Badminton is a very popular sport in many parts of the world especially, Asia and Europe. India is also an upcoming nation in the arena and credited to provide champion players like Prakash Padukone, P.Gopichand and currently Saina Nehwal. Did you know that the history of the modern version of badminton has its roots in India?
The origin of this game is credited to medieval Britain. There was a popular kid’s game known as shuttlecocks...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Sunday, July 8, 2012
Indian greatest scientist Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose was born on 1st January 1894 in Calcutta (now Kolkata).
He was an Indian physicist specializing in mathematical physics. He is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. The class of particles known as bosons was named after him by Paul Dirac. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was awarded...
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Satyendra Nath Bose towers over Higgs in world of physics
Indian scientist after whom the God particle is named remains in virtual oblivion.
The 'boson' in the Higgs boson particle, whose search and ultimate detection was one of the longest and most expensive in the history of science, owes its name to Bose. In 1924, the Kolkata-based physicist had sent a paper to Albert Einstein, describing a statistical...
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Rivers in India
The Indian River Systems can be divided into four categories – the Himalayan, the rivers traversing the Deccan Plateau, the Coastal and those in the inland drainage basin. The Himalayan rivers are perennial as they are fed by melting glaciers every summer. During the monsoon, these rivers assume alarming proportions. Swollen with rainwater, they often inundate villages and towns in their path. The Gangetic basin is the largest...
Saturday, October 29, 2011
How and Who named India?
Bharat, India, Hindustan but the official name, states that "India, that is Bharat, shall be a union of states." Thus, not only in usage but officially India and Bharat are both accorded primary status. The name India is derived from the river Indus.
The original name of the river came from the fact that in the north-west of the subcontinent, there are seven main tributaries of the one river. The local inhabitants therefore called...
Saturday, August 27, 2011
What is the Jan Lokpal Bill?
The Jan Lokpal Bill (Citizen's ombudsman Bill) is a draft anti-corruption bill drawn up by prominent civil society activists seeking the appointment of a Jan Lokpal, an independent body that would investigate corruption cases, complete the investigation within a year and envisages trial in the case getting over in the next one year.
Drafted...
Friday, August 26, 2011
Who is Anna Hazare?
Anna Hazare is one of India's well-acclaimed social activists and prominent leader in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement, using nonviolent methods following the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi.
Kisan Baburao Hazare popularly known as Anna Hazare born 15 June 1937 in Bhingar, a small village in Hingangaon near the city of Bhingar,...
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Goswami Tulsidas
Goswami Tulsidas also known as simply Tulsidas was a medieval Hindi poet and philosopher.
He was born in Rajpur in the district of Banda in Uttar Pradesh, during the reign of Humayun. Tulsidas wrote twelve books and is considered the greatest and most famous of Hindi poets. He is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the author of Ramayana...
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