Marcus du Sautoy, an Oxford mathematician, playwright and musician reveals in Blue Prints, how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and arts and explains how creativity is inseparable from mathematics. The designs of Le Corbusier and Leonardo the music of Glass, Bach, and Debussy; the wild visions of Dali, the choreography of Laban, the animation of Pixar- all are shot through with mathematics, from primes and fractals to the weirder words of Hamiltonian cycles and hyperbolic geometry. Du Sautoy argues that the relationship runs both ways. Just as mathematics inspires new art, the artistic mindset … Continue reading Ignite your imagination

On 23rd November 2025, Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano erupts after 12, 000 years of dormancy, sending up massive ash plumes which drifted thousands of miles to reach parts of western and northern Indian states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Punjab disrupting flight operation in the entire region. Airlines including Air India, Indigo, Akasa Air cancelled or re-routed several flights. According to experts the plume’s extreme attitude means immediate impact on ground-level air quality. The IMD expects the main ash cloud to clear Indian skies as it moves towards China and the Pacific. Continue reading Hayli Gubbi Volcano erupts

Brazilian novelist, musician and screenwriter Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth As It Is Beneath is a tale of survival in a penal colony on the brink of collapse whose warden is determined to inflict ever-increasing forms of horror on inmates. On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the prison’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every … Continue reading Vision of our potential for violence

Dharmendra born on 8th December, 35 in Nasrali village in Ludhiana, India, to a middle-class Jatt-Sikh family, was a clerk in the Indian Railways before entering films in 60 film “Dil Bhi Tera Hum Bhi Tere” (Heart is yours and I’m also yours). His first hit film was Phool Aur Pathar ( Flower and Rock).  Over the years, Dharmendra was cast against 70 heroines. At 19, he married Prakash Kaur, have two sons and two daughters.  He married Bollywood actress Hema Malini for the second time and have two daughters. His career spanning 6 decades working in more than 300 films.  Best known as … Continue reading Bollywood film star Dharmendra has died in Mumbai