The highest type of leader is one whose existence the people are barely aware of. Next comes one whom they love and praise. Next comes one whom they fear. Next comes one whom they despise and defy. The good leader speaks little and keeps himself in the background.  When his task is accomplished and things have been completed, all the people say, ‘We have achieved it ourselves.                                     ~ Lao Tzu (6th Century B.C.E. Chinese philosopher and teacher.)       ...

Likely post-conflict map of Ukraine ~ Guru Wonder In February 2022, Russia launched its Special Military Operation in Ukraine to force Ukraine and the West to honour the 2014 and 2015 Minsk Accords . The Russians advanced rapidly into various parts of Ukraine, including the outskirts of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. Immediately, hectic parleys began between Russia and Ukraine to reach an understanding and find a way forward without war. In early April 2022, when they met in Istanbul, a...

You can count on Pi Newton was exceptionally brilliant, especially when it came to the algorithms of calculus. But ...... Researchers at the University of Manchester report that the 'Kerala School' identified the 'infinite series'- one of the basic components of calculus - in about 1350. Historians wrongly attribute this and other mathematical breakthroughs to Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz at the end of the seventeenth century. Other names from the Kerala School, notably Madhava and...