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The new scourge
Human mind is the main source of stress as well as its main victim. Stress has always been a major psycho-somatic issue afflicting human health from ancient to the modern times. For the ancient man, the problem was anxiety of the uncertain. Little knowledge, naturally, proved dangerous. The irony is...
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The deluge and after
21 June 2020 | Pramod Pathak -
Rethinking public health
07 June 2020 | Pramod Pathak -
Back to Gandhi
24 May 2020 | Pramod Pathak -
Parables on Coronavirus
10 May 2020 | Pramod Pathak -
The lockdown syndrome
26 April 2020 | Pramod Pathak -
Ancient practices that made sense
12 April 2020 | Pramod Pathak -
Lessons to learn
29 March 2020 | Pramod Pathak
When virus went viral
Covid-19 is the new obsession in many parts of the world today, as the fear of getting infected by the coronavirus threatens humanity for one more time. This is how humanity responds to crises in times of globalisation. The spread of the news is much faster than the spread of...
Blindfold of Lady Justice
Defining justice has never been easy as there is always an element of subjectivity in the concept. Understanding the idea of justice may be only a little less daunting than verifying the number of stars in our galaxy. If the latter ranges from 100 to 400 billion, the number of...
Gandhi lives on
The idea of putting Gandhi on the Budget cover page by Kerala Government may have many connotations, but one thing can certainly be said. More than seven decades after his death, Gandhi refuses to die. Some may find fault with Gandhi’s ways, some may make uncharitable remarks against him and...
The apocalypse: It is coming...
First the assertion — the climate change is not coming; it is already there. Greta Thunberg may then be rather a belated warning symbol. The time for activism is over. It is now time to act. We had enough of activism ever since the world leaders gathered at Stockholm in...
And the trend continues...
If the past fortnight was any indication we can predict rather confidently that this year may well be as turbulent as the previous one. Looking back, in 2019, we saw economies in turmoil, polities in turmoil, and countries in turmoil. BBC commented that 2019 was the year in which popular...
A time to act, a time to kill
Even as the memories of the Hyderabad encounter of the four accused in the Disha case by the police fade from the public memory a question still arises. Was the action right? More so, in view of the fact that similar crime against women continue to happen at a nagging...
