Fun with Liquid Nitrogen in Mumbai Imagine being able to have liquid nitrogen which is minus 196 degrees Celsius right in your home! For experimenting with, ofcourse. The team with the various experiments they did. They started with introducing themselves, Science Utsav, a company, started 4 years ago in Bangalore. Then they invited questions fromContinue reading “Fun with Liquid Nitrogen in Mumbai”
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More parents take to home-schooling their kids, term school studies as rote-learning
Children have always learned naturally from grandparents, parents and elder siblings by accompanying them to the market, to the jungle, to the river, or to the fields. Helping with daily tasks of sowing, harvesting, hunting, food gathering, wood cutting, thatching, attending cattle and so on… children acquire valuable knowledge about biodiversity, medicinal plants, animal husbandry, agriculture,Continue reading “More parents take to home-schooling their kids, term school studies as rote-learning”
Marching to save Mumbai’s rivers
On 1st March 2015, More than 800 Mumbaiites dedicated their Sunday morning to walk the extra mile for the city’s rivers, literally. As part of the March Walkatahon, people of all age groups, including 300 school students from Rustomjee school, marched along the 5-km stretch of the Dahisar riverfront to raise awareness about the poorContinue reading “Marching to save Mumbai’s rivers”
Who is trying to rewrite Indian History?
24 Sep 2014, Hindustan Times (Delhi), SITARAM YECHURY the views expressed by the author are personal Ignorance, lies posing as truth ZoomBookmarkSharePrintListenTranslate The RSS, in its effort to convert our modern secular democratic republic into a ‘Hindu rashtra’, is trying to rewrite our history. The latest incident of the dismissal of 11 Dalit students fromContinue reading “Who is trying to rewrite Indian History?”
Don’t waste time, Doctors say
Heart attack to hospital takes 5 hours in Mumbai Doctors To Try & Cut Down Time Taken In City [Adapted from a front page article dated May 25 2014 : The Times of India (Mumbai)] With three million cases every year, heart attack may be the commonest grave ailment in India. But Indians seem toContinue reading “Don’t waste time, Doctors say”
You too can help to catch corrupt officials
ACB [Anti-Corruption Bureau] trapped 508 officials in 4 months in Mumbai, India City Police Chief, State Dept Heads List Action Plan To Curb Graft, reports the Times of India Prafulla Marpakwar TNN 14th May 2014 Mumbai: A deputy collector, a public works [PWD] Executive Engineer, a senior Police Inspector, and a Principal of a leading collegeContinue reading “You too can help to catch corrupt officials”
Drinking water or Sewage?
Civic body faces takeover if Ulhas River remains polluted This is really shocking. Does the Municipality and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board [MPCB] have to be told to do this? Drinking water is a basic requirement for everybody. What is stopping them from destroying he life of millions of innocent people? I am glad thatContinue reading “Drinking water or Sewage?”
Love, power and a sound mind 