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Thomas Robert Malthus, a British economist wrote in 1806 in his book “An Essay on the Principle of Population Growth” that population growth is potentially exponential while the growth of food supply and other resources linear. In other words according to him, population increased by geometric progression i.e. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2Continue reading “Is Malthus prophecy true ?”

                                                                 Afghanistan ? Yes. It is not only a geo-political crisis for the neighbours and the international community, but an irreversible, intolerable, and dastardly serious human tragedy for the innocent men, women, boys, girls and children who must continue to live there. Human beings in Afghanistan, who, for the first time had tasted the grandeurContinue reading “The Human Tragedy”

Gathering clouds will wither away. Some time back I wrote about corona Fatigue. Lock-Down had started showing results. Corona was under control. Government intervention broke the chain. The focus then, was on saving lives. Economy nose-dived. Unforeseen exodus of migrants precipitated human crisis.  As corona responded to government action, focus shifted to saving livelihoods byContinue reading “It Is Happening”

Corona Virus is perhaps the worst calamity earthlings have suffered since their entry to this planet. It has hit all countries, with different severity. Some have almost come out of its impact, some are still struggling to come out and some are still in the thick of it. Difference in impact is due to fourContinue reading “Corona Fatigue”

..in a multicultural society When Dan Brown wrote the fiction ‘Da Vinci Code’ depicting a more human version of Christ, Christians all over the world, protested very strongly and boycotted its film version. Even in India complaints from leaders of Christian religion led to a temporary hold on the film. Hindus and Shivsena were greatlyContinue reading “Limits To Freedom..”

Are they not quite different ? Social Media is under fire. Newly found freedom of expression of the people is alleged to be misused. There is a clamour for its control and regulation by the government. This article discusses the hitherto undisclosed facts about all media in the context of this hue and cry MediaContinue reading “Media-Print-Electronic-Social”

Congress Clueless ? It is strange Congress has no sense of history. After independence British suzerainty ended. Native states were free to accede to either India or Pakistan depending upon geographical contiguity. Despite being surrounded by India, Junagadh Nawab announced accession to Pakistan. A public outrage against Nawab and formation of Arzi Hakumat under ShamaldasContinue reading “Somnath to Ayodhya”

China has always been an enigma to Indian politicos. After independence Pandit Nehru conceived Panchsheel, five principles of mutual co-existence as the basis of relations with China and enshrined as preamble in the treaty with China in 1954. This led to slogan “Hindi-Chini-bhai-bhai”. But later, it seems, Nehru was disillusioned about China. Four years before1962Continue reading “Chinese Conundrum”

America is the only country in the world which represents the dream of a true multicultural society, Successive American presidents nurtured this dream because they knew what fueled the phenomenal growth of the country. Immigrants constitute a small minority of the US population. But they are highly qualified in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computerContinue reading “The American Dream”

World is under great stress. Post corona epidemic China is completely isolated and is suspected to have concealed the data for a long time and is alleged to have been the cause of deaths of millions of people around the world. Economies of most of the countries, including USA, have nose-dived. USA has started withdrawingContinue reading “A Journey in Pandemic”