Missing Star Light
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star How I wonder what you are? All your light from the world so high Why isn’t…
The Sacred Secrets of Ganga
Science behind the mysterious power of Ganges river. The reason why piligrims take the holy water of Ganga to their places and add it to local ponds, wells and lakes across India.
The Need for Speed
Indian supercomputer Eka (meaning one in sanskrit) built by the Pune’s Computational Research Laboratories (CRL) of the Tata Group is…
The Future of Search
Whatever is here, is found elsewhere. But what is not here, is nowhere else. – Thus goes a line in…
Einstein wins again – God never played Dice
Disclaimer: Trying to be as non-technical as possible, requires basic physics at the level of quantum mechanics and relativity :)…
Witnessing the Past via a live Telecast
How is it possible to see the past via a live telecast? Live means present, right ? How can past…
Induced Bigbangs
Never take your life seriously. Nobody gets out of it alive anyway ;) Not only people die, even civilizations die,…
Vedic Quantum Mechanics
Richard Feynman once said about quantum mechanics If you say that you understand quantum mechanics, and if you are NOT…
Brahmos – The deadly cruise missile
Brahmaputra + Moscow = Brahmos This is how the name Brahmos was arrived at, using the names of two great…
Self Search
We are aware of the search functionality in the internet and on our local desktops We can search for specific…
Darkless World
When I was in the school once I had read that Jupiter just missed from becoming a star! In other…
Genetically Modified? No Thanks!
Its 2050 AD Scenario I India refuses to vote in favor of a resolution brought by America in the UN….
World’s oldest Combinatoric Formula
‘yam?t?r?jabh?nasalagam’ Pronounced as yamaataaraajabhaanasalagam and written in sanskrit as ??????????????? This is a word used extensively throughout the ancient Sanskrit…
Missing Exception Handlers in Stem Cells?
Stem cells as we know are those cells in the body that can grow into any other cells as and…
Global Warming – Boon or Bane?
As we all know, most of the continental land lies in the northern hemisphere of our planet. Northern hemisphere of…
Asimov’s laws – Natural Vs Artificial Intelligence
Asimov, the well known science fiction writer long ago framed that man will one day be able to build robots…
Darwin’s theory is only about adaptation not evolution
Never allow your mind to get prejudiced about an idea or a thought. The key to really understand things is…
Nuclear Ice Age?
This post isthe next part ofmy previouspost Ancient Nuclear War Many people have asked me a sensible question about ancient…
KaTaPaYaDi – World’s Oldest Hashing Algorithm
Katapayadi is an ancient Indian algorithm used to create mnemonics, in hashing and reverse hashing. It is used in classical carnatic music system to identify melakartha raga number.
Hashing Algorithm in Ancient Indian Music System
The ancient Indian Carnatic Music system uses a Hashing algorithm similar to the ones used by modern search engines. The katapayadi hashing algorithm is used to map raga names to raga numbers.