Celebrating and supporting Earth Day
Today April 22 2023, is the 53rd ‘Earth Day’, which was first held on April 22, 1970. Earth Day is celebrated to demonstrate support to environmental protection. LIVING IN HARMONY…
Pratap Antony
Altruism exists in nature, Reciprocal altruism in humans
For some obscure and hard-to-understand reason, man feels superior to everything else on Earth. The irony of it all is that we humans forget that we have evolved…
Front Row Seat In The Theater Of The Absurd
Sometimes, okay, not sometimes, a lot of the time, we feel we’re in the front row seat at an irrational, incongruous, illogical tragicomedy which rivals tabloid televisions’ moronic, futile and…
We’ve got to stop damaging our home, our planet earth
Wherever we live in this world, whatever business we are in, our first priority is to take care of our life-giving ecosystem and the biodiversity that sustains us. Nothing else…
Resisting the forces of fear
Turn, turn any corner Hear, you must hear what the people say You know that somethin' is goin' on around here It surely, surely, surely won't stand the light of…
Pluralism and acceptance – The senselessness of separation
“You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.” Anonymous This anonymous quote that I received as…
A Time To Recover, Renew, Restore, Refresh
What will we do when this SARS Covid-19 lock down is over? Will we go back to frantically doing what we were doing before…, rushing madly towards meeting our goals…
Earth Day
May we be receptive to the wisdom of nature and the knowledge that if her laws are obeyed, our lands and people will flourish May we save the planet from…
The TB Paradox
What causes much more death and tragedy throughout the world, for several decades than Covid-19, but does not cause panic and hysteria, and, is not considered an emergency? It's…
Humanity Means Being Humane
Humanity means *“the quality of being humane, benevolent”, it also meansbeing kind, compassionate, understanding, sympathetic, empathetic, gentle and generous. But weseem to have forgotten what humanity really means. To us, nowadays,…
What Is ‘Good Governance’, And What Is Not
“Good governance is about the processes for making and implementing decisions. It’s not about making ‘correct’ decisions, but about the best possible process for making those decisions.” goodgovernance.org.au Good governance is the art…
The India That We Want: Politicians In The Future
In future we need politicians who have moral fibre and large hearts. We need politicians who are honest, generous to a fault, and, not greedy; with absolutely no aspirations for…
Followers And The Leader
Some folks who were considered fairly intelligent, have fallen under the spell of a man. According to his fervent fans he is much more.He is a politician with a self-measuredfifty-six-inch…
Political Manifestos Neglect Out Environment
None of the political party manifesto's mention the most important factor on which we are dependent for our existence. Our environment! The environment,unquestionably, is the most important factor of…
War Is The Loss of Humanity
I'm living with war in my heart/ I'm living with war in my heart and my mind/ I'm living with war right now/And when the dawn breaks I see my…
Aggressively Fight For Peace And Not For War
A human being killing another human being is inhuman. Therefore, a terrorist, or a suicide bomber is inhuman. Suicide bombers lose their humanity to political and religious rhetoric brainwashing -…
Dropout from WhatsApp education academy
I’ve dropped out of regular learning From WhatsApp Education Academy I will now be dabbler, an occasional Visitor, an irregular scholar I have decided to manage my own consumption of…
For Madhu: In Memory
Headline: Adivasi Youth Beaten to death in Kerala - An adivasi youth Madhu (27) was beaten to death by settlers in the Adivasi heartland of Attapady, Kerala, for allegedly stealing…
Participation Is Good Citizenship: The Pledge – Kicking Off 2018
Most of us have been brought up to believe that we’d be damn fools to think any differently from the way everybody else thinks. We are brought up to conform…
We Keep Ourselves Peaceful
Every action produces an effect and every effect in turn becomes a cause and produces still further effects, and causes, and effects, and causes, and effects and causes... Like spreading…
Environmentalists Are Earth’s Antibodies
An antibody is a protein produced by the body's immune system when it detects harmful substances, called antigens (bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) and chemicals. Many of us…
Saving Our Planet With Reciprocal Altruism
“The only choice left to us is to decide how much worse we are willing to let things get. We still have time to save, or restore, a large part…
Living My Own Religion
“Believe in everything, nothing is sacred. Believe in nothing, everything is sacred” Quote ~ Tom Robbins in ‘Even Cowgirls Get The Blues’ Man needs religion. Religion needs man. This is…
Alleviating AFSS: Acute Financial Stress Syndrome
For a few weeks recently, I woke up every day with a headache, body ache, slight fever, sinus congestion, acid reflux and inability to concentrate on anything for long. Why…
Epitaph For Gauri Lankesh
”I will do what i can and I will say What I should. These intolerant voices Find strength in our silence. Let them learn to argue using words instead of…
Demonetisation
To hunt crocodiles, the pond was dried. No crocodiles were found because they can live on land too. But all the small fish died.
Consuming Passions And Environment
"Runaway growth in consumption in the past fifty years is putting strains on the environment never before seen." The United Nations' Human Development Report 1998 (UNDP Report) WHEN WILL WE…
All We Like Sheep Are Being Led Astray
“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.” ― Bertrand Russell We are often taken aback by the…
I’d Rather Be ‘Intellectual’ Than Stupid
Politicians, once they come to power, blame ‘intellectuals’ and ‘liberals’ for slowing down their bid for absolute control and power over all of us citizens. Politicians use the words ‘Intellectual’…
Who’s Afraid Of Aadhaar UID?
Political corruption is a manipulation of policies, institutions and rules of procedure in the allocation of resources and financing by political decision makers, who abuse their position to sustain…
The Truth About Our Acceptance Of Manufactured Truth
Post-truth, a dubious compound word has been officially recognised and admitted into the Oxford dictionary in 2016 thereby acknowledging its legitimacy. Shamefully, our acceptance of this word into our…
Demonetisation: The Poor Don’t Matter Except To Buy Votes
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded. Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. Everybody knows that the war is over. Everybody knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight…
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