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When we started www.thequestforum.org along with objective of quenching our thirst for knowing things the hidden agenda was developing critical thinking and scientific temper among all especially among students. Pseudoscientific medical claims and treatments were not that rampant but soon we realized we need to focus on it also. We realized true scientific knowledge and

As I have written before, I have been a bibliophile since the very day I learned to read and write. But while reading has been my constant companion, writing was always an occasional visitor. I never really had a sustained passion for it, save for occasional bursts that started as diary entries and have now

(A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables. Many physical phenomenon can be simulated this technique. In my Ph.D thesis I have used it to find the behaviour of electrons under various electric field conditions

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Over the years some of the things revealed to me are listed.But as usual those thoughts are well articulated by Khalil Gibran (reasons elaborated in my old post http://www.balaprasad.com/why-i-love-to-quote-from-the-prohet-khalil-gibran/ )Following lines are from his work The Vision (p. 83-89). White Cloud Press. Kindle Edition My soul talked to me many a times : 1 teaching

(Another borrowing of words not the feelings) I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.A tear to purify my heart and give me understandingOf life’s secrets and hidden things.A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind andTo be a symbol of my glorification of the gods.A tear to

Very often we Indians boast about Indian contribution to mathematics especially in Arithmetics i.e zero. Zero has a different connotation also.It means nothing or signifying nothing.This is the context in which it is written.(Whenever I think of nothing it reminds me the famous dialogue from play of Shakespeare “The king Lear” to his dear daughter