India's Civilized Past - by Amit Tyagi

It is the only society in the world which has never known slavery.

India never invaded any country in her last 10,000 years of history.

India was the richest country on Earth until the time of the British in the early 17th Century

Robert Clive’s personal wealth amassed from the blunder of Bengal during 1750’s was estimated at around £401,102

It has been estimated that the total amount of treasure that the British looted from India had already reached £1,000,000,000 (£1Billion) by 1901.

Taking into consideration interest rates and inflation

this would be worth close to $1,000,000,000,000

($1Trillion) in real-terms today.

Travel Diary of Char Dham Yatra in mobike - Pankaj Sharma

Coming soon..........

Pankaj Sharma had recently went on a tour of Char Dham (Gangotri, Yaminotri, Kedarnath & Badrinath) in his mobike along with 6 friends. In this post I will try to capture this adventure tour with maximum detail possible wih some breath taking snaps. In Badrinath he even got stuck for 3 days due to a cloud burst which blowed off the bridge connecting Hanuman Chotti and Badrinath.

Stay tuned :)

Some interesting facts about Solar Eclipse - 22 Jul 2009

The longest total solar eclipse of this century taken place on 22-Jul-09, reaching a maximum 6min 39sec duration and following a track about 15,150km (9,410 miles) long, around half the globe, beginning in western India, crossing Bangladesh, central China and ending in theSouth Pacific.

Apart from being astonishing sights, solar eclipses also have led to discoveries about the sun, especially its outer atmosphere, the corona, which is normally hidden.

But one of the most remarkable studies was made on an eclipse 90 years ago to test Einstein’s theory of relativity. The British astronomer Arthur Eddington went to the island of Principe, off the west coast of Africa, to photograph the stars revealed near the sun during an eclipse. According to relativity, as the beams of starlight passed near the sun they would be slightly deflected by itsgravitational field. The day of the eclipse on May 28, 1919, began with a thunderstorm, and heavy clouds covered the sky. But by the time of the eclipse in the afternoon, the clouds began to part, although they still blotted out much of the sight. Only with seconds of the eclipse remaining did the sky clear enough for Eddington to take good photographs. They proved the theory of relativity correct and made Einstein world-famous.

Note: This information was collected from online news feed

Great news guys - Momentum family started blogging

Hurrrraaaaaaay........this is our first post in this blog. Afterall we got some space to express ourselve. This initiative was undertaken to share our knowledge, ideas, feelings or what so ever that seems interesting. All members of the Momentum family are welcome to post in this blog. Initially this blog would be available only for Momentum team members. However, everything has a rule :-). The post has to be sent to Anand Lahiri over email and would be uploaded after a review. We wish to see active participation from you guys. All the best......