22nd April 2016
Before the beginning of the Dandi March on 12 March 1930, Kasturba Gandhi, the wife of Gandhiji and Ba to millions of her children, applied the benedictory tilak on Gandhiji’s forehead, garlanded him with khadi and handed him the stick. Tilak, khadi and the stick were respectively the symbols of devotion, simplicity and strength.
16th February 2016
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was a German physicist who discovered quantum physics. He was the founder of quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. Planck’s life was dotted with tragic occurrences. His first wife died early. His younger son died in World War I. He had twin daughters, one of which died during childbirth. The other twin married the husband of the first twin sister. They married and after two years she also died during childbirth. In 1944, when Planck was eighty-five, during World War II, a bomb fell on his house destroying all his documents and a lifetime of accumulations. The next year, his only surviving son was executed after being caught in a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.
