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Intolerance- The Buzz Word Religious Intolerance has become a buzzword in the Indian political scenario following the attacks on the minority Indians. The Indian intelligentsia has protested against these untoward incidents and the attitude of the ruling central government by handing back their awards bestowed by the state recognizing their achievements. They argue that intolerance…

Climate change and Global warming are often considered as hoaxes. Newsmax Media broke a story claiming that global warming is a $22 billion scam. Thus for obvious reasons, the involvement of political tantrums in the issue of global warming cannot be ignored. The recent NASA report on Antarctica ice sheets exemplifies this fact.  At least,…

Often we forget that the world is created equal due to the disparity in the assets owned by people across the various strata of the society. There are super rich, rich, moderately rich, poor and the very poor. The following figures may sound atrocious.  By the new reports of Credit Suisse, the top 1% of…

Banking is a simple process in which money from depositors are collected and are loaned out to the ones who need money to start a business, to build a house or to fund their child’s education and for so many other reasons. When such a simple process happens in a large scale (indeed a very…

October sky is not a phrase in English language and doesn’t signify a meaning literally. Rather, it is the name of a book and a movie about the ‘Rocket Boys’. It is the story of a young man, who aspired to build a rocket along with his five other friends from a coal town in…

Even though the Berlin Wall came into existence in 1961, the events that led to the construction of the wall started happening a long back after the culmination of the Second World War.  At the end of World War II in 1945, the defeated Germany was divided among the four allied powers the United States,…

The world is in need of energy at any cost. Our momentous growth as a civilization deeply ingrained in technology demands more energy no matter how dangerous the mode of production is.  Thus, Japan, the land of earthquakes restarted one of the nuclear reactors that were shut down after the Fukushima accident, amidst public protest.…

To many today, Thomas Alva Edison is the forerunner in pioneering electricity that has illuminated the whole world making it brighter and radiant than ever. But a very few know the legacy of Nikola Tesla and his contributions that have stood strong through times. Tesla even explained how to design a smartphone communication during 1901,…

Every year on the 6th of August thousands of people gather at the Peace Memorial Park, a small portion of the totally demolished area in Hiroshima in memory of the 140,000 people killed with the most deadly bombs in human history during the World War II- the Atom Bombs. With the magnitude of destruction it…

The most sought-after question throughout the human history is about the creation of the universe. How did everything around us come into being and where did humans originate from? The question became a challenge to the human imagination and fact-finding intelligentsia, that the answer was not quite easily findable. There have been scientists and philosophers…