It is not one's ability, but one's willingness, that is important!!

Watching a baby sea turtle struggle out of the nest and make it's way to the water is an emotional experience. Everything from footprints to driftwood and crabs are obstacles.

In this photograph, the photographer captured not just a single heart-touching moment, but also the trails of trillion such moments that show the efforts made by a baby turtle in order to reach to the shore.

How many real heroes?

The kind of remuneration Indian actors draw from their film projects is mind boggling. Here is a list of some of the highest paid actors in India (Price in millions of Indian Rupees approximately):

Name : Aamir Khan
Price : 400

Name : Shah Rukh Khan
Price : 250

Name : Salman Khan
Price : 300

Name : Hrithik
Price : 200

Name : Amitabh Bachchan
Price : 200

Name : Rajinikanth
Price : 350

Name : Pawan Kalyan
Price : 200

Name : Mahesh Babu
Price : 150

Name : Kamal Hassan
Price : 200

Name : Suriya
Price : 250

Now the point is, how many actors in India are really willing to spend a part of their income for charity??? Of course there are some actors who are generous, but how many?

Someone said it well, "I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure."

True nobility does not lie in being highest paid, but in being a little generous. That is what differentiates 'Heroes' from actors.

Indian Prodigy: A "Human Computer"

Indian mathematics genius and astrologer Shakuntala Devi, who passed away after brief illness on April 21, 2013 at the age of 83, was dubbed "human computer" for her swift numerical calculation abilities.

A household name in India, Devi cast a spell adding a 16-digit number with another one and multiplying the result with an equal array of numbers almost instantaneously, finding the cube root of the resultant and pops up with an answer in just about the time taken for a wink.

Devi, who had no formal education and who simply picked up reading and writing, had the ingenous ability to tell the day of the week of any given date in the last century in a jiffy.

In 1977 in Dallas she competed with a computer to see who could give the cube root of 188132517 faster. She won.

Rated as one in 58 million for her stupendous mathematical feats by one of the fastest super-computers ever invented-the Univac-1108, Devi believed in using grey cells to silicon chips. At an American university she was asked to give the 23rd root of 

916748676920039158098660927585380162483106680144308622407126516427934657040867096593279205767480806790022783016354924852380335745316935111903596577547340075681688305620821016129132845564805780158806771
She answered in 50 seconds. Her answer of 546372891 took a UNIVAC 1108 computer a full minute (10 seconds more) to confirm that she was right after it was fed with 13000 instructions.

In 1977, Shakuntala Devi discovered the 23rd root of a 201-digit number mentally. 

On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers 7,686,369,774,870 x 2,465,099,745,779 picked at random by the Computer Department of Imperial College, London. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds. This event is mentioned in the 1995 Guinness Book of Records.

She wrote a number of books on mathematics and astrology including "Fun with Numbers", "Astrology for You", "Puzzles to Puzzle You" and "Mathablit".

She had also set up an educational foundation public trust to promote studies in maths, astrology, philosophy and astronomy.

Shakuntala Devi was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Mumbai last month.

The Birds of Paradise

     The birds-of-paradise are members of the family Paradisaeidae of the order Passeriformes. The majority of species in this family are found on the island of New Guinea and its satellites, with a few species occurring in the Moluccas and eastern Australia.

     The family has 39 species in 14 genera. The members of this family are perhaps best known for the plumage of the males of the sexually dimorphic species (the majority), in particular the highly elongated and elaborate feathers extending from the beak, wings, tail or head. For the most part they are confined to dense rainforest habitat. The diet of all species is dominated by fruit and to a lesser extent arthropods.

     The family is of cultural importance to the inhabitants of New Guinea. The trade in skins and feathers of the birds-of-paradise has been going on for two thousand years. The birds have also been of considerable interest to Western collectors, ornithologists and writers.

    A number of species are threatened by hunting and habitat loss.

Submarine launched Brahmos Missile

BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land. It is a joint venture between Republic of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroeyenia who have together formed BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited. The name BrahMos is a portmanteau formed from the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia. It is the world's fastest cruise missile in operation.

India successfully test-fired its submarine-launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile for the first time on 20th March, 2013 in the Bay of Bengal off the coast of the southern port city of Visakhapatnam, a top official said.

"The submarine-launched version of BrahMos was successfully test-fired from an underwater pontoon near Visakhapatnam in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. This is the first testfiring of an underwater supersonic cruise missile anywhere in the world and the missile traveled its complete range of over 290 km," Head of BrahMos A. Sivathanu Pillai told the media.

With the test-firing, India became the world's first country to have this capability. The country has already successfully test-fired the ship and ground-launched versions of the missile for the Indian Navy and the Indian Army respectively. "BrahMos missile is fully ready for fitment in submarines in vertical launch configuration which will make the platform one of the most powerful weapon platforms in the world," Pillai added.

A hypersonic version of the missile is currently under development with speed of Mach 7 to boost aerial fast strike capability. It is expected to be ready for testing by 2017, according to sources.

From Camouflage to Quantum Stealth

Quantum Stealth is a material that renders the target completely invisible by bending light waves around the target. The material removes not only your visual, infrared (night vision) and thermal signatures but also the target’s shadow.

Two separate command groups within the U.S. Military and two separate Canadian Military groups as well as Federal Emergency Response Team have seen the actual material so they could verify that  it was not just a manipulated video or photo; These groups now know that it works and does so without cameras, batteries, lights or mirrors. It is lightweight and quite inexpensive. Both the U.S. and Canadian military have confirmed that it also works against military IR scopes and Thermal Optics.

 The picture on the right side is mock-up of the "Quantum Stealth" material with a girl behind it. No cameras and no projectors are used. These photos are to show the Media the concept. With the real material - you would only see about 5% of the shadow on her and the ground as they have determined a 95% reduction of shadow in testing.

This stealth technology can do wonders when implemented in the war planes. The picture on the left is an imagination of how a war plane goes invisible by using quantum stealth. The pilot can enter into the enemy territory without being seen by the radars, detectors and even by naked eye. The enemy will realize the presence of the alien war plane only after all of a sudden a bomb is dropped or a missile is fired from nowhere.

Michio Kaku's 'The Universe in a NutShell'