Know It All

 "The unity and integrity of India requires strong leaders and often these leaders must play dirty games." Chanakya chanted knowing that he had achieved his ambition of uniting Bharat under Chandragupta. But to achieve that he had sacrificed his one chance for love. The importance of the beautiful chant "Adi Shakti, Namo Namah; Sarab Shakti, Namo Namah; Prithum Bhagvati Namo Namah; Kundalini Mata Shakti; Mata Shakti, NamoN Namah’. A dazzling political thriller, Game theory and strategies of politics at its best. Must read for the ones who are even mildly interested in politics or bureaucracy. But the plot is wicked. shrewd, vile..sick sick sick. Not for the ones who love to live their lives taking decisions by heart, being pure. My actual favourite line was "Uncle Ganga, you shall definitely go to hell when you die". Which brings up this great discussion Is it better to live "straight from heart" with pure feelings without any wrong intentions...? Who

 A girl(Sangeeta) was born in a very remote village of Bihar, as she grew she was not offered any education and was totally dedicated towards her marriage. She was always told that the only aim in her life was to marry someone and raise a family. Time passed and she was 15. At this point let me make you aware of a marriage tradition that you all must have heard and that is " Pakadawa Vivah" . In this Vivah or marriage, the bride's family chooses a groom or keeps an eye on someone they want to marry their girl, and on the decided date, the bride side just kidnaps the supposed groom and is forced into marriage. This is something that has been practiced for so long in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Pakadawa Vivah also saved the dowry that the bride's parents have to offer to the groom in return for the marriage. Sangeeta was born at a time when there were no strict rules against Pakadawa Vivah and as she was one of the 5 sisters in her home her faith was already decided. As sh

  How does a hard drive store so much information in such a small space? At the heart of every hard drive is a stack of high-speed spinning discs with a recording head flying over each surface. Each disc is coated with a film of microscopic magnetised metal grains, and our data doesn't live there in a form you can recognize. Instead, it is recorded as a magnetic pattern formed by groups of those tiny grains. In each group also known as a bit, all of the grains have their magnetizations aligned in one of the two possible states, which corresponds to zeros and ones. Data is written onto the disc by converting strings of bits into electrical current fed through an electromagnet. This magnet generates a field strong enough to change the direction of the metal grain's magnetization. Once this information is written onto the disc,  the drive uses a magnetic reader to turn it back into a useful form, which is much like a phonograph needle.  But how can you get so much of information o