bala.sunderosho - Streams of Thought

August 6th, 1945 – the day that changed the course of history. Seventy-six years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing.

( Preface: Last year was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombings on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[…]

The word Rasa in Sanskrit cannot be adequately defined. It has no specific meaning, other than indicating a sense of[…]

There are literary masterpieces, whose beauty and force can only be experienced by approaching the work after a necessary period[…]

One of the puzzling and unresolved questions in evolutionary biology is this mysterious need for two sexes- male and female[…]

The American Presidential debates are part of a wonderful democratic process. It gives the people an opportunity to witness prospective[…]

On the evening of 3rd of December 1926, a thirty-six-year-old Agatha Christie, by then, a fairly established novelist, kissed her[…]

Barbara Tuchman, my favorite historian had a simple piece of advice pasted on her desk ” Will the reader turn[…]

If there is one thing, Man will pay any price, sacrifice everything; it is to live physically young forever. The[…]

(Preface: Three events come together in this essay: Renaissance, hyperlinks, and the story of the birth of a weekly online[…]

( Preface: I wrote this piece on October 25th, 2018 in New Jersey. Around forty years ago, between October 23rd[…]