How big is your Chess Board? or the story behind the famous Ambalapuzha Palpayasam

Let's say you were to place one grain of rice on the first square of a chess board, 2 on the second and so on. You would need 485,440 million tonnes of rice to fill all 64 squares on the board. That is 694 years of all the world's rice production! Much research has been …

The Mahabharata – A war in which 6 generations participated

The Indian epic - The Mahabharata is one of the most complex stories ever told. One of the details that we tend to miss is the time span it covers. The Mahabharata war itself had participation from six generations of soldiers. Yes, six generations participated together in or witnessed one war! Who are they you …