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Wanted - A festival that celebrates nature
Nature is the visible representation of an invisible God. Yet, we do not have a festival that celebrates it. Every celebration these days...
Suresh Randadath
Nov 5, 20241 min read
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Astronomy and Sustainability - Questions from young children
These are questions received from children of Grade 6 during a session on Astronomy and Sustainability that was delivered to a school in...
Suresh Randadath
Oct 23, 20246 min read
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APRIL 2023 STAR PARTY OBSERVATION LOG
Venue: Jungle Mount Adventure resort (12.213611° N, 75.608333° E) Date: The nights of 22 and 23 April 2023 This is an observation log of...
Suresh Randadath
May 6, 20233 min read
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Khoj - Edition #3 on 19 February 2023
Venue: Casagrand Luxus Amphitheater Here is a summary of the third edition of Khoj that took place on 19 February 2023. Previous editions...
Suresh Randadath
Feb 26, 20233 min read
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Khoj - Edition #2 on 8 January 2023
Venue: The beautiful amphitheater of Casagrand Luxus My son,Thushar, fielding questions on cell biology. Here is a summary of the second...
Suresh Randadath
Feb 7, 20232 min read
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Astronomical Significance of Makara Sankranti
#CandleInTheDark Happy Pongal, Makara Sankranti, Bihu, Lohri and Uttarayan! An occasion to worship our life giving star, The Sun. I asked...
Suresh Randadath
Jan 15, 20233 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Dec 18, 20223 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Apr 15, 20222 min read
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While My City Gently Weeps
Reflections of an environment conservation evangelist and IT professional Picture credit: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Land-use-dy...
Suresh Randadath
Apr 5, 20224 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Jan 24, 20222 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Jan 24, 20224 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
May 3, 20202 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Oct 8, 20195 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Oct 8, 20195 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Oct 8, 20195 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Oct 8, 20193 min read
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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...
Suresh Randadath
Mar 11, 20191 min read
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The Torchbearers of Humanity
Voyager spacecrafts tread into the uncharted waters of interstellar space as torchbearers of mankind destined to travel forever Picture...
Suresh Randadath
Feb 27, 20195 min read
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