The faculty in humans for the use of language - each with its own complex grammar, vocabulary and texture - has been called an instinct. It means that the capacity to learn a language is bred in the human bones, as it were. This capacity is integral to every human child all across the globe, and is ...
A year ago, all media was awash with a World Health Organization (WHO) survey which declared that some 36 percent people in India were depressed. In a population of 1200 millions, that is over 450 million people. If they were to be prescribed anti-depressant pills, imagine what a bonanza that would ...
In his monumental book, "Science: A History 1543-2001", astrophysicist John Gribbin traces the history of major achievements in European science from early Renaissance to modern times. This period of some 450 years is indeed filled with extraordinary discoveries and inventions in 'natu...
It was 40 years ago, on December 7, 1972, that the earth was first photographed from a height of some 45,000 kms by the crew of Apollo 17 spacecraft. This picture, known as The Blue Marble, is believed to be most circulated and well-known photograph in the human history. The picture shows, as nothin...
In 1838, in his poem, 'A Psalm of Life', American poet Henry W. Longfellow wrote lyrically:
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Today, a different set of footprints is being left behind by a...
