If we do not change our habits and attitudes, we are in for something disastrous. As we talk about creating more comforts for human life, building wealth and luxuries, we forget the amount of offence we load on our environment. Human life cannot remain on earth if we make the planet unsafe to dwell on.  I know it is hard to digest. Truth is always bitter. It is tasteless. Once you ask me, I will say this is the time we should stop directly addressing human issues. Instead, we must save the planet. If we ruin the planet, we will have no space to live on earth. Our species will vanish, Just a fear, not sure – a hapless soul cannot have better optimism.  Let us compare ourselves with other living things. According to us, the first difference between human beings and...

Pandemic, a disastrous time for most people, changed everything. However, some segments could grow up. No edifice built on the air of illusion, be it the bet on equities or the kingdom of the virtual world, sustains a storm. They would fall like ninepins. It has been shocking for me. Maybe for many others like me too. In the pandemic time, we have no other option than to rely on a virtual world. As I used to say in many earlier blogs, we have lost our wisdom, because we have chosen to plunge ourselves into an illusionary world. Imaginations, conjectures and hypotheses drive us. No surprise then that we are tempted to risk our hard-earned money into elusive assets. We have the legacy of weighing imagination with values, giving larger than a real-life image to something impalpable. We...

If anyone asks me what may be the next biggest disaster our next generation is set to face, I say doubtlessly, it is their education. The system of virtual classes for as long a period as two years has shattered our children, who were otherwise also carrying the damage of syllabus overburden. The concern is squaring up. The memory of university or college, usually known as Kalalayam in Malayalam, comes with excitement, perhaps the most exciting in the entire life. The reminiscence renders a smile. I am damn sure, for many people, the life on the campus was remarkably sweet. Kalalayam means a place or a platform to develop skills and taste for a subject at the young age of a person for a bright future. That was also a place for politics, arts and sports, great fun and what not. That was...

If anyone repeats a mistake several times, that is attributable to be either deliberate or absurd. That is arrogance and irresponsibility. When a government does it, one has to call it out.  We see it routinely in the practice of State administration. Foul after foul deliberately. When we do something to correct, the action boomerangs for more severe consequences than the devastating pandemic. Can we go for it? Now that is what is going on. Corrective action is more severely counter-productive.  When Covid-19 infection began to spread all over the world in January 2020 nobody could predict anything. A year after the so-called first wave started, everyone thought the pandemic was over. We began to return to normal life by the fag end of 2020. Neither the Indian scientist nor any...

The backward section is still identified as “backwards”, much to their indignation. Any change in the perception hinges on our country’s bold move to break the caste-based reservation. Much brain drain has already happened at the cost of the British ghost of reservation. The darkness of tonight refuses to open for a morrow. Exactly 24 years ago, I wrote about the scourge that is still surveying. The recollection is exciting. That was the occasion of India’s 50th Independence Day celebration. The subject was the reservation that India still sadly celebrates. The reservation system in India has a British legacy. The architect of India’s constitution, Dr B R Ambedkar favoured the Communal Award proposed by the then British Prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, in the Round Table Conference...