How Can We Matter

Just as many parents, students, and teachers had faced their first online class with some sort of stress and anxiety, today it is my turn!  I have been provided with written instructions on keeping Two Plain sheets of paper, One Pen, a Quiet room without distractions, and to ensure that I charge the laptop prior to the online meeting!  The whole thing came about because I had volunteered myself as a guinea pig for a medical study. To be precise, I have elected to be a participant in the Tata Longitudinal study: "Alzheimer’s Disease: Understanding mechanisms for early diagnosis and treatment" , being carried out at Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.  The TATA Longitudinal study of Aging (TLSA) is a long-term, ongoing aging cohort study of residents of the city of Bangalore, India. The study began in 2015 with the aim of recruiting 1000 elderly subjects from Bangalore and follow them up periodically for several years. Alzheimer's disease is th...

It looks like the fierce confrontation at the India-China Line of Actual Control (LAC) is nothing but a distraction to hide the real warfare that is going on behind the scenes.

The ancient India had several universities , many of them devoted to higher learning, which attracted scholars and students from as far away as China, Persia, and Greece . India's Vedic civilization had given great prominence to education in the society. The two most famous ancient Indian universities, and also the oldest ones in the world, are Takshashila and Nalanda .

It is not just in India that the right wing has swept the nation. Other countries where this has happened are Brazil, United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, Russia, Israel, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Sweden, Japan, Philippines...

The 23 Congress veterans, who were with the party ever since they could write the alphabets, who have been dutifully swallowing the pills of Nehru-Gandhi principles every morning after breakfast, who were at their best sycophantic behavior in front of their Madam , were in for a rude shock, for, they got carried away by the master oratory, impeccable writing style, and the choice of arcane and exotic words of the English language, by their wordsmiths Shashi Tharoor and Manish Tiwari ! Image Credit: NDTV When they put their signatures in the letter, these old-timers didn't have the least idea that they were committing the most unpardonable crime of asking for ' fair internal elections ', a ' full-time, visible leadership ', and ' sweeping reforms ' - all concepts unheard of in the corridors of the Gandhi family . Now they are left on tenterhooks saying that their ' grievances ' in the letter will be examined and appropriate actions taken! Loyalists Pr...

For the first time, from a trip organized by a private company SpaceX , NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have returned to Earth bringing their historic two-month mission at the International Space Station (ISS)  to an end.  Their mission began on 30 May 2020 , when Behnken and Hurley both launched inside the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida and then docked with ISS a day later. Called Demon-2, the mission was meant to prove out Crew Dragon’s biggest capabilities -- by safely transporting people to space and getting them to the ISS. Now SpaceX has proved that the Crew Dragon capsule can safely bring people back home, too. Astronauts Revisit Their Mission Aboard ISS After Returning To Earth In SpaceX Capsule This is just a reminder to my grand-kids . Maybe, when they are ready on their own for their holidays, they might be able to book their journey in space, as well as lodging, through Airbnb . Who knows! There is a 6-bed room place up there ...

This is an important national milestone in the development of the country and probably the most creditable achievement of the Modi government as it will touch and shape each and every person of our future generation for years to come.