As a former FB employee accused the social networking company of doing what tobacco companies used to do by making youngsters addicted to the lethal products, FB is hallucinating the youngsters now. Social networking has become a social disaster. That has made our youngsters, especially teenagers, trapped in inescapable psychic devastation.    It seems Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates run the modern world. Often I feel they have dictatorially invaded every space of human activities and are trying further with a hunger to cut more. Monopoly is no less than a dictatorship. History has told us Hitler and Stalin tried to rule the world, breaking all frontiers. All that Mark and Bill did decades ago gave no poor impression. I read the news that the FB founder apologised for stopping the wo...

The world has begun to learn to live with the virus. People are coming out of their fear. Enough is enough. The time is up to bid farewell to the pandemic.   The so-called second wave disappeared months ago. The media is shifting its attention from Covid-19 chaos to vaccination progress. Other interesting political matters like changing State governments and the Afghan crisis shadowed experts’ free advice on Covid-19. Their interest may resurface only when they spot something that can change their fortunes. The virus has become weaker for the time being. When Covid-19 began to part its way by winter last year after an onslaught in early summer, the second wave stormed again in the following summer. No one thought the Covid-19 would resurface with a rage. That was the time people beg...

Today, we can’t imagine a world without money, a legal tender against liabilities. It has struck us so deeply to thrust us into hell. We allowed it to overpower us. In the calendar of human existence, currency, as a legal tender, is only a few days old. It is the discovery of the modern world. It may sound strange! After the discovery of money, we have kept aside all other priorities in life, bringing a drastic change for the worst, perhaps.  In one of her beautiful stories, Sudha Murthy mentioned a barter system existing in some parts of Karnataka. Until then, I hadn't heard of such a most common and simple trading system in any part of India or any corner of the world. I would have happily chosen that place to live the rest of my life. Karnataka is one of the states that has ...

The US soldiers returned home with 13 dead bodies and scores of injured ones after 20 years of Afghan invasion. Trillions of dollars-worth military junks in the Afghan junkyard tells the saga of a futile war that the most powerful one in the world led. War for the sake of war made the US back to square one in a typical characteristic of the human species.  For the first time in history, the US got a tight slap on their ego. The left-over uniforms, weapons, helicopters, vehicles, etc are laughing at the most powerful country on earth. At least for some time, they will not interfere in the internal matters of other countries. Maybe, that was the first time a US president cried in front of the media for killing soldiers by its "friendly" foe. When 13 US soldiers died, more than 15...

We claim to depend on evidence of science for decision-making in healthcare. Nevertheless, we rarely stop being injudicious and scientific. The best example lies in our decision to disallow those unvaccinated to enter shopping malls and board planes. Unvaccinated are not criminals. Israel had disallowed Pfizer CEO’s entry into the country for not completing the immunisation. Might be, he knew it was better to mingle with a Covid-19 patient than testing the unsure vaccine on himself. There are many Covid-19 cases among vaccinated people. Still, a large portion of unvaccinated people have been safe from infection. One can, perhaps, buy diseases, but no more wisdom with money.  Can't the fully-vaccinated people have the virus strains with them to infect others? There is no accou...

China may have something to reap from the rough terrains where the US has sown hugely over 20 years. However, a marriage of China with the Taliban will remind it of the horrors it has unleashed on the Uyghurs. No matter, China will enjoy the Afghani mineral wealth of over five trillion dollars worth before the honeymoon is over. That is the price the US has lost in the dens of the unrelenting Taliban.   The United States of America (USA) is a prodigy but not prudent enough to win a war. It can bomb failed-States to dust. Still, it loses every battle it fights. It could win the cold war with the Soviet Union not because of its smartness but for the system failure of the Soviets. After the downfall of Warsaw, the US became unquestionable world police despite all its strategic m...