Seekers Column

Wiki states Planned Parenthood is a NGO providing reproductive health and material and child health services. It is the largest US provider of reproductive health services, counseling, contraception and abortion. For us it may seem new but the name is not unfamiliar among the residents of United States of America . Even kids know them well :) Recently, Planned Parenthood has been in news for using tax dollars for abortions . As per Seattle Times, Planned Parenthood carried out 3 Lac 30 thousand abortions in 2010 , i.e. more than a quarter million. The number itself is so huge for a developed country. 3 Lac abortions, I would rather say cold blooded murder of 3 Lac fetuses in 365 days. And still things are motionless as if there is nothing wrong or odd to raise your brow. Abortions have become a daily routine. Isn’t it? But I would ask them do you have the guts to see how abortions are carried out? Do you have the courage to witness the breaking of bones and tearing o...

         Recently, we have seen people from Israel and Britain worried about the conditions of women in India. Moreover, as a token of sympathy they have come up with a film to expose Indian men and the Indian culture. According to them, women in India are in a very depressing situation. They are deprived of human rights. They are attacked, molested and murdered by the male dominated Indian society, thus concluding and accusing the Indian culture to be a demonic one           How do they jump to such conclusions? I still wonder! They blame the complete society, the complete civilization, without giving a look in their own house. It is sick to interview a criminal and determine the entire society on that basis. If so bothered ,why did the documentary producer pay Rs Rs 40,000 to the rape convict. Why wasn’t a documentary made based on Jimmy Savile , who is accused of hundreds of sexual assault case...

            We all knew the drama played by media targeting the inclusion of Ancient Science papers in 102nd Indian Science Congress. Little did the people knew that all the criticism was in media and not in the conference. I saw the e xperts and Scientists present there did asked questions but that was not criticism, rather CURIOSITY!            I would like to quote the words of a renowned personality present at the Science Congress. He said ''Media and other intellectuals opposing the event doesn't even know how to criticize! Ideas cannot be criticized by words. We have to put them in laboratory. And we are going to do that. We will test these stuffs in laboratory and later derive the conclusions. Innovations and Imaginations should never be stopped.''            For years we ignored ourselves and tried best to own what others left...

Sitting amongst the MBA guys at SJMSOM my ear carefully glued to S Gurumurthy's voice who was talking about different types of Capitals. I was aware of Financial capital as whole of the economic newspapers are filled with such stuffs.   He mentioned intellectual capital is the next important capital for any nation, as this would consume the first one. Next he spoke about Social capital. Difficult to generate and quite important for any society to flourish happily. Our nation had this extensively that is the reason why we were so successful until 19 Century.   I had no idea what the third one meant. After going through Francis Fukuyama's writings on Social Capital I came know how tough was to build this one.   Social capital is the trust and interconnection between groups of people/community. It may take generations to build. It is generally the result of common tradition and culture that people share.  Although on Wikipedia the definition of Social capital c...

The scene was set. Magistrate sitting on a high chair was questioning a 14 year old child. He said to that child you were caught in an anti government activity. Do you accept and beg for pardon ? The small confidant boy said NO. Magistrate asked his name. In a loud and clear voice he said Azad. Then he asked his fathers name. Boy said 'Swadhin' Magistrate went on asking 'Wheres your home?' This time more louder the boy said 'JAIL' Okay said the magistrate and ordered 15 lashes as punishment. We all must have heard this in our younger days. But nobody narrated us the interesting part which followed .. Before starting let us see what was lash and how painful was 1 lash or koda? A lash or hunter was made up of animal leather with interlocking ties. Sharp nails were fitted in between the leather knots. So when hunter was used at somebody, it used to curl the person. And some of the nails would get inside the skin. When it was pulled back nails...

As per the Ved creation is without beginning and without end. Shri Krishna in Gita says to Arjun that there was never a time when you didn't existed and there never will be a time when you will cease existing. Its just that I remember everything and you don't ! Now let's us examine how Swami Vivekanand explained the fact. One interesting aspect of Vivekanand is that the example he uses are so connecting with today's youth. Vivekanand speaks Science says that sum total of cosmic energy always remain the same. No matter how many star breaks and forms. Agreed! He further says Then if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? As per the current theories a big bang resulted in the formation of this universe. Vivekanand continues Some say it was in a potential form, in God. In that case God is sometime potential and sometime kinetic, which would make him mutable. Everything mutable is a compound and every compound ...