Team Pentacle

- Shishir Kumar Ahambrahmasmi  – and yet God is a Puzzle! Though religion has been the boundaries of the lifestyle we follow, the epicenter remains God, which means a defined law around the undefined. My quest today is who, when, what, where, why and how is God. The Hindu ancient text, considered as the oldest, the nearest to which can be the Old Testament, explains ‘Gods’. A corner of it says that it is within us – the infinity and then the other corner gives it names, forms and says it should be treated as a king or a super human – an expensive house, dresses and great food. The journey from one infinite God to 33 Crore god and goddesses has been time taking and interesting. Hanging between the two theories we with time seems to have sidelined the oldest theory and are happy with the second one as the later seems more relevant in the physical world and can be perceived by our five senses. But to understand better let’s move as the belief moved from formless to...

- Shishir Kumar Not even in vicinity of reality! No, not aghora but our understanding of it. What thoughts come in your mind when you hear the word Aghora? Cannibals? Sex with Corpse? Fierce? None of the above is correct and this I can say after a deep plunge into the world of Aghoris. I say this as I did not make an attempt to research like a journalist for a piece of writing or a documentary but I understood it being one of them.  Aghor is a Sadhna that is done by those who dwell in the funeral ground and those who lead a normal life.  It originated from Lord Dattaterya who gave it to his disciple Lord Shiva and later in time was practised by one the the Navnaths his holiness Kanifnath.  Aghor has three divisions. Those in west India follow Dattaterya and Girinar Mountain Range is there abode. They have a firm faith in Mahakaal.  Then comes those who dwell in East India, an area influenced by Kamakhya and Kali. Those in Central I...

Why are the alien lives and alien worlds so unfathomable and incomprehensible? -Rohan Desai Cosmologists have made congruent efforts to determine what lies beyond earth. Are there rills and rivulets in the other universes? Are there innocuous bacteria or viruses? What exactly is it which grabs a high number of raised eyebrows? You are right to surmise that it’s the possibility of alien existence. Like aliens even the alien universes are difficult to comprehend. What exactly is it which imparts inscrutability to such quaint realm? It’s just not the limited intelligibility but also the inadequacies of the present equipments. Nevertheless, tons of cosmologists brought their efforts to the fore. They rendered best possible attempts to glean factual data about the alien worlds, alien entities and their other convolutions. One of the most discussable topics currently is the white dwarf. As each cosmological aspirant knows white dwarf is a defunct star which gradually cools down t...

Planet Earth is one of the many plants of this universal system which is inhibited by intelligent species called as HUMANs. To explore the earth system we get visitors from across the universe and the milky way whom we call ALIENS. ALIEN is a word tagged to something which did not originate on this earth, sometimes also referred as extraterrestrial life being. The hypothetical form varies from a small bacterial like organism to some super complex human being. The testing and research on this hypothesis is clubbed under the branch of exobiology OR astrobiology(study of the earth viewed in its astronomical context).   Scientists consider the extra terrestrial life to be plausible and hence there is an ongoing research happening since the early 20th century with use of radio frequencies and telescopes and higher gadgets.    In 2013 astronomers reported based on kepler space mission data that there could be around 40 billion earth size planets orbiti...