Life Science(Biology)

    Devi Movement and David Hardimans’ perspective.                    The Devi Movement,is a indigenous adivasi movement,started from Palghar Taluk of Western Maharashtra (presently South Gujarat)in late 1921 where the Adivasis were facing extreme poverty and indebtedness as a result of their involvement with ‘civilization’. The colonial rule and princely state imposed a fixed land cultivation tax and land tax upon them. They borrowed money from the Sahukars to pay the land tax and for other necessities.Non payment of tax led to the appropriation of adivasi’s’ land ,often without his knowledge.In between 1895 -1913 ,42% adivasi land has passed to moneylenders through sale or mortgage in Baroda Taluk, Mahuva. In addition Parsi acts as tax collectors of the state under the Abkari Act. Adivasis’ drank ‘toddy’ and also offered it to the Gods in different rituals. It was a food to the poor for several months of the ye...

The Real Sherlock Holmes      In world literature, there are few characters that have endured the test of time and stayed in public memory as Sherlock Holmes. A private detective – or consulting detective, as he prefers to call himself – who uses his intellect and scientific knowledge to solve complex mysteries in Victorian era England, has stayed relevant even more a century after his first appearance in the novel – ‘A Study in Scarlet’.      The character was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a physician who had served in the Second Boer War. He based the narrator of the stories Dr John Watson on himself, just that the fictional doctor served in the Indo-Afghan war instead. Doyle wrote the ‘A Study in Scarlet’ in his clinic in-between attending to the few clients that he had.     Though Doyle can be credited for popularising the genius detective trope, he wasn’t the one who created it. Doyle was greatly inspired by Edgar Allan ...

Loyalty and courage By Snehasish Sinha  I sat down on the culvert. On the opposite side of the street was a large iron gate under a shiny board that said - 'Chatterjee Mills'. To the left of the gate was a small booth, a security guard was sitting in it watching something on his mobile phone.  There was a time when I used to be there in his place, wearing the same uniform, doing the same duty. 'Loyalty and courage' was the motto of our agency, written into the emblem sewn on the chest.  Looking at the board I remembered my last day on the job. Late at evening I was sitting on my chair. Suddenly I felt some warmth on my back. I turned around to see the mill on fire. I immediately ran.  Tye fire was strong making a roar like sound as it burned down the building. Just then I remembered that the owner of the mill, my boss was still inside. Thankfully the fire was not that strong on the side where his office was. I ran behind the building from where a set of ...