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 […]
Tag: Human Survivability Questions
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 […]
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 […]
The Bregman Commandments
29 January 2021 The funniest thing is how the ideas that one author has offered are in many ways so self reaffirming for many who have been thinking all along on those very lines. I had a friend and mentor whose understanding of interpersonal relationships, I had even dubbed as ‘Pach Principles’ which was a […]
Slowly Surely Solidarity
17 October 2020 As expected the repurposed stuff did not work. after all Remdesivir was being used for Ebola (filo virus), there is no anti viral drug (Lipinavir/ritonavir too) yet which is successful against Corona Viruses in general out there. We already had major doubts about Hydroxychloroquine. We also knew that interferons like Tocilizumab and […]
7 October 2020 It would seem that virus and vaccine were in many ways intertwined, for the first true vaccine was Edward Jenner’s for Small Pox, and from that early and perhaps the greatest success where a vaccination would eradicate a disease itself, vaccination has now come a long way. In a sense, it is […]