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In May 2019 I posted a short status on social media: “Lotus has bloomed everywhere in Bangalore.” At that time I was not in Bangalore, but living in Dresden, Germany. A German acquaintance commented on the post, “Wow, so pretty,” with a few smiling emojis. On a purely literal level, her response was correct. The
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The other day, I was having a lime tea at one of the cafeterias on the Central Campus of Christ University. Nearby, a few undergraduate students, probably in their late teens, were discussing whether it was ethically right to use AI to help with assignments. I found myself drawn into their conversation. I spoke in
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I have always loved trekking in Europe, mainly because it feels safer and far less infested with poisonous reptiles than the mountains in India. One range I kept returning to was the Tatra Mountains. The routine was simple: arrive in Zakopane, stay the night, begin early the next morning, hike up to the alpine lakes,
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Here in Bangalore, those of us who studied at St Joseph’s institutions still proudly call ourselves Josephites. St Joseph’s first opened in 1854 when it was founded by the Missions Étrangères de Paris, and later, in 1937, the administration was handed over to the Jesuits. For over a century, it was an all-boys institution devoted
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Last month I attended a course in archaeology as part of my studies. The course focused on the Levant, the fertile region often described as the promised land. As part of our assessment, the professor, who had completed his doctorate in Israel, asked each of us to write a paper and give a presentation on
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As Advent dawns, Luke chapter 1 invites us into the home of an elderly couple, Zechariah and Elizabeth. Zechariah was a priest from the division of Abijah, faithfully carrying out his duties before the Lord. This couple had no children, and Elizabeth was advanced in years, which meant she was well beyond the natural age
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Spacetime may be modelled mathematically as the four-dimensional real vector space ℝ3+1\mathbb{R}^{3+1} , which is canonically identified with ℝ4\mathbb{R}^{4}. While no distinction exists at the level of pure set theory, it is customary, both for physical interpretation and analytical convenience, to regard one dimension as temporal and the remaining three as spatial. Accordingly, Cartesian coordinates