10 November 2021 For a continent size island, located in Indo Pacific region, Australia has always played a second fiddle even after decades when Great Britain whose former colony she once was, proved to be a lesser power, after a brief skirmish over Falklands (1980s) with Argentina which the then British Government used to reclaim […]
Category: Climate & Environmental Challenges
4 November 2021 From almost the very start, the pull out of China from the high table for discussions on COP26 targets was like saying that there would be an examination with no compulsory attendance and whose results would have no bearing on the academic record! While the choice of Glasgow as the venue, where […]
10 August 2021 Who would have thought before it happened, that a leading news from China would actually be of a wandering herd of elephants? That China would use every modern means including drones and supply trucks, fork lifts and earth movers, to keep a group of 15 elephants away from urban centres, removing walls […]
19 July 2021 What must convince the ‘folk’ that climate change is catastrophic, than a few gallons of rain that wash away their very life time’s efforts to build a ‘nest’? In Germany and Belgium, reeling from ‘unprecedented’ deluge in 48 hours, valleys were washed away, well laid towns were converted into mud slats, intersecting […]
8 July 2021 A dystopian world is not difficult to conjure for the future, this being imagination and inspiration in parts, one that is actually brought about by lack of both in the present. Yet, the past year has been a series of such missteps and calculative fuss, an obsession with numbers and headlines, with […]
7 July 2021 It would seem like a world gone awry and it has happened too frequently that now science appears sagacious, forewarning us homo sapiens of the coming apocalypse that is #ClimateChallenge. We had Canada a subArctic country reporting temperatures that would made ‘Madna’ of Mad Na fame from English, August, a scintillating novel […]
18 June 2021 Like how the paparazzi keeps making these names up of famous couples, I was forced to consider leaders Putin and Biden as one, and using the first of one and the last of the other, came up with PuDen. I don’t think many analysts expected this from Biden’s Presidency, or at the […]
10 June 2021 In what can be called great tidings, the major nations that make up G7 other than USA reported a much needed return of confidence in their polity toward the Biden Administration, upwards of 70% as per PEW which is dramatic considering the pitifully low confidence American allies had expressed under Trump Administration. […]
19 May 2021 One common thread running through now on social media and even mainstream media is how apparently whole families are affected this time by Covid19 in the current second surge in India whereas the same was not experienced last time round. There are several factors for that, which also offer us a set […]
19 February 2021 Did any one thing that having a common border with Mexico or being the self styled ‘Lone Star’ state would leave Texas in a sense of splendid isolation, bring it grief on a ‘rainy’ day? Actually what should have been a normal winter of snows, a spell of white weather, has turned […]
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