Have you gone nuts? Wait a minute? What is Banda and why would anyone in the right mind swap Manhattan for Banda. Where is this Banda and what the hell I am talking about. All these questions are valid and if you can give me five minutes I can explain. Banda Islands Banda is a small group of islands in the Maluku region now a part of Indonesia. Here is snapshot of the map to give you a better picture….
Zero: The Backdrop Zero is a unique number. Technically every number is unique but Zero as a number and concept was considered dangerous by many for millenniums and we will delve little more looking at its history and its rise in application in various technology. Many would have heard that Mathematics is called the Queen of Science and Number Theory is Queen of Mathematics. This quote is attributed to gifted Mathematician called Gauss. Our very own Srinivasan Ramanujan explored number…
Mosquito: The Nemesis Mosquito are mostly treated condescendingly by humans. As much as we humans may think that the advancement and where we have reached today maybe attributed to the ingenious mind which may not be entirely true. Recently I finished reading up The Mosquito, A Human History of our deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard and this a brief of how I felt about the whole story. A nice video explaining how mosquito has evolved to be such deadly…
Qatar and its population breakup The most remarkable thing about Qatar is that it’s Qatari population is only 313,000 whereas the expatriate population is about 2.3 million. Of this 2.6 million population about half of population lives in the capital city of Doha. There are about 7 expatriate for every Qatari native. There are about 300 males for every 100 females in the country overall and the most probable reason is the expatriate population. For Qatari population the sex ratio…
Why do we need to understand our neighbor? China is no doubt a superpower and it is very important for India to very much aware of the neighbor. Here is a first article of two part series where I look into three different people from Chinese history and it is inspired by BBC’s Program called “Chinese Characters“. Chinese civilization is almost as old as our civilization and our histories are connected in more ways than we can imagine. The Silk…