Dr. Ramakanta

The Fall of Constantinople

Constantinople [ Constantinople is a city of 3000 years. In the first one thousand years of its existence, ( 600 BC – 400AD) it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and was known as the Byzantium. In its second thousand years ( 400 AD to 1400 AD) it remained the capital of the EasternContinue reading “The Fall of Constantinople”

The Rubicon Dilemma

For 9 years, CAESAR had been away from Rome and busy conquering France and Gauls with his handful of faithfuls. Rome was a Republic then. It had a Senate which passed all rules by vote in a democratic manner. Julius Caesar was the governor of the northern province. But his victories had made him theContinue reading “The Rubicon Dilemma”

Don’t Chase the butterflies

Pandemic to Endemic and so on..

As I scanned through the daily covid-19 figures of our zone, I got a pleasant surprise. Even the new Covid-19 cases in the country has fallen below 10,000. Does it mean the present wave has come to an end ? There are too many caveats in this statement. Today Covid-19 has settled down to aContinue reading “Pandemic to Endemic and so on..”

Donation & Degree

Those were the days. In the year 1979, when we completed our Intermediate ( ~Plus 2), there were very few options for engineering aspirants of our batch. There were the 5 IITs and two State government engineering colleges: one REC at Rourkela and one at Burla ( Not yet UCE) in addition to our 3Continue reading “Donation & Degree”