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In an obscure piece of news, the world was notified recently of the death of Lana Peters aka Svetlana Allilueva at the age of 85. Born on 28th February, 1926, Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was the youngest child and only daughter of one of the most powerful man in the twentieth century namely Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. Read More »
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Minority Report | Movie Review
What is the most coveted thing by humans, Money, Status, Power? No, the topper of this list since the beginning of the human civilization has been the future, or rather the knowledge of future. Man’s attempts to learn beforehand what is going to happen in the future has given birth and sustained numerous occult systems including astrology, crystal gazing, palmistry, ... Read More »
Sam Childers – Machine Gun Preacher
In this digitized age, it sometimes appears as though the entire human kind is living in cyber space i.e., everybody has access to internet and social networking occupies a huge space in the daily lives of everyone. Read More »
Letters to Father by Dava Sobel | Book Review
Galileo Galilie is renowned for his immense contribution to the physical sciences with his discovery of telescope that enables him to examine the heavenly bodies, study of tides, motions of pendulum and moving bodies. His inquisition and house arrest in the old age by the Catholic Church due to his “so-called” heretic work and writings is also famous. But, this ... Read More »
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel | Book Review
When we hear the name “Galileo Gelilei”, what are the first things that come to our mind? That, he invented the telescope, that we was the first man in Europe to gaze at the stars, the one who found out that Moon’s surface consisted of mountains and hills just like Earth, who discovered the four satellites of Jupiter and the ... Read More »
Longitude by Dava Sobel | Book Review
Most of us were born and grew up in the era when electronic items are of day-to-day use, especially today when digital space is a huge presence in our professional as well as social lives. But the electronic revolution is no older than a century. Read More »