I was walking up the street today morning and a toddler was walking out of a shop in front of me, along with this grand-mother...he was holding a biscuit in his hand...as he stepped out of the shop, a crow flew close to the boy (much like in "Birds") and snatched the biscuit and...what else...flew away ( Read more... )

Iran has constructed a dam which threatens to swallow so many ancient sites there...and the government doesn't seem to care...this is going the same way as the Bamiyan Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban...WTF...

Why aren't the Shiites in Iraq responding through violence to the Sunni violence perpetrated on them ?

1.You accept traditions blindly, no questions asked. All your traditions are sacrosanct ( Read more... )

The movie "300" could have been created better...there is nothing in the movie that makes you hook on to the screen. The subject is good and there is great scope for elaborating on the details...the movie draws heavily from the likes of Alexander and Gladiator, but it shows you just hoarse cries and six-pack abs ( Read more... )

Ponneri is a small town near Madras. Half a century ago, Ranga Iyengar was the principal of the Government Board High School there. There is nothing different about this except that his son, Srinivasa Varadan, has risen to be one of the greatest mathematicians India has ever produced, winning the Abel Prize for Mathematics this year ( Read more... )

I wonder if democracy is in fact the correct way we want to be ruled...take for example the USA or England...how much ever the public protest against the Iraq war, they can't do a shit about stopping the war...and the tragedy continues...I think a benevolent despot is the right way to go, if only we can ensure the consistency of benevolence...the ( Read more... )

The next time when someone cites Albert Einstein as an inspiration for a slow learner because Einstein was a miserable failure at school, you can think for a moment about the degree to which this rumour has been imbibed by the world...(read the "Speculation and controversy" section...the hyperlink to the section does not work, though the full page ( Read more... )

Two companies, based out of San Francisco and San Jose, have invented ways to do what you want on the Console by just thinking...(The next step is to establish a contact with God and confirm if evolution was true)
Mice and Joy-sticks are so passe...

So all those psycho-kinetics were probably true, huh ?

...is here. We are forcing it on ourselves.