Posts by prasad

INDI Alliance is not India — Post Poll musings‘Modi’s defeat is India’s victory,’ someone said.This statement came when the BJP alone won more than all the INDI alliance parties combined. BJP’s vote…

No, they don’t. They have been terrified of him!Not because he had controversial views. Every leader including and especially Gandhi, had them.Not because he understood machinations of forces antithetical to…

शरीरं सुरूपं तथा वा कलत्रं यशश्र्चारु चित्रं धनं मेरुतुल्यं गुरोरङ्घ्रिपद्मे मनश्र्चेन लग्नं ततः किं ततः किं ततः किं ततः किं ||Translation : One’s physique may be superb, one’s consort likewise,…

Samarth Ramdas — The warrior saintThe tabletop mountain of Jaranda was bustling with activity. Common folks, priests, sannyasins, soldiers, hawkers, etc. filled every nook and corner to get a glimpse of their…

“Why should I pay and sustain a woman who has joined my organization recently, hasn’t served me enough, and then goes on maternity leave?” said a colleague of mine. While…

Here comes Aryaa — An Anthology of Vedic womenA home where a woman is disrespected can never be happy or flourish. ~ BheeshmaHistory has been at large ‘His’ story. ‘Her’ story hasn’t…

Remembering Munich Agreement — A lesson against appeasementOn this day, the Munich Agreement was signed between Hitler and his British and French counterparts. According to it, Czechoslovakians, who here allies of the…

It was the brilliant physicist, James Maxwell who pioneered electrodynamics. However, it was a brilliant engineer like Oliver Heaviside who brought Maxwell’s theory into everyday life.Transistor was invented in Bell…

I was recently watching a Marathi movie named Paavankhind, based on the legendary battle of Ghodkhind(a narrow mountain pass), led by Chhatrapati Shivaji’s commander Baji Prabhu Deshpande. In this battle,…