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  . ... HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU ARE ...🔭🔭 The quest to unravel the secrets of the universe was so eloquently conveyed in the ever-green nursery rhyme "Twinkle twinkle little star..." by poet Jane Taylor.    Ever since, as a young child, I heard this recited by my kindergarten teacher, I had been curiously gazing at the night sky.   The child's curious mind never had stopped asking for answers. Partly this, and partly, at my dad’s insistence, the habit of reading and listening to news around the world, got me hooked to the mesmerising endeavours of humankind to explore the heavens. The equations describing laws that govern how nature works always made me wonder about what kind of    an intuitive meaning could be attached to it. That led me to spend more time understanding them. It often led to experiencing a feeling of great euphoria when I managed to unravel some of this, occasionally. Mathematics and physics became more of a passion and less of lesson...

  It was called the "  the graveyard of the invaders" for good reasons. A land that saw many dynasties occupy it  for a while only to lose control. The Russians found that truth and left, though they realised it early. The Americans , often too carried away by their  military power, took over two and half decades to accept failure and has now almost left. The  countless death and destruction, the alienation of people of several Islamic states, the fueling of terrorism across the world all of no avail. But for lining of the pockets of manufacturers of military hardware.  It took Taliban just few months to overcome all the capability built by the Americans  among its choosen local Afgans.  The US  tried to preserve its influence by propping up a governement lead by Karzai and then by Ashraj Ghani. That was possible only with the presence of American boots on the ground. Now that the troops have left, Afghanistani Taliban has taken control of ma...

 *ALTERNATE SYSTEMS OF MEDICINE* The issue with most of the alternate systems of medicine or treatment with respect  to Allopathy, is  the allmost complete lack of scientific evidence about its efficacy, toxicity and even if there is some its not peer reviewed . Most of these are based on medicinal plant or animal extracts and is genearally not  chemically different from  that of Allopathic medicines, though in the case  of the latter  some are sympathetically extracted.  Systems like ayurvedha , are based on ancient texts and recipes, written by people ( termed  mistakenly as sages  ) who were alchemists using data collected over ages from people treated for illeness and then recording it. It may have been reliable thousands of years back. The human body has evolved , changed , adopted over these periods. Environment around which humans live too has drastically changed. Diseases and illness profile is vastly different. Therefore, the...

  Morning from now  on means 3 or 4 am. I woke up alert as  a busy bee. My mind and body , the whole 64 years of battle hard and bruised components,  seems to be behaving as if , its to become a part of WW3 action.  Well! Its deja vu all over!!  The great predni , my cohabiting  friend for 7 to 8  yrs of the  end 21st century,  has once again decided to come back and be with me for some weeks. He was jealous to find Ms Corona , enticing me sleathly and managing to live inside my lungs for the past  ten days. By joe!  how can that be allowed to happen!!!  He beleives that this romancing  is his right!   So he , aided and abetted by our hard working and tired doctors , knocked and made his way into me yesterday, bag , baggage, lota , I pad and all.  Now hold on. I am not a party to this forced occupation. My right of self determination is not even acknowledged. Just like that   fakir in Delhi....

  SIGNS OF A MILATARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX The  military Industrial complex  ( MIC ) describes the relationship between a nation's military and the defense  industry , seen together as a vested interest which influences public policy. Both the world wars saw weapons of war conceived and produced on an industrial scale, often moving industrial capability and capacity away from producing goods of human consumption  towards   manufacture of weapons,  fighter aircrafts and war ships. After the wars this infrastructure remained dedicated to building weapons. Sometime in the early 60's, Dwight Eisenhower, who was the American President then, gave meaning to this phrase and thus alerted the people of the world to its implication. He said and I quote, " Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry ....  The total influence—economic, political, even spiritual—is felt in every city, every State...

  THE TWO DEMOCRACIES WITH ITS UNDERLYING FAULT LINES The American civil society went through a painful but determined effort to bring about a change in the way it treated racial groups, including blacks, post-world war. After the death of Kennedy, President Johnson, introduced measures that tried to address the racial issues. The civil rights movement, of Martin Luther King Jr, reinforced this change. The two American political entities, the Democrats and the Republicans, both had a large segment of liberal members, even though there were still conservatives and white supremacy right wingers lying dormant in both. America seemed to have battled the demon, as if it were, for now, it seemed. The world had another experiment in liberal democracy, conducted far away in India. After centuries of a highly divided society on caste lines and ruled by multitudes of fiefdoms, this geographical entity, called the Indian subcontinent, was plundered and ruled by all and sundry until the ...

An attempted coup by Trump. So finally US behaves like a banana republic. Thugs and Trump bhakts breach security and enter capital hill , house of US parliament, and assult all those there. Force entry towards Congressmen and women and who ran for shelter. Four dead and many injured. A huge security failure. Imagine how easy it would be for terrorists to have got in and kill politicians and officials! An event yhat is deadlier than the Indian parliamemt attack. Here are vital questions you may ponder over and ignore at your peril. How can the US preach other nations now? Will the US blame Russia or China for this also? Or is this not their own doing? Will the US experience be a lesson to other democracies on how such misplaced ideaology can harm democracy and propagate one person's personality and selfish interest? How deep is the divide of people and how did those who manage a personality cult following, acheive this divide. How weak institutions, as in some natio...