Telangana - 29th - How many more...?

भारताचे २९वे राज्य किंवा दुसऱ्या भाषेत म्हणायच झाला तर भारताचा २९वा तुकडा. २०/०२/२०१४ रोजी राज्य सभेत स्वतंत्र तेलंगणाच्या विधेयकाला मंजुरी मिळाली व आपल्या भारत मातेचा अजून एक तुकडा पडला. या घटनेनंतर काही प्रश्न डोक्यात आल्यावाचून राहत नहित.

The Beautiful Game

Football, the most popular game on this planet is growing more and more popular each day. Football is played at national as well as club level and is the national sport for many countries across the globe. Football players are worshipped like gods in many countries and the way this game is practiced, followed and supported is nothing less than a religion. It is called the beautiful game not only because of its high tempo and exciting nature but also because of the passion of supporters and fans whose devotion to the game and the team and the club they support sometimes is fanatical

Football is basically played between two teams consisting of eleven players each, with an objective of using their feet to get the ball into opponent’s goal which are situated on either side of a rectangular field. The game is played for 90 minutes with a perfectly spherical ball, 28’ in diameter. The game is played on basis of 17 basic rules called as the “laws of the game” which are monitored by referee,linesmen and other officials. Each team of eleven consists of one goal keeper and the remaining ten are divided into defenders, midfielders and attackers.

A Customizable Smartphone

Gone are those days when people used to buy a single branded desktop computer. Now they want an assembled one which has a Quad-core processor to go with a specific motherboard and a particular DDR5 graphics card to satisfy the gaming requirements. Thus, Customization led to Optimization! Now imagine you could do that to your Smartphone..!

Do you like to use your ‘Phablet’ exclusively for gaming? Well, go for a multi-core processor and a full HD display. Do you like to share your special moments on Instagram? Go for a high megapixel camera with better focus. Or do you like to use your phone simply as an IPod? Just go for Bluetooth 4.0 and a high mAh battery. Thus make your phone really ‘Smart’. Phonebloks came up with this idea in late 2013 where different components called ‘Bloks’ can be attached to the main board and thus the users can personalize their smartphones.

Phonebloks

Facebook-WhatsApp, a crazy deal?

In recent times, the most renowned billion dollar acquisitions have been in the web domain. To name a few, Yahoo acquired the famous Tumblr  for  $1.1 billion, Microsoft acquired Skype for a whopping $8.5 billion, Facebook acquired Instagram for $1billion and the Japanese firm Rakuten acquired Viber for $0.9 billion. India too isn’t behind in the website race. The online shopping giant Flipkart is in talks for merging with its competitor Myntra at Rs.300 crores, while the restaurant guide Zomato is valued at Rs.1000 crores.

Love 2.0

Famous Italian Physicist - Enrico Fermi

     Enrico Fermi once remarked that we can measure any physical quantity without using any instrument, just by estimating it. He demonstrated the same by estimating the yield of an atomic explosion at ‘The Trinity Site’ in 1945 by hurling in the air pieces of confetti that he cut from notebook paper, and further tedious calculations showed that he was more or less right. Scientists then came to believe that any quantity can be measured without an instrument, if you know how.

     But there is one quantity that’s impossible to measure. Each one of us knows it, some find it stupid, some are enthralled by it, but none of us has been able to escape it. It is the feeling of love, that we feel for our family, our friends, and ultimately, for our life partner. Years of scientific research on why we feel what we feel has led us to believe that it is actually a chemical combination of hormones that makes us love someone. Another explanation for why our parents love us so much is that because we are an extension of their DNA, the parent DNA loves the child DNA, feels hurt when the child is hurt, angry when the child is in danger, and concerned when the child is upset. This article isn’t a result of any research or sudden epiphany, but just like all of my write ups, is a culmination of a passing thought materialising into words.