Suresh Randadath
Astronomical Significance of Makara Sankranti
#CandleInTheDark Happy Pongal, Makara Sankranti, Bihu, Lohri and Uttarayan! I asked around many people about why we are celebrating this...
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Suresh Randadath
- Dec 18, 2022
- 3 min
Khoj - Edition #1 on 11 Dec 2022
The bad weather did not dampen the spirits of my neighbours as they came together, both children and adults, to make the first edition of...
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Suresh Randadath
- Apr 15, 2022
- 2 min
Astronomical Significance of Indian Traditional New Year
#CandleInTheDark HAPPY VISHU! It's spring time and it's festive season as many states in India are celebrating the traditional New Year...
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Suresh Randadath
- Apr 5, 2022
- 4 min
While My City Gently Weeps
Reflections of an environment conservation evangelist and IT professional Picture credit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Land-use-dy...
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Suresh Randadath
- Jan 24, 2022
- 2 min
FEB 2021 STAR PARTY OBSERVATION LOG
Venue: GoGoCamping, Kavalur. 15.2972° N, 75.9347° E Date: The night of 13 Feb 2021 6:30PM: 1 day old crescent Moon: We started the...
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Suresh Randadath
- Jan 24, 2022
- 4 min
Questions from young children
It was Jan 2022. My community was in a lockdown due to the ongoing pandemic. With everyone locked up inside their home, I thought this is...
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Suresh Randadath
- May 3, 2020
- 2 min
Hubble Discovers the Universe!
Nearly a century ago, on the night of October 6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier...
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Suresh Randadath
- Oct 8, 2019
- 5 min
A game of dice - Part 2: "The dice go missing"
Please read Part 1 before reading this blog Hope life has been treating you all very well and you were not being subjected to the...
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Suresh Randadath
- Oct 8, 2019
- 5 min
A game of dice - Part 1
You get up in the morning and see that sun is rising in the east and by the time it sets, the stars will take center stage. In between...
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Suresh Randadath
- Oct 8, 2019
- 5 min
Who Killed Bangalore Trees?
So much has been written about BBMP’s callousness in cutting down trees in the name of road widening that nobody seems to talk about the...
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Suresh Randadath
- Oct 8, 2019
- 3 min
Cleaner Teeth and Unclean Environment
In June 2019, I wrote to Colgate with the following suggestion: Billions of plastic toothbrushes are thrown away across the planet when...
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Suresh Randadath
- Mar 11, 2019
- 1 min
Questions of my grandchildren
I am scared. I am scared because I do not have answers to the questions my grandchildren, potentially living in a hostile planet caught...
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Suresh Randadath
- Feb 27, 2019
- 5 min
The Torchbearers of Humanity
Voyager spacecrafts tread into the uncharted waters of interstellar space as torchbearers of mankind destined to travel forever Picture...
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