How Can We Matter

POCSO stands for Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. A learned judge, Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, of the Bombay HC has pontificated that groping a minor’s breast without “skin-to-skin contact” does not constitute as sexual assault under POCSO! 

Farmers' protest in India vs Trump supporters' protest in USA! 

Leonhard Euler, one of the most ingenious mathematicians of the 18th century came up with a puzzle in 1782 which an Indian mathematician solved 177 years later in 1959! The puzzle goes like this: 

Another year is dawning. It is also the dawn of a new decade - starting on 1 January 2021 and ending on 31 December 2030. I am sure these coming ten years would be the beginning of a new era. 

Having worked for 38 years with spatial data in the field of mapping and GIS, never did I imagine that, after 6 years of retirement, I would be back again working with spatial data, and that too produced using the latest technology of laser mapping! 

If I go by the conventional medical wisdom then I should be taking four medicines a day, lifelong, after my heart attack and angioplasty in Jan 2011. However, I have gone completely medicine free since 2014, and so far so good, though there remains a lurking fear whether I am pushing my luck too far!

My grandson, in his 12th grade philosophy class, is given the following type of discussion assignments: