Cyber-Law Cyber-law is related to e-commerce, which includes all forms of transactions relating to commercial activities of both organisations and individuals that are based upon the processing and the transmission of digitized data including text, sound and visual images. Parliament recently passed the Information Technology...
Babia, the vegetarian crocodile. Visitors to the ancient sacred Anandapadmanabha Temple at Kumbla, Kerala always get to hear a strange story once they are done with a round of the temple, the legend of Babia, a 76-year-old male crocodile, who lives in the lake...
Sarpakatu, a fort that a serpent cannot climb. ‘Sarpakatu’ – which means even a serpent cannot climb it-is a fort that has, within its boundaries, a temple devoted to Shri Padmanabhaswamy of Anandapadmanabha. It is located at Kumbla, 15 km from Kasargod and 40 km...
Food festival in the forest In the 1980s, Baripada, in Maharashtra’s Dhule district, had become a barren wasteland bereft of most of its forest cover. By the 1990s, the greenery had begun to reappear, owing to the efforts of determined locals. By September 1,...
Holi celebrated worldwide! Now foreigners need no longer flock to cities like Jaipur, Pushkar, Vrindavan, Agra, Delhi and so on for Holi as they are having their very own Holi-themed parties in several countries across the world, such as United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, the...
Anandamide, the bliss molecule In 1996, when researchers had discovered the ‘blier molecule’ in raw chocolate, it was given the anandamide, after the Sanskrit word for bliss Canada’s. Anandamide plays a role in the regulation of feeding behaviour and the neural generation of motivation and...
Voices can levitate stones At the Qamar Ali Dargah in Shivapur, 16 km from Pune, an amazing feat can be accomplished when a certain number of devotees chant together. In the courtyard of this dargah are two huge boulders – one can be raised almost...
The most powerful chant in the world Dr. Harvard Steingeil, an American scientist, collected Mantras, hymns, and invocations from all over the world and tested them in his physiology lab. The Gayatri Mantra produced 110,000 sound waves in a second, the highest among all. This...
Rig Vedic drink madhumadya back in India Made from Madhu (honey), herbs, water, vegetable seasoning, madhumadya (honey-alcohol) the world’s oldest fermented drink. The recipe for this is found in the Rig Veda. Today, the patent for this drink belongs to a Lithuanian company. Historical records...
Dance without any musical instruments Hikkat, a dance from Kashmir, is performed without any musical instruments. The dancers talk of their relationships within the family as they move. Hikkat is a modified version of the games the boys and girls played as children. The dancers...
