Health Spa A spa must not be confused with spa pools — tubs of water that one can relax in with different kinds of water jets massaging one’s body. A spa pool might be a part of a SPA but the spa itself is something totally different. The origin of the word SPA is very interesting. In the times of the Roman Empire, battle weary warriors would return tired with aching...

Booming Beauty Industry The earliest evidence of beauty devices were found in the ruins in Babylon. Not only the women, but also the men wore eye shadow, curled their hair, brushed on eyeliner, darkened their lashes, and used henna for nail colour. Ancient Grecian women used crushed berries for blush on their cheeks, and wore fake eyebrows made of ox’s hair. The Egyptians used blue paint to show off theirveins, and...

Medical Insurance Health is the basic right of every human being. Everything must be done to ensure that everyone, irrespective of their social standing or economic status, can avail of it. With India’s burgeoning population it is becoming increasingly difficult for the government to provide public health care. More than 75% of the population avails medical care from the private sector. However, with the increasing costs of medical care it has...

Public Transport in India Trains and buses are the main modes of public transport in India. India’s rail network is the longest in the world. All rail operations in India are run by the state-owned company called Indian Railways. For over a century and a half, the Indian Railways has worked hard to make inroads into remote areas in an effort to provide communication. Indian Railways is one of India’s most...

Genetic Engineering Advantages and Disadvantages Genetic engineering is the modification or manipulation of the blueprints called genes, which give us our uniqueness, to change the characteristic of an organism. We see it all around us. We find it mixed in our food sitting on the shelves of the supermarket- genetically engineered food. It has been unceremoniously dumped on us. Ever since agriculture and the domestication of animals and plants began, man...

Electricity The latter part of the nineteenth century saw electricity transform itself from a scientific curiosity into a basic necessity. It was only much later that electricity came to be the driving force that it is today. Most of us who live in cities can’t even imagine life without electricity. The universe, as we know it, would fail to exist if there was no electricity. Almost everything that we use today;...

Nuclear Ban The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by America and the subsequent colossal damage left an indelible mark on the world. In 1970 the “Non-Proliferation Treaty” was signed by many nations of the world with an aim to put an end to the production of nuclear weapons. This pledge was further reiterated in 2000 by 187 nations at the review conference. However, America did a shocking turnabout when the...

Science : A Scare to Superstition Science is the art of understanding nature. It is not dogmatic like religion and any hypothesis is always open to scrutiny. Science harbours no room for emotions and sentiments. Science is based on hardcore facts, observations, verification and validation. When science comes along it shatters people’s illusions and self-created fantasy worlds. Leaving the comfort and security of their dreams is the toughest thing to do....