Introduction In 2013, Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield posted a video of him covering the famous David Bowie song ‘Space Oddity’ in zero gravity from the International Space Station on the popular video streaming site, YouTube[1]. Loved by many, it came as a shock when approximately a year later, the video was suddenly taken down. Many…
Laws are known to be replete with loopholes. The Exploitation of loopholes is something everyone likes to profess outrage about, and yet I would maintain that is central to legal practice. Practical constraints supposedly make laws avoidably over or underinclusive. This article offers a different perspective to a constitution. An aspect of the battle over…
Department of Space is responsible for India’s space programme. The responsibility for space research and peaceful uses of outer space was given to the Department of Atomic Energy under the leadership of Dr. Homi J Bhabha in 1961. The Department of Atomic Energy set up the Indian National Committee for Space Research (INCOPSPAR) with Dr.…
Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour, experience and mental processes. Behaviour includes all of our outward or overt actions and reactions, such as talking, facial expressions and movement. Mental processes refer to all the internal, covert actions of our minds, such as thinking, feeling and remembering. To study behaviour and mental processes in both…
Spiritual people look very similar to the common people and hence difficult to be identified. They are usually not dressed in white, blue or ochre dress. They don’t necessarily keep beard or shave their heads. They don’t live in forest, caves or in Himalayas. They live around you but you fail to identify them. You…
The tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia killed seven astronauts. One of those, Kalpana Chawla, was the first Indian-born woman in space. Born in Karnal, India, on July 1, 1961, Chawla was the youngest of four children. Chawla obtained a degree in aeronautical engineering from Punjab Engineering College before immigrating to the United States…
On 22nd December 1901, Rabindranath Tagore established his school at Santiniketan with five students (including his eldest son) and an equal number of teachers. He originally named it Brahmacharya Ashram in the tradition of ancient forest hermitages. Not too many know that Shantiniketan, which means the abode of peace – long before it became the…
Despite its common usage and perception, what corruption means is surely enigmatic. Corruption is more like a multi-focal, multivariate and mutli-dimensional eternity of socio-political system. Dictionary meaning of corruption implies deviation from the expected or ideal form; it is all about dishonest, illegal or immoral act or behaviour especially of someone having power. Concise Oxford…
We used to talk about a lot of things, and very few times it was related to the study. We even made a special WhatsApp group for our close friends. We used to do some really interesting chats there. Many of the boys from that group started flirting with girls, and many tried flirting with…
the Chernobyl disaster was a unique event and the only accident in the history of nuclear, accident that shook the world where radiation related thousands of fatalities occurred, on April 1986 this disaster took place, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. There was serious mistakes made by the plant operators, test was supposed…
