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While the world recovers from a pandemic, it is pushed into the shadow of a nuclear holocaust by a renewed cold war. I believe an act of aggression against any population is uncalled for, despicable, and inhumane, and for that, the aggressor must face the necessary judgment in its time. However, from neutral ground, we cannot ignore the tumbling of stones that led to this avalanche. Let me put on a pedestal, the self-proclaimed leaders, nay, tyrants of the free world. One cannot ignore the actions of NATO that instigated this conflict by doing what they usually do - they motivated a country to give up nuclear weapons with a promise of security, they tried to poke a sleeping bear which was sidelined on the global stage by granting several other bordering countries the option to join them, and finally, when the inevitable did happen, they could not keep their promise knowing too well, that any escalation of this will lead to the eradication of the human race. This is merely the tip of th...

  “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children” , these were the words of Emerson, that stuck with me, since the very first time I learned of them. It means a great deal to the human civilization, to protect the very nature that gave birth to the human race. Towards that journey, the greatest technological advancement has been in energy storage and e-mobility. While it may seem a pointless endeavor when the electricity used by electric vehicles (EVs) is produced by burning fossil fuels, we have seen a gradual shift towards renewable and clean energy on a global scale in recent years. If this trend is to continue, we may see renewables to be the single largest energy source by the year 2030. However, in this regard, the subcontinent of India faces a rather unusual challenge. How do we get a rather new, costly, and unusual method of mobility to nearly a fourth of the human population within a decade? A population, which itself has poor educational...

In the midst of a fierce war in 1965, the then Indian premier, Shastri said “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan!” (Hail the soldier, Hail the farmer!). It was the truth for the India of then, an agricultural economy, protected by its brave hearts. To a great extent, half of that remains the reality in India after 55 years. While we are still protected by the world’s 4 th most powerful military, we are no longer an agricultural economy. That said, the new age “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Vigyan!” (add science) almost entirely ignores the farmer in the middle. Half of the Indian population depends on agriculture, a sector which contributes a little over 15% of the GDP. While these numbers are almost opposite in the modern IT and Engineering Services sector in India  (about 60% contribution to GDP with a little over 20% of India's working population employed in it) , one can see how the economic disparity takes shape. While the world sees a highly efficient ITES industry, where each Indian emp...

Hello there! Many of us have been using the Windows OS (considering it's many versions), for a very long time. For some regions on the planet (especially where this post was written), Windows is the stereotypical OS for a computer. However, today we're going to see something which has been known to be the OS of servers and supercomputers, and can also be used in a PC like yours, Linux! To be honest, I've been using windows for a very long time myself, and it is no doubt, a great OS. But there are many places where Windows sucks (bad)! On this post, I shall describe why I chose Linux over Windows, and how you, a Windows user, can move to Linux easily! First, let's discuss the 7 reasons why I gave up Windows:- 1. Paying for almost everything... Even the office suite! Windows is a proprietary software and is not freely available. You must have a product key (purchased) to run windows on any computer. Linux distros, on the other hand, are free to downlo...

Over the decades, we have evolved, not just as human beings, but also in terms of technology. A simple smart-phone today can do more that what the best personal computer could have done ten or fifteen years ago. And when this thought comes into our minds, we can't help but think "If such a small system can do so much, what are we actually capable of doing with supercomputers?" So let's look into some of the fastest computers on this planet today, May 2017. The Computers are ranked based on their Floating point Operations Per Second (FLOPS), or in layman terms, calculations per second. However, at this point a supercomputer is capable of certain Quadrillion calculations per second, thus we use Peta FLOPS. The speed pf these systems were calculated using the LINPACK benchmarks . 10. Trinity, Los Alamos National Laboratory The Trinity project is managed and operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories under the Alliance for Com...

Hello everyone! Here's a list of combat role aircrafts which proved to be the enemy's deepest fears. But before going to the actual list, here are a few things which we consider in our list:- Service Ceiling : The maximum cruise altitude of the aircraft Speed : The maximum speed of the aircraft Maneuverability : The ability of an aircraft to dodge missiles Damage rate : Total property damage by individual aircraft Crash rate : Crashes due to system or engine failures in the aircraft  So let's get started. 1. North American P-51 Mustang This legendary aircraft had a lead role in the WW II theater. Flying about 214,000 sorties, this aircraft alone claimed 4,950 air-to-air kills. The aircraft had a service ceiling of 12,000 m or about 42,000 ft, a maximum speed of 383 knots and a heavy maneuverability dodging enemy bullets. Surprisingly for that period, only 4 incidents of flight systems have been reported resulting in crash. 2. North American F-86 Sabre The F-...