From the dark to the dawn

Yesterday, we went for dusshera celebrations in a ground-profoundly called dusshera maidan. The decorations were beautiful. There were about 20 stalls spreading the glimpse of our wide culture. Art and craft, sarees , suits, games and food stalls were standing shoulder by shoulder to entertain and satisfy the customers. Standing in the full glory were the megnath, kumbhkaran and Ravana statue. As we went before the gathering started,my lil one also enjoyed running here and there. I was also delighted to purchase and eat and see my son playing. After some time, started a play showcasing the Ramayana-Story of Shri Ram and Sita. People started to gather in more numbers. And then started the event for which we all had gathered. An arrow left Shri Ram's bow and started towards Ravana to incise his stomach. Ravana was killed and the speaker announced "adharm pe dharm ki jeet ho k rehti h.Jai Shri Ram." And fireworks were started and filled the sky with lighting and colo...

- I NO is a multi-institutional collaboration( nearly 26 institutions and about 100 scientists are involved) which aims to build an underground laboratory for pure Science research, especially in Neutrino Physics to understand nature and interactions of Neutrinos - The project includes construction of an iron calorimeter detector, called ICAL , that will be the world's most massive detector when completed. ICAL consists of 50000 tons of magnetized iron plates arranged in stacks with gaps in between where Resistive Plate Chambers (RPCs) would be inserted as active detectors, the total number of 2m X 2m RPCs being around 29000 - It is a mega-science project under the XII five-year plan of Government of India with an investment of about 1350 crores, jointly funded by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) - Host Institution - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai - Location -  Bodi West Hills in Theni dist...