Leyden jar: Originally invented in 1745 by Pieter van Musschenbroek at the University of Leiden (Leyden), the Netherlands, it was a device used to build and store static electricity. A Leyden jar consists of a glass jar with an outer and inner metal coating covering the bottom and sides nearly to the neck. A brass rod …
Poetic Justice You have a nice lunch, full with your favorite items, no bhendi, no karela, none of the odd stuff, just good potato, slightly spicy, and nice small tinge of jam to complete the flavors… Such an appetite, you relish, stuff yourself, and what follows a nice full tummy along with a slight warm …
Watching this series, I learned a new term, ‘limited-series.’ You see, we had two distinctions with stories on the screen, to begin with. One was at a three-hour-long format called the Movie. When stories were ‘too long to fit in a movie format, we had the serial — Typically, thirteen or twenty-six half-hour episodes telecasted …