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Dear Sir  What prompted me to write this letter to you was your interview with the Federal News last week. I was shocked to read your comment: “India, however, is the only country which has this irrational system of putting a blanket ban on hunting forever” You advocated for the hunting of wild animals by saying that they should be harvested in a controlled manner. Hunting the marauders may be a defensible act to protect the right to private defence of body and property under Sections 100 and 103 of the Indian Penal Code as you pointed out. But what makes the wild animals encroach into farmers' property may not be because of their over-population within the wildlife sanctuaries or national parks, but human encroachment into their territories.   I had immense respect f...

Contradictions within I fear, one day, the globe will have a concrete cover leaving no space for anything else. I have been a highway traveller, by hobby, for some time now.  Yet, I haven't travelled by road to such places as Mumbai to Ahmedabad, Pune to Satara, Bangalore, etc. I have not seen heavy traffic rush in many north Indian stretches. I have been wondering why we need so many highways everywhere. The government says it is for future requirements, travellers' comfort and for fuelling employment generation through increased industrial activities. On the other hand, many small but highly travelled roads look shabby with too many potholes making commuting a chaotic experience. But no government is giving much importance to those things; instead, they are busy making mor...

Who owns the planet earth? None!  Humans have themselves decided that they are the owners of the land on earth. They can invade any part without any permission from other living beings on earth. They are storming into their space and forcing them to leave their homes and scatter to unsuitable places. Humans have occupied the entire land as intruders in other living beings' lives. Now the earth has become a malformed human colony violating every law of nature. Humans on the planet regard themselves as superior. But the fact is that the number of other living beings is much larger than human beings. In one of my earlier blogs, I wrote about ants. There are several times more ants that live on earth than human beings. Other living beings like insects and microbes are uncounta...

Ants follow an infallibly systematic life and jointly work hard to live in perfection. They maintain their colony safe and use their incredible talent to make their abode wonderful. Though an ant has a lifespan of fewer than four years, it follows the tradition of a million years without any change ever. A species non-extinct for over a million years speaks for their invulnerability to vagaries of climate and calamity thanks to their organic planning and execution. They have dominated the land to the extent they wanted and consolidated their position that humans cannot challenge. A big lesson from an insect is not an insult to humans, but a requisite.   We call the ant in many ways, mongi, cheeiti, urumb, etc. This insect, the largest group in the arthropod phylum, has i...

Today, after an exhausting life with the so-called Covid-19 (Coronavirus), the world is out of the blue, maybe for fear of another virus. The World Health Organisation (WHO) seems to bat for it. Yet there is no fear on the pitch because people had the worst of the virus to fear. What some high echelons expected was never in place completely.  The WHO seems unconcerned about the consequences of human-created “heating” or climate changes. But it does not want to co-relate these reasons. It is keen to divert the public attention to the rising ‘heat’ and engage the world in the talks of “global warming”. The global health body finds it illogical that the increase of a few degrees Celsius temperature variations is causing global warming. It simply manifests that a certain degree of tem...