Ramana Gove

In the world we live in where anything can be attributed to anyone it is difficult to comprehend and digest towering personalities like MK Gandhi.Here is a man who is fragile in built but fantastic in personality, humble and gentle in gestures and yet could galvanise the masses by virtue of his sheer character and commitment to the chosen cause and course. The fact that with a piece of loin cloth he could thunder the London Parliament itself speaks of the aura of truth and nonviolence that describe his demeanour,Here is a man who practiced what he preached and who stood in front of the masses during commotion and chaos without budging an inch despite the cruel lathi blows on his head by the so called saviours of the British Empire. It is unfortunate that the freedom won at such an exorbitant cost (sacrificing personal care and comforts,positions of power,and not hesitating for the damage to blood and bone by many such stellar personalities) is being denied or misused and misinterpreted

The other day I was reading an article in newspaper on Nigerian-American novelist Nnedi Okorafor’s Sci-fi novel ‘Lagoon’. For a while,my mind detoured from the routine and made me wield my pen on this essential and integral part of all great types of fiction.Sci-fi speaks of the possible futures. My earliest familiarity is with the theme of voyage to moon by Jules Verne of 19th century,about which I heard     in my college days.It is amazing to note that he made some precise calculations on the magnitude of force needed to propel the rocket out of the Earth’s atmosphere.   Another interesting Sci-if work I had exposure to, is ‘The Time Machine’ by H.G.Wells in which the author travels in time both into past and future too  by a specially designed vehicle. Part of the work portrays creatures who are physically emaciated and mentally imbeciles being most reluctant to use body and mind,a logical consequence of a prolonged sedentary life style and automation.Today even we find ourselves di

It is true that life may not be same as it was before for quite a good length of time. Even the so called vaccines rolled out need time to do the job. It is usually a few weeks for the body to build immunity after vaccination.Thus to have an established efficacy among demographies, it takes a considerable time.Needless to say that the timeline for all the people to have the shots or even to attain herd immunity depends upon a number factors such as availability, accessibility, and affordability of the vaccines.Also the travel restrictions and social distancing are likely to gain momentum despite the vaccines being popular for the simple fact that people in different countries are not equally sensitive to the demands of precautionary measures and as such, nations like India where relatively greater care is evinced by the people compared to even many advanced countries,got to keep themselves in isolation to reap the maximum benefit from their practices.The intensity of new strain in Brit