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Monthly Archives: August 2016
śūlapuruṣasya vicāraḥ
Somakhya’s cousin Babhru and his family was visiting him during the vacation before they were to join university. After lunch he convinced Vidrum and Sharvamanyu to come over to his house when they got the chance for he thought more … Continue reading
Posted in art, Life, Politics
Tagged history, Oswald Spengler, Spengler, Story, world history
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Some meanderings among golden stuff
There are some angles that we often encounter in the construction of the golden ratio and its use in religious art. The first is the most obvious is the angle which is the angle made by the diagonals connecting a … Continue reading
A golden construction
Anyone with even a small fancy for geometrical matters would have at some point in their lives played with the golden ratio (). Indeed, we too have had our share of fun and games with the golden ratio. In course … Continue reading
Posted in art, Scientific ramblings
Tagged Generative Art, Geometric construction, geometry, Golden Ratio, mathematical entity, mathematics, vectors
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In the gray zone
Among the thinkers of the modern Occident one may take note of the Englishman John Gray. He is firmly an insider of the Anglosphere not just by origin but also by worldview: he is quick to spot the barbarisms in … Continue reading
Some words on “para-Rāmāyāṇa-s”-I
I use the hybrid Greek-Sanskrit word para-rāmāyāṇa for all rāma-kathā-s other than that of Vālmīki. These span a great diversity of literature going back to relatively early times in Indo-Aryan tradition. Lots of people have said a lot of things … Continue reading
Posted in Heathen thought
Tagged ancient Hindu thought, epics, Hindu, India, Indo-Aryan, mahAbharata, rAmAyaNa
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Some astronomical experiments
Our interest in stellar evolution began sometime in the 8th year of our life after reading an old but very readable account by the famed Russian scientist George Gamow. It captivated us beyond words but we had to wait until … Continue reading
Posted in Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, Gaia, Hertzsprung-Russel diagram, Hipparcos, Hyades, luminosity, magnitude, Pleiades, stars
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nakṣatra-darśanam
Varoli had just completed the synthesis of the xanthine coupled with hydroxymethyluracil and diaminotriazine to test an interesting hypothesis of Somakhya regarding a particular class of DNA-binding proteins. She was putting in considerable effort to finish it off by the … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Scientific ramblings
Tagged astronomy, Hyades, Life, open cluster, origins, Pleiades, stars, Story, variable stars
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