22 August 2006

Life at Mercy.

"The greatest wonder of living species is ability to Copulate and carry the generation On."
Euthanasia today in west has become a debatable issue, where laws are added to the constitution either in favour or against it. Its quite a controversial issue because it involves conflicting human rights as well as religious belief. The word is greek originated Eu: Good/Happy Thanatos: death, thus implying happy death.
The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs defines Euthanasia as act of bringing death to a hopelessly ill and suffering person in relative quick and painless way for reason of mercy. They are again classified as Voluntary and Involuntary Euthanasia.
In Voluntary, the person gives the content for him being killed, where the consent is given in writing or verbal dictum. In involuntary euthanasia basically involves physician assisted suicide.
In age of modern scientific revolution, our thinking has undergone such radical change, we feel we have mastered things around us, and in things where we fail, we justify our stand by having rules and law in favour of our ego enhancement. And clearly i sense euthanasia is one such issue that has to be tackled more efficiently.
Euthanasia will destroy the societal respect for life. With advancement in medicine the society will become insensitive to death, and LIFE will no longer be valued. This will surely degrade the social fabric and lead to various other socital ills. Euthanasia becoming legal will surely result in misuse and abuse at the hands of life sustainers. Once the society accepts life can be terminated because of its diminshed quality, it will be biggest setback to human thought process. As this will surely bring out the animal traits that we have carried out during our evolution. There might be many rational answer favouring euthanasia, like suffering faced by patients, cost of life support system to which patient is adminstered, etc etc....
I would like to bring out my personal experience, it was my grandmother who was paralytic suffered stroke and went into coma, and was put into life support system, with no gurantee of life recovery. We decided to get her back to home, where she lived like a living corpse amidst us for entire week, with no sign of life except breathing. Never did we feel that she should be euthanised(by the way in India euthanasia is crime). We all feel the moment an individual is born his death to is decided. And it will always be good if we avoid being instrumental in other death.
My personal opinion is against the practice of euthanasia. I feel this issues has to be morally dealt rather than logical and scientifically.

02 August 2006

War leading to Peace?

In War no one is Correct.
In Love no one is Wrong.
Well so strange it is, the heart which is the seat of compassion, which melts seeing the suffering of others, takes a backseat, when man indulge in war. We human's are quite funny i suppose. We are ready to die both for WAR and LOVE. Time and again history has shown and we all have believed, war has bought nothing more than misery and devastation to mankind.
Even Operation ROLLING THUNDER (1965-68), US attack on north vietnam, as part of Cold War did no good, nor did american achieve there mission, but had to withdraw there entire army as it suffered heavy losses. So is even the second gulf war. Attack by american on iraq in order to overthrow the iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. But what have they achieved is nothing but emergence of Iraqi insurgency and major Sectarian violence. And now it's Israel mindlessly attacking Lebanon, claiming its to wipe out the Hezabollah militants who are a threat to there existence. History has shown however the mighty the nation be, it hasn't succeded in overpowering a small nation, in order to acomplish it mean needs.
"History repeat itself, but the cost mankind has to pay is heavier everytime."
I'm really suprised despite the fact the war has continued for last 21 days till now, The pressure the international community is putting on Israel, doesn't seem to look that the ceasefire is possible in nearby future. Above this the Iranian president claims he is ready to support Hezabollah in order to completely annihilate Zionism(Israelis) and US from the world map.
Lets remember WAR( this three lettered word) has brought more misery and suffering than anything in the entire history of mankind. How can peace be exchanged with something that results in suffering. Let remember that the darwin theory of existence ( The mightiest survives) is true for animals but not HUMANS. And on this eve of this friendship day( never knew something like this existed before, untill i received forwards and E greeting about this day), Lets remember friendship, loving and sharing alone is way for peacefull existence on this planet Earth and not WAR.

30 July 2006

Joy Of Pursuing Science

It' s the eternal quest of man and will always be, ie search for permanent happiness. Well the nature is so balanced, it permits happiness only as an interval in between pain. Nevertheless the ways in which man achieve happiness, i would like to classify them as sensuary, intellectual and subtle.
We turn happy when we eat good food, have nice nap or indulge in sensuary pleasure, i rate them as sensory, for they last till the moment we indulge in them and are transient in behaviour. A bit above this lies happiness that we get when we involve ourselves in playing games/sports or any adventurous activites. For this involves challenging the physical limits set by our body. Quite high above this activity lies the long lasting happiness, which one gets when one involve in creating out of his intellectual ability, which are pursuing Music, Art and Science. For there's greater happiness when we turn our mind onto this activities, for it will help us unleash vast potential hidden in human to flow out at his creative best. The highest state of the mind which experience just not happiness but bliss, is through spiritual experience. But its a path thats tough for the rewards are unlimited and permanent.
Well here i would like to dwell on the fact pursuing my carrier in Science, i would like to mention those incidents that have rewarded me those moments of happiness, which i would like treasure forever. Pursuing Science gives us the oppurtunity to create something nonexistent before, see things come alive before us. There are many occasion that come prior to the situation when things you plan, execute and try to then analyse your result, you realize the very first step in your experiment or sometime may be the last was a mistake forcing you to repeat the whole process once again. This surely test your forberance and patience and those with strong will always began once again with full enthusisasm as if we are testing this for the first time. Failure will always haunt us, till the very limit of our patience. But the happiness when one derive after finally getting the result you expected or something very startling you werent prepared for gives us immense happiness and peace within. This is that moment we all researcher look out for in our lab, while pursuing science our dream.

25 July 2006

Bar On bar



Well before committing to any statement, i would like to quote, " The yardstick of countries
development is measured in RESPECT that it has for its womenfolk." When the so call moral
policemen of the country tried to enforce bar on bardancers, accusing them of degrading the
social fabric of the country. They call it vulgar, when they wear skimpy and body-revealing
outfits or suggestive moments while singing. Singing at bars is often perceived as sister of
prostitution by the society at large. Im not intersted here in mentioning the revenues the
government generates from this bar by levying large taxes on these. As money doesnt seem to
be criteria for me. I visualize this as a social stigma staining the morality of the
society. Its for sure that the women dont like to join such profession out of there liking,
buts its the socio-economic background from which they come, force them into occupation. And
if its give them avenues to earn bread for all who are dependent on them. What right does
the government have now of banning them from performing. After the constitution has provided everyone the right to living. If the society is concerned about such issues why not stop
situation that give rise to condition that forces the women into such profession.

21 July 2006

CAULDRON OF TERROR



In the past few weeks, mankind is seeing terrorism again raising it ugly head and causing largescale devastation both in terms of lifes and property. Firstly it was Mumbai, where misguided people have tried to derail the running fabric of the city, the local trains itself. Here its noteworthy of the fact despite being hurled away, the mumbaikars have bounced back to there daily schedule. This is morally depressing down the attackers, who might have succeded in damaging few trains and loads of life, but failed entirely to bring the people to there knees.
But what is more important to realize is terorism will again and again rise to occasion, and take mankind by suprise by causing large causalties. How do we really counter this situation? Its long since we have taken a soft stand in this issues, and brought the people to the books. We need to eliminate them from the very roots.
Here i feel are few of my views, which i feel are long term solution to the problem, rather than short term:
1) The misguided youth basically are unemployed, so its very important that we create large avenues for job market.
2) Education has to be provided to one and all, its when people are educated they will have larger view of society, and then will be difficult them to inculcate hatred in them against humanity.
3) The hatred is bred in places where there is ongoing violence in the society, the growing child is fed with violent response all around him. Thus its neccessary to have rehabilation program for the younger generation in such violent stricken places.
I might be giving a solution which no doubt is going to take long course before it achieve its end. But im sure its quite better than the draconian way of solving problem by taking eye for eye and leaving the mankind half blind.

04 May 2006

IF I..........

here i would like to highlight the poem written by Rudyard Kipling, Its quite inspiring and can you take you out from any depths of ........

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

21 April 2006

Is Reservation Neccessary?

Well when Dr B R Ambedar, had made reservation neccessary, his intention was to uplift the down trodden society of those day INDIA, true to his dream i believe we are able to uplift the down trodden to a well position today. But yet there is a very long way to go till we completely terminate the disparity that is existing in the society. But today reservation ie the MANDAL commission set up by the govt is no more used as a tool for uplifting the society, rather is used as a political gimmick just to quander more votes from the meagre section of the society.
In favour of reservation, i would like to comment reservation should be made on the basis of economic status of the individual, rather than his caste, else it might even create more furore in the existing situation. When reservation was implemented way back, the existing scenario had upper caste dominating every fabric of life and so called the backward section of the society were left behind, with no hope of improving there life as they had no avenues for quality education nor good jobs, but after decades of reservation policy that has helped many of the section to come up in life. It will not be appropriate to increase the reservation quota as it will create unneccesary competition among the youth.
Well the point i like to make is reservation should be not be intoduced in those paltform where proffesionalism comes, and there are hundreds competing for the same position, afterall here ones performance should be considered not his background, else we will be churning out mediocre engineers, doctors and managers institutes that boast of international recognition.
well this being my 1 public opinion on such a critical issues i would apologise for any wrong fact s that i may presented.