Category: Art

The 19th and 20th centuries were marked by great scientific and technological developments. These developments encompassed many different fields like transportation, communication, manufacturing, education, trade, health care and others.The life of people has become quite comfortable with these scientific innovations as various types of machines have begun to perform complex tasks for them.There was a time when man used to walk long distances to reach other places for trade and other pursuits. The invention of wheel enabled him to make hand-driven and animal driven carts to transport various types of goods to different destinations. Image Source : d3pr5r64n04s3o.cloudfront.net ADVERTISEMENTS: With the invention of petrol and the engines that could be used it as fuel came different types of vehicles. Cars, trucks, buses, bikes and other road transport means started being…

In one of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poems, the brave and bold fighter McArthur is seriously wounded and is about to die. His General Bedivere feels sad and asks him what they would do without him. McArthur says: “Old order changes, yielding place to new.” Since then the line has become an adage as it contains the great reality of life-change is the law of nature.All the manifestations of nature-sun, moon, stars, trees, oceans, mountains, rivers, animals and birds undergo change. In the cosmic world, the heavenly bodies appear to us permanent and unchangeable. But, even they are liable to change. Space scientists have established that stars, even galaxies are born and they die.The black holes gobble up the stars. The planets that revolve around the stars undergo certain changes in…

Cinema is one of the wonders of the modern world. Those who see it for the first time get thrilled and wonderstruck. The lifelike presentation of people and objects is simply a triumph of Science. India is the greatest producer of films in the world. “Bollywood” has now become a byword all over the world.But unfortunately, the standard of Indian films is generally not very high. Many of them look like repeats. Moreover, they are not prepared with a moral target, but the chief aim of the producers is to earn money by playing to the gallery. The net result is that in the films, at least in most of them, we have obscene and vulgar songs and scenes. This is not to say that all films are bad.There are…

India has entered into the 21st century with a big bang and has already completed more than half a century of its post-independence era. A formal Prime Minister of India had declared that India will march towards the 21; century as a country free from hunger and poverty, as a partner in the information technology and electronics revolution, where high and sophisticate! Technology will become a way of life with the people, with its vast human; resources fully harnessed and developed and “Health for All” as its goal.India’s population as on 1 March 2001 stood at 1,027 million (531.3 million males and 495.1 million females). India accounts for a meagre 2.4 percent often world surface area of 135.79 million sq. km. yet it supports and sustains! Whopping 16.7 per cent…