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A road trip to Kumbhmela part 2: Seoni to Varanasi

Please Read previous parts of this blog series in the below link: PART - 1 Varanasi / Banaras / Kashi is a city on the Ganges river. It holds an important place in the Sanatan/Hindu dharm.Varanasi is one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities of the world. There are 84 ghats in arc/crescent shaped , 6.4 km ganga river front of varanasi. Among these 5 ghats are considered most auspicious i.e. Asi, Dashashvamedha, Manikarnika,Panchaganga and Adi keshava. Also it is an important shakti peetha too where it's believed Devi's eye fell. Also the earrings of parvati devi is believed to have fallen in manikarnika ghat. I will be writing a detailed blog later on varanasi as it is huge ...Read More

A road trip to Kumbhmela 2025 Part 1

Day 1:Mumbai to Seoni Our first destination in the trip to Mahakumbh is seoni or shivni. Rudyard Kipling used the forests in the vicinity of Seoni as the setting for the Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895). Seoni is a city where a tributary of the river Godavari, Wainganga originates. There is a statue of Mowgli in Seoni at the site of origin of Wainganga. We have planned to visit this place on our return trip to Mumbai if time permits. Our trip started at 4 am from Anushakti nagar, Mumbai. A stretch of 5 km was really bad on Mumbai Agra Highway. Road and flyover construction is still on in this stretch. We entered Mumbai nashik express way at 4.50 ...Read More

Should we work for long working hours????

"Work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls – family, health, friends, integrity – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.” – Gary W. Keller For the past few days/months discussion is on how much we should work? Mr.N.R. Narayana Murthy is the legendary cofounder and retired chairman of Indian tech giant Infosys wants youngsters to work for 70 hours per week.L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan asks employees to work 90 hours a week . He further asks what would you do sitting at home. Elon Musk says significant changes and world-altering innovations are not made by working just 40 ...Read More

Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram - A memoir

Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram-A memoir Dr. R. Chidambaram was born on 11 November 1936 in erst while Madras present day Chennai , Tamil Nadu. After completing his early education in Meerut and Chennai he completed B.Sc. Honors in Physics from Madras university in 1956. He completed his M.Sc. Physics too from Madras University in 1958. He was accepted in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for his doctoral program. He completed his PhD and was awarded PhD for his thesis on development of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He was also awarded D.Sc degree from IISC later. He has been conferred several doctoral degrees in physics from at least 8 universities. He joined Bhabha Atomic Research Centre ...Read More

"A glimpse into my life as an atom & exploration by mankind"

“Nothing is hidden that will not be made known Nothing is secret that will not come to light” -Dan Brown I, the building block of every type of matter in the universe stayed hidden from mankind in plain sight not because I was shy. But I didn’t want to intimidate anyone with my potential. But I could not stay hidden for a long time as exploration is known to be the essence of human spirits. Man realized my existence as early as 600 BC when an Indian natural scientist and philosopher Maharishi Kanada hypothesized that every matter can be subdivided and subdivision cannot go on forever. There will be indivisible smallest entities which he called. He said I am eternal and I can ...Read More