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The Science of Fasting

🔬 The Science of Fasting Where Ancient Siddha Wisdom Meets Modern Nobel Prize Research 🌿 Introduction What if the secrets of cutting-edge science were already known thousands of years ago? Imagine a Tamil Siddha meditating in a mountain cave and a modern scientist observing cells through a microscope—both arriving at the same truth. In 2016, Yoshinori Ohsumi won the Nobel Prize for discovering Autophagy , a cellular self-cleaning process. Yet, this concept mirrors the ancient Siddha practice of fasting, known as Lankanam . This blog explores how fasting is not starvation—but a powerful internal healing mechanism , almost like performing “surgery” without a scalpel. 🔥 1. Two Perspectives: Jatharagni vs. Autophagy 🪔 The Siddha View: Burning “Amam” In Siddha philosophy, health revolves around Jatharagni —the digestive fire. Constant eating = dumping wet wood into fire Weak digestion = formation of Amam (toxins) These toxins accumulate in joints and organs → disease 👉 When you fast, ...

How To Repair Corrupted Pen Drives or SD Cards

Dealing with a corrupted SD card or pen drive is a tedious task. We spend hours to get back our storage into working condition but get nothing. This article comprises of various methods which will help you repair your corrupted pen drive or SD card.


For SD card, you will have to insert it into the slot provided in your computer or by using a card reader. Use adapter if you have a microSD card. It will not work if you connect some device having the SD card like a smartphone or a camera. Check out these different methods.

Different methods to repair corrupted pen drive or SD card:

Change the drive letter

Sometimes your computer is unable to assign drive letters (like C, D, E) to your storage media. Due to this reason the files on it can’t be accessed. To resolve this issue, you can assign the drive letter to your device.


Here are the simple steps to fix the corrupted pen drive or memory card by assigning a correct drive letter:
1.      Connect your storage media to your computer.
2.      Right Click on My Computer/ This PC. Click Manage in the drop down menu.
3.      Click Disk Management in the left side and wait for a few seconds so that Windows can load the Virtual disk service.
4.      Right Click on your storage media and click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
5.      Click the drive letter (it will turn blue) and click Change.
6.      Select the drive letter from the drop-down list. Click Ok.
Try to use it on another PC
Maybe the issue is specifically on your PC. Try connecting your SD card or pen drive to another computer. Hopefully, it may work and you’ll be able to backup your data from it.
Reinstall the drivers
There are times when the drivers that runs your pen drive get corrupted and our PC will not be able to detect your storage media. You can reinstall drivers by these simple steps:



1.      Right click My Computer/ This PC. Click Manage.
2.      Click Device Manager on the left side.
3.      Double-Click Disk Drives in the list. Right Click on the name of your pen drive.
4.      Click Uninstall. Click Ok.
5.      Disconnect your storage media and restart your PC.
6.      Connect your pen drive again. Your PC will detect it.
Repair corrupted SD card or Pen Drive using Windows Explorer
This is the most commonly used procedure to repair a connected storage media to your computer.
1.      Open My Computer or This PC.
2.      Select the corrupted drive and Right Click.
3.      Click Format in the drop down menu.
4.      Click Restore Device Defaults in the popup window.
5.      Click Start to begin the format process. You can uncheck the Quick format option if you want the computer to deep scan the drive/card for errors but this will take time. So, uncheck it only if you fail in the first attempt.
6.      Click Ok in the next dialog box which will warn you that the data will be lost. The format process will complete in a few moments and you will have your error free SD card or pen drive.
Repair corrupted Pen Drive or SD card using CMD
This process involves Windows command prompt which is commonly known as CMD. In this, you have to enter some CMD commands and Windows will forcefully format your corrupted pen drive/SD card.
1.      Connect the corrupted pen drive or SD card to your computer.
2.      Hover your mouse on the Start button and Right Click.
3.      Click Command Prompt (Admin). A CMD window will open.
4.      Type diskpart and press Enter.
5.      Type list disk and press Enter. A list of all the storage devices connected to your computer will be displayed.
6.      Type select disk <the number of your disk> and press Enter. (Example: select disk 1). Important: Make sure you enter the number correctly. Otherwise, you may format your internal hard drive. You can type list disk again to check whether you are going correctly. There will be a star (asterisk symbol) before the name of the selected disk.
7.      Type clean and press Enter.
8.      Type create partition primary and hit Enter.
9.      Type active.
10.  Type select partition 1.

11.  Type format fs=fat32 and press Enter. The format process will finish in a few minutes. You can write ntfs instead of fat32 if you want to carry files larger than 4 gigabytes. Don’t close the CMD

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