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I lived a bucolic life thanks to my papa's job in forest department. I lived in a fairy world for today's generation watching stars and running behind helicopter damselfly. I wanted my kid to experience these but they are lost in today's concrete jungle and materialistic life. They only live in books, stories and rhymes. Why? I thought pollution, specifically air pollution, led to this problem cutting us from the universe. But no, it is a different kind of pollution that I was not aware of till yesterday - Light pollution . As we light our nights with bright lights, we lose our stars from our sights.  Lamps that throw light upward gets reflected from cloud & air making the sky brighter and so we cannot see stars. We need to use better lamps.   Light also has adverse effect on insects. Insects lose track of time (day and night). There was a study comparing caterpillars in two different areas: one lighted with street lamps and one not lighted. It was found that in the e...

The effect of Feminism (equal right to women) on the structure in society and the role & responsibility in family is immense. In the modern era, society is having more and more families with working wives thanks to the acceptance of women's economic right.  The social trend has changed and so the groom's preference in marriage over time; from house wife, to educated & home maker and now to educated, working & financially independent partner. However, in this new relationship, who is "making home" is not explicitly called out. of course, it is obvious, isn't it? This is how the patriarchal notion is silently using "Feminism".   A family nucleus is the smallest organization which can then be combined to get a society. So I believe, the changes we want at a society level, must be achieved at this nucleus level. The family has to perform many tasks to survive as shown below. Since in a patriarchy, Man is the provider managing Finance, he has more...

Warning, you may find this topic offensive! In many Indian cities, I have observed posters printed on flimsy colored paper talking about "Sex problem" using English and local language in narrow, stinky and unlike places.  This weekend, I ponder on this. You will be surprised how effective, strategic and technically sound this communication channel is even though the product is shoddy.  It is likely that these local clinics are far from "genuine" clinics run by quacks exploiting public fears and shame among conservative not-so-educated people and guarantying success using "Ayurveda". This is because normal rules do not apply here: "Section 33EEC of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940 Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to Vaidya and Hakims who manufacture Ayurvedic, Sidhha or Unani drug for the use of their own patient : " Key things to note about this "Company": discrete, Legal but not legal, Fear, Conservative. and the po...