We live on land not owned by us but grabbed. The enactment of handy laws enabled humans to take over the ownership of lands and trade on them. We killed animals and destroyed microorganisms. We made the same land unlivable, offended the ecology and contributed to ecocide. Yet we preach rules, morals and ethics. In 2019, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) declared Bramble Cay Melomys, which belongs to a rare rat family, to become extinct. This is said to be the first officially recorded mammal extinction caused by human-induced climate change. Several such species and organisms might have disappeared from the earth, obviously for one reason that is human intervention. All those were officially unrecorded. There were several cases which scientists couldn’t fatho...
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Loss is endemic in the obtuse “IPO” market The initial grey market price of over Rs 1000 for Life Insurance Corporation of India’s (LIC) stock went miserably wrong. The grey market realised the patches late. Bulls retreated from the grey market even after seeing the commitment of angel investors. The debut of the largest life insurer’s equity might not have shocked the analysts who knew the behaviour of the secondary market. Anyway, the tepid listing that shocked the maiden equity buyers was not a big failure but a failure at the cost of optimists’ miscalculation. Angel investors' position tried to bolster sentiment towards the offer. The sheer size of the IPO and the RBI announcement of an interest rate hike by 40 basis points on the day LIC IPO opened for public subscription posed...
Read MoreThe human beings savagely torture the elephant, the largest animal, until it goes berserk. In the process of domestication, the wild animal puts up with brutality worse than the Jewish people suffered in Nazi concentration camps. The clever human domination over the most powerful animal on earth has been possible only because it is a herbivore. An elephant weighs the equivalent of well over 100 humans. It can lift as many as nine tones and pick up single grain from the surface showing its sensitivity to handling big and small objects. It is the largest land animal, more sensitive than humans and, of course, a wild animal. But elephant toes to the atrocious human direction. So firmly footed on earth, its feet never leave the ground for even a fraction of a second at a time. ...
Read MoreThe animal instincts exposed! Our experts expect another wave of the pandemic in India, but there is little possibility! Masks may become compulsory on and off. States may make it mandatory; some will not. Somewhere, anyhow, it will remain. Over a period we will learn to live with the enemy without fear. By that time we will acquire a natural immunity also. After Covid-19 broke out, the mask became compulsory. Subsequently, it became a common personal code – a dress code matching the colour of outfits. At times, the government ordered wearing double masks and N95 grade masks. So obsessed were we with the masks, there were advises of wearing masks even at home. We followed WHO dictates. The mask, nevertheless, could not stop Covid-19. The more we became cautious, the more feroc...
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