“For barbarism is always around civilization, amid it and beneath it, ready to engulf it by arms, or mass migration, or unchecked fertility. Barbarism is like the jungle; it never admits defeat; it waits patiently for centuries to recover the territory it has lost.”– Will Durant The Indian civilization may be said to be the only one of its ancient […]
A crucial aspect by which humans differ from all the other species on this Earth is our ability to communicate with each other through the use of language. A case can be made that many species of birds do possess something akin to a language with observed differences in their vocalisations within population groups of the same species, yet most […]
I have been an avid science fiction aficionado since around my early to mid-teens. What inspired me to start reading science fiction was the one and only fact that, somehow, I came upon the name of Isaac Asimov. As Asimov had himself said in one of his interviews that people would come up to him and ask whether Asimov was […]
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