Originally posted on mikerana:
Contamination, adulteration and pollution are three legs of the spider that spins cobwebs of our helplessness towards health and survival. Can we deal with them? Recently someone questioned me about the relative priority I give to cleanliness of air, water and food. I said, breathing seems critical since it supports our…
Contamination, adulteration and pollution are three legs of the spider that spins cobwebs of our helplessness towards health and survival. Can we deal with them? Recently someone questioned me about the relative priority I give to cleanliness of air, water and food. I said, breathing seems critical since it supports our very existence. Lack of…
It is an often repeated truism that militaries are conservative by nature. According to popular perception, conservatism has two connotations. One, it shows belief in the value of established and traditional practices, considering them to be sacrosanct and essential for the continued sustainment of the organisation. The second connotation, in popular perception, is identified with…
Originally posted on Gulnaz Fatma, PhD:
Dave Stopera: 1. This is the Earth! This is where you live. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image / Via visibleearth.nasa.gov 2. And this is where you live in your neighborhood, the solar system. Via foxnews.com 3. Here’s the distance, to scale, between the Earth and the moon. Doesn’t…
All around the world, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Hong Kong and many other countries and cities, the rulers or the opposition is ushering in reigns of terror. many people have died, tortured, rendered homeless and so on. Who is the intermediate gainer and who the ultimate ? Who will set these things to…
If we cease to exist as individuals or groups or countries, does it matter then, who was the great inventor of products or runner of the political regime? Probably it does, but for the historians alone. If we rise above the controversies, greed, ego and desires we will fail to distinguish between the people of…
When I wrote these books, I thought they will go out of circulation as the times change and the politics matures. I am glad that this did not happen for the last 4 years, but I am not happy that the politics did not mature. Much more reading…
“Tell me about yourself” can be an overwhelming question to answer. “So, tell me about yourself.” It’s one of the most ubiquitous interview questions, and often one of the most difficult. With such a wide breadth of possible answers, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. Hint: If your go-to response includes a…
The Election Tsunami Whatever might have been the criteria for choosing a candidate in the recently held elections, one cannot disregard the impact that the diversionary speeches of the leaders made on the electorate. The congress led government had amply softened the battlefield by their stagnated governance, policy paralysis and erosion of the law enforcement…
One certainly needs an answer for ‘why a potentially strong country like India continues to bear the tag of an emerging economy’. What stops it from acquiring the label of a developed country? If the country has abundance of natural resources, plethora of trained work force and blessings of a great weather, there should be…
The In-achievable Election Promise When AAP, the Aam Aadmi Party (Common Man’s Party) included the promise of 700 liters free water and cheap electricity in their election manifesto, little did they realize that this bugbear would start breathing down their neck very quickly? Who had thought that this budding party would end up dislodging the…
