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One significant disconnect between me and my History textbook was over the events of the third Battle of Panipat. Ask any Maratha above the age of seventy, educated or otherwise. The mere mention of Panipat brings out an uncanny sadness. The pain of a singular event is carried down by generations in their collective memory. …
physicists evoke superlative responses, when they start talking about multiple universes. The domain is full of exotic jargon like, quantum entanglement, worm holes, and the fabric of space time. Each term worth spending a week, traversing the infinite possibilities they present. And when you encounter ‘nuance’ while exploring the difference between ‘parallel’ and ‘multi-verses’, the …
The construction worker who worked on the gallery of our house was either tired, careless, (or he was like the proud worker who purposely (allegedly) left a dripping tile at the Taj Mahal) he misaligned the slope on a single corner tile of the gallery. The gallery tiles are sloped to such perfection that the …
