Category: Us people
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Honoring the Victims and Preventing the Future
Honoring the past victims and preventing the future, Is what the international day against chemical war fare is there to remind us. Serious efforts towards preventing chemical warfare were launched a century ago. When the world first witnessed the disaster of chemical warfare. France was the first country to use chemicals in warfare, ethylmoboacetate and…
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Earth Day
April 22nd it is Earth day again. Each Earth Day we faithfully put out the power for an hour, I really wonder who we do this farce for. Anyway let’s get back to the “celebration of the day” I was looking up the events, it is an absolutely America oriented climate law. The theme for…
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World Gypsy day
One of the dance forms we learnt in our Bharatnatyam curriculum was the gypsy dance, the costume would vivid, with gold spangles, and colourful hair tassels’, a tambourine in the hand and quick beats. Most of us loved it for the sheer energy it created. Gypsies seemed exotic. Gypsies the Nomads.. Travelling in caravans, in…
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Manusmriti and Forbidden Food.
Goa University runs what is called Visiting faculty public lectures, these are usually a one credit course, for those who want accreditation else it is just a learning process. Most of us are there many taking time off from work the classroom is a pleasant mix. Initially I had the time I attended a lot…
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Waste Water and Water Waste
Waste Water… and Water Waste This is blog is inspired by www.BlogAdda.com But I have not written it over weekend, simply because I was researching and I needed to get my information right. So lets start at the very beginning.. No we are not going to a place where water was common resource but to…
