How Can We Matter

With the mineral exploration in space becoming an extremely lucrative business, will the Indian private companies wait for the enactment of India's Space Law ? And should they? On January 22, 2013, Deep Space Industries announced plans for a fleet of spacecraft whose job will be to harvest the rich resources found in asteroids.

We all love the instantly familiar double golden arches sign and the grammatically incorrect slogan that United States of America exported to the whole world. Now people are waiting with baited breath and excitement at the unveiling of another American product that the world will have to embrace soon.

Is there any difference between the set of lawyers who attacked and assaulted the JNU Students Union President Kanhaiya Kumar at the Patiala court premises and Arnab Goswami who bullied and intimidated Umar Khalid in his news studio? 

Being a foreigner in Sri Lanka has many dimensions as we found out during our trip to this lovely country. As an Indian, our dress, skin colour, and body features do not make us out as a ' foreigner ' (whiteskinned!) among the Sri Lankans.

When I first learned about Einstein's Theory of Relativity 45 years back for my M.Sc. dissertation on the Clock Paradox , I never imagined that this discovery would happen in my lifetime!!

Yesterday, there was a strategic visit in India by  Shaikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Al Nahyan , Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.