Love for science

The initiative taken by The Birla Industrial and Technological Museum in popularising pure science among young students is certainly commendable (Alladin’s magic cave, May 8). What remains to be seen, however, is whether students are able to convert this interest in science to a love and passion in the future and take up these subjects not merely for getting a job. The more our educational institutes inculcate this sense now, the earlier will the mass exodus of students to professional courses come to an end and India may again have a Nobel Prize laureate in the sciences after several decades.

Sanchari Ghosh
Golf Green

Ayurvedic concept

I was delighted to see KnowHow allocating enough space to ayurveda (Ayurvedic answer, May 15). The piece was an enlightening one as it discussed the benefits of Triphala in combating the carcinogenic effects of radiation. I presume that the readers will be delighted if your supplementary carries a follow-up to this story, enlisting the benefits of other medicinal plants, which can be grown in the backyard itself. Such herbal products happen to be cheap and have few side effects.

Veenu Jha
via e-mail

No more popups

We have two more options to get rid of popups while using the Internet, which were overlooked in the column Bits&Bytes (Unwanted popup, May 8). First way is to download a free popup blocker program from http://www.popuptest.com/ where you can get a detailed information about popups. Here you can also test the existing popup blocker software. The second option is to download Mozilla Firefox from http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/. It has loads of options to give the users the best out of it while web surfing. It blocks all popups.

Abhishek Jha
Calcutta