Planet earth’s age has been determined chemically to be 4.5 billion years. Human beings have inhabited the planet for about 2,00,000 years, according to anthropologists. All other life forms have a much longer tenancy of the only planet playing host to living creatures. The processes of change-progress-development credited to the ingenuity of human beings contrast…

Emergence of the wheel and fire, both of which are so ubiquitous that hardly anyone spares time to think or talk about them have their origins in times of an undetermined date in the distant past, given the accepted feature that humans have made planet earth their home for over nearly two lakh years. The…

The current medium age of India’s human population is officially stated as 25 years, meaning that age accounts for half the total headcount of the country. The figure for life expectancy of the nation’s people at large, accepted as 68.35 years (2015), is a statistical measure of the average time a person is expected to…

Simply stated, selfie is a photograph that one takes by oneself. For the benefit of the small number of smart-phone-illiterate section in the country’s headcount, whatever fraction of it is left, “A selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a smart phone which may be held in the hand or supported by a selfie-stick….

Mother Earth and its atmosphere don’t seem to interest people at large except on occasions of unusual happenings such as earthquake, unbearable heat, high levels of air pollution, excessive or scanty rains, hurricanes, tornados, forest fires and what have you. Reports appearing in dailies nowadays such as Chandrapur in Maharashtra records a high temperature of…

The rebellious show of angst by the land’s soldiers staged in the year 1857 against their British lords ruling over the country, made known by the historians as Sepoy Mutiny has acquired a patriotic colour with the event being currently described as the First War of Independence. While the countless mass of activists who took…

The nation, after responding splendidly to the clarion call for sweeping the dust as it were and creating a clean country by taking to the humble broom, has lately got immersed in dirty politics for sweeping which there is no broom yet designed. To say that pondering over the issue of cleaning the latter dirt…

At least two features of the sector of technical education in the land raise many questions. Graduates of the IITs that were established a few decades ago are known to have moved abroad in search of and succeeding in landing jobs on a large scale not only getting them fat pay cheques but also, more…

Results of high school final examination and II PU examination of 2018 announced recently by the respective authorities in the State and subsequent celebrations in schools and homes of students scoring high marks ending in stamp-size images of the meritorious boys and girls in both tabloids and broad-sheets have led to their parents spending sleepless…

The performance of institutions currently functioning across the country ostensibly to subserve the purpose of training the successive generations from childhood through adulthood by the arduous process of learning has been rated far below both required standards and global levels on many counts, but most importantly on the count of creativity of products from the…