Curious Tourist

Memorable Moments My College I cannot pin point a single day from my life at campus that was the most awesome as almost every day was as memorable and beautiful as any other. Every day that I spent in college with my friends now feels like a beautifully written page from an exciting novel(fiction of course). I may not remember the exact sequence of events on any particular day just like one doesn't remember all the nuances printed on a page but I can still feel that warmth of companionship and bonding that kept bringing me closer to my friends, as I continued to turn those magical pages. Now the book is coming to an end with barely a chapter to go. In a month's time, I will be thrown out of my sweet little home with nothing but cheerful memories floating in my mind. There are plenty of memories as there are many memorable moments worth cherishing. I loved hanging out with my buddies- eating, watching new releases at G3S nearby, lazying in the sun at the OAT during winte

A Philosophy of Life Hundreds of years before Christ, ancient Greeks practiced Paganism worshipping Gods like Zeus and Poseidon. Besides the Greeks, ancient Romans as well as Egyptians had several Gods and Goddesses who are now mere cult figures of ancient mythology finding place only in bedtime stories, fairy tales and glitzy Hollywood movies. Around sixth century BC when Hellenistic period was also at its peak, early Greek Philosophers made their presence felt by  giving birth to a concept of boundless thinking that involved dialogues, debates and discussions. Topics from all walks of life including astronomy, physics, biology, arithmetic, geometry and countless others were discussed as a part of a vast field of reason and knowledge which later came to be known as Philosophy. Philosophy went against the norms of traditional pagan worship and asked interested men and women to be free thinkers and be governed by their own sense of reason and logic. Early philosophers of the Roman

Brace For Impact British Airways crash at Heathrow in 2008 Some time back in the 1980’s, a Delta Airlines flight bound to Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale experienced inexplicably weird turbulence while it was descending to land at Dallas(a stopover). The plane couldn’t hold on and crashed just a few metres from the runway at Fortworth Airport. The mystery of its crash remained unsolved for a long time until a meteorologist made a remarkable discovery. He proposed the theory of microburst which is an unpredictable and the most poorly understood weather phenomenon even to this day. High temperature and humidity is a perfect recipe for thunderstorms which may give rise to a microburst. However, the microburst cannot be seen on weather radars or convection current monitors. Unlike other phenomena, it is a very narrow region of extreme gusts of wind pushing vertically downwards and remains active only for a few seconds. Delta Airlines flight just happened to be too unfortunate

Brace For Explosion Mangled cockpit of Pan Am flight 103 after explosion In the 1980’s, there was a conspicuous absence of strict security procedures at all major airports around the world. It was partly due to a lack of sophisticated technology and partly a fallout of the gross ignorance of intelligence officials at that time. In 1985, the flagship passenger plane of Air India named Emperor Kanishka, a Boeing 747 jumbo jet, was travelling from Montreal to New Delhi when it blasted in the Irish air space, killing all 329 people on board. At the same time, there was a bomb blast at Narita Airport in Tokyo when the bag that was carrying that bomb was being loaded on board another Air India flight to Bangkok. The terrorists had audacious plans of bringing down both planes at the same time. Criminal investigation was under way in Japan which revealed that the bombs were timer triggered and were housed in a radio tuner device. As the scope of investigation was widened to include

The Pulse of Delhi Metro Red Line Of The Delhi Metro I am always happy to board the Delhi Metro whenever I need to travel within Delhi. The impeccable and unmatched comfort coupled with an incredible frequency of trains is a compelling reason for my loyalty to this ingenious mode of transport. Most of the times, I am busy listening to some foot tapping music on the radio. There are times when I am in the middle of an intriguing crossword puzzle or an unputdownable novel, so I carry my activities on board the Metro, immune as I am to the bedlam created by frenzied commuters. Nobody can now stop me from doing what I want to do while I am travelling in the Metro, not the cacophonous cry of a baby near me and not even the boisterous laughter of school and college teens standing over my head.  Even when I am busy doing my studies, I do occasionally get up to make way for old men and women and a few others who are in want of a seat more than I do. They bless me and I feel happy an