My Perspective

How are Days of the week named? Continuing with the last post of why there are 7 days in a week, here I will try to elucidate the idea behind the naming and the order of the days in a week. This was the method used in the olden times (Babylonian civilization) to arrive at the names for the days and their order.

Everyone of us at some point or the other has resented the state of our nation. More so in the recent years, with all the scams that are exposed and coming to the public domain...! (thanks to RTI in part) Starting with the 2G spectrum scam (1.76 lakh crore) .. thanks to former Telecom minister A.Raja (now a resident of Tihar jail.. not for long); many more culprits are yet to come to book.. and all we are doing is to hope that they will..! Then the latest ISRO-Antrix-Devas deal (presumptive losses of 2 lakh crore).. All of these have highlighted just one issue.. How Corrupt our Legislative really is?

I am happy to have suggested Mr. Sundarrajan G S to interview Dr. Chandra Murthy, Professor , Electrical and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore on the topic "How to pursue research" Here is the interview with  Chandra Murthy [CM] reproduced verbatim. The result is an wonderful insights into the thought process and view points of an academic. Q: A student has decided to do research – how do you suggest that he does a self analysis to really find out whether he is really interested in research? (peer pressure is common in colleges, so one might have resorted to research since his/her friends are into it.)

Many civilizations and religions have the concept of 7 days making a week. Is there any astronomical significance for this (7 days in a week)? How come all civilizations chose exactly to have 7 days in a week? I had asked the very same question to

How do they calculate the age of the universe They use Hubble constant (Ho) to estimate the age of the universe.. But How Do They Do It..? This is how...

I happen to read this article written by Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri You guessed it right. It’s about the Indian economy and the competition with China . A Fight of Elephant vs. Dragon. Here is the link  http://www.iipm.edu/iipm-old/india-future.html In the article, the author says democracy is our greatest strength, I feel it can well become our biggest let down. Yes, democracy will be the biggest strength of a country not when we have political parties run by communal fundamentalists, or by generations of a single political dynasty, not when we have a foreigner running the government behind the screens and our so called prime minister acting as a puppet. Yes, we do have democracy but we don't have inner democracy within each political party. The current political parties that we have are communal, or either communist, or corrupt, or run by family dynasties, or based on caste-ist politics. When will our political parties rise above these partisan politics based on caste,...

This is the summary of speech Given by Alex Stepenov (Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems) at Adobe India on 30 Nov 2004. Study , Study and Study  Never ever think that you have acquired all or most of the knowledge which exists in the world. Almost everybody in US at age of 14 and everybody in India at age of 24 starts thinking that he has acquired all the wisdom and knowledge that he needs. This should be strictly avoided. You should be habituated to studies...exactly in the same way as you are habituated to brushing teeth and taking bath every morning. The habit of study must become a 'part of your blood'. And the study should be from both the areas: CS, since it is your profession, and something from non-CS... Something which doesnot relate to your work. This would expand your knowledge in other field too. A regular study, everyday, is extremely essential. It doesnot matter whether you study of 20 minutes of 2 hours,...