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This story appears in Sambava Parva / Adi Parva of the great epic, Mahabharata. Sage Mandavya was sitting in deep meditation at the entrance of his hermitage at the foot…
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I had written earlier about the mention of Ramanujan in the Hollywood movie, Good Will Hunting. This mention has now “piqued” a national award-winning film director Gnana Rajasekaran to make…
Read moreSteve Jobs, the innovative CEO of Apple inc. is one my worshipful heroes. I really felt sad to know of his illness which is termed “more complex” than reported earlier.…
Read moreI had embedded the audio of the musical narrative of Prof. Henri Higgins advising men not to let a woman in your life, in the famous classic movie “My Fair…
Read moreIt is generally believed that a frog placed in cold water and raise the temperature so gradually that the increase in heat is not perceptible to the frog at any…
Read moreSrinivasa Ramanujan was one of India’s greatest mathematical geniuses. He made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions, and infinite series. He…
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