Summer – Door to Fun

(A poem by Diya Kiran, VI Grade) Image Credit: WikiCommons The academic year ends So we buy clothes that trend A splash in the pool Look at ice-cream let your mouth drool   Let the harvest season begun Till the vegies are of a ton Seasonal fruits are stacked in our house Men it’s your duty to cut them up not your spouse   Let the door of fun open

 

My Family is a Bookshelf

(A poem by Aadya Prasad, V Grade)   My mom is the GK who knows everything My dad is the atlas Who locates any place you ask   My cousin is the joke book Whos jokes are very funny and sometimes stupid   My aunt is the cookbook Who always comes up with new recipes My uncle is the big math book Who solves any equation you ask   My

 

Shorts – Why the Energy industry is not every Capitalist’s dream

Image credit: wikipedia, Financial Express In a capitalistic society there perpetually exists a market for any type of commodity – be it in information technology, food, clothing, transport, art, entertainment, and food. All these fields are defined by cutting edge products, highly processed pieces of raw material that has been cut and changed to the way of our needs, and most importantly, the money to be made in these fields are

 

Rain never makes you sad

Rain (A poem by Aadya Prasad, V Grade) Image Credit: Wikimedia.org Rain is the best If it rains all night The next day will be Foggy and bright Rainy season is out of this world The way its falling makes my mind swirled The lightning sound is very powerful It can be dreadful Heavy rain is a wonderful sight Go jump in it with all your might Rain never makes

 

By Rain’s glory you might even become Hypnotic

Rain (A poem by Diya Kiran, VI Grade)  Image Credit: Wikicommons Rain is a beautiful part of nature Who knows if it will last till the future There is something enchanting to get drenched in rain When it crawls down from the head till your vein   It’s born when two clouds put up a fight Might it be a peculiar sight It fills up thirst for ponds and lakes

 

Vertigo and How I kicked the Aliens Out of My Head

Disclosure: This article also published within the organization I work for. Posted here with permission from organization. Invasion of the Body Snatchers: I still remember it vividly. It all started Sep 1, 2021, early morning. I get up to use the washroom, comeback and lie on the bed. As my head hit the pillow, ceiling started rotating, don’t exactly remember clockwise or anti-clockwise. It lasted for around 10-15 seconds. Got

 

Lady Doctors – The World is harder on Women

(The untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine by Kavitha Rao – A book Review) Disclosure: This article also published within the organization I work for. Posted here with permission from organization What the surroundings would have looked like for a girl born in 1870s of India? What she could have aspired for? How the society viewed and treated the girls in those times? Most likely she would have

 

Stan Swamy and Death of Humanity

“Our justice system even in grave cases, suffers from slow motion syndrome which is lethal to ‘fair trial’ whatever the ultimate decision. Speedy justice is a component of social justice since the community, as a whole, is concerned in the criminal being condignly and finally punished within a reasonable time and the innocent being absolved from the inordinate ordeal of criminal proceedings.” Justice V.R.Krishna Iyer  How one reacts to death

 

Cinematograph Act, CBFC, Amendment Bill 2021 – do they have a place in democracy?

“…there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered…fullest liberty of expression is required to push arguments to their logical limits, rather than the limits of social embarrassment” – John Stuart Mill I don’t plan to get into merits and demerits of CBFC and Cinematograph Act. Or do I intend to discuss the Amendment

 

COVID Times – Random Thoughts

COVID Cures – Cumin to Cow In our country, even during normal times due to lack of access to doctors and cost of healthcare, there is always a space for fakes, and magical remedies. While science-based medicines have made phenomenal improvements in the last 2 centuries, we still have diseases where either we don’t have a cure yet or we can only manage them with or without some side effects.