It seemed we were trying to mend what historians missed over thousands of years. The out-phase of the Neanderthals by assimilation into homo sapiens draws a parallel line with our attempt to integrate the tribal classes with mainstream society. By the term “tribal”, we used to mean Adivasis. That means aboriginals. In a sense, the term can be rationally interpreted as “predecessor” or the first occupant. The derivation of the mainstream class could be traced to them. Doesn’t that mean the non-tribal segment is only their successors? Is it to the first occupants that we, the successors calling ourselves the mainstream, teach lessons of a good life for integrating with the mainstream? Somewhere there is something wrong! The term tribe is derived from Latin “tribus” which meant “a grou...

Our excitement over amazing things is waning because we get them free and effortlessly to over-use or abuse them. The gap between childhood memories and accessibility to those wonders speaks about how we have closed the distance between a safe zone and a risky zone. It also speaks of how mercilessly we abandon the possession that we were once proud of. As the world is shrinking, we have compressed our luxuries on a device that we carry in our pocket. Nonetheless, that is a trap on which we have pawned our privacy and secrecy.   Sometimes we feel regret over some of our past experiences. Just like homesickness. The memory of childhood with a fascination for something new brings inexplicable joy. The fabulous Kotak camera still flashes the memory of the 80-90s. The brilliant tape recorde...

What is known as smart in our hands is making us daft. A licensed surgery upon our privacy, like prescriptions of wrong medicines that kill us, would finish all the bets. I still vividly remember my first time with WhatsApp, which is today’s most popular social media. My button phone was changed into a smartphone that was compatible with the App. One day, one of my friends said he sent me a message, which I didn’t see. As usual, I was searching for it in the message inbox. The message was on WhatsApp, which I couldn’t make out. Today such an experience is laughable. Isn’t it? Like me, most of the people of my generation too might have a similar story to share. We came far from the formative days and made it an inseparable part of our life! That is a strange lady we cannot keep away....

It is high time to open a debate on how well modern medicine saved human lives andhow well its business grew to leave behind an increasing number of patients. Druggiants thrived on the sickness of people. There is no count of deaths caused by a drugreaction, drug overdose and drug resistance. This fact has never come to light also.Let’s pray for a commission of inquiry into the medical genocide. Historians believe human life has been in existence on earth since millions of years ago. Jeanne Clement, born in 1875 and died in 1997, proved a human being can live up to 122 years. Many living examples have proved human beings can live for more than 100 years. No one exactly knows, other than playing a guessing game, how long human beings lived in the pre and post-historic period. Agein...

Not as a politician, but as an insuperably brilliant to sit on an integrated pool of citizens’ details, Modi will continue to win the polls as long as he wants to stay in power. The days of winning elections through high-pitched campaigns have gone. It is proven. Smart rulers cannot be replaced so easily, because they know the strengths and weaknesses well as the preferences and interests of each individual. They have successfully explored within the realm of citizens' psychology and moved their coins on the playing board accordingly. They are smart enough to serve self-interests. However, I refuse to count the power retention that we saw in the recent State elections. Except for Tamil Nadu, all the States saw the earlier ones retaining their hold. The State elections reflect local ...

Human culture and civilisation have passed through several generations. The flow is an infinitive process as it goes. The passage of time has resulted in an erosion of the three professions’ greatness. Along with it, a massive depletion in values that human beings once used to cherish throughout the period of shaping culture and civilisation has now come to a sorry state. Can teachers, doctors and lawyers restore their profession’s majesty? Three professions that have shaped human civilisation are the practices of teaching, medicine and law. Teachers, medical practitioners and lawyers constitute the pack of great men in the world. They were philosophers, visionaries and men of great knowledge. That was the reason in every primitive epic, these three professions were characterized by legend