HEROIC ADVENTURISM

A young man, tried to squeeze through a tunnel,  of considerable length, near salt springs in America and lost his life, being stuck up. Even the body could not be extricated. Very sad iindeed. Magellan ventured out into the unknown oceans of the world and was the first man to make a round trip of [...]

GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH, TEMPERATURE DATA

With much difficulty, I have collected temperature data, as clinching evidence to prove my point.  MEAN TEMPERTURE FOR THE YEARS 1951 TO 1980 Station Max Rd off Min Rd off Temp 2007           Max Min Bhuj   44 44  3.8    4   43 9 Veraval 40.5 41 9.1 9 43 11 Bhavnagar   43.5 [...]

PHOTOSYNTHESIS

PHILOSOPHY SHOULD LEAD SCIENCE PHOTOSYNTHESIS  Any high school student will tell you that leaves of plants use carbon dioxide of the atmosphere and water absorbed by the roots to make starch in the presence of sunlight for use by the cells of plants. As a layman, certain doubts arose in my mind which I discussed [...]

CHILDHOOD MEMOIRS

 MEMOIRS (Abridged) Includes articles and essays on various topics in SCIENCE, GEOGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, STATECRAFT etc. in addition to Travel notes.  Price Rs. 1oo, postage extra.                                                                                             By K.K.Subramanian Waterfriend remembers his childhood  Kunnathur Mana My mother was born in a very illustrious family Kunnathur Padinjaredath.You can see the ancestral house near the Peruvanam temple south gopuram [...]

ELIMINATE FLOODS FOREVER

In India, millions of people are affected by floods every year. I have a program of work,very briefly written below, to make strong embankments using river bed soil in dry season. Rivers in the Gangetic plain have no borders They carry tons of soil which slowly fills the rivrbed. It is absolutely necessary to dredge [...]

GLOBAL WARMING IS A MYTH Contd.

CLIMATE :  As discussed above, generation of heat is a function  of  gravity, which in turn depends on mass. As long as the mass of the earth is constant, the quantity of geothermal energy produced is also constant. Initially, heat is transferred to the  seas and, thence, to the atmospheric H2O, and  ultimately to the outer  [...]

SETHU PROJECT

Any proposal involving dredging of the sea bottom, should be approached with abundant caution. They are finding it very expensive to maintain the Panama canal, because of the continuous silting by the streams, from the sides of the canal. The Palk Strait connects two powerful oceans of the world, the Indian ocean of the south [...]

GLADIATORS

Early Romans used to watch black men (slaves ) murdering each other, as we now watch a foot ball match! The last man left in the field is honoured and crowned ! The whole arena would be strewn with dead and dying bodies, the ground reddened with innocent blood. In capitalism, every business man is [...]

TAMARIND (PULI)

For south Indians, tamarind is a must for making sambar. Locallly called puli (L as in lion, if L is pronounced lightly as in love, it means tiger!), it is extensively used in pulisatham, rice mixed with tamarind, in travels, as it remains fresh for two or three days. Some chemical in tamarind dissolves excess [...]

EKADASHI

Today is Guruvayoor Ekadashi. My wife observes it by abstaining from eating rice. In the evening she will fast. In the early morning, we all went to the Guruvayoorappan temple at Mayurvihar, Phase 1, in Delhi. I wonder if Ekadashi (eleventh day after full moon/ new moon) is observed any where in the north India!