Can a group of islands, no matter how important, be worth
all the trouble China and Japan are getting into? Territorial claims and
controversies are nothing new when it comes to China- Be it Philippines,
Taiwan, India or Vietnam, the Chinese have always preferred laying claims to
trivial pieces of rocks with a pinch of unwarranted aggression added to their
taste over the warmth and benefits of cordial relationships with the neighbors.
And we all had pretty much gotten used to that now haven’t...
Friday, 29 November 2013
Friday, 13 September 2013


Pasadena: The spacecraft's technology was laughable by today's standards: It carried an 8-track tape recorder and computers with 240,000 times less memory than a low-end iPhone. When it left Earth 36 years ago, it was designed as a four-year mission to Saturn, and everything after that was gravy.
But Voyager I has become - unexpectedly - the Little Spacecraft That Could. On Thursday, scientists...
Sunday, 8 September 2013


Mumbai is India's financial capital, but this doesn't even begin to describe it. It is the city where dreams come true - it is a city of opportunities. It doesn't matter what your dream is, Mumbai will have something to offer towards its realization. If you want to be a famous actor, Mumbai is the home of Bollywood, if you want to be an entrepreneur, Mumbai has a wonderful business atmosphere, and...
Sunday, 1 September 2013


Finding aliens is not really all that difficult, you just have to know exactly what should you be on a lookout for in the space. You see, if I were to ask you to find my lost needle somewhere on a football ground, you might...oh well, you sure wont be able to find it. But if i told you that it is within a 1 meter radius from a certain corner of the field, is shiny and is coloured Golden, then...
Saturday, 31 August 2013


India and Russia have had such warm and extremely friendly relations that it often surprises me as to why this political and strategic warmth in relations hasn't been able to instil a greater interaction between the Indian and Russian people in general. I mean we make everything from guns to supersonic fighter jets with the Russians but I barely come across an Indian who wants to go to Russia...
Friday, 30 August 2013


Curiosity might be in for a little discomfort and jealousy as Mangalyaan, India's Mars probe, will try to woo the 'hot' red planet in this coming October-November. It is nothing as complicated or even as robust as the Curiosity of course, it is a basically a technology demonstration project which will see a satellite being placed into Mars's orbit. But when it comes to probing Mars, which...
Thursday, 29 August 2013
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