Our prominent scientists
In the ancient and medieval periods some prominent scientists were born in India. They made immense contribution to the development of science in the country and brought laurels to their motherland. Some of our ancient scientists are mentioned below:-
- Aryabhatta: Aryabhatta was an astronomer and mathematician. He adorned the court of Chandragupta Vikramadhitya. He was credited with the invention algebra. It was who first revealed the rotation of the earth and the causes for the occurrence of solar and lunar eclipses. He wrote two books – Suryasiddanta and Aryabhatteeyam. India’s first satellite Aryabhatta’ is named after him.
- Bhaskara: Bhaskar he was an astronomer. India’s second satellite for earth observation, Bhaskara is named after him.
- Bhaskaracharya II: Bhaskaracharya II was a mathematician as astronomer of 12 century A.D. he was the author of Siddhartha Shiromani. He was first to state that anything divided by zero is equal to infinity. He invented Calculus long before other did.
- Brahmagupta: Brahmagupta was a mathematician. He was first to treat Zero as number. He was the author of Brahma Siddhantha. He announced the theory of the gravitation of the earth.
- Charaka: Charaka was a physician. He adorned the court of Kanishka and authored Charaka samhita. His writing is invaluable in the study of Hindu medicine.
- Dhanvantari: Dhanvantari was a physician of the 5 century A.D. he adorned the court of Chandragupta Vikramaditya.
- Nagarjuna: Nagarjuna was philosopher and chemist. He adorned the court of Kanishka. In his Madhyamikasutra, he enunciated the theory of reactive and anticipated Einstein by a number of centuries. He is described as Indian Einstein.
- Susruta: Susruta was a surgeon, and father of plastic surgery. He devised an artificial nose, diagnosed cataract and described hernia and medical value of garlic. He wrote a medical treatise entitled Susrta samhita.
- Varahamihira: Varahamihira was an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher of the 5 century A.D. he adorned the court of Chandragupta Vikramaditya. He wrote a book entitled Brihatsamhita which was a treatise on geography, astronomy and botany. He wrote other books like Panchasiddhantika, Brihatjnatika and Laghujataka.
- Vagbhatt: Vagbhatt was a physician of Gupta’s times. He wrote a medicinal treatise Ashtangasangraha in which he described human anatomy.
Martin Luther king and Mahatma Gandhi services
Martin Luther king was one of the greatest men of the world. He was like Gandhi in many respects. Both belonged to the 20th century. Both supported the cause of the down-trodden. Martin Luther king championed the rights of American Negroes. Both were peaceful warriors. Non- violence was their only weapon. Both were shot dead.
Martin Luther king was a clergyman. He believed in the equality of man. He felt distressed by the racial discrimination against the Negroes and the denial of their rights. The Negroes did a lot towards the building of modern America. They worked hard in mines, on the docks and in the foundries. They fought bravely to defend America’s honor. But they were not given good treatment by the America Government. According to martin Luther king, they were regarded as half slave and half free.
The Negroes lived economic insecurity although America was prosperous. The Negroes were denied normal education and normal social opportunities. A Negro could not attend a school or a public amusement park meant for whites. They were not served food at the same counter with the whites. A Negro was nobody in his own land. The situation in India for the untouchables was the same as that of Negroes in America. Mahatma Gandhi fought all his life for the betterment of the untouchables. The British rule was another evil in India. It exploited India and blocked her mental and spiritual growth. Gandhi started opposing the British rule in India. He put into the India’s a new spirit by his doctrine of non- violence. He and his men were beaten up but they never offered any resistance. At lasts the British left India.
As a young boy, martin Luther king was deeply influenced by Gandhi’s success in social and political fields, non –violence and the moral strength. From Gandhi he learnt to set right wrongs by love and not by hatred.
For about 350 years, twenty million Negroes sobbed and wept. White Americans did not care their difficulties. Abraham Lincoln and john Kennedy did feel for them. Martin Luther king did not understand why American democracy should crush the rights of the Negroes. He wanted the Negroes to enjoy the same civics facilities as the white Americans. He wanted these rights without any delay. Some people said that martin Luther king was impatient. Martin Luther answered back that those people might never have felt the hurt of racial discrimination.
Martin Luther gained national importance when he led a boycott of the people public buses in Montgomery to protest against separate seats on them. After several boycotts, he met with success. The U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public transport as unlawful. Martin Luther kin’s movement was non- violent.
The Montgomery victory encouraged the Negroes. Martin Luther awakened the Negroes with fiery speeches. In 1963, he made a historic speech when 250000 Americans of all faiths, races and creeds assembled together to 1March on Washington’. The gist of his speech was that he had a dream of the time when racialism would end.
You can read history in books. But in old times when men did not exist, surely no books could haven been written. How can we then find out what could have been written. How can we then find out what could have happened in those olden times?
We can’t just down and imagine every thing about those old days. Doing so would be no doubt, very interesting. We could make up in our mind the most interesting fairy-tales. But these tales might not be true because they were based not on facts but on mere imagination.
But having no books doesn’t mean that we can’t know the history of those old days. Although we have no books written I those far-off days, we do have many things that can tell us a great deal about the story of the earth. These things are almost as useful as any books could be.
We have rocks, mountains, seas, rivers, deserts, fossils and many other such things. All these things can serve as our books to know the earth’s early history. Many people have now written books which describe the history of the earth on the basis of these things. But the real way to understand this story is not to read it in books written by other people. We should go to the great book of nature itself, and try to read through its pages.
Every little stone that you see lying in the road or on the mountainside could be a little page in nature’s book. This little page could tell you something of the earth’s story, if only you knew how to read it. To be able to read any language- Hindi, Urdu or English, Italy and French, you have to learn its alphabet. So also you must learn the alphabet of nature before you can read her story in her books of stone and rock.
Overview of Cafe Mondegar
Location: Kolaba,Mumbai
Type of Food: Indian,Chinese,Continental.
Timings:8:00 AM to 12:00 AM
Ambience:80's Restraunt setup with Juke Box.
Speciality:Serving Fresh Beer
Cafe Mondegar is one of the Oldest Resto bar in Mumbai. Its Speciality is to serve Fresh Barrel beer.Cafe Mondegar attracts lots of Foreign Tourist because of its speciality of serving fresh beer.Apart from Beer the ambience and the setup of that bar is outstanding.the setup of the bar is like a Old Irani hotel and the Menu card is pasted on the entire table so that while sitting and chatting you can decide your menu.
The best part what i like about cafe Mondegar is the Juke Box.you need to shell out Rs 10 in the juke box and it can play you the rock music sung in 80's which is priceless.
There is no specific age group who visit cafe mondegar.As this cafe is also famuous for serving one of the best English breakfast in Mumbai yu will find people of all age group comming in and have a blast.
Cafe Mondegar accepts all kind of payment i.e Cash,Credit card,US Dollars,Pounds,Euro's etc.
Cafe Monegar is also known as Cafe Mondy's and to know more about this you can just service it on google
Experience:Personally speaking i am a fan of Beer and having said that,I have been to lot of Pubs in Mumbai which has amazing ambience but when i go to Cafe mondegar the feeling is absolutely different because unlike all the other pubs,Cafe Mondegar do not have too loud and Indian remixes.It Only plays Soft rock which takes you to a different level.One more think what i like aboout Mondy's is the way they service beer.Only in Cafe Mondy's you will observe that they serve you Beer in Ice Chilled Glass since it helps the beer to stay cool.
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