The Earth is part of the solar system which in turn is part of the Milky Way galaxy. There are billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy (Sun is one of the stars). In addition, there are billions of such galaxies in our Universe alone (the visible universe is about 28 billion light years [...]
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, Tho’ they come from the ends of the earth! – [...]
The Brahmin was his mouth, Of both his arms was the (Kshatriya) made. His thighs became the Vaishya, From his feet the Sudhra was produced. (Rig Veda X.90.1-3) Today Indians have some explaining to do when it comes to the caste system. Millions of Indians are considered as untouchables and denied basic rights simply because [...]
Like a lot of middle class Indians I attended many different schools before I passed the 12th grade. The longest duration I was in the same school was three years. Moving from school to school also exposed me to different systems of education that India follows including State Board, CBSE and ICSE. There were a [...]
The External Affairs Minister of India S.M. Krishna has informed parliament yesterday that the Indian government is undertaking efforts to make Hindi as one of the official languages of the United Nations. He said “We are taking active measures to make Hindi an official language at UN. A high level committee is looking into it”. [...]
We have all come across this situation one time or the other. We are driving our motorcycles and pull up right behind an overloaded truck that is spewing smoke from its exhaust. We cautiously take a peek to see whether there is any oncoming traffic and try to pass the truck before our face turns [...]
I am a traveler. I have had the privilege to travel within India and also many other parts of the world. Traveling is very important to us human beings. We inhabit this beautiful planet called Earth that is traveling on its orbit around the Sun at the rate of 108,000 Kilometers/Hour!! Irrespective of whether we [...]
The Chennai Corporation has started enforcing the rule that shops in the city should display name boards in Tamil. According to the corporation the names and details in Tamil should occupy at least 50% of the total space. Such laws have been in the books in Chennai and most other parts of Tamil Nadu for [...]
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) for 2009 conducted by Pratham is indicating that only 44.8% of children at Standard 1 can read English capital letters. Only 10.3% can read small letters. The study also found that by standard eight about 60.2% of the students can read easy sentences in English. This report provides [...]
India is a very diverse country and nowhere is it more apparent than in the wide variety of religions and religious beliefs practiced throughout the country. There is Hinduism (which in itself is a group that includes hundreds of religions), Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism and many other smaller belief systems. Of course there [...]
As a teenager growing up in India I had two different vision of what America was like. America I dreamed was a country that was modern and full of high rise buildings. It was also a country of huge farms where a cowboy could ride his horse (in the seventies and early eighteen the only [...]
