Dowry and The Modern Woman It’s been a while since a countrywide brigade—albeit small— of bridegroom-rejecting brides, flagged off by the petite 21-year-old Nisha Sharma, took the world by storm. Now that the dust has settled, it is time to examine whether the courageous stance of Sharma, Farzana and Vidya Balasubramaniam (the other two who called off their marriages at the last moment) was indeed a triumphant strike on patriarchy and...

Girl Foeticide  Gynaecologists have finally begun making noises against sex selective abortions. The fraternity that openly held out guarantees of delivering only males by ensuring that female foetuses were eliminated and made easy money while performing this ‘greatly needed social service’ is beginning to feel the heat. According to the 2001 census, only 927 female children are born for every thousand male children. It can be assumed that if gynecologists banded...

Unidentified Flying Object – UFO Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) is any object or light in the sky that cannot be immediately explained by the observer. Sightings of unusual aerial phenomena date back to ancient times, but UFOs (sometimes called flying saucers) became widely discussed only after the first widely publicized American sighting in 1947. Many thousands of such observations have since been reported worldwide. At least 90 per cent of UFO...

E-Commerce : Electronic Commerce : E-Commerce an abbreviation for electronic commerce, usually defined as the conduct of business on-line, via the Internet. Until recently, e-commerce was limited mainly to large companies and their suppliers, who connected their computers together to speed up ordering and payment systems. Today, millions of people are involved in e-commerce on the Internet—when, for example, they visit World Wide Web sites to buy books or CDs, order...

Cryogenics  Cryogenics is the study and use of materials at very low temperatures. The upper limit of cryogenic temperatures has not been agreed on, but the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology has suggested that the term cryogenics be applied to all temperatures below -150° C (-238° F or 123 K). Some scientists take the normal boiling point of oxygen (-183° C or -297° F), as the upper limit....

Electric Vehicles  As humans continually exploit the earth for their own conveniences they become increasingly aware of the damage they cause. In the last 30 years the population has begun to notice just how serious the problem is and as a result great efforts have been put into amending the environment from our technological follies. Since the use of fossil fuels causes 70% of the earth’s air pollution its, only logical...

Technological Discoveries and Applications in India   The technological advancements of ancient India can be judged from the fact the earliest civilization of India, Harappan civilization (4000-3000 BC) can be compared with any modern civilization. Archaeological remains point to the existence of well-planned urban centers that boasted of private and public dwellings laid out in orderly fashion along with roads and drainage systems complementing them. The drainage systems were particularly remarkable...

Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution proved very beneficial for the progress of the world from the 1800’s onwards till the present date, Technological progress during the Industrial Revolution created happiness, life opportunities and betterment of life. Industrial Revolution was term first used in the early 19th century to describe major changes in modes of production in Britain since the mid-18th century and their social consequences. However, it was quickly recognized outside...