BlogSajikumar Nair

The global warming is now a global inferno

It is not warm but an inferno. Global warming has entered the next stage of global infernos. This summer, Europe saw a summer inferno. Before that, the United States of America saw a heat wave killing more than 1300 people. We can never stop the sea waves; so can the heat waves. What is ensuing for humanity is a real conflagration.  Human life on earth without oxygen is impossible. In the modern world, human life is impossible without burning either biomass or fossil fuel. As much as the pollution burning fossil fuels releases, biomass also releases pollution. With the onset of industrialization in the second half of the 18th century, the size of fossil fuel burning rose 4000 times. Biomass burning did not decrease drastically, maintaining its contribution to pollution unchanged. ...

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The peril of science and wisdom of Shastra

Nature is the mother of all knowledge, the source of all wisdom and the bed of watertight logic. It is the space for Shastra. Science may fail and kill the apostle of science but Shastra will not harm the one who has harmony with it because Shastra itself is nature. A short drive through the falsely ‘comparative’ terms.  Sometimes language does not give you the meaning of the exact word-equivalent of what you have in your mind. Modern language has a limited bandwidth to deal with the logical minds of humans. For that reason, a translation from oriental to western does not save the inner core of your thinking.  Some words carry the peripheral and superficial meaning of exact notions, especially if the language is modern. ‘Science’ is one of the words to have a parochial meaning,...

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On the tribulations the policies bring

Every trouble one faces could find its root in the policies and customs that he has to follow. No one is free from the obstacles of one or the other at any moment of his life. Did anyone ever think what the human world would look like if no policies exist? We often boast about developing a system under a constitution that makes us accountable for our behaviour and misbehaviour. That leads to the consolidation of a political ecosystem rather than an ecosystem for natural living. We also say it is because we live under a reciprocal system and we are different from other living beings on the animal planet. Yes, the history of reciprocity of primates dates back millions of years, ever since humans spotted the spark of fire. History took humans through many tides and storms. The nature of r...

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Incompetence versus immorality of competent doctors

Medical mess is the next major social threat  Now we are in a situation of an unsuspecting python coiling around a primate’s body before it swallows. Medical education is the most expensive education in India now. Incidentally, the profession requires exceptional competence, humaneness, a high moral standard and a sense of commitment to society. All these benchmarks become frivolous when it becomes a buyable proposition through the corridor of private education. More doctors may only mean more burden to the unfortunate people and a heavier burden to society. Competence and morality must go together, and unfortunately, that is absent.  A certificate of medical degree makes a person a medical practitioner, no matter how competent the person could be. More than merit or money in hand i...

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