of observational astronomy and spent more than 55 years of his life just observing happenings in the…
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Vidya recently spoke about how food is preserved in her village. She explained the construction of a fridge that works without electricity. She did some exhaustive research in the field, and presented a seminar on the same. She also spoke about how food can be kept cold or hot for a long time with local household methods,…
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Many of us believe that being an entrepreneur is being your own boss. I see friends around me who want to start their own business because it either makes them rich or the boss of their own lives. I think this attitude is wrong. Becoming an entrepreneur does not necessarily make one rich. We hear stories of…
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सौरभ राय | Sourav Roy 