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Sen, Deb Kumar
- Oh! It is Cloud Burst!
Authors
1 Indian Science Cruiser, IN
Source
Indian Science Cruiser, Vol 24, No 4 (2010), Pagination: 12-14Abstract
It was a black Friday on the 6th of August 2010 (actually the 5th night) for the inhabitants of the town Leh located in the Ladakh region of Janimu and Kashmir. The next day on the 7 th of August 2010 the entire country were dumbstruck to hear the news of a natural disaster of enormous magnitude caused by cloudbursts in the town of Leh the day before. The extent of damage could be guessed from the loss of 179 lives and about 400 people getting injured with various degrees. The entire town with all its buildings, roads and fields got totally submerged under a thick cover of layers of dense liquid mud caused by landslide and flash flood. The sudden and huge dimension of mudflow is a matter of spine chilling experience which only reminds one the horror of tsunami in recent time affecting the entire south eastern coastal region of our earth. So it is quite natural to try to understand the phenomenon which can bring a destruction of this scale within a span of not more than a few minutes.
- Adwaitabad and Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
Authors
1 GSI, 31C, N K Ghoshal Road, Kasba, Kolkata - 700 042, IN
Source
Indian Science Cruiser, Vol 28, No 3 (2014), Pagination: 51-53Abstract
This is how Devi Durga responded to the complaints of superpowerful asura ‘Shumbha’. It means, “I am the only that exists in this universe, who else could be there? Oh! notorious! behold! How all these appliances and ancillaries enter me and disappear”. As an extended elucidation, Dr. Gobinda Gopal Mukhopadhyay writes, Devi Durga showed how all other Goddesses, energy like Brahman got destroyed and disappeared intermingled, within Her holy body. She did so in order to visibly demonstrate Her uniqueness, Her nonsecondness. Through this symbolic description in the Puranas, it was declared that all other energies are only the transforms of one source of energy; only its specific expressions. All are supported by that very central force: specially evolved or formed out of It. Formulation and destruction take place all at the womb of that very supreme power; at the behest of that very primary soul.