Humans have used coal since at least the 4th millennium BC. In the 3rd millennium BC, it was used in funeral pyres in Britain and the Romans used it for smelting iron ore. It was critical to the Industrial Revolution and was the fuel of choice for... Continue reading
Excess makes a mess, so said the wag. Ati sarvatra varjayet, excess in anything is forbidden, says a verse in Maha-subhashita-samgraha, a compendium of Sanskrit aphorisms. When the concept of gender equality was stretched beyond logical limits, so... Continue reading
Srinivasa Ramanujan, a child prodigy, was born 135 years ago on 22nd December. As his birth anniversary approaches, let us ponder over the question - What is genius? Is one born with this trait or is it hard work and focussed efforts that produce... Continue reading
Nine months have passed after my only birth. I am exhausted and do not feel love to myself or my husband. In general, our financial situation is good, and my husband is quite adequate, but I feel always guilty after childbirth: that at home is not... Continue reading
Mahatma Gandhi’s oft-quoted words, that “a nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members,” though uttered in 1931, can be applied to any era to measure the degree of civilization. In Roman law, the con... Continue reading
All institutions become slaves to the process. The parliament goes through a process and a law gets made although the institution was meant for threadbare discussion whether the proposed piece of legislation is lawful. That task is left to another... Continue reading
Envy to the penis - the basic postulate of the Freudian psychoanalysis - is doubtful among many women. But how many men are ready to dispute it? One of the first was the original Russian philosopher of the twentieth century Ivan Solovyov. Excerpt.... Continue reading
On March 1, 2023, while deciding criminal appeals relating to some Chhattisgarh bureaucrats, the Supreme Court made the following observations:
"We quite appreciate that there could be cases of innocent public servants being entangled in i... Continue reading