Dr. Ramakanta

Luck and Freewill ?

( The fortunate and unfortunate events that shaped the lives of Kent Evans, Bill Gates, and Paul Allen. It highlights the one in a million chance of luck and bad luck they experienced.) One in a Million chance of Opportunity Out of one million and some odd number of High schools listed in 1967 allContinue reading “Luck and Freewill ?”

In Search of the Sun.

Homo sapiens have always migrated towards east ? Out of Africa, the earliest migrants came to Asia, not to America. Out of the Steppes, they marched towards the Hindukush and Iran and colonised the Ganges valley. No wonder, the early Indians of the eastern coast of India have huge maritime relationship with java, Sumatra, BaliContinue reading “In Search of the Sun.”

Age was just a number: John B Fenn

John B Fenn was 85 when he won the Nobel and his Nobel winning paper was written at the age of 74. John B Fenn was born in 1917. He was working in the Chemistry department of Yale University and retired in 1987 at 70. He thought he was fully active at 70. The UniversityContinue reading “Age was just a number: John B Fenn”

The Second Wife

Two women, Two boons, Two Epics Kaikeyi and Satyavati are two crucial women characters in our epics. Both join us as junior wives of two powerful kings, Dasharath and Shantanu. But both of them rise above their limits in the royal court to be able to stop the crown princes from ascending to the throneContinue reading “The Second Wife”

Yagnavalkya, Taittiriya Samhita

The Vedas: We all know that the great sage Veda Vyas compiled all the mantras conceived by the sacred river of Saraswati and arranged them into four Samhitas: the Rig, Sama, Jajus and Atharva. He taught them to four of his principal disciples: Paila, Jaimini, Vaishampayana and Sumantu. Vyas can be a title. In sanskrit,Continue reading “Yagnavalkya, Taittiriya Samhita”