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One day, a wealthy family man took his son on a trip to a village, so that he could have his son see how poor people live. They stayed one day and one night in the home of a very humble farmer. At the end of the trip, when they were back home, the father asked his son, "What did you think of the trip?" The son replied "Very nice Dad" Then the father asked the son, "Did you notice, how poor they were?" and continued asking, "What did you learn?" The son responded, "I learned that, we have one dog in our house, and they have four" "Also we have a fountain in our garden, but they have a stream that has no end" "We have imported lamps in our garden, whereas they have stars and our garden goes to the edge of property, but they have the entire horizon as their backyard." At the end of son's reply, the father was speechless. His son then said, "Thank you Dad, for showing me how poor we really are." Let us lea...

First of all, My heartiest Deepavali wishes to all of you. From the Oldest of the family to the youngest one celebrate deepavali with the same enthuse and excitement. What is so special about Deepavali? Om asato ma sadgamaya, Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya, Mrityor ma amritam gamaya. Lead us from falsehood to truth; from Darkness to light; from Death to immortality and from Lethargy to Activity. The essential principle of Vedic culture is eternal, universal and is applicable to the past, present and the future. The alternate for the Vedic culture is Human culture or Universal culture, Where the aspects of human personality are fourfold: There are four goals of life (dharma, artha, kama & moksha); Four Yogas (karma yoga, bhakti yoga, raja-yoga and gnana yoga); Four Vedas (Rig Veda, Sam Veda, Yajur Veda & Atharva Veda); Four ashramas (Brahmacharyashrama, Grahasthashrama, Vanprasthashrama & Sanyasashrama; Four Varnas (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya & Sudra); Four yugas (Krata yuga, T...

One more feather is added to our cap in the form of Nobel Prize for the year 2009. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2009: The ribosome's translation of DNA information into life. Ribosomes produce proteins, which in turn control the chemistry in all living organisms. As ribosomes are crucial to life, they are also a major target for new antibiotics. This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry awards Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath for having showed what the ribosome looks like and how it functions at the atomic level. All three have used a method called X-ray crystallography to map the position for each and every one of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome. Inside every cell in all organisms, there are DNA molecules. They contain the blueprints for how a human being, a plant or a bacterium, looks and functions. But the DNA molecule is passive. If there was nothing else, there would be no life. The blueprints become transformed i...

Philosophy is one word some people are obsessed with, but many would run away on just hearing the word. Let us know something about it for the moment atleast. Philosophy originated 2,500 years ago with Pythagoras, best known to most of us for his mathematical explorations. Pythagoras led a remarkable life, even by today’s standards. As a teenager he made his way from Greece to Egypt, where he spent ten years training as a temple initiate. His career was interrupted by the Persians, who raided Egypt and took Pythagoras back to Babylon as a slave. Ten years later, his learning and wisdom earned him his freedom; but then, rather than returning to his native Greece, he remained in Babylon for another ten years, studying mathematics in the mystery schools. When he did eventually return home, he established a community in Southern Italy, where he shared with his students much of what he had learned over the years. A puzzle to his contemporaries, Pythagoras’ life did not fit any conventional ...