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Carvings are of Lord Ganesh, Lord Hanuman and Shivling. by  Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi email: nitish.priyadarshi@gmail.com  This site is in (Navratangarh) Doisagarh and is located in Gumla district of Jharkhand and is not much far from the capital city of Ranchi . Carvings are of Lord Ganesh, Lord Hanuman and Shivling. These carvings are estimated to be more than 400 years old. Stone has been used for carving since ancient times for many reasons. Most types of stone are easier to find than metal ores, which have to be mined and smelted. Stone can be dug from the surface and carved with hand tools. Stone is more durable than wood, and carvings in stone last much longer than wooden artifacts. Stone comes in many varieties and artists have abundant choices in color, quality and relative hardness. Carving stone into sculpture is an activity older than civilization itself.

It is formed mainly by weathering and erosion. by Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Geologist. Above pictures are of Dome gneiss hill. This typical dome-gneiss (locally known as dongris) 26 km from Ranchi on Ranchi-Bundu highway (85 0 27 ” longitude and 23 0 14 ” latitude) has slopes on all sides (the average inclination being about 40 degree to 50 degree). There is little soil but oozing moisture from rock foliae supports tuft grass except the entirely bare rocky surfaces. A dome is a curved formation or structure. It is shaped like half of a sphere. Imagine cutting an orange in half, and placing it cut-side-down on a table. This is the shape of a dome, although most domes in nature are not perfectly rounded. Some natural domes develop when magma from deep within the Earth pushes up surface rock layers. This type of geologic dome can form as magma intrudes between two layers of sedimentary rock. The magma creates a dome or triangle shape as it pushes the other layers apart. The hardened magma ...

Sacredness of the totems is unique only with the indigenous people of Jharkhand . Totem also protects the equilibrium of the biodiversity. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Despite knowing about biodiversity’s importance for a long time, human activity has been causing massive extinctions. Some 10-30% of the mammal, bird and amphibian species are threatened with extinction, due to human actions. We have to save them. Tribes of Jharkhand state of India are doing this with the help of totemism. A totem is a being, object, or symbol representing an animal or plant that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe, reminding them of their ancestry (or mythic past). In kinship and descent, if the apical ancestor of a clan is nonhuman, it is called a totem. Normally this belief is accompanied by a totemic myth. They have been around for many years. The term totem is derived from the Ojibwa word ototeman, meaning "one's brother-sister kin."...

Fire is also coming out through hand-pumps. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi The haunting inscription that marks the gates of hell in Dante’s Inferno could well be true for coalfields located in Jharkhand in Eastern India . For, the underground fires that have been raging in the coalfields of these areas over several decades are now beginning to engulf its thickly inhabited areas as well. Earlier it was Jharia town now the new areas are under threat. Recently two major incidents took place near Bokaro and Dhanbad town where underground fire erupted on the surface. One was through hand-pump and other was in middle of a local river near Dhanbad. Jharkhand has been the home to some bizarre happenings in the recent days. The most freaky and interesting in recent days is the Katri River water which has been bubbling with fire, literally! Panic gripped in Katras area near Dhanbad when fire erupted in middle of the Katri river. It was first case of such eruption in river. Some local kids spotted fi...

It resembles either to meteorites or unidentified flying object. by Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Mysterious object was seen on 19th April, 2013 on the sky in remote South West corner of Ranchi city in Jharkhand State of India, just after the  thunder storm in the evening. It resembles either to meteorites or unidentified flying object. It was  slowly coming down and was visible for few seconds only. I got these pictures while I was taking photographs of wild storm above Ranchi city.

They will be widespread and unpredictable. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda last month. There is no treatment and no vaccine against Ebola, which is transmitted by close personal contact and, depending on the strain, kills up to 90 per cent of those who contract the virus. In recent years, Uganda has been hit with three Ebola outbreaks, the worst of which was in 2000, when more than half of the 425 people infected died. Cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) has gone up to 50 in the Assam State in Eastern India . The areas mostly affected by Japanese Encephalitis are Kamrup, Sivasagar, Dhubri, Morigaon, Darrang and Nalbari. More than 400 people in northern India have died last year from encephalitis, a rare condition that causes inflammation of the brain. Around 347 people have died in Uttar Pradesh, while 54 children have died in the neighbouring state of Bihar . Cases of malaria is increasing every...

The impact of global warming on agriculture is going to be worse. By Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi On the day you read this, the population of our planet will increase by 230,000 people. Hungry people. In 2012 about 140 million human beings will be born and some 55 million of us will die. That amounts to a net population gain of 85 million – more than 230,000 additional residents of the earth every day of the year. Many of these newcomers will suckle their meals from a mother’s breast for a year or so, but after that it will be up to Mother Earth to provide them food and drink. Our fragile, over extended planet and its hard working human population will have to feed those 230,000hungry people day after day for the next 66 years.   A growing global food shortage has caused prices to double in recent years, and a growing consensus of scientists now blames climate change as one factor in an equation that includes a burgeoning population and increasingly scarce water supplies. More people ar...

Mining has caused severe damage to the land resources of the area. BY DR. NITISH PRIYADARSHI 76, CIRCULAR ROAD , RANCHI-834001 JHARKHAND EMAIL: nitish.priyadarshi@gmail.com Introduction: Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or (coal) seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium , coal , diamonds , limestone , oil shale , rock salt and potash . Any material that cannot be grown through agricultural processes, or created artificially in a laboratory or factory , is usually mined. Mining in a wider sense comprises extraction of any non-renewable resource (e.g., petroleum , natural gas , or even water ). Mining of stone and metal has been done since pre-historic times. Modern mining processes involve prospecting for ore bodies, analysis of the profit potential of a proposed mine, extraction of the desired materials and finally reclamation of the land to ...