A farmer had a brother in town who was a gardener, and who possessed a magnificent orchard full of the finest fruit trees, so that his skill and his beautiful trees were famous everywhere. One day the farmer went into town to visit his brother, and was astonished at the rows of trees that grew…
Kitties love cream and milk, but of late they’ve begun to copy human folks, who stuff themselves with what they call ‘fast food’ these days. By Nigar Ataulla Creamy lived in an apartment in a big city called Jim Jam. The town’s strange name owed to the fact that its streets were jam-packed with traffic…
If only Tilly talked less or talked just when he needed to, he would make such a wonderful friend. By Yoginder Sikand Tilly was the most talkative boy you ever saw. “Yackety-yack, yackety-yack!” he would go on all day. Not for a moment would you find him silent. Things were so bad that everyone in…
Akbar is often titled as Mughal e Azam, the greatest Mughal. Though he himself was not much educated, he respected the scholars and gave them important positions in his Darbar. There were nine extraordinary persons chosen by him who were jointly called Navratnas or nine gems. They were 1- Abul Fazal, who was the chief…
The ‘Vitruvian Man’ is a drawing created by Italian genius Leonardo da Vinci in 1490. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs spread out and simultaneously…
Zhangye Danxia mountains in north-western province of China present a colourful spectacle. Wavy mountain rocks display colours from deep red to yellow green as if someone has painstakingly painted them. But no! They are painted by the nature. Your eyes are not deceiving you. China has created Zhangye Danxia Lanform Geological Park in Gansu province…
India’s space agency ISRO launched its Mars Orbiter Mission vehicle “Mangalayaan” (Mangal is the Sanskrit name of Mars) on November 5, 2013. It lifted off from Sriharikota, a few kilometers from Chennai near Bay of Bengal. It will travel 780 million kilometers to enter the orbit of Mars in September 2014. This is the first…
It is now possible to cross the Bosphorus Strait “ from Asia to Europe in just four minutes by the new Marmaray tunnel. It is the realisation of a project dreamt up by Ottoman sultans more than a century ago. Though it connects two continents, but connects only one part of Turkey with the other.…
An X-ray is taken when one develops a fracture of bones. The X-rays can penetrate into the skin, flesh and fats and muscles. But since bones are made of calcium, these rays are absorbed. As a result, the bones get highlighted in the film as shadows. It is why an X-ray of affected portion is…
Forests are lungs of the earth. They consume the carbon dioxide which the humans and animals release and produce oxygen which we need to breathe. If forests are destroyed, our supply of oxygen will be cut and will lead to ruin of the human civilization. Rainforests are also essential as they preserve moisture , release…
