Science drives the modern world that boasts about many achievements and better human awareness. People became more educated and made efforts to dive into the mystery of nature as deep as possible. We used all possible instruments from the sophisticated telescopic camera and high-power microscopes to watch everything from other planets to viruses. We used a high-speed computer to calculate complicated sums. Everything was unequivocal to prove what we believed. At present, the modern world needs indisputable data to believe everything firmly and establish every claim. Equipped with new systems and fortunate to have better learning infrastructure, a new generation is more progressively educated. We call them lucky to have the luxury of a good education. We believe progressive education ma...

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...

The 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...

Siddhartha Gauthama, the prince of KapilaVastu, has always been a fascinating figure for me. He left everything material in life in his fascinating young life to seek ultimate enlightenment. His father, the king of KapilaVastu, wanted Siddhartha to grow in prosperity without knowing any pain, misery or obstacles in life. The prince wasn’t allowed to leave the palace for many years. One fine day, all of a sudden, he accidentally came out of the palace and saw his subjects living life through poverty, diseases, hunger and miseries of no account. The shocked prince at the moment decided to leave his palace in search of the roots of all miseries. Whether that was a myth or a real one, the story carried a holy message. I do not know whether the prince followed his passion or not. Was it ...

The global economy cannot afford the collapse of a major economy. Sri Lanka is a tiny country in which big countries have less interest. Still it should have been a collective responsibility of nations in the interest of the global economy to protect economically collapsing Sri Lanka. China had an interest in the island nation. But it is not as beneficial as it was thought, which led to a loss in China's interest. China does not believe in long term investment. For India, Sri Lanka is an opportunity as well as a responsibility. India can see it as an opportunity that china has left and can play a smart role by giving it a helping hand. The responsibility is absolutely business as a capitalist country like other big economies. That way, India can be an investor in Sri Lanka, which depen...

Death at even an early age after a long treatment with huge exposure to modern medicines astonishingly becomes natural death! What makes people accept this strange misinterpretation as a truth? Many people die of illness at a young age under treatment in hospitals. Can we call all such deaths natural death? Such deaths happen either because of wrong medicines, failed diagnosis or lack of solutions in medical science. There are bizarre shreds of evidence of medical science killing human beings after its disgraceful contribution to the drug-induced slippage in the quality of patients’ life. There are common incidents of patients’ long exposure to wrong drugs prescribed by qualified medical practitioners that cause death. Similarly, there is drug overdose, which causes deaths. Should we a...

Europe is important for Russia because 75 percent of its population is living in Europe, though 75 per cent of its territory is in Asia. Russia occupies roughly 40 per cent of Europe while Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe, nearly 70 per cent bigger than Germany. That way the Russia-Ukraine war can impact the European economy. Russia’s oil and gas supply by pipelines through Ukraine and Ukraine’s supply of grains can have serious impacts on the otherwise rich European life. War has two sides, rivalry and destruction. Most rivalries usually do not last long. But the pain of destruction and devastation lasts through generations. Both are futile gestures. As we go through the history of war, we find no gain even for winners. The reason for most of the wars that human beings ...

Between the course of these two facts, only the breathing is true. Rest everything is a myth. Death is irreversible, inevitable and unavoidable, yet a sure destiny. But it is pretty hard for a human to accept. We do not know about other animals. We all are a part of the food chain of the ecosystem. Nature has set an infallible system, which we have broken and reached the top of the food system. That is the benefit we have acquired over a period after breaking the order of nature. Our countdown begins there. We are the successors of those who had fought for the elixir called amruth, the miracle medicine that was supposed to make the beneficiary immortal. In Puranas, there were examples of Chiranjeevi (immortal), the Jambavan and other rishis who had attained the ultima...