A colorless, blue, yellow, brown, or pink mineral consisting largely of aluminum silicate and valued as a gem. Topaz is often found in pegmatites and is the mineral used to represent a hardness of 8 on the Mohs scale. 2. Any of various yellow gemstones, especially a yellow variety of sapphire or corundum.
Quora User, lives in Hyderabad, India. According to Indians, generally, your native place is where your paternal side has come from. So your native place would be Hyderabad. But now, if you've lived in hyd for long, you can say I'm from hyd, but i was born in vellore and my dads from hyd and my moms from vellore.. That's how most people say it now.
TMF: In your book Staying Put you write âOneâs native ground is the place where, since before you had words for such knowledge, you have known the smells, the seasons, the birds and beasts, the human voices, the houses, the ways of working, the lay of the land and the quality of light.RS: Facts are data; truth is the sense we make of the data. And the sense we make should always be open to revision, to new evidence, to further discovery. The writer of nonfiction has an obligation, I believe, to be faithful to the facts, so far as they can be known or reconstructed.