Dr. SS Bhatti

(A bilingual Monthly Online Magazine launched in January 2022) This is a Non-Political and Not-for-Profit Panjabi-English Online Magazine. The purpose of this venture is to foster goodwill and a feeling of oneness among Panjabi and other people in the Indian sub-continent and among the diaspora, highlighting their common culture and heritage. It is free and…

(February 21) In November 1999, UNESCO declared the 21st of February, as International Mother Language Day. This great occasion reminds us of those who dedicated their lives to glorifying their mother language. They raised massive protests against imposing any state language on them. It was first observed on February 21st, 2000.  Why is International Mother…

Punjabi is spoken by more than 150 million people in India, Pakistan, and many other countries. It is the 10th largest among about 7000 languages of the world. Punjabi is a graceful and fluid, ornate, and downright exotic language. The neglect of any language can lead to the erosion of the culture and identity of…

Industrial Catalysts are tools for building new molecules selectively. Many industries depend on molecules that can form elastic and durable materials, store energy in solar batteries or inhibit the progression of diseases. Plastic, pharmaceutical, perfume, and food industries heavily depend upon the use of safe and efficient catalysts. Products synthesized by catalysis are responsible for…

The first version of the Scripture of the Sikhs was compiled by the Fifth Guru and was installed in Darbar Sahib, Amritsar, in 1604. It had spiritual verses (Gurbani) of the first five Sikh Gurus (Guru Nanak, Guru Angad, Guru Amardas, Guru Ramdas and Guru Arjan) and some other Saints. This Scripture was called Pothi…

Three scientists shared this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for the physical and mathematical models developed by them for explaining the underlying Order in the Disordered Systems present in nature, and predicting accurately the Climate Change due to Global Warming. Syukuro Manabe (90), born in Japan) and Klaus Hasselmann (89), of Germany) were awarded the…

North-Western University (USA) developing Universal vaccines New drugs are being developed to fight the current (SARS-CoV-2) and possible future corona-viruses or their variants. In focus is the key non-structural protein (nsp16) present in all coronaviruses, and an identifier that helps the virus hide from the immune system. A part of the protein binds the fragment held in…

Plastics, plastics everywhere, you name it, they are  there Plastics are a part of nearly every product in our daily use today. Production increased from about 2.5 million tons in 1950 to 450 million tons by 2015.  In 2017, nearly 7 % of the nine billion tons of plastic produced became waste.  Production is expected to…