Opinion
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Reflections of my 25 Years Journey in Toastmasters – Part I
It was a normal day in the Spring of 1996. I was a senior at Kansas State University in…
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Is severe heat wave in Delhi has solution in CCUS?
A massive plant capable of removing one million tons of CO2 from the air every year | Image credit: Storeega.…
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Gene commonly found in south Asian people affects COVID severity – new study
ImageFlow/Shutterstock Most people with COVID don’t end up in the hospital, but some groups get a very severe form of…
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Caste in India: ‘blind recruitment’ for the civil service won’t fix the system
Anti-caste activist: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan at a protest against the alleged gang rape of a Dalit girl,…
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Reduction in Breath Holding Time an Early Warning Sign
The second wave of COVID-19 has seen a huge rise in the demand for supplemental oxygen. Member (Health), NITI Aayog,…
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Tattoos have a long history going back to the ancient world – and also to colonialism
The Picts, the indigenous people of what is today northern Scotland, were documented by Roman historians as having complex tattoos.…
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COVID vaccine weekly: India’s crisis deepens, but vaccine sharing is yet to materialise
Family members outside a mortuary in New Delhi. EPA India’s deadly second wave is continuing to worsen, with daily new cases…
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What is Mandela Effect?
Image Source: awarenessact.com Have you ever come across a memory about any incident which is remembered in a similar way…
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International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem
International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem is observed annually on 26 July | https://en.unesco.org/ The International Day…
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India’s staggering COVID crisis could have been avoided. But the government dropped its guard too soon
Caretaker of COVID Patient | Source: AP India reported 314,000 new cases of COVID-19 on April 22, the highest-ever infection…
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Why do we wake around 3 am and dwell on our fears and shortcomings?
Depiction of a person suffering from sleep deprivation | https://commons.wikimedia.org/ When I wake at 3 am or so, I’m prone…
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To the abattoir, with tears
A brief friendship ends, and many questions remain on human attitudes It was the month of December in 1999. The…
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Food production generates more than a third of manmade greenhouse gas emissions – a new framework tells us how much comes from crops, countries and regions
Injecting manure into a field as fertilizer in Lawler, Iowa. Manure management is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions…
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How you can get started on something you’ve been dreaming for long
This is sort of a late post since the International Women’s Day was about 20 days ago. But nevertheless, here…
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What is the Rashomon effect?
Screen capture from the movie “Rashomon” We do come across situations in which we see something from our naked eyes,…
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